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Frostweaver October 17th, 2005 6:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Yamato-san
So what are you saying? That Japanese things are inhuman? That it's wrong to enjoy things in other languages? That's the kinda crap spewed by those anti-cultural 4kids bas****s.

She means "that's only what geeks do," and that statement's accuracy is more than 100% true =P But think deeper about it. If you are writing *Pokemon* fanfics, then you must be a geek to begin with. So all in all, that statement is harmless for everyone here.

O October 18th, 2005 3:35 AM

I guess I'll discuss things here... And yea, this thread kinda died. Anyway, I plan on writing a Digimon Fic, based off the original Digimon 'V-Pets'. It's pretty much my own imagination because there was never a story off the V-Pets. *cough*storiesthatarearubyandsapphirenovelization*cough* It'll star 10 people (there were 5 Versions of the original V-Pet, each with 2 rookies.) So yea. Good luck with me.

Breezy October 18th, 2005 6:55 AM

Geeks own though. So it's all good.
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...now do you think that it'd be morally wrong to LimeWire it? XD
Yes. I lost my soul to it. ;-;

I want my soul back dammit.

I'm sorry, I have no clue wtf you guys are talking about haha. I'm too lazy to skim the million and twenty seven pages that I missed in a week in a half so I only replied to the ones on this page.

Tee hee.

Er, I'm guessing Lileh be gone if she no be a mod no more. Not that makes any sense whatsoever or anything... ;-;

Let's run around and give Niko a hard time now na? ;)

On another note, I feel old. ;-; I don't like being sixteen.

Random Edit note of doooom: I'm sucha cry baby lol. All my pretty smileys are pretty little ";-;"

*emo* X)

Dragonfree October 18th, 2005 8:36 AM

Hmmm... *bored* We need a new topic here... or a Frosty review... or something...

Act October 18th, 2005 11:53 AM

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So what are you saying? That Japanese things are inhuman? That it's wrong to enjoy things in other languages? That's the kinda crap spewed by those anti-cultural 4kids bas****s.
Because that wasn't rude.

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She means "that's only what geeks do," and that statement's accuracy is more than 100% true =P But think deeper about it. If you are writing *Pokemon* fanfics, then you must be a geek to begin with. So all in all, that statement is harmless for everyone here.
I was joking... Jeebus.

Yess... I am the queen of teh closet geeks. <33 my pokemon xD But I'm totally lost when people start hard-core talking about their anime and all those fancy japanese words and j-pop bands... :shrug: I'm an in-between that's sort of awkward.

I like... U2, Switchfoot, Matchbox Twenty, Collecive Soul, Maroon 5... nothing too exciting. :shrugagain: Average stuff, you know? Go be offended it it suits you... if you're going to run around being insecure, fine... I'm not putting down anyone. Believe me, I deal with that 'you dork' crap a lot. You just have to tease yourself sometimes, or you really won't get anywhere in life.

My friends and I are all dorks. We take it as a complement. We love it ;)

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Hmmm... *bored* We need a new topic here... or a Frosty review... or something...
True dat.

Negrek October 18th, 2005 7:57 PM

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My friends and I are all dorks. We take it as a complement. We love it ;)
My math teacher was talking about how everyone in his class is a geek, whether they'd like to admit it or not. Of course everybody denied it, but then later in the hour we got into a huge debate over whether it was even possible to have a number that goes 0.9(repeating nigh-infinitely)...8. And whether that number would equal one or not.

And thus were the nay-sayers proven wrong.

Meh, geeks, dorks, and nerds are the bomb. Personally, I think they're the most interesting people. I hang out with them.

Frostweaver October 18th, 2005 8:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Dragonfree
a Frosty review...

How about a deal? You do my chem lab, social study essay, math homework, chinese essay+ recited dictation, work + tutoring others and biology questions, and I do your review within the same night. So how about it?

It's completely long, lengthy and exhausting to work on fanfic battle... (Yes I haven't quitted that yet, even though the thread is on page 2864 by now). It's hard to think of original ideas of how to make the trainers beat one another through creative manners... don't forget descriptions which lengthens everything by 10...

If the number ends with a 8, then it's not infinite to begin with. It can't equal one, because you have a definite number (not an irrational number.) Really, of course your class can't think of a number like that, simply because your own restriction in the question contradicts with the answer that you are trying to look for ;p



DO NOT CALL YOURSELF A D**k. ;o;

Really, before you use that word. Look it up... you don't know what you are saying about yourself...

Dragonfree October 19th, 2005 4:55 AM

Nerds rock. There's this nerd store downtown which I was just discovering a little while ago. It's heaven. Probably the only place in Iceland that sells animé, too. I'd have bought that Pokémon Chronicles DVD if I hadn't already watched the Raikou Special in Japanese with subtitles.

ShieldWolf27 October 19th, 2005 11:19 AM

I am gonna make a Yu-Gi-Oh Fan Fic and when and if you read it. Tell me how it is!

Negrek October 19th, 2005 12:54 PM

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If the number ends with a 8, then it's not infinite to begin with. It can't equal one, because you have a definite number (not an irrational number.) Really, of course your class can't think of a number like that, simply because your own restriction in the question contradicts with the answer that you are trying to look for ;p



DO NOT CALL YOURSELF A D**k. ;o;
To be more clear, it was 9 to the infinite - 1 times, then an eight. In the end, our teacher told us to shut up because it would be one anyway. *shrug*

Oh, I was using the (slightly less) insulting meaning for dork. I know where it came from, but meh, nobody who uses it nowadays has any clue anyway.

Act October 19th, 2005 1:19 PM

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DO NOT CALL YOURSELF A D**k. ;o;
Nerd comes from the same place. :shrug: There are a lot of words with... weird origins that we all use.

Yamato-san October 19th, 2005 2:29 PM

Actually, the derivations of the word "nerd" really aren't so bad.

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Originally Posted by Dictionary.com
Word History: The word nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo: “And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!” (The nerd is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.)

Don't know where you got the idea that it's from the same place as "dork".

Act October 19th, 2005 5:53 PM

AH, now I see. Poor wording on the part of m-w.com... they made it sound as if 'nerd' was a derivitive of 'dork' as opposed to a synonym. I'm good now xD

...

Frostweaver October 19th, 2005 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Negrek
To be more clear, it was 9 to the infinite - 1 times, then an eight. In the end, our teacher told us to shut up because it would be one anyway. *shrug*

9^(-1) = 1/9 {or 0.1, with 1 to the infinite)

(1/9)^(-1) = 9 {repeat cycle of flipping this newly acquired number to the power of negative 1 again}

so what's the point of 9 to the infinite -1 times? XD

Geek is the only word out of all the words which suggest the same meaning in today's context that isn't actually invented by an author. Its old meaning is long forgotton by those who use it, and the "real geeks" have no idea that they are actual geeks at all. In fact, real geeks are 95% "not a geek" because their profession as a "geek" will never give them the time to go on animeathons and crack their computer open for the pure joy of putting it back together again. I mean, why would they do that when they have to face the deadly lions everyday =D


Gah social study essay on Friday ;_; I haven't even made up my mind about what to do yet... stupid democracy >>;

Negrek October 20th, 2005 5:41 PM

Mmm, poor phrasing on my part. Not 0.9^(-1) but a zero followed by an infinite number of nines, then an eight. So not -1 times but one less than an infinite number of times, the final digit being replaced by an eight.

The main point was that it would be infinitely close to 0.9 repeating, which is 1, but not exactly the same, and would the last digit be enough to stop it from being 1 or just look pretty?

Yamato-san October 20th, 2005 9:32 PM

how the f*** did this thread turn into a math debate?

Frostweaver October 20th, 2005 9:32 PM

If 0.9 with the 9 repeating is assumed to be one, then 0.9 with 9 repeating infinitey, plus a 8 at the end, will be 1. This is because since 9 is infinite, the 8 will "never" get to show up. This number is exactly the same as 0.9 with the 9 repeating. In the theory of math, those two numbers are the same, but then again that defies logic because a 8 is there and you know that the numbers are different... lol. Because of this, you get a paradox where you know the 2 numbers are different, but you can't prove it mathematically because the 8 is infinitely away after the infinite chain of 9s.


k enough math... gah as if I'm not doing enough math through killing myself with math homework on top of a part-time job teaching math for 7.5 hours a week >>;

Either way, back to story telling/writing!

Frosty got a question for all. In any adventure stories, does a hero/heroine appear much more nobel, brave and admirable if he or she dies at the end of the story, making it a tragedy? When you read about an adventure story where the hero/heroine lives, and compare another story where the hero/heroine dies, do you regard the heroes who suffered a tragic death more highly than the heroes who lived by the end of the story?

Pete October 20th, 2005 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by frostweaver
Frosty got a question for all. In any adventure stories, does a hero/heroine appear much more nobel, brave and admirable if he or she dies at the end of the story, making it a tragedy? When you read about an adventure story where the hero/heroine lives, and compare another story where the hero/heroine dies, do you regard the heroes who suffered a tragic death more highly than the heroes who lived by the end of the story?

Depends if they are the main hero or heroine, or if they have a good personality.

Ajihad dying in Eldest was really sad and it made him look noble, only because he had an intruiging personality. He reminded me of Walsh in 24. But still, Roran was my most regarded character.

Dragonfree October 21st, 2005 7:30 AM

I generally like characters more if they're dead or have at the very least almost died, actually. Either that or they kill/almost kill someone. Sadistic, aren't I?

But I'm not that much for this noble-sacrifice-death thing. I like it better if one of the heroes is actually captured and killed by the villain. It's nice if that provides other heroes with something they wouldn't otherwise have had or whatever, but I don't particularly like the hero taking on a mission knowing that they're going to die. Just a bit too noble to be real.

Frostweaver October 21st, 2005 3:55 PM

well I was only asking if they just die, one way or another (noble cause vs villain's victory, whatever) ^^; I also agree that a character is immediately a lot more likable if they die or suffer in some horrible way, especially if they don't deserve it all while not wanting to suffer such a cruel fate at the same time.

Oh gosh we're evil...

pokejungle October 21st, 2005 4:37 PM

Do you guys really suggest FF Net for putting work up? <<;

Yamato-san October 21st, 2005 4:55 PM

those bas****s don't allow script... they assume they all resemble AIM conversations. On top of that, they delete everything reported without even so much as looking at the fic in question, so, in my somewhat biased opinion, no.

pokejungle October 21st, 2005 5:15 PM

Ok <<;

Can you suggest a better place?

Negrek October 21st, 2005 5:40 PM

Meh, I'm not very fond of the hero dying at the end of a story, because it's rarely done well. Like most other things. I don't see a problem with the main character surviving.

Personally, I like FF.net. QuickEdit is a beast, but at least you don't have to go through and edit in tags yourself. I've never had any problem with the report system, and you can get some decent concrit there.

Breezy October 21st, 2005 7:28 PM

Haha, you can try "rebel fanfiction.net" a.k.a fictionised.net. Has anyone heard of that? They're staff went around reviewing stories to advertise their site. Of course they're Pokémon section isn't the greatest (I think a few ff.net people tried to kick it off but failed, including me), so yeah. I don't even know why I brought it up. I just thought it was funny. ._.;


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