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That is about six more Hitlers than I ever thought I'd mention on the Board.

hS

I get why you want to do this, and fascism is a genuine and major problem in the world today.

But... Plort is meant to be a fun thing, and 'welp, everyone loves Hitler these days' isn't fun. It's also not in the least bit relevant to the PPC, which is what the setting is actually about: I don't recall seeing a single PPC mission where Hitler was present (as a canon character), and I don't think we've got that many people who deeply identify with fandoms where he's used.

Also... Consulting Supervillain Hitler isn't actually very different from Omnipresent Deity Hitler, however much you change the words around. You're still setting up a thing where Hitler is a constant presence across Weab, which while accurate, isn't something I feel Plort should have to address.

Drawing on your 'different memories' concept... since Hitler was a spectacularly terrible person, why give him the 'honour' of being a major player in Weab? Treat each instance as a separate person, which can be mocked in their own particular ways as and when they become relevant to the PPC. Only when there's an actual connection (like in the Wolfensteins) are they the same person.

hS

Because the pose of an animal charge *is* something you can specify in heraldry. It's known as the animal's 'attitude'.

For example, while Huinesoron didn't specify the attitude of the snow leopard in the blazon, the snow leopard in the arms he presented was a Snow Leopard Sejant Regardant Proper, which translates to "A snow leopard, sitting down (Sejant), looking behind itself (Regardant), colored as a snow leopard would be in real life (Proper)."

Here's the Wikipedia article on attitudes in heraldry if you want to look through it.

I like it, quite a bit! Thank you, so much!

That scans. I was very, very excited, and somehow had the time to do a lot of writing.

It is nice to see I've never dropped too far below 20th, though. Considering how busy I've been some years, well, I'm kind of impressed.

~Z

... the A-word is 'Author', pointing back to Kaitlyn's writing-gesture. That joke probably works best if you know about Pancakes!... I think I'll add a 'the' to the end of the cut-off line, to point people's minds in the right direction. (Or 'our'?)

I take your point about not really showing what Kaitlyn ends up concritting, but... honestly the only reason I talk about that at all is because I needed to say something nice. This fic is ludicrously bland; there's nothing to compliment because there's nothing to care about!

Except POVs. Always POVs. POVS for life.

hS

It seems that having a fractious Omanyte in the RC is much like having a child - right down to the bit where everyone is sometimes just too loud. :) The idea of someone named Nautilus adopting one is suitably amusing, too.

This piece does show signs of being a bit hastily written - or perhaps re-written? The whole 'The other man amended' line (paragraph, really) seems to be an awkward splice that could do with heavy reworking. I understand what you're saying, but the words definitely got away from you a bit.

I also originally thought you had the two agents referring to the Omanyte by different genders, which was an interesting way of conveying personality. But then you have back-to-back lines where they both say 'him' - a mistake? I'm not sure.

I do like the minimalist nature of some of this story. The description of the mission has just enough information (we don't need to know why Peri took it so bad, after all!), and the use of _{font sizes} is excellent.

hS

But there are still things I like. Anything new and original is high on the list, as are plot twists I can’t predict.

Top of the list of things I hate are plot holes and inconsistencies. I have a habit of spotting them. I don’t think I found any in Harry Potter yet, but most others have at least one minor inconsistency. It’s the big ones that are the worst...

Quite high on it is when a series doesn’t know when to stop. There’s very few things more annoying than every single plot point being resolved, the bad guys are dead, and then they make a sequel.

If II keep going any longer this will turn into a rant, so I’ll stop there.

With 32 posts! Random coincidence time!

I have a picture in my head but it’s hard to put into words. There’s no need to make a new one, the one I’ve got is perfectly fine.

Who could forget the Great Stabbing Spree of '98, when Shift Triple-1 completed two weeks' quota in a single day by stabbing the absolute hell out of each other, cleaning it up, tripping down to medical, and doing it all over again?

Thanks again for betaing, by the way. It probably wouldn't be very great without the betawork because everyone would be distracted by how gross and misspelled everything is!

I honestly didn't even think about what the ground floor was used for before all the trash got in it. I'd imagine it'd have RCs in it. Maybe I'll leave that for you to fill out, if you write in it, ay?
I'll be waiting!

Also, I didn't even think of how dark the situation is, but I guess it's a bit dark, innit, kidnapping and violence and all?
I should pay more attention to things in general!
Cheers for the review, anyhow, mate! Glad you enjoyed it.

Jeez. That's... weird.

I, being a Total Lunatic, would suggest building the game in the Doom Engine.

No, really. GZDoom has rather good scripting tools for twisting the game into whatever, support for modern file formats n' stuff, and a surprising number of good resources to get started with. There's even at least one mod I know of that has RPG-style dialogue trees! ...But I'm not linking that mod, because it's so NSFW it's not even funny.

Probably not better than Unity, though.

For example, I really like the stuff produced by Botnik studios with its predictive text algorithm. Similarly, I also like things made with multiple levels of machine translation.

Here's a relevant link:

http://botnik.org/studios.html

I mean, I don't want to see it; I'm just morbidly curious.

Along the same lines, one of my favorite things is when it seems like our heroes can't win and they don't see any way out but they keep going because it's right/it's who they are/if they give in the bad guys can do something awful/someone needs to stand up and say no. That scene at the end of Return of the Jedi where Luke almost gives into the Dark Side and then he doesn't and looks the Emperor in the face and says "I am a Jedi, like my father before me"? I get shivers every time. It's horribly cliché,but that doesn't mean it's bad.

As for things I don't like, love triangles. They're not inherently bad, I guess, but I just vastly don't care and when stories get hung up on them I feel like my time is being wasted. Some people might like them, but they're not for me.

Expires in 1 day. Be warned!

I haven't seen any first person RPGs other than the two iD ones yet, so I'll have to think about it.

As for the engine, Unity seems like it'd be easier to learn. I can't make 3D models for the life of me, but I can make decent art, so it'll end up being 2.5D (a la iD games), and I already know full well that 2.5D games can be made in Unity.

No, my friend is a Scratch user called LegoGuy111, or Sigma64 as he says he'll go by when he joins the Board. He's a huge iD geek, and one of the only reasons why I continue to secretly use small parts of Scratch even after I officially left. Here's his page: https://scratch.mit.edu/users/LegoGuy111/

-Twistey

1. It might take a while for that to come about. Maybe it'll be revealed within the missions themselves.
   
   2. Bahaha! You're so right! But the high fantasy didn't stop there. They used medieval weapons (the big favorite being bows and arrows) that would be very inefficient were they not able to handwave it off with magic. Some of their backstories were kind of high fantasy. They also had bonded wolf companions. Three of them, the most wolf-obsessed ones, had a freakin' ton of wolves each. I was smarter, so I only had two. Yay me.
   
   -Twistey

I love the flag! It's got a rather nice interpretation of the coat of arms. So... does the flag go into the Plort Wiki article like the new coats of arms do?

-Twistey

...I think it's time to work with you on cleaning up an old mess. That mess is the Lord of Darkness. I think I have a decent new concept to return the character back to my original motives for creating him (that being a statement on the use of Hitler in the media, instead of just being limited to the Wolfenstein continuum). I wouldn't say I'm making it more politically correct - rather, I think of it more as an adjustment of that concept to my current, much less pessimistic/paranoid "he's everywhere and we can't stop it" viewpoint on the subject.

I'm not going to edit his wiki article, because I want this new concept approved by you. How does this sound:

The Lord of Darkness is a powerful warlord who champions the political worldview known as Darknessism and owns various castles across Weab (note: going through with your idea of owning a ton of castles, because it made sense to keep it). Some of these (such as those in So Shall Medea) are built by followers or pseudo-followers (note: Nazi edgelords) of Darknessism in whatever country the castle is built in; others are built by his own band of nameless helpers, wherever a hero on a crusade against Darknessism is told of (note: perhaps I could word this better? This means places like the Wolf castles and other areas representative of fandoms where placing Hitler into the canon actually makes sense). Still others are the result of the leader of a nation literally inviting the Lord of Darkness into the nation to redirect public hatred away from the leader or to scare the people into submission. Usually, this doesn't work, and instead makes the people hate the ruler more, because of how easy it is to tell when the Lord of Darkness doesn't belong. (note: canons where Hitler gets shoved in because the author is too lazy to come up with an original villain or because ShoCk VALue ThatS whY.) He evidently does dastardly things wherever he goes, but no two nations have the same memories of him (note: meant to be the different interpretations from different fandoms, which is what the "multiple avatars" thing was.) Even though some Marizu are indeed led by followers or pseudo-followers of Darknessism, the general Plortish sentiment is to refrain from going after these Marizu or Darknessism in general, as it's just not worth it.

The article would then go on to define Darknessism and pseudo-Darknessism, and then finish with a list of the castles.

Looking forward to hearing any feedback you have.

-Twistey