IWT 7: Urban Fantasy

[Ryan_DuBois]

Well, not to put bad ideas in your head, but I was looking at it this way:

Suppose you DO win. Like you said, you might get about 5 entrants for next year... or less, since some people might think having to do a HOID branch for a submission is absurd. Still, the less entrants that there are, the better your chances are of winning the contest again. The more entrants there are, the worse your chances will be, but that would be fine too, since the more people there are, the faster HOID will grow.

And regardless of how many people enter, HOID's going to be growing way faster than it was with just one entrant, anyway. Especially since you yourself will probably be way more motivated to make lots of quality entries on it.

Even if you lost after the first year, HOID would be significantly bigger. And if you didn't lose after a couple years...

HOID would become a massive blob of awesomeness.

[EDIT]

Or the IWT would be disbanded. But probably not. People would just keep thinking to themselves: "Next year he'll lost... next year."

[Usoki]

People would just keep thinking to themselves: "Next year he'll lost... next year."

Is that what they'd be thinking? No wonder they keep losing.

[Ryan_DuBois]

Eh? You're comment is going right over my head, Usoki. Do you mean because they wouldn't be thinking he'll lose this year?

... Or does it have to do with my misspelling of lose?

Sorry -- all these Computer Science and Math classes must have eaten away my common sense.

[donteatpoop]

It was definately the 'lost' rather than 'lose' thing, YazZ. It made me laugh too when I read it out loud.

[Ryan_DuBois]

Oh. I was kinda leaning toward the other one, myself, but I'll take your word for it.

[mizal]

All this talk about HOID reminded me I'd intended to add to it sometime. But that would take effort. So I just moved the nine chapters of the first story I attempted here to there, to the door with star-chart-printed mat. Which funnily enough was my original intentions for the piece when I first found this place, before I decided it was going to be all huge and epic.

Who knows, I still have tons of notes and stuff about the plot, maybe I'll get back to it sometime.

Oh yeah and you're magically a goblin now and have magically been one your whole life.

[JJJ-thebanisher]

Gah. I'm having troubles coming up with anything to write for this theme. I'll keep brainstorming. (On a side note, did you guys know that some teachers are trying to get the word "brainstorming" banned because it's "offensive to epileptics". Isn't that fucked?")

[Ryan_DuBois]

Yeah, but it's also normal. It isn't any new practice for people to abandon words once they become associated with something negative and then replace them with "nicer" ones. Then, after a little bit of time passes, we start to associate the new words with that same thing, and have to do another replacement.

It's an endless cycle.

I'm not saying it's good -- it's just what people do.

As for brainstorming... I'm going to smirk every time I hear the word, from now on. And I'm guessing it will be a very long time before it actually gets banned.

[End Master]

some teachers are trying to get the word "brainstorming" banned because it's "offensive to epileptics".

It is? Why am I just NOW learning of this?

All these years I could've been calling epileptics "brainstormers" instead of the more cumbersome "those people that spaz out whenever they see flashing lights"

EDIT: Actually that PC silliness reminds me of something I read years ago with some school in England that was trying to change the word "failure" because they thought it was too harsh. They wanted to replace it with "deferred success"

[JJJ-thebanisher]

It is? Why am I just NOW learning of this?

All these years I could've been calling epileptics "brainstormers" instead of the more cumbersome "those people that spaz out whenever they see flashing lights"

EDIT: Actually that PC silliness reminds me of something I read years ago with some school in England that was trying to change the word "failure" because they thought it was too harsh. They wanted to replace it with "deferred success"

Political Correctness is a plague. In my opinion, it's been taken way too far.

[Ryan_DuBois]

Lol! "Deferred success" is hilarious.

[mizal]

meth is delicious

[Ryan_DuBois]

Usoki has just been out-cranked.

[mizal]

so is pig shit om nom nom

[Usoki]

Usoki has just been out-cranked.

Do I really come across as being that angry of a person? I always thought of myself as a semi-logical, half-naive pessimistic silly person with bouts of adorably bitter and hilarious sarcastic wit.

Apparently I'm an asshole. Who knew?