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Fanfiction's Worst Reviews

Discussion in 'Fanfic Discussion' started by Moridin, Jul 7, 2010.

  1. Sauce Bauss

    Sauce Bauss Second Year ~ Prestige ~ DLP Supporter

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    The biggest issue most people have is the near blatant plagiarism in some of The Inheritance Cycle. See Here
     
  2. Memory King

    Memory King Order Member DLP Supporter

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    http://www.fanfiction.net/r/4553008/0/2/
     
  3. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    I nearly reported your post thinking it was a spam post. xD
     
  4. enembee

    enembee The Nicromancer DLP Supporter

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    I'm of two minds about this. On the one-hand he makes some fairly valid if a little ill-informed points.

    On the otherhand, wtf?

    THE ABILITY TO HIDE ARTERIALLY
     
  5. Portus

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    Only if you're a Mudblood? Wait, I remember an episode of Spongebob where he and Patrick were shrunk down in a submarine and traveled through Sqidward's innards - could that be what he means? Or that old movie Inner Space, perhaps?

    Anyway, his points might be marginally valid but the point of your story (I'm assuming he's talking about the Skitterleap, right?) isn't a rote recounting of war and magic's effects on its execution/prosecution, but a character-driven saga set against the backdrop of a massively AU world. So the fact that you didn't spend eons constructing the minutiae of a magic-infused military industrial complex and its differences from the armed conflicts of today and WWII is a bullshit nitpick of the highest order, and misses the point of the story by a light-year or twelve.

    So yeah, take the tangential (right word?) validity to heart if you like, but don't forget to put and keep it in context. Hell, you did have a flying fortress mega-ship, after all, reminiscent of the flying fortresses I loved seeing used by S.H.I.E.L.D. back in the heyday of Marvel comics. And the fucking Skitterleap concept explaining away a lot of the canon power/potential of Portkeys and Apparation. It's not as if you didn't have anything going in the department of magic's effects on warfare, savvy?
     
  6. Jormungandr

    Jormungandr Prisoner

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  7. PinstripedPajamas

    PinstripedPajamas Sixth Year DLP Supporter

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    A review from my 'The Many Deaths of Tom Riddle' story.

    I think I Win.
     
  8. Sesc

    Sesc Slytherin at Heart Moderator

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    Creating another account and reviewing your own shit does not count.
     
  9. PinstripedPajamas

    PinstripedPajamas Sixth Year DLP Supporter

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    Yeah, um. The review is from like four months ago.

    Are you suggesting that i created an account, posted a review to my own story, then four months later decided to join DLP just so that I could post in this thread?

    If so, then you would be totally right!

    Curses, another plot foiled!

    Now excuse me as I retreat to my evil lair and contemplate my next evil deed!

    /sarcasm
     
  10. Memory King

    Memory King Order Member DLP Supporter

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  11. Verminard

    Verminard Seventh Year

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    You plan deeply. I approve.
     
  12. Alindrome

    Alindrome A bigger, darker mark DLP Supporter Retired Staff

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    I once left a review that consisted entirely of ALT+0173, to see if it's possible to blankpost a review. It worked. :awesome
     
  13. Shinysavage

    Shinysavage Madman With A Box ~ Prestige ~

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    Epic necro is epic, but I think this review needs to be shared. It was left for my collaborative Harry Potter/Discworld crossover.

     
  14. Knyght

    Knyght Alchemist

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    He needs a dictionary and/or a therapist.
     
  15. Jormungandr

    Jormungandr Prisoner

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    Or a good ol' ferocious bash on the head.
     
  16. samkar

    samkar Temporarily Banhammered

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    Sounds like a psychopath so there's no hope for a therapy.
     
  17. TRH

    TRH Groundskeeper

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    I'd default to involuntary euthanasia in this case. It's the only way to be sure.
     
  18. Nauro

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    Ah, so there is such a thread. ;D

    It's nothing that special, just a review on FFF that had me staring at it for a few long moments:
     
  19. thebrute7

    thebrute7 High Inquisitor

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    They probably don't qualify as "Worst", but I have a couple of entertaining ones.

    The lulz are strong with this one. He was right about the piece being pretty bad though.

    For Flux. What the hell? What sort of review is recapping my own story for me? And what curse in Hermione? Did he even read my story?

    Also Flux. Pandering to a mediocre fanfiction writer is amusing.
     
  20. Jormungandr

    Jormungandr Prisoner

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    FFn "praise reviews" are like rares in Diablo III - you get scores of them per game, but they're all useless shit.
     
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