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TOOT BOOT posted:Is Worm 2 ever coming out? Yes.
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Just a note - if you convert it for Worm, please do _not_ distribute the output files.
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Sep 10, 2017 23:15
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Worm 2 is his next project.
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Oct 8, 2017 23:52
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Worm 2 incoming in 2.5-3 weeks. via IRC
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Oct 20, 2017 07:32
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The Shortest Path posted:I dunno if I'm ready for this. It's...meh. The premise on which the thing was written is incredibly hard to take seriously in the first place. (Star Child spoiler)Mom had an affair, gave birth, and returned planetside _with the infant_ without any kind of detection whatsoever? Kind of hard to get past.
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Oct 20, 2017 08:20
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new worm chapter
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Oct 21, 2017 05:44
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Nobody respond to that openly, please
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Oct 21, 2017 06:22
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Nope. I don't think Rein did Pact or Twig.
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Oct 21, 2017 09:14
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Kaja Rainbow posted:Huh, I didn't know Wildbow was deaf like me. (I haven't finished Worm yet by the way. I probably should.) He's got hearing aids, but yeah. Major hearing loss. Megazver posted:He should have just stopped writing for a few months and edited Worm full-time. I doubt it'd even be a problem with the Patreon people, especially if they got sent re-edited poo poo depending on their contributions. That's a horrible idea. He's already been editing Worm for years alongside Pact and Twig, and publishing that even in pieces would defeat the purpose of shopping it around for publication. Publishers don't want something that's already been distributed. He enjoys writing so I don't see why he'd need to spend time away from it.
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https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/glow-worm-p-2/
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Oct 24, 2017 05:51
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Nine segments I think.
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Oct 29, 2017 00:13
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Not really up in the air. He planned for ten, but ended up writing one on a day he aimed to write two. So nine, unless stuff happens again.
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Oct 29, 2017 05:50
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Double (kinda) update tonight: https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/glow-worm-p-5/ https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/glow-worm-p-6/ Wildbow posted:Note: Second chapter also went up today. I split it into two for coherence, and because neither chapter was going to be long enough to warrant going up standalone. Click ‘next chapter’ to read it. This message will be deleted around the time P.7 goes up. Just three more to go.
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Oct 31, 2017 07:03
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Truly, killing a fan favorite character is unexpected from Wildbow.
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Nov 1, 2017 09:31
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Ytlaya posted:She isn't under-powered at all, though. In her first fight ever, before she's even come up with any creative tactics/ideas, she nearly kills Lung, a villain strong enough to fight the entire Brockton Bay Protectorate team.  Literally the FIRST chapter has her notebook with three or four months' worth (two hundred pages) of prep getting ruined (explained in 1.2).
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Nov 2, 2017 06:47
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TOOT BOOT posted:There were plenty of better powers in Worm. It only seems so good because she's the protagonist and Wildbow is a pretty creative writer. Imagine someone with half the writing skill trying to balance controlling bugs with any of the more broadly applicable superpowers like superspeed or invulnerability. Depends on whether you count her ability to coordinate the people around her for them to realize more of their potential as part of her power. I think the thinker element is legitimate and even called out a bit in her goodbye before she turns herself in. I think if she had triggered with a different or shittier power but still had that thinker aspect she'd still have done pretty well. Though one wonders how a less effective channel for her to funnel her emotions (compartmentalization is one of her bigger character flaws) would have affected her story.
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Nov 2, 2017 10:49
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I just realized that this time next week we'll be reading Worm 2 I mean, if I don't gently caress up the server, yeah. Otherwise you'll be yelling at me.
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Nov 4, 2017 12:01
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I'm literally the one pushing the button. EDIT: Oops. 11:58 Eastern. Almost made y'all wait another three hours. Forty-five minutes out! Doctor w-rw-rw- fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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Nov 11, 2017 01:44
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Just wait til you read the chapter
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Nov 11, 2017 05:58
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Published. https://www.parahumans.net/2017/09/11/daybreak-1-1/
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Nov 11, 2017 06:03
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WGW is a good way to get refreshed without reading it again. Good analysis too.
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Nov 12, 2017 03:08
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I set up Jetpack, so if you have a Wordpress.com account you can subscribe and get updates.
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Nov 21, 2017 08:35
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irc posted:14:18 <Wildbow> $roll 1d28
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Nov 23, 2017 11:15
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sunken fleet posted:Can someone summarize what happens in the Ward arc zero 10 chapters of chatlogs? Every time I try to read them my eyes just glaze over... It's not essential to read those. If you want a synopsis, ust read Wildbow's: https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7ckqaj/request_for_a_synopsis_of_glowworm/
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Nov 26, 2017 13:44
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Yep. Seemed like a pretty accurate traumatized reaction to me.
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Nov 30, 2017 12:27
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My read on it was that the game Tats is playing is to vent pressure from public unrest and try to foster another pseudo-cycle of cops-and-robbers
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Dec 5, 2017 11:00
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Not much, just chillin’
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Flesnolk posted:Is it worth powering through the rest of Worm if I'm at 12.1 and my interest is starting to flag? Taylor is quite boring, and I'm rather sick of how she and the Undersiders never seriously mess up or outright fail at anything/how utterly abysmally incompetent all of their opposition (primarily thinking Wards/Protectorate/PRT; obviously Coil etc. are threats) is. Plus I'm not a fan of much of Wildbow's style (too much just bluntly spelling everything out, too much wordiness just for wordiness' sake, seems to have no concept of blocking a scene or making characters talk differently from each other, for example) but from some bits and pieces I've heard about how things get later I'm hoping that improves. By now I think you should have started picking up on the subtext that implies that Taylor probably isn't as good as she thinks she is and avoids confronting her failures or herself, among other subtleties. If you haven't, then maybe read slower and listen to We've Got Worm as you read through it.
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Parahumans IRC? Probably #worm, #ward, or if you want to get pretty technical, maybe #writing. There’s probably going to be one or two people that are eager to jump on and answer while not having high signal answers, but some might (especially if it’s been asked a lot). Expect standard IRC-level  from people that aren’t WB.If you can catch WB on a non writing day you might get an acknowledgment or response?
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Charlie Bobson posted:I'm on arc 10 of worm and my favorite part so far is how Taylor refuses to join the Wards because she feels Sophia is loved and supported there by the heroes there, only for a significant portion of the arc immediately after this decision to be devoted to how much everyone in the wards dislikes Sophia and dunking on Sophia in general Uh-oh Flesnolk, looks like someone's better at reading than you are!
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Flesnolk posted:Directly, publicly insulting me because I didn't like the story you like is uncalled for. Get your head out of Wildbow's rear end, you pathetic sycophant.  Well, I never! [taking exception that someone would make an insult] [making an insult] right back at you!You claimed that the story was both too subtle or too blunt for you, and someone who read less than you did comes along and basically nails it. You got a lot wrong and then blamed it on the author. It's not that I care that you're not a fan, it's that you overextended by pronouncing people's interpretations as way oversold, but you don't actually know what you're talking about. For example, the "theme of cooperation over competition" is actually both affirmed and heavily subverted, and clues about how effective Taylor's power is are in there from beginning (implicitly) to end (where they are called out).
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Dec 26, 2017 22:47
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Milky Moor posted:So are you on this forum as a form of narrative control for someone else's first draft or what. Flesnolk posted:Get over yourself, this isn't exactly Dostoevsky.
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Dec 26, 2017 23:21
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Milky Moor posted:Your post history in this thread makes it clear that you're not just a person, though. You toe every party line, push the author mythology, you handle some parts of the upload machine, you set up Wordpress stuff, and so on and so on. I'd be just as concerned if I saw someone doing the same for me under the guise of having a discussion, particularly if they were involved in my creative machine. I have zero input into or knowledge on his creative machine, but point well taken. I'm gonna step back.
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Neurosis posted:yeah what did he do really wrong? he was involved in the cauldron conspiracy but i can't remember any specifics about what his involvement was. the endbringer thing was clearly unintentional. IMO as part of the inner circle, it doesn't much matter how involved with certain elements he was - he as good as allowed Cauldron's human experiments. There's some element of path dependence in that Scion came so close to destroying everything that you can't discount them from having contributed, but in the end Scion destroyed them before he was destroyed, and they weren't the decisive element in taking him down. Who knows if a less inhumane approach would have had the same payoff, but their methods were always evil, and only possibly justified by whether it was a necessary evil, which is a subjective and self-serving rationalization at best.
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The Shortest Path posted:If Cauldron hadn't existed then Taylor would never have seen Eden and been unable to kill Zion, ultimately. So their actions were essential, and as such Contessa's power guided them as such toward their desired end state of seeing Zion dead, it just happened in a very different way than they expected. Whether or not that's evil is up to interpretation, I guess. Again, path dependence. Hard to say that Cauldron doing anything else would have worked, but it's only completely justified if the only possible way to kill Scion was to play the events out as they did, or worse, which can't be definitively established one way or another. The final scene with Contessa is kind of telling in that a) even in victory, Taylor would have done it differently, given the choice (kind-of-sort-of connected to Cauldron's own shedding of morals and ethics in service to the mission) and b) Cauldron's approach to the problem was never oriented in the right direction to start with, even if it accidentally pushed others towards the right solution.
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The Shortest Path posted:They did what Contessa's power said would lead to eventually defeating Zion. That makes it justified, but it does not necessarily make it right or moral. The Shortest Path posted:This is the really dumb thing I think - it can be argued that the combination of the Simurgh and Contessa indirectly caused every single event that happened in the entire book whether intentionally or not. That makes it a lot less interesting though, and also trying to think through all the chains of causality is an exercise in frustration and pointlessness. https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7w3tt8/unpopular_opinions_of_characters_in_worm/dtxp42o/?context=2 https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/4arfdp/spoilers_all_what_if/d13mx7i/ To be fair, neither have to succeed 100% of the time for the dominoes they set up to appear intimidatingly impressive or complete. EDIT: Grammar Doctor w-rw-rw- fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Feb 11, 2018 |
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Xun posted:What the hell is “rational” fiction? tl;dr: lovely stories servin’ But I wouldn’t exactly call Ward that. A well-realized universe that does more than just serve a MC’s goals doesn’ necessarily mean “rational fiction” describes it well.
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Aphantasia is a spectrum.
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