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Re: To Write Dominion Fanfiction
Ha, in one of my games I owned Gath with a Kraken, so a good base for a story. I prefered to not watch closely what he was doing with them.
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October 14th, 2009, 01:26 PM
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Re: To Write Dominion Fanfiction
I don't understand this "there are no real characters in Dom3" argument. You just make up your own characters. Dom3 is always more enjoyable when you make up your own little stories about charaters and battles and stuff.
Jeebus.... how difficult can it really be?
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Re: To Write Dominion Fanfiction
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I don't understand this "there are no real characters in Dom3" argument. You just make up your own characters. Dom3 is always more enjoyable when you make up your own little stories about charaters and battles and stuff.
Jeebus.... how difficult can it really be?
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well, I think the 'characters' in Dom 3 are the nations. it doesn't have people, but it has, for example, a byzantine-like nation with Hydras. That's a personality. I guess in that sense it does have unique personalities
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October 14th, 2009, 02:26 PM
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Re: To Write Dominion Fanfiction
Maybe there's some missunderstanding 'bout the "fan"- part of the fiction.
Yes, those K/S stories are centered on those two characters, which the authors are pretending to be fans of. Thereby ignoring much of the rest of their universe, for obvious reasons ...
Yet, "fanfiction" settled in the Dominions World can of course be centered on singular heros, pretenders or even persons not even depicted in the game - but to make it stand out from Harry Potter, one could not ignore the rest of the whole world as laid out in the game: You're most likely a fan of the Dominions game, not of the Red Dragon pretender, aren't you?
So, before someone starts writing (additional) stories, an at least somewhat coherent storyline would have to be "extracted" from the in-game text.
That said ... I started a Dominions P&P RPG just some days ago ... and o.c. I have just started thinking 'bout getting all the facts together ...
One of those thoughts was: "Ask Kristoffer, if he has at least some outline of the history of the Dominions World scribbled down somewhere!!!"
... maybe I should send him an email soon, before I bore my players to death because I don't have an idea whats going on ...
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October 14th, 2009, 03:46 PM
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Given that you write fanfiction, that doesn't surprise me.
I don't see how you can call me biased. Every piece of fan fiction I have come across is terrible. Fan fiction is widely regarded as being terrible by people whose opinions I respect. If making any experiential subjective judgement equates to biased, well gee, we're all biased.
Thanks for the plug of fanfiction.net but 'you'd be surprised by the quality of some stuff' from a stranger doesn't really sell it to me.
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Holy crap isn't this the definition of "biased" or did I miss the sarcasm?
Hey OP, good luck to you. I tend to think a good story has more to do with the author than the genre.
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October 14th, 2009, 06:12 PM
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Calling someone biased suggests they are being unreasonably prejudicial.
I wouldn't call you biased if you said 'All poo smells bad and I'd never eat it'. Obviously the statement does show bias, but the common usage of 'biased' isn't 'making a subjective statement'. If that's what is meant, why bother to say anything at all since everyone is guilty of being biased at all times.
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October 14th, 2009, 06:38 PM
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The below quote perfectly illustrates bias:
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I don't see how you can call me biased. Every piece of fan fiction I have come across is terrible. Fan fiction is widely regarded as being terrible by people whose opinions I respect. If making any experiential subjective judgement equates to biased, well gee, we're all biased.
Thanks for the plug of fanfiction.net but 'you'd be surprised by the quality of some stuff' from a stranger doesn't really sell it to me.
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If you had admitted that it is possible for good fanfiction to exist, you wouldn't have acted with bias.
It's just like the old "all swans are white" example.
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October 14th, 2009, 07:00 PM
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Since you are comparing Fan Fiction to dog crap, maybe I am misunderstanding what it is. I haven't read any fan fiction but the name suggests to me he wants to write a fictional story set in the Dominions Universe. I am guessing by the prejudice and the homoerotic links I am wrong on this? There are more rules to this genre that inherently make it comparable to something vile?
At first glance, I think the nerd hierarchy is coming into play here. D and D guys make fun of LARPers who make fun of those guys that dress in the animal suits etc.
Hah, I found an example diagram!
I am guessing Fan Fiction author is slightly below TBS modder on the food chain, so much like the firetruck stalks the gazelle, you are about the make your kill. The ambulances will have to wait their turn.
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Re: To Write Dominion Fanfiction
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I am guessing Fan Fiction author is slightly below TBS modder on the food chain, so much like the firetruck stalks the gazelle, you are about the make your kill. The ambulances will have to wait their turn.
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Are you saying that Sombre is a firetruck?
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October 14th, 2009, 07:33 PM
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Re: To Write Dominion Fanfiction
Bias just means a tendency to lean one way. Its not the absolute pre-decision. Its hard for anyone to be truly neutral so bias is just a sliding scale which can be slight, or extreme.
In the case of fanbased literature Id say its whether you read a new item expecting it to be interesting, or expecting it to suck. And how much do you lean that direction.
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