Mousecore, The Novelist
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Yo. I'm Mousecore. They/them pronouns because I'm three mice connected by one hive mind.
I like to read and review storygames. Eventually I hope to publish my own provided that I lock the fuck in and not get distracted. Want me to be contractually obligated to read your story? Request me for a review at the Review Club.
My PMs are open for those who want to chat, or you can ask for my Discord since CYS PMs are so 2001.
Outside of writing and reading, I'm an avid enjoyer of sports, technology/programming, films, and gaming. I spend my evenings watching shitty movies, playing shitty games, and getting knocked out in rings.
If you're interested in my interpretation of a CYS forum search, check out CYScraper.
My Subjective Rating System
A worthwhile read in my opinion is a short 4, a 5 if you're interested in the topic, and any 6+ rated stories.
| Rating | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not a story, game, or quiz; plagiarized or AI-generated |
| 2 | Is a story, game, or quiz that is not plagiarized or AI-generated, but terribly written |
| 3 | The concept might be intriguing, but the execution is not good |
| 4 | Interesting ideas with visible effort, but with glaring problems |
| 5 | A good story with solid writing, with one or two major flaws (or lack of personal enjoyment) |
| 6 | Well-written and entertaining with an interesting premise; has some minor flaws or one major flaw |
| 7 | A great story that I would recommend to anyone; has very little holding it back from an 8 |
| 8 | Reserved for what I think are my favorite storygames on the site |
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How to Spot AI-Generated WorkWith AI-generated fiction on the rise, it's important to understand whether or not what you're reading is written by a real human. This article aims to establish major overarching concepts behind AI writing (especially in fiction) and how to find these patterns in the wild even as AI models progress over time.
Recent Posts
CYScraper: a CYS forum searching tool on 3/22/2026 8:01:10 AMIt's a feature (not a bug!) from the 2.0 update; default searches are capped to search posts from up
to 5 years ago for the fastest immediate response, though this can just be changed in the filter panel. This limit came about before I made significant improvements to the content indexing system though, not to mention that the VPS the search is hosted on now has way more processing power than when it was using the free tier database provider. At this point having a default date limit seems negligible for performance, but I'll have to see how much of a difference it makes while I'm developing the "search all by member / in timeframe" feature (which will definitely take more time to process).
WHOLESOME thread for WHOLESOME things on 3/20/2026 5:17:57 PM
Fantastic Mr. Fox! I'm also a big fan of Home Alone during the holiday season (only the two relevant ones).
CYScraper: a CYS forum searching tool on 3/20/2026 1:00:38 PM
I did go and retry all the queries you mentioned in this post myself (so now the log looks like a Discord chat between edgy unfunny 14 year-olds), it seemed to be sorting the gamer-words fine. Those posts from 2008 popped up immediately when sorting by oldest date across all years.
I am noticing a funny discrepancy with the "posts only" search as you've seen for yourself though. I'll be checking into that and see what's up.
UPDATE: I somehow forgot my own data model. Duh. "Posts only" only fetches replies to threads rather than the OPs of threads themselves. I'm still iffy on if I like this logic though. I think I would either change the frontend to explicitly say "replies only" or make it a "search title only / search content only" sort label to make things less confusing. But yeah, not a bug, just a misleading frontend label on my part. Good catch Mizal.
CYScraper: a CYS forum searching tool on 3/20/2026 12:29:39 PM
I'm just throwing stones from a glass house lol. If I weren't so used to the Windows environment for literally everything else but programming, I probably would've fully switched to GNOME Fedora a while ago, it was easily my favorite OS to develop on.
CYScraper: a CYS forum searching tool on 3/20/2026 12:22:22 PM
I think it's funny that someone flooded the requests with foot fetish related searches after I mentioned it. Also something along the lines of "how to use CYScraper to blow up CYS asking for my friend Rider."
And that's all fun and games since I didn't bring up the whole "hey I can see every single search timestamped btw" thing until now, but the more interesting searches were the one-off queries for incest and necrophilia back when the tool was still in its infancy and hardly used more than 4-5 times a day (mostly me testing things). And ofc the requesting platform was Linux.
CYScraper: a CYS forum searching tool on 3/20/2026 12:19:36 PM
It's just the API request logs for the tool.
CYScraper: a CYS forum searching tool on 3/20/2026 12:16:12 PM
Goddamn it Corgi.CYScraper: a CYS forum searching tool on 3/20/2026 10:31:54 AM
Oh so that's where those queries were coming from. There were also some interesting searches regarding some... unfun taboos a few days ago.
Were you searching at around midnight EST? I'm wondering if the auto-scraper had something to do with it. Otherwise I can check this out in better detail during my lunch break or something because that is a very curious error.
Just LOL on 3/20/2026 10:17:27 AM
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CYS HOT TAKES on 3/19/2026 11:56:32 PM
Assuredly very family friendly and wholesome things, the mice insist.
