Questions about a storygame? Thoughts on Eternal? Any other IF you're playing out there?
The 4th Reich Has Failed!
8 years ago
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
Call of Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
1984, George Orwell.
"What's it going to be then, eh?"
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim. Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry.
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita."
Lolita, Vladimir Nabakov
"MOON. GLORIOUS MOON. FULL, FAT, REDDISH moon, the night as light as day, the moonlight
flooding down across the land and bringing joy, joy, joy. Bringing too the full-throated call of the
tropical night, the soft and wild voice of the wind roaring through the hairs on your arm, the hollow
wail of starlight, the teeth-grinding bellow of the moonlight off the water." Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay.
"McCarthy, keep down!"
"Yes, sir."
"—and shut up."
I shut. There were five of us climbing up the slope of a sparsely wooded ridge. We angled diagonally through high yellow grass so dry it crunched. July had not been kind to Colorado. A spark would turn these mountains into an inferno.
Just before each man reached the top he sprawled flat against the slope, then inched slowly forward. Duke was in the lead, wriggling through the tall weeds like a snake. We'd topped five hills this way today and the heat was getting to me. I thought about ice water and the Jeep we'd left back on the road.
A Matter for Men, David Gerrold.
Ten and a half hours before a mounted knight with a machine gun tried to kill her, tech journalist Miriam Beckstein lost her job. Before the day was out, her pink slip would set in train a chain of events that would topple governments, trigger civil wars, and kill thousands. It would be the biggest scoop in her career, in any journalist's career—bigger than Watergate, bigger than 9/11—and it would be Miriam's story. But as of seven o'clock in the morning, the story lay in her future: All she knew was that it was a rainy Monday morning in October, she had a job to do and copy to write, and there was an editorial meeting scheduled for ten.
The sky was the color of a dead laptop display, silver-gray and full of rain. Miriam yawned and came awake to the Monday morning babble of the anchorman on her alarm radio.
Family Trade, Charles Stross. Bonus points for being a twofer, having a nod to the Neuromancer, William Gibson entry sentence, The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
So yeah. 8 chapters, a sentence, or a paragraph, or at most a few paragraphs. What's the difference, eh?
The 4th Reich Has Failed!
8 years ago
These are just a few of the other forums I posted it on, not just one nationalist forum that seems to agitate some of you delicate darlings. Survivalist forums, gun forums, game forums, prepper forums, zombie forums:
https://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/mountain-hold.42468/
http://www.americanpreppersnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=262&t=45709
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?677278-*M-o-u-n-t-a-i-n-H-o-l-d*&highlight=
http://thezombieforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=263
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_10_20/683394_Mountain_Hold.html
http://wethearmed.com/creative-writing/mountain-hold-by-tyler-danann-an-epic-post-apocalyptic-tale!-guns-galore!/msg388366/#msg388366
I guess that must mean I'm a zombie, spree-killer, gamer-mad supremacist just because I post about my stuff there?
To those saying I'm 'racist' or supremacist or whatever the liberals etc claim I am, you can just kiss my ass folks. I tell it like it is, no doubt about it and I don't sugar coat my words nor will back down. That's part of the reason I came onto this place, because if there's an adventure to be told it's by us not by what a publisher or big company tells it's writers to come up with.
Here's a link to the actual word 'racist' and you'll be surprised who thought it up...
http://i.imgur.com/UiRXY6T.jpg
If I've crossed the line, please start a complaint and we'll take it up with the moderators. As of yet none has a problem with me as I don't start stirring trouble unlike a certain poster who takes many things out of context.
Education session over, now lets get back to writing our stories and enjoying our adventures. :)
Nah, you're definitely a racist.
8 years ago
First, I want to throw out that I'm not a fan of censorship. Banning an idea just because you don't agree with it or because it's unbelievably stupid is a very slippery slope.
Second, I think it's important to be honest with yourself about who you are and what you stand for. Otherwise, you're playing pretend like a little boy in his box fort.
And after reading a few snippets of that magical piece of rainbow poop, it doesn't take a Social Justice Warrior to understand that you're definitely a racist. But, hey, be proud of who you are and what you believe in. Too many other folks won't.
I read all of Chapter 4 because it was just so darn awful it was funny - the thinly veiled white supremacist ideology made me laugh. Was that supposed to be subtle? The mandatory course on THE DEATH OF WESTERN EUROPEAN TRADITION and whatever was great too. It was so very much realistic, I can actually see them forcing it on students in the western world! *Sarcasm
You really kept the realism rolling from there. A world where it's a criminal act to say anything that upsets a minority in any way is just so reflective of modern society. *Sarcasm* Tell me, do they force the pretty blond girl to have sex with the mud-bloods later on in the story? Because institutional mandated rape in western society is very believable. *Sarcasm
The irrelevant tangents you split off on did wonders for the pacing and plot. Your written craft is exceptional. *Sarcasm
This was terribly hilarious; it would have worked great as a work of satire/parody, mocking the misguided and morphed perceptions of reality that oh so many of the poor downtrodden white supremacists hold. It's like a rude gesture in the face of its own "cause." In short, a great joke.
Of course, you deserve the right to express those views... just as everyone else deserves the right to mock them in turn. But you should stop being a coward and embrace who/what you really are. Lying to yourself is unhealthy.
The 4th Reich Has Failed!
8 years ago
As Bucky said, you are so definitely, obviously a white supremacist I don't know why you're even pretending to be anything else. It's not about 'being proud of your heritage, just like anyone of any other race would be' when what you're writing about is how great and pure people of the White race are (that capital letter is important!) and how awful and degenerate everyone else is in comparison.
When you introduce your protagonist as 'pro-White, conservative' and make sure to make it a point that the character with all the unpleasant characteristics is Iranian, hammer home that 'pro-White, conservative' girl is being persecuted by the evil mudbloods and brainwashed liberals, and this is a pattern that repeats itself over and over, you're being dishonest in claiming you're writing an adventure story.
When all the characters are one dimensional and exist either to be good and correct mouthpieces for your beliefs, or demonized caricatures of those who don't share them, and everything that happens happens only to 'prove' some 'fact' in the real world by its existence in your fake constructed one, what that is is naked propaganda, and it's one of the more disgusting and dishonest things any writer can do, no matter what agenda they're pushing.
And even though it's your kneejerk reaction to call everyone who calls you out on this a 'liberal' in a way that shows you don't even really know what the word means, you are really not as skilled or subtle as you think you are at hammering this propaganda into literally every paragraph of your writing, and believe it or not one does not have to be a 'fanatical liberal' (whatever that term means to you personally) to detect the snakeoil and overpowering odor of shit.
The 4th Reich Has Failed!
8 years ago
Just flip the "M" upside down. In honor of Tyler, you're the Grand Wizard, magical overlord of whatever-the-hell-it-is you're doing. If someone disobeys, turn them into a Mason Jar and then start shoving other Mason Jars inside of him.
And to wrap this nice derailment up with a pretty little bow, racism is bad, M'kay.
The 4th Reich Has Failed!
8 years ago
Yeah, I'd wanted to say something like this, but then the guy slunk off. Long dead people who were not you doing things you didn't contribute to in the slightest isn't anything to be 'proud of'.
I mean, you can be interested in history, that's great. But with real history involving real people and all it rarely wraps itself up in a tidy little package you can just stamp PROUD [WHATEVER] RACE on, unless you're doing some serious projecting of elaborate personal fantasies on it and editing and ignoring any actual facts that don't line up with with the narrative you're constructing.
And even then, the PROUD MANLY MEN OF YORE who GOT SHIT DONE would likely think some guy writing bad propaganda 'inspired' by these fantasies today was a whiny self entitled little bitch trying to pat himself on the back for their achievements while understanding nothing about the reality of their actual lives and not caring to learn.
Mountain Derp Is Derp!
8 years ago
There's more then a casual correlation between 'pride' in race, and an overly intertwined family tree. Hey, saves a lot of time meeting SO's family, or splitting christmas and such.
Only one I can think of that enforces a blending of races, is the Buro in Feng Shui (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/FengShui ), with the express aim of stamping out racism. If fuckboy here had a smidge of subtlety or nous, he'd have taken a message from this - intra-racial marriages, are illegal, inter are the norm. And he could've made a link between that, and the hideous blending of sorcery and tech, enslaving of demons and then forcibly jamming tech and explosive leashes into em, and all the other 1984 dystopia trappings it rolls with.
But nope, wimmenz in fridges. Who needs subtlety, when you can goose-step?
(Also, the writing is terrible and boring, even allowing for the propaganda)
The 4th Reich Has Failed!
8 years ago
Maybe he's proud of his Neanderthal DNA. People whose ancestors come from sub Saharan Africa, if I recall correctly, are the only humans that are 100% homo sapien. I believe most people of Asian descent have Denisovan DNA, another human sub-species.
So, technically speaking, our storm trooper here isn't even pure as a species.
The 4th Reich Has Failed!
one month ago
This guy probably would've pissed me off a lot less if he'd just been up front about being a Nazi lol.
But I had actually gone and read his stuff on the other forum, and it was a high school romance full of conniving brown guys who wanted the pure Aryan white girl, and only the pure Aryan white boy could save her from open sexual assault on campus. The teachers and staff were all too afraid of seeming racist to do anything but chide her about it. "Proud of her White heritage" also obviously a completely normal establishing trait for a teenage girl.
And at that point it was just like, who was he trying to fool with the rest of this stuff.
Anyway, the only story he ever published here was more like a demo ending in a teaser to shill one of his self published books on Amazon, nothing of value was lost.