Crowsbeak posted:Can anyone explain to me why is it that I have two friends on facebook both recommending this dreck to me, but they both are STEM majors? The thesis of the story is that STEM majors are the ubermensch, draw your conclusions from there
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# ? May 3, 2016 03:07 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:42 |
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Storming The Ivory has another good thread on HPMOR.
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# ? May 10, 2016 14:03 |
My favourite part was the genetic explanation included as a link. Good science.
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# ? May 10, 2016 15:04 |
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By the way, there's a quiet out-of-the-way subreddit called /r/SneerClub, with a smattering of sneer culture aficionados.. I post there on occasion.
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# ? May 30, 2016 10:40 |
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I'm loving this thread. My friend pestered me to read the whole thing and I had a big love-hate relationship with it. The internally consistent magic system thing is like crack for me but almost everything else about the story and its author drags it down. It's weird seeing the train wreck in slow motion, you appreciate how awful it is a lot more when you're not skimming it over the course of a week.
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# ? May 30, 2016 13:57 |
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'Barked Severus' voice.' '... as if to indicate her lithe figure.' '... someone screamed a word.' Good grief. If only the Professors shelf had been brimming with literature, instead
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# ? May 30, 2016 16:32 |
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David Severa: Selections from my forthcoming Harry Potter and the Methods of Neoreactionquote:“Slytherin!” the sorting hat cried before it even touched Harry’s head.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 16:12 |
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God drat
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 16:19 |
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Poe. Poe never changes.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 20:08 |
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Someone offered the guy a hundred bucks if he actually wrote it.quote:"That would involve having to read HPMOR first. I think that alone would be worth $100 for sheer length." poo poo, have we been stiffing the OP?
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# ? Jun 4, 2016 01:29 |
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divabot posted:David Severa: Selections from my forthcoming Harry Potter and the Methods of Neoreaction What does it say about us that we really really want this?
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# ? Jun 4, 2016 07:55 |
The Shortest Path posted:What does it say about us that we really really want this? We have the good taste to recognise greatness and the bad taste to read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
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# ? Jun 4, 2016 15:22 |
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Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies Part Nine quote:
At least Eliezarry does recognise that Snape is far more powerful, in both personal and social power, than Eliezarry is at this point. An Eliezarry that is subject to bouts of uncontrollable rage that cause him to act “irrationally” might actually be an interesting protagonist to follow. quote:
Eliezarry kind of went out of his way to provoke and anger Snape, though. He hasn’t actually seen what Snape would be like under “normal” circumstances i.e. without a student who was outright declaring that he would seek to have him (Snape) fired, in the middle of class and in front of Snape’s other students. And also, deduction of Eliezarry’s House points and making Eliezarry be silent for the rest of the class is frankly an enormously lenient response to Eliezarry’s provocations, which actually suggests that Snape isn’t as monstrous as he’s been made out to be by Eliezarry.
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 09:43 |
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It's funny, the bit that really stands out to me as stupid is him going "three orders of magnitude!"
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 10:11 |
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In a just world, the rest of Ravenlclaw would be plotting against Harry right now. If nothing else, he'd be in for daily swirlies for the next couple of years.
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# ? Jun 8, 2016 18:31 |
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Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies Part Ten quote:
No better way of being right than being technically right. quote:
Why is Eliezarry surprised by the appearance of Fawkes? He’s already aware that the “immolating bird” he saw the last time he was in Dumbledore’s office, was actually a chicken that Dumbledore set on fire. quote:
Wasn’t Eliezarry “frozen in absolute horror” at having openly “antagonized a teacher three orders of magnitude beyond anything he'd ever managed before”, just a few paragraphs ago? He never learns, does he?
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 09:51 |
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How does Eliezarry suddenly know the intricacies of Malfoy/Snape and Malfoy/Dumbledore's relationship?
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 13:27 |
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uncleskeleton posted:How does Eliezarry suddenly know the intricacies of Malfoy/Snape and Malfoy/Dumbledore's relationship?
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 14:51 |
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uncleskeleton posted:How does Eliezarry suddenly know the intricacies of Malfoy/Snape and Malfoy/Dumbledore's relationship? The same way the 'supersmart' guy in every lovely sci-fi novel does: The author gave him the script ahead of time.
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 14:52 |
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It would be great if Gandalf here were like "listen you little poo poo, me and Severus are old buddies, I know how he runs things and I trust his judgement far more than a ten-year-old's. There's a command structure here and you will respect it from now on or you will be expelled. Turn in any cool magical poo poo like that Time Turner we loaned you and get the gently caress to class!"
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 15:06 |
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uncleskeleton posted:How does Eliezarry suddenly know the intricacies of Malfoy/Snape and Malfoy/Dumbledore's relationship? As someone who has read the source material, he doesn't and that's why Snape is laughing at home. That said, who knows what the situation is in this fic
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 16:31 |
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Pvt.Scott posted:It would be great if Gandalf here were like "listen you little poo poo, me and Severus are old buddies, I know how he runs things and I trust his judgement far more than a ten-year-old's. There's a command structure here and you will respect it from now on or you will be expelled. Turn in any cool magical poo poo like that Time Turner we loaned you and get the gently caress to class!" Drill Sergeant from Full Metal Jacket as Dumbledore I'd watch it
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# ? Jun 9, 2016 16:52 |
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JosephWongKS posted:Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies He's had 3 hours to calm down and plan out his response though.
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# ? Jun 10, 2016 04:03 |
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The play is somehow worse than this. How the gently caress, Jo
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 19:49 |
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The Shortest Path posted:The play is somehow worse than this. How the gently caress, Jo
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# ? Jun 11, 2016 23:58 |
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I don't not believe that, but still, goddamn. That script almost gave me an aneurysm.
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# ? Jun 12, 2016 01:47 |
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The Shortest Path posted:The play is somehow worse than this. How the gently caress, Jo Yeah, the play sounds batshit nuts. What happened to the main Harry Potter thread, by the way?
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 05:57 |
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Crowsbeak posted:Can anyone explain to me why is it that I have two friends on facebook both recommending this dreck to me, but they both are STEM majors? You're lumping together compsci/engineering dreck with math majors, please stop.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 06:58 |
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The Shortest Path posted:The play is somehow worse than this. How the gently caress, Jo The play seems indistinguishable from bad fanfic.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 07:07 |
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I think JK is doing it on purpose, or this is a dummy script to generate furor. Who cares? It's her property. She deserves a chance to poo poo on it.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 10:07 |
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There have been preview screenings, so people aren't just going by the script. It's getting a pretty good response too, so maybe it works better on stage than it does on paper.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 10:16 |
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And it's not like the book plots make any loving sense at all.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 13:55 |
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Don't time turners have a fairly short usage restriction anyway? How are the kids going back in time over a decade with one? I'm heavily leaning towards JKR trolling us on this one.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 14:00 |
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The Shortest Path posted:Don't time turners have a fairly short usage restriction anyway? How are the kids going back in time over a decade with one? Never said in the books, but she's written a fair bit in the extended universe/pottermore stuff that they're five hours, max.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 14:28 |
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The summary I read said the time turner was a special prototype.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 14:36 |
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Maybe a bad time to invent a Time Turner that works for more than 5 hours in the past is right after you just got done killing Magic Hitler.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 16:48 |
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No that's the perfect time! That's how Magic Hitler came to be in the first place!
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 17:11 |
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Pvt.Scott posted:No that's the perfect time! That's how Magic Hitler came to be in the first place! If any time was perfect, we wouldn't need time turners.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 20:54 |
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If every time chop was perfect, we wouldn't have time dogs.
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# ? Jun 13, 2016 21:44 |
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Chapter 18: Dominance Hierarchies Part Eleven quote:
Why is Professor McGonagall being referred to as “Minerva” in the narrative? Why is she “[swallowing] a lump in her throat”? Is this the beginning of the reduction of Professor McGonagall from a hardass able to stand up to Eliezzary’s shenanigans to a helpless damsel? I am not pleased about this turn of events. quote:
And then all the Professors stood up and clapped. quote:
That would actually be an interesting reason for Dumbledore’s negligent and/or actively malignant management of the school, and an underdog protagonist who fights against the Man in such a context would actually be someone I’d root for. Too bad Eliezarry’s such an insufferable rear end in any event.
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# ? Jun 14, 2016 08:03 |