Hmm? Durandall has always been an utterly unrepentant prima donna. I remember his temper tantrum when he left Delphi forums. If you weren't around back then it may come as a bit of a surprise, but for everyone else this is just more of the same. He's not required to produce, we aren't required to consume. There are plenty of authors who aren't all about making there 'fan' abase themselves.
Durandall's works
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Fatuous One said:
Ehhhhh....
Specifically, he said:
"On the offhand chance you'd like to join my fanfiction community (which is much smaller and more harshly critical), drop by the Soulriders some time, or sign up to the FFML.
If it was meant to be ... you'll find us.
"
<a href='http://www.google.com/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Copy + paste</a> -> <a href='http://www.soulriders.org/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>First result</a>.
For someone mocking Durandall for his melodrama, you're kinda mucking up some yourself with stuff like that, you know.
He's not actually stopping with that story, he's just not posting on FF.net anymore. Unless all this business deeply wounded your respect for Durandall to the point where you simply cannot read any more of his work, you should be fine.
For myself, about the only thing that annoys me about this thing is that I'm not going to get alerts when he updates. But honestly, that's fairly minor to me since I only recently started using them.
Specifically, he said:
"On the offhand chance you'd like to join my fanfiction community (which is much smaller and more harshly critical), drop by the Soulriders some time, or sign up to the FFML.
If it was meant to be ... you'll find us.
"<a href='http://www.google.com/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Copy + paste</a> -> <a href='http://www.soulriders.org/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>First result</a>.
For someone mocking Durandall for his melodrama, you're kinda mucking up some yourself with stuff like that, you know.
He's not actually stopping with that story, he's just not posting on FF.net anymore. Unless all this business deeply wounded your respect for Durandall to the point where you simply cannot read any more of his work, you should be fine.
For myself, about the only thing that annoys me about this thing is that I'm not going to get alerts when he updates. But honestly, that's fairly minor to me since I only recently started using them.
I'm entirely capable of a google search.
I just dont care enough about him to go find his private community to join it. At all.
The fact that he didn't provide a direct link is just icing on the cake that is Durandall.
I'm not laughing.
At no point did I 'Mock him for his Melodrama'. I called him shallow and said I wouldn't be hunting down his private fanfiction forum. But then you went and hunted it down FOR me, and posted a link because you're an idiot.
Thanks I guess?
Taken directly from his FF.net page.
"I've retired from this site, as the community by and large doesn't like me (I'm too opinionated). I won't update things here anymore, but you can check out my website if you like."
No, you didn't mock him. You did insult him though.
I imagine the way you said it probably rubbed someone's goat the wrong way. It's the 'faggot' thing in conjunction with the word 'too'. Thus causing the effect of multiple people getting butthurt. No pun intended.
Yeah, but the Delphi forum was just as full of shit as it was full of authors that were full of themselves. XD As there were numerous authors that swore never to write a single thing again and again.
A bit disorganized but still more than serviceable. He's been pretty good at posting his updates there for as long as I could remember. Whatever updates he has that is. At least his update speed is faster than The Grum's.
I imagine the way you said it probably rubbed someone's goat the wrong way. It's the 'faggot' thing in conjunction with the word 'too'. Thus causing the effect of multiple people getting butthurt. No pun intended.
Yeah, but the Delphi forum was just as full of shit as it was full of authors that were full of themselves. XD As there were numerous authors that swore never to write a single thing again and again.
A bit disorganized but still more than serviceable. He's been pretty good at posting his updates there for as long as I could remember. Whatever updates he has that is. At least his update speed is faster than The Grum's.
I don't think he was immature in doing what he did, or in the way he made that sort of farewell address. It read less as a "you guys are bitches, I hate you, I'm leaving" and more of an "it's not you, it's me".
He also cited the fact that FFnet screws up the formatting he uses in K:BDH. I've heard similar complaints from other authors, that it takes a lot of work to fix up formatting in a way that FFnet accepts and the author is satisfied with.
I mostly read it from his site anyway, since it's less feature-laden than FFnet. This basically changes nothing for me.
He also cited the fact that FFnet screws up the formatting he uses in K:BDH. I've heard similar complaints from other authors, that it takes a lot of work to fix up formatting in a way that FFnet accepts and the author is satisfied with.
I mostly read it from his site anyway, since it's less feature-laden than FFnet. This basically changes nothing for me.
Doesn't he mention the formatting issue in the summary itself? And that he even took the time on the chapters itself is pretty nice, I know one author who after finding out that one site fucked up his formatting decided to say "fuck it" and left it as is. Depending on how badly the issues with the formatting are, the length of the chapter, and what is necessary the time taken for formatting can get fairly long.
Its the stuff like italics and line breaks; when you upload to their database, certain things will get lost, and that means you have to go through and check to make sure the document doesn't go absolutely apeshit due to some weird incompatibility. For a straight HTML one, such as what some contests have used, putting them up required manually putting in the code for each use of italics, bold, etc.
FFN's restrictions on line breaks suck, but for italics and bold I've never had a problem using OpenOffice--or now, LibreOffice. I think, based on the way they word their compatibility with different programs and formats, they actually support those more than something more universal like HTML. Not exactly fair, but one does what one has to.
As for how that affects his formatting on FFN, I was looking at the HTML Brian uses for KBDH, trying to convert a script that I use for text processing into something he could use. The body text is pretty straightforward. If I had to guess, the headers might be more of a problem. Maybe a very dumb HTML parser wouldn't like the use of styles in various tags. I won't pretend to know for sure, though.
As for how that affects his formatting on FFN, I was looking at the HTML Brian uses for KBDH, trying to convert a script that I use for text processing into something he could use. The body text is pretty straightforward. If I had to guess, the headers might be more of a problem. Maybe a very dumb HTML parser wouldn't like the use of styles in various tags. I won't pretend to know for sure, though.
Yeah, I remember a few months ago they started stripping curly quotes to straight quotes. That was vaguely irritating, but at least it didn't irrevocably break anything. I'm sure they think they're adding new features or whatever nonsense, but it's all text on a screen. It's been done for decades. There's only so much to be added, but much more to be mangled something fierce.
Still implementation of that widget, but...
<a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/kbdh/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Kyon: Big Damn Hero</a> got updated to <a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/kbdh/kbdh47.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Chapter 47</a>
And Durandall posted a new one shot: <a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/short/oif.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Our Inevitable Fate</a> [Higurashi/Haruhi/Bokurano Crossover]
<a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/kbdh/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Kyon: Big Damn Hero</a> got updated to <a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/kbdh/kbdh47.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Chapter 47</a>
And Durandall posted a new one shot: <a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/short/oif.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Our Inevitable Fate</a> [Higurashi/Haruhi/Bokurano Crossover]
He posted a oneshot with an amusing theme
<a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/short/shuffle.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/short/shuffle.htm</a>
I knew every character in short order, but didn't pick up the pattern until he spelled it out in the author's note. See if you do better!
<a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/short/shuffle.htm' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://pishoque.net/brian/fanfic/short/shuffle.htm</a>
I knew every character in short order, but didn't pick up the pattern until he spelled it out in the author's note. See if you do better!
No, he just completed the reworking of his site, so all the previous story links have been killed.
He actually just made an update with several fics. Hot Air, Retrograde (although these were up previously), a chapter of KBDH, and the start of some Haruhi collaboration.
<a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://pishoque.net/brian/</a>
He actually just made an update with several fics. Hot Air, Retrograde (although these were up previously), a chapter of KBDH, and the start of some Haruhi collaboration.
<a href='http://pishoque.net/brian/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://pishoque.net/brian/</a>
