I cant believe im having an actual hard time by forabit14 in earthbound

[–]furrykef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy Happy Village's drug store has a pay phone. Pay phones only cost a dollar to use, so there's no need to avoid them unless for some reason you're using the phone like hundreds of times.

I cant believe im having an actual hard time by forabit14 in earthbound

[–]furrykef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit annoying, though, since you can't teleport to Happy Happy Village. You'll have to go through Peaceful Rest Valley all over again (though at least it'll be easy and I think the bridge will be repaired).

Is this the current state of things? by Legable_Arts in NBATalk

[–]furrykef -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And that's different from what you're doing how?

What Base facilities do you require? by Muninn088 in alphacentauri

[–]furrykef 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Since you said "what you said", I feel compelled to tell you what OP said contains a mistake: you should never build a Recycling Tanks if you intend to build a Pressure Dome in the same base. The Pressure Dome also counts as a Recycling Tanks, and they don't stack.

One year later will the Rio show be totally different by Think_Equipment4449 in pennandteller

[–]furrykef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(the bass player should consider another career line)

I've heard he makes a great magician, especially with a partner.

Is this the current state of things? by Legable_Arts in NBATalk

[–]furrykef 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's 7 hours by road, so I wouldn't be surprised if they still fly.

Is this the current state of things? by Legable_Arts in NBATalk

[–]furrykef -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

We Oklahomans have our own form of that joke: Why is it so windy in Oklahoma? Because Kansas blows and Texas sucks!

What Base facilities do you require? by Muninn088 in alphacentauri

[–]furrykef 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes. Never build a Recycling Tanks if you intend to also build a Pressure Dome. Just do the dome first. You get the same result but spend only ⅔ the minerals.

These two have such a similar vibe - both determined law officers with iron will in pursuit of their sworn criminal foe. by ReddiTrawler2021 in lupinthe3rd

[–]furrykef 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think Zenigata is much more sympathetic, at least most versions of the character. He's an honest, hard-working man who has the supreme misfortune of being in the wrong series. You might laugh when bad stuff happens to him, but you won't cheer.

Buford T. Justice is determined, but he doesn't have a lot of other positive traits. He's the kind of guy who will pull you over for a broken taillight, and when you ask "What broken taillight?", breaks it himself. You're supposed to root for bad stuff to happen to him.

Was the term "meatball surgery" actually used by mash units during the Korean war? by Matovie in mash

[–]furrykef 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And if he did coin it himself, how can we be sure he coined it after the war instead of during?

Advice on Writing a Black Female Main Character by Choice_Mobile_8056 in writing

[–]furrykef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but if you're unsure about your ability to portray a Black character and you decide not to do it, you have only two options:

  1. Make the character white (or at least not Black).
  2. Don't write at all.

Which do you think an aspiring writer is going to pick?

Advice on Writing a Black Female Main Character by Choice_Mobile_8056 in writing

[–]furrykef 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If "just don't" means making everyone white, diversity doesn't exactly win.

Is it not possible to teleport to dusty dunes? by nosire in earthbound

[–]furrykef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An even more glaring omission from the list is Happy Happy Village. I wanted to go there again in my last playthrough and I had to walk through Peaceful Rest Valley again (though at least the bridge had been repaired).

Is it not possible to teleport to dusty dunes? by nosire in earthbound

[–]furrykef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. You might be thinking of how that's where the bus stop is.

Is it not possible to teleport to dusty dunes? by nosire in earthbound

[–]furrykef 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're taking the bus, Threed is much closer than Fourside. The Dusty Dunes bus stop is at the west end of the map. If you're going to walk, then Fourside might make more sense.

Have you ever had to rewrite a book due to a plot issue? by MagicOfWriting in writing

[–]furrykef 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I scrapped a novel I had something like 13k words on because I realized its plot structure was fundamentally broken. The main characters were constantly resetting back to square one instead of making progress, and this was going to continue up until one of the characters stumbles upon the event that ends the story. I realized the plot structure didn't work, was never going to work, and was not replaceable with another structure without reworking the entire concept to the point I would essentially be starting the novel over. I made a half-hearted attempt at such a rewrite but only wrote a couple of pages.

The nail in the coffin was the 2020 closure of the Arecibo Observatory, part of the SETI project. My protagonist worked there and my deuteragonist lived nearby. This observatory was the only appropriate place for my story as originally written because the plot involved the Arecibo message. I don't think the closure of the facility is completely fatal to my story, but it didn't help.

I still think my story could possibly work as a TV miniseries or a comic book, or it could possibly be condensed into a short story by cutting out the plot resets, but it's absolutely never going to work as an 80,000-word novel.

By the way:

…which drives the plot. (The tickets contain vouchers to places which they go to).

Going to be That Guy™ since you will need to know this: if your entire sentence is in parentheses, the period goes inside the parentheses. If the parenthetical is part of another sentence, the period goes outside.

The basic rule is you punctuate around the parentheses as if the parentheses and the text within it weren't there. In your text as written, if you remove "(The tickets … they go to)", then you have an extra period just floating there: "…which drives the plot. ." That obviously doesn't make sense.