doctrainAUM
Since: Aug, 2010
07/11/2014 00:00:00
Could you please elaborate on the self-gratification? Any examples come to mind?
"What's out there? What's waiting for me?"
Ymirsdaughter
Since: Jul, 2014
07/11/2014 00:00:00
It is not the end, but that aside… it has plot and themes, it has characters with background stories and motivations and flaws. It is a story.
PrettyCoco
Since: Jan, 2013
07/11/2014 00:00:00
Like when he goes OH BUT THIS ISNT LOGICAL! But science and Rationalism isnt just go snob asshole at "impossible" stuff. He should have been AMAZED that the reality as he knew it can be played with magic!
Pannic
Since: Jul, 2009
07/11/2014 00:00:00
You can't say "from beginning to end" when it hasn't ended, though...
Fanfiction I hate.Leave a Comment:
Terrible from beggining to end.
The worst part about Methods is it's NOT A STORY. Rowling may have her flaws, but she told a STORY. Yudkowsky basically went into it, selected a few bits, and started using them as masturbation gel over his brilliance. Hence it's basically 100 chapters of no one getting anywhere because the things that make it a story have been chopped out and are dismissed as unneeded, but Yudkowsky doesn't care, because to him it's just all about the jerking off. I mean, forget about the horrifying stuff like Razorwired said, the main issue is you're just going to be deathly bored: it'll be like listening to some rear end in a top hat drone away at a party for 72 hours straight while you're tied up in Clockwork Orange style restraints.
Really, stuff like this is why I've begun to realize that anyone who can balance indulgence in writing with the better parts is ahead of 95 percent of the rest of the group.