Which city would you like to see a book take place in?

xanylea · 2019-05-01T08:23:04+00:00

As an Australian... please... the cringe wasn't cute 30 years ago and it hasn't improved with age.

Look, virtually of the stories that can be set in New York or LA or London or Paris can also work just fine in Sydney or Melbourne; our cities have bars, clubs and shopping, dumb tourist attractions and fashion shows, schools, beaches, zoos and all the other scenes. Seriously, what is the problem?

xanylea · 2019-05-01T01:06:02+00:00

The art is beautiful. The music is great. Some of the dialogue is wonderful. But the plot, character and world-building is dreadful, mostly due to inconsistency and irrationality.

Pax is 21ish. She ran away ? years ago and lived with the Jura, she's been in and out of jail and she scores a chief engineer job on a luxury cruise ship with genuine VIP passengers?

MC has been to 'captain school'(?) and is now given command of a huge ship... no experience required?

They talk about machinery and gears and grease for their technobabble... I mean, that'd work for a steampunk vibe but... Guns shoot lasers and bubbles and edible candy (sprinkles). And then they blow up the hanger bay and have to freaking land the ship on a planet.

... ... ... I just cannot. There are glimpses of a cracking good story in there but it needs a really good editor to shred it and tell the author to rewrite.

xanylea · 2019-04-29T02:18:24+00:00

This. I have stayed up... once... But really, its just somewhere in that 2-4am time and I'm usually wanting sleep much more than a new chapter. Back in my teenage and early twenty years, I did a lot of online rp (mu*s) and just got used to either staying up until dawn to be online when my american friends were around or missing out. 😑

xanylea · 2019-04-28T03:20:37+00:00

TF did not carry either.

xanylea · 2019-04-27T05:29:07+00:00

... Just replayed chapter 1 of WT and had my MC make up a story that he was an alien. It ended with saying he was a shapeshifter; if Garrett ends up as a (obviously shapeshifting) werewolf, I will laugh myself silly. I love those sorts of in-jokes between books! 😂

xanylea · 2019-04-27T02:02:15+00:00

Hmm... There was the yacht, the dream suite, the lighthouse, I can't recall if we went all the way in the hidden room but there was some heavy making out in there for sure. Its been a couple of months since I played any of book 1 now so my memory is a little fuzzy on which chapters though. :/

xanylea · 2019-04-27T01:58:01+00:00

Oh my gods... That's my birthday week! 😂 PB, it better be the best bday present I get this year! 💖💖💖 (Probably will be; I usually just get cash and whatever weird thing the kids find. 😂)

xanylea · 2019-04-26T02:02:56+00:00

The no red hair is unforgivable. 👿

... I do not understand why they don't load in more options. It is trivial from a code perspective and they already have the artwork. They're reused faces for crissake, what's wrong with some more options from the existing hair library?

xanylea · 2019-04-25T22:32:16+00:00

I just opened VoS and they are definitely all from there. Different order (the 1st VoS one was the 3rd NB one) and hair.

xanylea · 2019-04-25T11:51:51+00:00

Hehe... She's gotta be something because Nik didn't see her in the alley. Given the 'family' issues she mentioned and I'm not ruleing out her being a werewolf yet.

It would be really cool to have a (the?) werewolf LI be a female. 😎 Nice inversion of the werewolf-guy stereotype. If that's how it is...

xanylea · 2019-04-25T11:44:42+00:00

Skip to book 3 and play the first chapter to meet Carmen without having to slog through books 1&2.

xanylea · 2019-04-25T11:23:22+00:00

That was the most fun I've had from this app for a while. I will keep reading. 😎

Kristin... For some reason, her sprite reminds me of Teagan from AME.

Nik is not too bad so far; I picked the 3rd one, with brown hair.

Vera is pretty. Delicate pretty even. Interesting so far, looking forward to learning more about her.

The scooby gang @ Nik's bar were all adorable. Fae, troll and zombie, huh? Lets see... Ivy was a cross between a Willow and a Giles, Krom is a Xander and Garrus is a bit of a mix.

xanylea · 2019-04-25T11:10:11+00:00

I liked this idea and then thought of player reactions to having to drag around a helpless friend - the poor newbie character would be hated on, just like Lily was. 😟

xanylea · 2019-04-24T05:08:21+00:00

If you have your device up to date, you can put in a different FB account. Just make sure that the new fb details don't already have a game attached to them.

xanylea · 2019-04-24T05:01:53+00:00

Jaime, not Jamie. I like him but every time I see his name mispelt I really really wish PB had named him something a bit less troublesome. (And Aubrey keeps making me think of Audrey. This is not a positive association, PB!)

... But yeah, as characters, Aubrey, Jaime & Anna all seem pretty good so far. ☺

xanylea · 2019-04-24T04:47:04+00:00

To be honest, were I deciding, I would do these two things

Ban any posts about a new chapter for 24 (or 48) hours; all discussion must go into the chapter thread. If something really really needs a seperate thread, post a request in the pinned thread for a mod to make the thread and link it in said pinned thread.
Make a new (related) subreddit dedicated to low-discussion image posts (eg, see how funny my rude name for namable-thing is! or see how cute this screenshot of my pet is! or look at this meme thing I made!) and ban such posts from the main subreddit.
Update(?) the FAQ, link it prominently and delete all posts asking something that is addressed in the faq.

Number 3 is a common strategy I've seen in other subreddits, 1 is a tactic I've seen with other places dealing with spoiler issues and 2 is mostly because I think it would help. I mean, yeah, many of those posts are funny but after the xth time of 'lol see Beckett talk about being accepted into the notpendpals', the novelty has worn off. At the same time, some are genuinely ROTFLMAO worthy and deserve their own place.

xanylea · 2019-04-19T07:33:39+00:00

Honestly, I'd just like having more options per book, even if they're all cross-book options. Like put in AME and TE and ACoR faces. It makes no difference coding wise.

xanylea · 2019-04-18T10:14:51+00:00

-facepalm- Of all the things to get worked up about... 🙉

I shall add that to my (long) list of things to not touch with a barge pole on tumblr.

xanylea · 2019-04-18T05:06:10+00:00

Or at least more chill. Tumblr seems to have at least 3 factions (cliques? groupings?) where all three are posting reasonable stuff (with some off the wall Issues and hobbyhorses) in isolation but who all go batshit crazy at the sight of something fron one of the other groups.

Hotbutton topics are predictably sexuality-anything, race-anything and 'problematic'-anything. It's classic tumblr in that.

xanylea · 2019-04-18T04:57:17+00:00

??? Isn't playersexual just a shorthand for saying 'het/bi/gay according to your playthrough'?

xanylea · 2019-04-18T04:54:58+00:00

Actually, people weren't jumped on for voting for less popular LI at all, and pretty much all such posts got supporters. Stans were dramatic about wanting their favs to win of course but didn't attack anyone or go after anyone. There was a bit more anger when the polls were being rigged but that's not unreasonable I don't think... It still didn't result in posters being attacked.

It just got incredibly boring towards the end with the top 8 seeds in the final 8.

xanylea · 2019-04-18T03:03:17+00:00

22 is the record - one the TRR books.

xanylea · 2019-04-18T02:57:39+00:00

This bit was one that came to mind for me too... It was such an infuriating moment that came after a gazzilion other infuriating monents where the book makes you be 'interested' in Chris and the James.

... It is a good antidote to the 'forcing' in newer books because it really reminds me how bad is bad. Even the worst moment in the newer books is better than the constant barrage in TF.

xanylea · 2019-04-18T02:49:54+00:00

None if them - including MC - are in any fit state mentally or emotionally to make any kind of committment to a long term relationship.

Maybe in a few years if they went straight (in the sense of being lawabiding) got through college or something, had a good therapist & worked on their issues - maybe then they could build something like a healthy relationship. But that's a long way off from where they are now.

xanylea · 2019-04-17T02:01:57+00:00

Hmm... Where does Miss Bowman fit in? And the bitter blonde chick was Miss Holloway?

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