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... Janelle Shane over at AIWeirdness/LewisAndQuark? She specialises in letting neural networks be weird. Classic posts include having them generate April Fool's Day pranks ("Put marbles in the hand soap dispenser."), christmas carols ("run, run Rudolf the new born King"), and Harry Potter fanfic summaries ("Hermione and Draco get stuck in a potion, which might have turned out to be the best change in the world.").

hS

And hS, too!

Seems that the most posts I ever made was a relatively-moderate-amount as a newbie.
I'm a real strong-silent type like that, I suppose.

... like you have a serious complex about zdimensia.

Please understand that her behaviour, and our response to it, is not a normal part of the community. She is the only time it has happened; Kanun willing, she's the only time it will happen.

You really should stop assuming we're going to treat you like you're her.

hS

The appropriate thing to do if multiple people tell you what you're doing is unwanted is to a) stop it, b) apologize, and c) fix the problem if possible and make sure not to do it again.

Grasp that, and you'll be fine.

~Neshomeh

I haven't read any of the fics yet. Not sure if I want to. But I read all the summaries and tags and yup. That was an Experience.

So you probably must tell hS what you want deleted; I don’t know who else could do it on the Plort Wiki.

To be sure that nothing links to the page you want deleted, you may type into the Search field

Special:WhatLinksHere/:Pagename

where Pagename is the name of the page you want deleted. Links should be removed before a page is deleted.

HG

That said, alcohol is overrated... You should rather enjoy this black-hole chocolate cake with red berries coating.

But then again, we're all very like-minded people here.

I hate stories that are in-your-face political or moral. Don't care who it's coming from, I hate Captain Planet just as much as I hate BibleMan. Or, well, I don't really show my hate for these things in a straightforward manner; I think it could be more described as "loving to hate" them. For instance, I love to make fun of Captain Planet. This is also the case with anything that's poorly written, hence why I can't stop churning out joke Mary Sues and badficcer avatars for the next Badfic Games. So yeah, love and hate rolled into one.

-Twistey

I'm completely calm, thanks for being concerned.

I'm also not going to explain myself. I'm not convinced that trying to explain myself about a matter such as this wouldn't make me sound like zdimensia, especially now that I'm a repeat offender about the subject.

-Twistey

And that may be what my coder friend is most familiar with anyway. I'll have to bring up the idea to him when he joins.

-Twistey

But only within the Wolfenstein franchise is he represented (via Huinesoron's rushed attempt to fix the LoD without deleting him.)

Honestly, I actually don't remember canon characters being represented in any Plort stuff. Looking back, I should've known this was a risky gambit. The only reason I didn't kill him earlier was the little fantasies of giving Twyla someone to yell at.

So how does one delete a page on the wiki?

-Twistey

...but I would also rather like to not have Hitler there.

Either way, It should be full of twisty little passages, all alike, circling back on one another to represent the circularity of the revision process.

Many great crusades have been lost in the foothills of Reev'shun...

If you can think of it, humanity has done it, no matter how ridiculous or insane or horrible or unlikely it seems.

Here's some proof if you're not convinced (WARNING: ALL FICS NSFW):
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Harry%20Potter*s*Dolores%20Umbridge/works

Not sure if this qualifies as throwing out Umbridge's crimes, but honestly, after checking this list, my faith in humanity dropped like a ton of bricks.

All of the coastal 'mountain' lines are cliffs. My original idea was that Konti-Nyuum is mostly raised up above sea-level, with only river-mouths and a few wider sections (notably the north coast from Borrd to De'endee) at sea level.

Which doesn't mean there can't be an actual mountainous ridge along that part of the coast, of course! ^_^ Reeveshun Ridge is perfectly acceptable.

'Bay [of] Tarr' is 'Beta', pronounced in this case 'bay-ta' rather than 'bee-ta'.

hS

The chain of hills or low mountains running along the southern coast of the Riding from the border between Barony Juliette and Barony Hieronymus to the Auriantym Chain is currently nameless on the map and was provisionally named "Coastal Ridge (which may deserve a better name)" in the New Tales of Hieronymus.

I think that its actual name should reference the cycle of beta reading, editing, beta reading and editing again, until the story is fit to be published. How would this be expressed in English and translated to Plortish? "Reeveshun Ridge"?

Also, what does the "Bay of Tarr" reference?

Also also, I created a page for the river Jid'ryv using the wrong type of apostrophe. (That’s what I get for copy-pasting from a spell-checking word processor.) It is now a redirection page that shouldn’t be linked anywhere and may be deleted.

HG

To clarify, what does he do that make him "creepy"?

What thing(s) make him "creepy", exactly?

Plort is very much based on the PPC community, rather than the media or world in general. I also can't say that I would want in the slightest to have an equivalent of him currently alive in the Plort world. Heck, no. Please, no. Add to that that I don't necessarily want to suddenly have to change Baron Esh's primary goal from fighting Marizu and wandering and stuff to opposing him, and...yeah.

(You might say, "Zing, you wouldn't have to do that, no one's forcing you"--yeah. Yeah, I would. I really, really, really would. Please don't insert a nightmare of a genocidal dictator into Plort, especially as not dead and in some power. If anything, he'd have once existed in the history of some of those mysterious lands outside the island from whence came some of Plort's inhabitants. Any fascism equivalent would likely be there, if anywhere.)

In short: for the love of God, keep him out of Plort and in the past where he belongs.

~Z

... that putting all the responsibility on a girl (or boy, or other-gendered person) to make him change is one of the character's flaws, and it's a big one.

For the record, I absolutely believe that everyone deserves a fair shot at love regardless of non-chosen attributes like appearance, and loving and being loved can certainly have a major impact on your life, but it's not a magical cure for someone who's spent thirty years thusfar without a clue how not to act like a creep. The responsibility lies with the individual to fix their own behavior problems. Shoving it off on someone else ain't right. And it's a major issue in society (see: so-called "incels"), so please forgive me if I seem to be taking this fictional character concept that hasn't even been written yet too seriously. It's just that you're kinda playing with fire here, and I wanna be sure nobody gets burned. {= )

[Citation needed] on "most agents are skilled at wielding swords." Where do you find that to be the case? I'd say that, even if Kuro was lucky enough to find himself an agent trainer, sword instruction would only cover the basics of "how not to cut off your own arm." Certainly not nearly enough to pass as a katana expert if he just started learning in his thirties.

And ehhhh, getting held back a total of seven times and then dropping out of high school suggests to me that he either blew it off (and therefore wasn't really trying his best) or may be seriously mentally impaired and/or have other serious issues (if he really was). See, schools don't like to hold kids back if they can possibly avoid it, because it hurts their performance values. Having issues in just one or two subjects wouldn't do it. The problems would have to be very serious for them to do it multiple times. Anyway, trig and chem aren't even options in eighth and ninth grade, unless things have changed a whole lot since I was in school. You have to be able to manage basic math and general science first.

TL;DR: Much more thought needs to be put into this one to be sure his story makes sense and that he has a redeeming quality or two (that also make sense). As it stands now, I would not want to read about this character as an agent.

~Neshomeh

And yes, it did get away from me a bit - the words I was searching for disappeared even as I was writing! |D I probably would have lost even more of what I was going for if I'd waited until later, though. 'Tis what happens when a scene rushes in all at once.

And perhaps Omanyte have no gender? XD But yes, I'd intended Curlicue to be a girl.

I am glad you appreciate the font sizes, too! Paying attention to HTML may as well get me somewhere.