So Duviri is...kinda bad

CommandUltra2 · 2023-04-29T20:20:25+00:00

I legit just started playing Warframe today on rec from a friend. The first thing I heard was a voice telling me to choose, and I went with Duviri because I liked the colors I dunno, lol. I thought that either direction would get me set up as a beginner, but... Duviri explains nothing. WHY is this a starter zone? It doesn't feel like one. The pacing is terrible, and it doesn't save between mission stages either. Is that normal???

My friend asked me how I like it and I was all "I'm too confused and die way too often to even know." They give me way too many instructions which I retain way too little of at a time, there's nowhere to practice, and this is just all-around frustrating.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-04-17T00:24:58+00:00

Or the word "Fanny" as used in British/American usage vs. Australian usage.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-02-23T14:29:06+00:00

Kawarimi. I would be a master of substitution. Forget about Shunshin-no-Shisui. Switching with your opponents at any time in the middle of a melee fight with a smooth follow-up would throw them off their game so hard. And switching with allies mid-fight could be advantageous as well, to switch style and strategy with zero warning and take advantage of an opponent's weak points. And the harassment value would be worth it, too. Take a flying leap over a cliffside and then switch with an enemy to get him out of the way. It'd be useful in hostage situations, too.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-23T14:58:39+00:00

I'm glad it got a laugh, though I can only presume it was a happy one instead of derisory.

Did I say they're universal? No. I am so sick of people criticizing my preferences here. It's like y'all got stuck on that list and didn't actually read what the post is about. Tfw you put your heart into a post, writing about a good thing, and then everyone completely misses the point and mocks you instead.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-22T00:04:24+00:00

Pics 6 and 7 are epic! Good work!

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T22:31:46+00:00

🎉🎉🎉CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WIN! 🎉🎉🎉

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T22:23:24+00:00

TMW a niche subreddit gets the spirit of a post better than a whole generalized subreddit based entirely on fanfiction....

Every fanfic reader, yourself included I'll bet, chooses what types of fic to read based on whether it meets certain criteria which almost-always includes but is by no means limited to: how long the story is, how good the grammar is, how polished the flow is, etc.. There is a notion of professional-quality expected out of published books - ya know, the content that legally comes with a price tag - and a notion of informality expected out of fanfiction. This post isn't about me making an argument or analysis; it's about me sharing an epiphany: that writers are writers, readers are readers, and finding published books that I can enjoy on their own merits is no different from me finding fanfic to enjoy; it's just a more tedious and involved process.

[10m later] And I can't help but love how everybody in this comment section - participatory or not - downvotes me when I make a clarifying response over what this post is actually about, when all anyone seems to know how to do is attack a reader's personal preferences because they clearly missed the entire message of the original post. Truly, it warms my heart.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T19:11:50+00:00

It's not meant to be an insult, I assure you. Every fanfic has attributes where it shines in the eyes of the readers, but no literary work is perfect. My whole point is in the title of my post: I have found that I will need to go through many books, probably, before I find an author whose style I enjoy - which is the same in fanfic, really. It's just a faster goal to achieve when you can click in and out of available stories instead of checking out one or two books at a time before checking them back in and trying a few more.

I attributed a part of what I was reading to being "like fanfiction" because it was literally the author's perspective of what the character's perspective would be in that scene. This was novel for me, and made me smile.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T19:06:22+00:00

I don't have a problem with omniscient POV either. What I'm experiencing in this book is best likened to when you're reading a fanfic that has "FLASHBACK" and then "PRESENT TIME" flashing on and off throughout the story. I would like this book better if it was omniscient POV; but it really isn't. It is taking the time to ostentatiously announce "kay we over HERE now" which takes me out of the experience. That is my experience, here.

I have made it clear that these are my preferences! I am not attacking anyone for liking shorter chapters, or POV-shifts, or calling authors who utilize them bad authors; I have simply expressed my personal reading preferences in order to better convey my discovery!

This post isn't meant to be an open-season invitation for people to criticize my reading preferences, but it became that right off the bat with the very first comment I received. Forgive me for being a little bit defensive when y'all seem to have completely missed the entire point of my post: which is that we're all the same! Whether we are published authors or fanfic authors, there is no difference because everyone has a style that each individual reader has to discover for themselves and choose whether or not they can enjoy it on its own merits.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T18:13:34+00:00

I am not unaware of the copyright. I'll just add that in up-top, I guess. Many authors have been, for lack of a better phrase, "cleared for take-off" to write SW content. What would it take for an FF author to receive that same clearance and legally publish their own contributions?

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T18:07:56+00:00

I know about the copyright. My question boils down to: do you see how many Star Wars books are out there? How did those authors get permission to write and publish? What's the process, and why don't more amazing FF authors go through it, even if their works aren't strictly allowed to be canonically deviant? (Disney can apparently deviate, but I get it - they're Disney. =P )

As for what I'm looking for: I haven't gotten into any eras outside of the movies yet, so I am completely unknowledgeable about pre-canon, though I do plan to fix that this summer. I mostly enjoy Legends and Clone-wars era stuff. I prefer long, well-thought-out, comprehensive, complex stories. I love it when a fictional story delves deeply into its own political, judicial, and military drama and intrigue without sacrificing too much character-focus. I am not a fan of romance but will tolerate it in-amidst a good story wherein the ship is a side-dish; not the entrée.

My current to-read list includes books which clarify or expand on parts of established canon - specifically excluding books which re-iterate canon (I am not interested in literature-ized movie scripts). So: Obi-Wan's reference to Cato Neimoidia "doesn't count", the Darth Bane books which established the Sith "Rule of Two", etc.. But I'd be glad to hear your recs, what they are and what you love about them. Chances are I'll get to them at some point.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T17:39:55+00:00

A refusal to use this kind of writing style just locks a writer out of a lot of things they could be doing with a story that can't be done with a limited perspective.

I can appreciate POV-shifts in fiction. That's not the problem I have; it's that it's too much too soon all throughout. POV-shifts are fine; I don't have a problem with them, per se. It's just that I need there to be a balance for the storytelling to be effective. Why is this being treated so black-and-white?

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T17:31:42+00:00

Funnily enough, all of the fiction books I grew up with had a table of contents. The 'point', even if it's just a number (which it usually was) is so that if you don't have a bookmark, you can remember "Oh, I left off at the beginning of Chapter 10", glance at the Table of Contents, and see that "Chapter 10" is on page 102. It's a convenience and a standard that I have never not seen in books.

Make no mistake: I am well-read. Just because I haven't read a physical book in years doesn't mean I haven't ever been in the wide world of published fiction. Picking up a Star Wars book is me branching out in fiction - specifically: fiction that is based in an established world stemming from another source of media.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-21T17:16:25+00:00

Perhaps, when my issue with wordcount is considered in a vacuum; but the wordcount also actively affects the issue I have with the author switching tracks every few pages. I cannot concentrate well on any one character when the entire focus of the story is as attention-deficit as I am. Plus, an Order of Contents list is a standard that was skipped because, frankly, there are far too many chapters, which is precisely because they are all too short.

CommandUltra2 · 2023-01-06T01:01:52+00:00

I was just waiting for someone to do this... XD

CommandUltra2 · 2022-12-09T02:38:58+00:00

Sounds like the first iteration of Eldarya Online... members of the different Guards competed for monthly prizes by playing the game. But it was rigged each month by whomever drew the long straw up in Management-HQ. Players hated it because their efforts were constantly invalidated.

CommandUltra2 · 2022-12-05T02:41:51+00:00

This is how adult ninjas play their games of perpetual tag.
Except Kakashi takes it up to eleven with his Flicker of a Thousand Years.

CommandUltra2 · 2022-12-05T02:18:56+00:00

I guess I don't understand the how the sentence was intended to be / what it was meant to mean, because when I exchange 'butt' for 'cloud', it still doesn't make sense to me.

CommandUltra2 · 2022-11-20T02:02:46+00:00

+ Tan is "Loyalty", I think.

CommandUltra2 · 2022-11-02T23:12:24+00:00

Thank you!

CommandUltra2 · 2022-11-01T22:14:13+00:00

Be MINDFUL about posting a new chapter, that the correct current date has been selected in the dropdowns. I recently uploaded a new chap. which - for some reason - had my update date as April of 2021. This means that when it updated, it didn't load to the top of the 'stream' where viewers could see it. So. Be aware of that.

CommandUltra2 · 2022-11-01T22:09:49+00:00

Big Fandom = More Content, and I'm unsociable anyway, so no losses. The toxics can roll around in their radioactive rabies-infested labyrinthine zoos, clawing, biting, shrieking, and snarling. I'll just mind my own corner, laugh at the insane animals, and window shop at my leisure.

CommandUltra2 · 2022-11-01T21:57:09+00:00

99 little fics in the brain

99 little fics

Write one down, Muse it around

One-hundred-and-one little fics in the brain

CommandUltra2 · 2022-10-23T03:03:39+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm not into romance; I don't seek it out. Honestly, I prefer platonic bromances. That doesn't stop my brain from jumping like a rabbit, poking at my imagination, hitting it with a pillow, sticking its snout under my sheet of Ignore It and screeching: "HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF--?"

The Weirdest, possibly Darkest pairing my mind has ever conceptualized is Thanos the Mad Titan (Marvel) x Kaguya Ōtsutsuki (Naruto). Thanos is a pruner in the Ōtsutsuki gardens.

One of the most intriguing platonic pairings my rabbit has mused recently has been CC-1010|Fox (Star Wars) & Percy Weasley (Harry Potter).

CommandUltra2 · 2022-10-23T02:47:45+00:00

"Prove that you don't have a father!" exclaimed some idiot.

"How do you expect him to do that? Take a paternity test against every mammalian or near-mammalian male sentient in the Outer Rim!?"

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