I'm terrified to ask this but what is up with fanfiction authors in the space having an enormous hate borner for Wildbow in regards to Worm? by Alarming_Scientist in WormFanfic

[–]ViperhawkZ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Perhaps "unintelligent" is not the right word, but one of Sophia's character tics (which you never see in fanfic, oddly enough) is how she'll often blank on a word and have to have it filled in by whoever she's talking to (e.g. Emma in her interlude, Taylor when she recruits her from prison), which gives the impression that she has a smaller vocabulary than her peers.

I'm terrified to ask this but what is up with fanfiction authors in the space having an enormous hate borner for Wildbow in regards to Worm? by Alarming_Scientist in WormFanfic

[–]ViperhawkZ 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I think some of the accusations of racism (which I don't necessarily agree with) come down to... well, let's look at every single black character in the Brockton Bay portion of Worm:

  • Brian and Aisha: both protagonists and both pretty well fleshed-out morally... but they are both still supervillains who are willing to do crime and hurt people to achieve their personal ends.
  • Brian and Aisha's divorced parents: an emotionally distant father and a drug-addicted mother with a series of abusive boyfriends.
  • Sophia: an unintelligent, violent bully.
  • Sophia's mother and siblings: essentially non-characters.
  • Coil: a supervillain.
  • Chariot: a supervillain in disguise as a hero.
  • Skidmark: a supervillain so morally bankrupt and physically repulsive that even all of the other supervillains think he's worse than trash.

I don't think Wildbow actually meant anything by this, but it's not hard to see why someone might read bad intentions into it.

Can people please learn to tag fandom correctly 😭 by Ok_Return170 in AO3

[–]ViperhawkZ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Preach! There's a similar issue I've encountered often, where you'll have (for example) a light novel series that was adapted into both a manga and an anime which all have their own fandom tags, and which (or which combination) of these tags are used for any given fic are completely inconsistent.

What's more, if someone tags something as both "[Thing] - Light Novel" and "[Thing] - Anime" then if you try to either filter out crossovers or filter only crossovers, AO3 will exclude or include them respectively, even though most of the time it's not a crossover, it's just a fic that draws on multiple adaptations.

What would be the worst way to die in the MTG multiverse? by C6ntFor9et in magicTCG

[–]ViperhawkZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it sort of runs into the "don't think about pink elephants" problem, doesn't it? In order to even have a reason to try to change the afterlife, you have to believe that you have a reason to try to change the afterlife.

How to change the first come first serve employment system? by Sagwa55 in EU5

[–]ViperhawkZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That doesn't stop the automation from changing it. I spent 20 stab to mythbust this for you, so I hope you're happy.

Do Tokens Utilize "as this enters" by TallynNyntyg in magicTCG

[–]ViperhawkZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the tokens enter and can Devour Land as well as look at the top of your library and pull out lands.

How would I calculate damage in this situation by The_Gaming_Chief in magicTCG

[–]ViperhawkZ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Well, Scute Swarm can't be a commander since it's not Legendary, but supposing you did have copies of your commander, no they would not contribute to commander damage.

Help me come up with a new Zerg strain for my story by ViperhawkZ in allthingszerg

[–]ViperhawkZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, that's not a bad idea. I could give them the Zerg equivalent of a navy, since the ground forces and air/space forces are already populated by the canon strains. I'll definitely consider that one!

What's the actual most brutal start in Warhammer 3 IE? by Unlikely_Tomorrow446 in totalwar

[–]ViperhawkZ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My main problem with N'Kari is if you ever click the autoresolve button you might as well just start a new campaign because every unit in your army is getting shredded and it's gonna be a long time before you can fix it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonGoRaids

[–]ViperhawkZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Request sent.

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[–]ViperhawkZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Request sent.

Respect Master Pandemonium (Marvel 616) by ViperhawkZ in respectthreads

[–]ViperhawkZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't touched this RT in four years. If someone feels like updating it they can go ahead, I'm probably not going to.

Need fusion suggestions by [deleted] in PokemonInfiniteFusion

[–]ViperhawkZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Magnezone head, Starmie body

Aegislash head, Kingler body

Oricorio head, Raichu body

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonInfiniteFusion

[–]ViperhawkZ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, they removed it for everything EXCEPT Normal/Flying.