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To be honest...I wish I had a good response for this, I really do. And I don't disagree with you completely either, especially about things not getting noticed unless they're either over the top or from the known names here. I guess I've gotten used to it, but I can see where you're coming from here.
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I genuinely liked 10 page breakers in my earlier months here. A chance to respond to dozens of fellow Cadians at once! But as it went on, I started getting tired of doing that several times a week; it takes 30-40 minutes to do a long breaker. I don't think one-liners solely for responding do you or the person you're talking to any good; there's no enthusiasm there. Like I said above, slower thread is less to catch up on. Quote:
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Tell you what, Kha - declare you're leaving for the last time, then we'll talk about handovers. Till then you ain't goin' nowhere. Quote:
By the way, you continuing to post here means you haven't lost faith - the day you stop is that day. Least that's what I think. I dunno. My philosophical half never talks to me when I want it to, so I end up sounding off when I try to speak from it. Anyway...had enough of this subject. Ooh, Arisa story. Haven't had any love for the girl in a long time. And you've definitely made something special in Lumina...more interesting every time I see her. Quote:
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Oooh, secret weapons. :3
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2008-08-01, 23:03 | Link #3222 | |
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Even if we assume for the sake of argument that Eva is no more powerful than Hayate is, ranks are determined by a combination of power and skill, otherwise ranking tests could be accomplished by simply measuring the strength of the applicant's linker core. And with 500+ years of experience on her side, the only way the Aces will ever be able to beat Eva will be if she lets them. Anyways, all arguments aside, the point is that Eva's not going to relinquish her position in the story as The Old Master just because some 10 year-old whelps who can toss around bigger fireworks than she can show up in her neighborhood. She's still going to have lots of knowledge to impart to the younger generation, particularly Alex, Suzuka, Arisa, and the Ala Alba, as per usual. She's also still going to be a Badass Lolita well into StrikerS, though she may not get as much screentime as the others once things move to Mid... then again, I suppose Hayate could always call in a favor from an old teacher when the Forwards need some intensive training...
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2008-08-01, 23:34 | Link #3223 | ||
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But I'm trying to be nice, and follow my own ironclad rule of never posting when angry (or tired or drunk). I'm working on Lyrical Babel, but since it's so tightly-plotted, it takes a lot of effort and energy to write even a single paragraph, just to make sure it doesn't contradict canon, and builds up appropriately to the plot. I needed something light and easy to write without worrying about being yelled at for canon inconsistencies or Not Being True to the Nanoha-verse or Power Levels. Therefore, you're going to get a lot of Lumina, since making her over-the-top seems to be doing a good enough job of distracting readers from the fact that I don't care if I'm following all the restrictions placed on us in the OC thread. |
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2008-08-02, 00:09 | Link #3224 |
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@dkellis: Glad to be of some help though I'm not that word change actually meant a difference. I think of dialogue in Japanese, and gimongous was an attempt to capture the cute naunces of the word "Dekkai"... Not sure if it works that way.
10 more chapters to end of Chao arc! And Kha can't help but go "Ore wa ZERO, Seigi no Tsurugi daa!" to the Mahora War participants!
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2008-08-02, 01:55 | Link #3225 | ||||
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She's really a joke charecter, but she has a good skillset, and I've decided that she'll have had training in the Magical EW that TK proposed. All for the purpose of finding her targets. And Groping Them.
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Though to be fair, the latest rebuild of David is hardly haxxed, IMO. Sure, he's a bit far out, but you've done a good job in thinking through things and writing an interesting character. And frankly I wouldn't mind having David along in my TF6 timeline/fic/verse/whachamacallit; there's plenty of ways to use a good doctor. Actually, as Kagerou did say, most people don't really care if the charecter is haxxed so long as it's entertaining. Take Sephiroth in his haxxness, or Cordell Walker in his God Mode Badassness. Then again, Walker is a Texas Ranger, and is played by Chuck Norris, afterall. And Chuck Norris is so badass, he skipped boot camp and went straight to becoming a Marine. Quote:
Alpha pretty much broke the canon, hence being placed in a separate timeline. TF6 is also breaking or at least stretching canon in several places. Lyrical Babel is probably stretching canon too. The difference is that all three were stated to have breaking/stretchings of canon, and are still working within the framework of canon, and all authors are doing their best to work with the framework of canon (which means that Uruz Team in TF6 are not going to be using conventional firearms, but magic guns). Comar can accuse me of ripping into him by saying this, but frankly the way he went about his plans in the beginning stepped on a lot of toes. The way I see it, he stepped on those toes, and then essentially told us he didn't need us, and was going to make his most awesome AU, and then when he starts running into trouble, he wants us to write his AU for him, and handwaves and ignores inconsistencies and whines that we're being unfair to him and his AU. (Let's not get into the whole naming an AU after oneself, which smacks of a certain degree of arrogance, but that's neither here nor there). Now, as to doing an divergence from canon, I'm doing a similar thing with Task Force 6, which is an AU retelling of the StrikerS story, but the whole reason I'm not catching as much flak is because I've stated clearly that I'm doing an AU, it's diverging from canon, and also its because my divergences are fairly down to earth, compared to Comar's more outlandish plans. As much as possible I'm trying to remain true to canon, which is why I'm very seriously considering axing Chief, since, as Kagerou said, some charecters should not be in Nanoha at all. If I do keep Chief in, I'll probably do something similar to his cameo on Macross OC (there, Master Chief makes a cameo as a Navy SEAL with the callsign Sierra 117. So if he does appear, it'd be as a Navy mage with the callsign Sierra 117). Also, one thing I would like to say to Comar: If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Criticism is a part of everything. The only time you will never be criticised is when you are dead. This is just the internet. If you can get upset at even this, you will never be able to make it in the real world. (Yes, I got chewed out by my company's Chief Operating Officer yesterday. Not a pleasant experience, coming after being chewed out by my shift manager and then my Department Manager. At least thank God my salary wasn't cut.) Quote:
"Ware waga Zengar! Zengar Zombolt! Aku wo tatsu tsurugi! Waga zankantou ni tateni mono nashi!" Considering Zero's actions, I'll have to take his claims of being a sword of justice with a good amount of salt and salsa. But having said that, Zero does have balls, nerve, and of course, C.C. Though Zengar has Irui. Also, as part of my planning for RF6, a sample ORBAT, with OCs and CCs: Lost Property Investigation & Recovery Task Force 6 HQ Staff CO: Lt. Colonel Hayate Yagami 2IC: Warrant Officer Griffith Lowran Chief of Staff: Sgt. Major Reinforce Zwei Stars Squad Captain Nanoha Takamachi (Stars 1) 2nd Lieutenant Vita Yagami (Stars 2) Private Subaru Nakajima (Stars 3) Private Teana Lanster (Stars 4) Lightning Squad Captain Fate T. Harlaown (Lightning 1) 1st Lieutenant Signum Yagami (Lightning 2) Private Erio Mondial (Lightning 3) Private Caro Ru Lushe (Lightning 4) Uruz Team Sergeant Leo "Veri" Kozlov (Uruz 1) (Magical Rifleman) Sergeant Ivan Mikhailovich "Taufan" Sokolov (Uruz 2) (Mage Sniper) Corporal Naomi Jaeger (Uruz 3) (Mid Bombardment/Melee) Corporal Anna Petrova (Uruz 4) (Mid Sniper) 1st Lieutenant Franz Jaeger (Uruz 6) Investigation Section 1st Lieutenant Mikhail Dornitz 2nd Lieutenant Felix Munroe This is the ORBAT as of the start of TF6. As we see, the Investigation Section is now larger, with Mikhail and Felix bolstering and assisting Fate and Ginga, so investigative work will proceed with greater depth; Mikhail's an intelligence officer who does target analysis and ferreting of target details for his team, and also a former cop, while Felix was a private investigator. Both are also trained interrogators. There's also a bit more combat power in Uruz Team, who are mostly B/A-ranked mages, but who have more combat experience than the Forwards; they'll be helping the Forwards by being Opposing Force and teaching them how to fight humans, not just unthinking drones. Franz will lead Uruz team until the Train Mission, after which he returns to the OFM, and Uruz becomes Veri and Naomi's show. Parings in TF6? Undecided. The only pairings that are ensured are Erio/Caro/Lutecia and Franz/Naomi. Some attemps will be made for Vita/Felix ( :P) and Hayaurion Now I gotta get started. Anybody interested in their OCs making cameos is encouraged to PM me; Lowe's OCs will make appearances here and there, as will DK's 37th CIAA... and of course O'Neil, Demon Lord and Solo Wing will show up...
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2008-08-02, 02:06 | Link #3226 | |
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Waht makes Chrono AAA+ rank is his experience and application of his power. "Eternal Coffin" may only be AA or AAA rank, then. |
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2008-08-02, 02:23 | Link #3227 | |
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2008-08-02, 02:42 | Link #3228 |
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I had a long reply to this, but then I realized that it counted as posting in anger.
So I'll draw back to generalities. To everyone: write. Don't bother justifying your choices, don't bother defending your characters. Just write. Forget about whether you're "true to the Nanoha-verse" or "shafting the characters". Forget about power levels. Forget about whether Superman is more powerful than Goku. Just write the story you want to write. If the story is too big, then write something smaller, something shorter and lighter. Don't tell us what you want to do; do it. Treat it as a trial attempt to see if the idea works. If it does, go ahead and use it in the actual story. If not, just scrap it and start over. And the decision on whether it works rests with you alone. You don't have to prove yourself to anyone else. Take other people's suggestions, by all means, but the ultimate consideration is yours. As for everyone else? If you don't like it, then just move on to something you do like, since if everyone's writing, chances are there'll be something or other in the mass to interest you. |
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PM it to me then, DK, I'm curious as to what you want to say.
At any rate, my piece has been said, Shou has apparently talked to Comartemis, and I'm going to be focusing on TF6 and Macross OC. I've said what I wanted to say, and now need to rush to work. Later, all.
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2008-08-02, 03:53 | Link #3231 | ||
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Then you get jumped by Nanoha who happened to be in the area, you flee, she manages to get a buster on you... you escape because it didn't knock you out like it's intended to do... though you make it back to base with a case of heat exhaustion and down a few quarts of water. It's like a knife in modern warfare. Just how practical is a knife in combat when you have guns and bombs and artillery? Not very, but that doesn't make it any less useful a tool for the right situations. |
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Only that it's less a dream and more his actual memory! Sticking pointy things into people... shooting at girls... Freud realy would have fun with these dreams I think... Quote:
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2008-08-02, 11:11 | Link #3235 | |
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And yes feel free to use any characters, and do get started on TF6 (gotta stop thinking Team Fortress 6. <_<)
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And I forgot that Chief is capable of turning over an upside down Scorpion tank. Best way to take him down is range. Lots and lots of ranged fire. <.< Quote:
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2008-08-02, 13:54 | Link #3239 | |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Formerly Iwakawa base and Chaldea. Now Teyvat, the Astral Express & the Outpost
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Let me use my experience as a gamemaster who directed many pen & paper RPG sessions. At least, as a gamemaster, I has the audience face to face, man to man, and I knew the reactions and the expectations as I went on. I can change the focus, the tone and the flow of the story according to how the audience react. And I could share my own little microcosmos, what you people call the sandbox, with my players. Behind the screen, on the anonymity of a bulletin board, I don't have a fucking clue if I am doing it right or wrong. Especially when there are next to no reaction and comment. So how I am supposed to know what to keep, change, improve if no one tell me? Or are my ideas so bland or out of touch with the spirit of this thread that it's not worth reading? Do I have to resort to the usual recipes and tricks (you know what I meant by recipes) to hope to get more people interested? On a more personal note, I am struggling with two things, first, a large inferiority/superiority complex heavily tilted toward the inferiority end (to put it in words, I know I have ideas, they are results of absorbing about over 20 years of pop culture and culture. But I feel something need to be improved, always.). Secondly, as I have talked more with friends and relatives, a possible bipolar disorder I refused to acknowdlege. My motivation is like a rollercoaster, alternating periods where I get high and ideas are flooding my brain, and periods of zero motivation, bordering on depression, where I see no point doing it, especially if my words and ideas cant reach up to someone or a group of people. Yes, I work by motivation, and this motivation is related to if I know I have reached someone. Otherwise, what would have been the point of doing dungeon mastering to share a story if no one listen to me or if silence are the only things I get in return? Last edited by Sheba; 2008-08-02 at 20:28. Reason: some things to add |
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2008-08-03, 00:14 | Link #3240 |
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One cannot get comments on a story if one has no story to comment on.
Although since your primary reasons for writing are somewhat alien to me, I'll have to let someone else be the motivator. EDIT: Potentially personally offensive statement redacted. |
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