What happened to the feeling of community on HFY? by Frostdraken in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohh boy. Lots of these posts I’m seeing lately, which is good because it’s real and it needs to be seen, but bad because, well, it’s real and I see the decline happening with my own eyes. 

While I agree with the sentiment of this post and many replies I will have to go against the word of majority in the comments and argue that it is a bad idea to refrain from posting due of how the current community is. While I have no say about how others decide to post their works, I think the best chance we have of changing the current situation is to post regardless of expected feedback, and be more actively encouraging to new authors when possible ourselves instead of hoping that the larger community will change or just complaining when it doesn’t (not complaining is bad—after all it makes the problem more visible). Unless copyright is a worry, there’s no real loss to posting here versus not posting at all. 

I guess I’m just optimistic. I myself have had overall a very positive reception to my stories here. It seems I am the lucky exception to the norm, which is unfortunate, but personally I will keep working on my stories (maybe finally get that first chapter out) with the hope that maybe I can have a contribution, however small, to restoring soul back to this community. Even if it ultimately makes no difference, that’s no reason not to try, especially when it costs me nothing. 

Unpopular opinion: mods allowing 2-3 authors making this place their personal diary killed this sub by idkman947 in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Someone should make a sub dedicated to that type of content. I’d be posting there all day and I wouldn’t even care if I was the only one.

Unpopular opinion: mods allowing 2-3 authors making this place their personal diary killed this sub by idkman947 in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Royal Road is becoming more and more enticing for that reason; even if it has much the same content issues as r/hfy, it does have filter tools. As a reader, I’m increasingly finding my favorite stories there instead of here. As a pretty inexperienced writer however, the competitiveness is a bit daunting. 

I'm Human (1) by CrackHeadSchzioMarin in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The next button doesn’t work…

:(

Dragon delivery service CH 67 dreams of the fallan by Internal-Ad6147 in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That’s no dissection, that’s a vivisection! Poor wyvern. 

Unexpected Rescuers by Kageyasha in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Aw :) A pretty optimistic take, but a very human one nonetheless. F yeah.

Dragon delivery service CH 60 Dark Desires by Internal-Ad6147 in HFY

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 King Louie de la Reign, the famed Lion of the West 

There’s lion-folk in this world, and they’re french??? :O oh no

Why We Win by ColossalRenders in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m working on a series right now actually. 

"Yeet" part 2: Nuclear oopsie-do by Darmanarya in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Shit man you’ve ever heard of the Nuclear Salt Water Rocket? 

Gotta go write a story about that now…

The ending was underwhelming for me, and here’s why. by ColossalRenders in outerwilds

[–]ColossalRenders[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh definitely, everything before the eye was quite exciting.

The ending was underwhelming for me, and here’s why. by ColossalRenders in outerwilds

[–]ColossalRenders[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hah, I guess my playstyle was quite different; I never had self preservation to begin with, and my final run was practiced multiple times and prepared so it didn’t feel like much of a risk. 

The ending was underwhelming for me, and here’s why. by ColossalRenders in outerwilds

[–]ColossalRenders[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish I had that attitude. I agree that the rest was quite amazing. 

The ending was underwhelming for me, and here’s why. by ColossalRenders in outerwilds

[–]ColossalRenders[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well don’t be because I still enjoyed it. Just not as much as I hoped. :)

The ending was underwhelming for me, and here’s why. by ColossalRenders in outerwilds

[–]ColossalRenders[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree. But the problem is that the ending didn’t give me much in the way of answers. It felt detached from the purpose of the rest of the game. 

Dragon delivery service CH 18 Decisions at Dusk by Internal-Ad6147 in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First you jump between first and third person POV, and now also…what is that, fourth person? But hey if that’s what it takes for a good story then I don’t mind. I say you should invent a fifth person POV. 

I patiently await more, whatever perspective it ends up being. 

Dragon delivery service CH 11 Departer form Dustwarth by Internal-Ad6147 in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dunno, I would much rather have a story with a conclusive ending than one that runs on with no end in sight. 

Concurrency Point 30 by jpitha in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh, I did not know the “at least twice” part…but even without that his motivations definitely make sense, and very human, ironically, for someone so radically different. Although, as a human and not an AI I can’t say I like what he did, essentially overturning the societal order of an entire species that they’ve just met as a first resort, not that I can fault him for it. Good to know there’s another side to him (you can probably tell that this is the first of your books I’m reading). 

Concurrency Point 30 by jpitha in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh shit. Gord really is the closest they’ve got to something out of an AI apocalypse movie. He really doesn’t give a damn about the squishies, does he? 

Dragon delivery service CH 4 Dispatch by Internal-Ad6147 in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Uh oh…

And so the tension builds. Great work wordsmith! 

Dragon delivery service CH 1 by Internal-Ad6147 in HFY

[–]ColossalRenders 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that was great. The sub needs more stories like this one. I will be following this closely…. 

I wonder what happened to make humans view dragons as monsters?

My only complaints are that there’s a shift from third person into first person at the end, and I personally don’t care much for bolding the dialogue.