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Steel

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#26
Methods of Rationality is a guilty pleasure, as I'm fond of scientific deconstructions of fantasy worlds (I like fantasy worlds that hang together better like Sanderson's stuff).
 
#27
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/u/356272/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>This piece of shit right here.</a>
 

ragnarok1337

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#28
Dark Knight Gafgar said:
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/u/356272/' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>This piece of shit right here.</a>
QFT. Though at least someone has the balls to admit that they're a shitty writer.
 

Frank Cadena

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#29
I have to echo the sentiments regarding Madhat886. I remember reading Suikoden One Half in it's early stages and liking it a lot right up until he dismissed his beta and editor, both of whom kept his runaway harem, cardboard cut out women who love Ranma and insane crossover tendencies in check. As soon as he did fired them, I saw the quality of the writing and the keeping track of who goes where and what goes before and after go to the shitter. I swear, after that the number of women, all of them forgettable, that are involved with Ranma skyrocketed.

My last bit of faith was shattered when he came out with Heir to the Throne. After that I was done.
 

SEG-CISR

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#30
Andrew Joshua Talon said:
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/u/544647/gunman' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>gunman</a>

He's not horrifically bad, but he is a nonsensical bore who turns Shinji into a Gary Stu over and over again with ridiculous crossovers based on whatever he happens to like at the moment. And he just keeps writing it.
"Shinji is teleported to another universe, gains mystical powers, and marries an amazon maiden after defeating her in battle. ShinjixShampoo"
Pretty much all of his stories are some variation on that. Shinji gets superpowers, alt universe, hot girlfriend, etc. A good author could keep that interesting. He is not.

The weirdest and most nonsensical one? Shinji meets his "real" family... And Motoko Kusanagi (aka The Major from Ghost in the Shell) is his "real" mother.

Yeah, you heard me.
FUCKING GUNMAN. I always thought no one else noticed he existed, but I agree, holy fuck. All of his stories, every single one. gaaahh
 

Lord of Bones

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#31
I'm fairly sure pstibbons is a man. A crazy, Hermione-lusting man who thinks that Draco and Snape are misunderstood woobies, but a man all the same.
 
#32
I used to know of a profile that was ~65,600 words of assorted crap. But I just checked it and it's down to only around 8800.
 

zerohour

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#33
SEG-CISR said:
Andrew Joshua Talon said:
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/u/544647/gunman' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>gunman</a>

He's not horrifically bad, but he is a nonsensical bore who turns Shinji into a Gary Stu over and over again with ridiculous crossovers based on whatever he happens to like at the moment. And he just keeps writing it.
"Shinji is teleported to another universe, gains mystical powers, and marries an amazon maiden after defeating her in battle. ShinjixShampoo"
Pretty much all of his stories are some variation on that. Shinji gets superpowers, alt universe, hot girlfriend, etc. A good author could keep that interesting. He is not.

The weirdest and most nonsensical one? Shinji meets his "real" family... And Motoko Kusanagi (aka The Major from Ghost in the Shell) is his "real" mother.

Yeah, you heard me.
FUCKING GUNMAN. I always thought no one else noticed he existed, but I agree, holy fuck. All of his stories, every single one. gaaahh
Reading this thread reminded me of my old FF.net profile, made when I was about twelve.

My god, it's still there and it still shames me.

I'm glad it gives me some perspective on how much I've improved, but given the starting point... it's not too impressive...

I'm gonna go cry somewhere now.
 

TheKinginRed

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#34
Same here, I cringe when I look back on my old shit, especially how one piece of crap got 352 reviews, all mostly positive.

I sucked majorly back then, and pretty much abandonded the account a year later.
 
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Deleted member 5249

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#35
Lord of Bones said:
I'm fairly sure pstibbons is a man. A crazy, Hermione-lusting man who thinks that Draco and Snape are misunderstood woobies, but a man all the same.
Pstibbons mentioned she was a girl in one of her fics IIRC.
 
#36
Seiya said:
Python453 said:
goldenarms said:
<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/u/919491/pstibbons' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>pstibbons</a>

The knowledge of this person existing is a burden on my soul. And I personally hold Seiya responsible for this travesty.
:huh:

Umm... why?
He was innocent until I linked the profile.

I send it to people for lulz because it's a spirit breaking profile. Just look how delusional this person is. She lusts over a fictional character and writes stories of her being raped and beaten.

Can't forget making Hermione a furry.
In this case I blame everyone who has posted so far, I was blissfully ignorant until I clicked the link to this topic.
 

Teshirath

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#37
... wait, people don't like Methods of Rationality?

I will have to request an explaination, if only because I wasn't aware it was looked upon so negatively.
 

zeebee1

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#38
It's not big news. People on the forum started complaining after it was out for several months in the updates section. I think it had to do with the fact that harry was being written as a rationalist science type and the author had a flimsy grasp on logic.
 

shiki

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#39
I don't know why other people don't like it, but my personal reason is that it isn't interesting as a Harry Potter story at all.

That and Hype Backlash, seen it recc'ed and when I read it, I was [supremely] disappointed, it had a boring as hell first few chapters that did not make me want to read more.

Edit: I tend not to read fics that don't intrigue me within the first chapter. Stuff that is by established authors or recc'ed I give a bit more leeway.

I do not to trust people that say " but... it gets better!" because in my experience, it really, really doesn't.

Same reason I don't like that one Code Geass fic, Dauntless. Read it because it was being compared to Lelouch of Britannia, found that it can be no comparison between the two.

While it does change many things and has a fairly fast update schedule, it doesn't change how boring and slow it is. Not that Dauntless isn't worth a look on a slow day, but it isn't great .
 

Dartz_IRL

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#40
<< That one.

Lazy. Slow working.

Uses the same plot elements over and over again and often ends up playing straight tropes he tries to subvert.

And utterly incapable of drama.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
#41
while we're talking about authors who are insanely bad and flood FFN with their crap

<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1907372/dracohalo117' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>dracohalo117</a>

LightningHunter only managed to MST one chapter of this guy's work

He takes all the cliches of Naruto such as mobs, Naruto getting beaten, (sometimes) good Kyuubi before it was canon, and so forth, and just throws it into a hocus pot of shitty ideas. He's got terrible grammar, and the ellipse is his favorite piece of punctuation.

But where he really excels is his vicious, vile hate for the characters he doesn't like. I remember reading what I think was his first fanfic in 2009 (he removed it). In it, he decided to make Minato and Kushina alive, run off after the Kyuubi attack with their daughter while leaving behind a Naruto who was almost completely broken by the village, and then raped their characters while nailing their canon personalities to the wall. And oh boy, he makes anybody he doesn't like useless as fuck.
 

zeebee1

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#42
How did he explain that? Did he have Minato spend a decade doing nothing but eat Doritos?
 

Aarik

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#43
Someone I know over IRC read's Methods of Rationality out of what I assume is Masochism.

According to him, as of Chapter 80...

It's still April.
 

Lord Raine

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#44
Reading this thread reminded me that I still have a solemn duty, a righteous obligation, to continue my self-inflicted public service announcement.

I was on pistibbons' profile, wasn't I?

Let the flagellation commence.
 

seitora

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#45
zeebee1 said:
How did he explain that? Did he have Minato spend a decade doing nothing but eat Doritos?
'Training' his daughter.

Who Naruto basically one-shotted, which goes to show what dracohalo117 thinks of a theoretically alive Minato and Kushina's training abilities.
 
#46
Lord Raine said:
Reading this thread reminded me that I still have a solemn duty, a righteous obligation, to continue my self-inflicted public service announcement.

I was on pistibbons' profile, wasn't I?

Let the flagellation commence.
:yay:

zeebee1 said:
How did he explain that? Did he have Minato spend a decade doing nothing but eat Doritos?
I suggest you read <a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5267291/7/Wrath_to_Come' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Chapter 7 of Wrath to Come</a>. Cos Dracohalo117 doesn't explain things, oh no. He's above that.

And I know Chapter 7 is an odd place to start, but believe me, most of what doesn't make sense in that chapter is not helped at all by knowing what happened in the previous six.

I will simply describe this chapter as thus.

In it, both Naruto and Madara Uchiha are revealed to have OC sisters, and those happen to be some of the least ridiculous and retarded things that happens in that chapter.
 
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#47
Aarik said:
Someone I know over IRC read's Methods of Rationality out of what I assume is Masochism.

According to him, as of Chapter 80...

It's still April.
Also First Year Hermione is azkaban.
 

Lord Raine

Well-Known Member
#48
seitora said:
zeebee1 said:
How did he explain that? Did he have Minato spend a decade doing nothing but eat Doritos?
'Training' his daughter.

Who Naruto basically one-shotted, which goes to show what dracohalo117 thinks of a theoretically alive Minato and Kushina's training abilities.
And he took that one down? Pity. I would have liked to have read it.
 

Demjou

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#49
Aarik said:
Someone I know over IRC read's Methods of Rationality out of what I assume is Masochism.

According to him, as of Chapter 80...

It's still April.
I don't read it...

I just had to know how far the idiot had managed to make it in 80 chapters.

And him only being into April is pathetic.
 
#50
seitora said:
while we're talking about authors who are insanely bad and flood FFN with their crap

<a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1907372/dracohalo117' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>dracohalo117</a>

LightningHunter only managed to MST one chapter of this guy's work

He takes all the cliches of Naruto such as mobs, Naruto getting beaten, (sometimes) good Kyuubi before it was canon, and so forth, and just throws it into a hocus pot of shitty ideas. He's got terrible grammar, and the ellipse is his favorite piece of punctuation.

But where he really excels is his vicious, vile hate for the characters he doesn't like. I remember reading what I think was his first fanfic in 2009 (he removed it). In it, he decided to make Minato and Kushina alive, run off after the Kyuubi attack with their daughter while leaving behind a Naruto who was almost completely broken by the village, and then raped their characters while nailing their canon personalities to the wall. And oh boy, he makes anybody he doesn't like useless as fuck.
Since you mentioned him, I'm bringing back this little gem from his profile.

Namikaze Minato/Yondaime Hokage (I hate him...I FUCKING UTTERLY LOATH HIM...what kind of father use his son as a Demon container...ok I would say he had no choice...wait...he DID...his freaking WIFE and she was DYING I if I may add has OFFERED to take the Kyuubi down with her to give them more time to plan for the Kyuubi...but nooooooo...he HAD to freaking refuse because he was freaking TOO idealistic to see what his family need...his son NEED him since his mother is dying...but what did he say...he can't take her place as a parent or something like that...WTF...dude...you are his father if I was him I would have grabbed this chance...true I would have been devastated by my wives Death...but I would give it my all to raise my son and ensure he have atleast a happy life, ...since he knew there was no choice but to contain the Kyuubi once more...he could have Hiruzen done the Sealing while he helped on putting the other Seals.)

Umino Iruka ( THE MOTHERFUCKING BASTARD, HE WAS THE FUCKING REASON PREVENTING THE SERIES FROM HAVING A BADDASS NARUTO, I HATE HIM AS MUCH IF NOT MORE THAN THAT WRETCHED EXCUSE OF A FATHER)

Sarutobi Hiruzen (the senile old shit have done shitloads of mistake regarding Naruto...he's the Hokage for godsake HIS WORD IS LAW while I would respect his Shinobi prowess but his judgment is really down these days)

Jiraiya (Minato and Kushina made their worst mistake in appointing this shameless perverted Idiot as Naruto's Godfather...he fucking abandoned him to the wolves only to return twelve years later...I respect him as a Shinobi and only that...anything else he is lower than scum in my eyes)

Hatake Kakashi (another lower than scum that he is trying to redeem himself WAY to late in my eyes)
 
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