I'll admit that it stuck fairly close to the status quo until the final stretch, at which point the status quo was pushed out of the zeppelin while on fire
Oh, it's not the idea of the maturing thing that I mind at all, I think it was a verygood idea, I just feel like she maybe bit off more than she could chew, and no editors wanted to go at her because She's JK Rowling, and the results were eeehhhh
Naney, you and I will never agree on this.
Just be glad 2007 Rozzy isn't here, or it would cut you for criticizing its favorite book series.
longposts can be interesting, and i wouldn't want to discourage anyone from making them, but in a discussion that wasn't previously that involved, sudden, argumentative longposts can be a bit overwhelming
as i recall i had a bad habit of springing those on people back on TVT, though
well basically, one of the ways I like to look at media, whether it be music or books or TV shows or anything, is via the relationship of how much effort you put into it vs. how much you get out of it, which kinda gets laid out on a graph, with the x axis being "how much effort you put into digesting the text" and the y axis being "what you get out of it"
of course, this isnt some sort of universal or objective thing, because the value of these things is different for every person, and there are different sorts of value, and everyone is looking for different things, and this is completely useless on its own and yadda yadda yadda, but like i think it's useful for looking at vague trends
for example, with Harry Potter, at least early on, you have essentially Perfect Kids Books. They have a bit of chew to them, so you have to put in some effort. As a result you dont feel like you're getting talked down to, but at the same time most any kids could read them no problem. and then, the messages in the text have some backbone to them, but they arent something you have to chew over a whole bunch. So once again, you dont feel like you're getting talked down to. So, most kids reading Harry Potter will have a good time and feel satisfied with the whole experience, without any lingering frustrations.
then, as the series went on JK Rowling tried making the books more mature, but she did this not by tampering with the curve, which is how you would properly make a work more adult, but by trying to pile on more mature themes, which feel increasingly at odds with the curve. and while i do feel thatshe got better at this over time, it's still a sticking point.
i guess for other examples, most philosophical works ive read have a very steep, almost vertical curve. they are trying to articulate, well, entire philosophies, which is something that is very difficult to condense effectively into text form. so the end result is something that is very difficult to fully digest, and if you dont fully get it, you're not getting much?
i guess what im trying to say is that these curves arent dry value judgements, they're just ways of looking at how well something does what it's trying to do. sometimes.
Oh, it's not the idea of the maturing thing that I mind at all, I think it was a verygood idea, I just feel like she maybe bit off more than she could chew, and no editors wanted to go at her because She's JK Rowling, and the results were eeehhhh
Naney, you and I will never agree on this.
Just be glad 2007 Rozzy isn't here, or it would cut you for criticizing its favorite book series.
You know, Aliroz, they were my favourite book series, too. Even right now i can't think of a series i enjoyed more.
Nevertheless, even at my most devoted, i definitely enjoyed the last two books a little less.
engagement curve turned out not to be what i was thinking it was
so it's the ratio effort:reward, basically? plotted on a graph
i feel like this is something i'd possibly attempt to debate were i more wakeful, but perhaps shouldn't
i would say i found the Harry Potter books incredibly easy to read, and enjoyed them a lot
also that books about philosophy have so far struck me as having a much steeper difficulty curve than books on other subjects e.g. psychology, history, most math
All this talk about childrens books makes me think of how weird it is that Philip Pullman of all people wrote a book where the protagonist and his friend had their problems solved by a benevolent omnipotent being.
Dragon's Dogma was a really good game. The one thing that irks me about it is how your character gets locked into certain stat growths, rather than using a system like Bravely Default, where the base stats of the characters are consistent but have modifiers applied by their class.
^^^ Was it the endgame that put you off? Because that was pretty nuts, and not always in good ways.
Never got that far.
It's just
like
this is gonna sound super reductive, but it's a JRPG, and I don't like those.
For some reason I felt like BD would be the one to make the genre "click" with me but it didn't. Stupid in hindsight given what I know about my own preferences I suppose.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I spent the last few hours reading a BL webcomic about a boy on a space colony who doesn't remember even a little bit about his upcoming wedding to a very powerful young dragon lord.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Just be glad 2007 Rozzy isn't here, or it would cut you for criticizing its favorite book series.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
How odd.