Another new bug

[Britva415]

You would hate House of Leaves.

Thanks for the warning

 

[Britva415]

Griffin and Sabine might kill Britva

That came out around the same time as an old hippie artist was working with me in Multimedia Gulch in San Francisco at a startup during the first Dotcom boom, very shortly before the crash.

He would say, "I remember when 'multimedia' meant you sewed a button on your canvas."

And speaking of cyberpunk, not very long after Griffin and Sabine, William Gibson came out with Pattern Recognition, which also intersects with the "experimental media" theme.

I mean, it isn't experimental media, itself. It's just a novel with .txt

 

[TheLobster]

Wait, I'm confused, what special HTML code did you need to use to generate that? Is it browser specific?

 

[Britva415]

I'm also very tickled that my attitude toward writing/literature/text can apparently only be assailed by comparisons to some very, very out-there counterexamples which were fully intended to break out of, rather than adhere to, storytelling and printing paradigms.

 

[cw5523729]

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Slow down, slow down, I'm taking notes

Wait, it says "BASIC LATIN" - Does that mean I need to know Latin in order to use it?

 

[ElectricBlue]

This is kind of how I feel about very nearly ANY formatting in a story. The only exceptions I myself would ever consider using are italics and bold, and even then, the appropriate and necessary uses for either of them are very, very limited.

If a story can't be read in a plain-.txt file, absent any formatting (or, as in this case, superfluous characters) at all, then, rendering is not the problem.

Wait! How come I say exactly the same thing, and I get sacrificed on a stone altar by the witch @onehitwanda ?

@YmaOHyd no, it's not judgemental at all. I don't give a fuck about the way people format their content, but when there's a whole thread about a self-inflicted problem, I must admit, I'm amused. Particularly since, whenever html issues come up, I nearly always cite how I got bitten with a story that really got fucked up, trying to use over-clever formatting which went dramatically wrong.

Minimal, or no use of html, is guaranteed not to cause a problem, but now I'm the evil beast, suggesting that?

 

[Britva415]

Wait! How come I say exactly the same thing, and I get sacrificed on a stone altar by the witch @onehitwanda ?

lucky duck

 

[Britva415]

Minimal, or no use of html, is guaranteed not to cause a problem, but now I'm the evil beast, suggesting that?

There is a big difference here.

You're justifying it based on "causing problems."

That's not where I'm coming from at all, though it's a nice side effect.

 

[onehitwanda]

Minimal, or no use of html, is guaranteed not to cause a problem, but now I'm the evil beast, suggesting that?

My copper knife is sharp, sharp as a whisper, sharp as a dream.

Hold still, sweetling. This will sting.

 

[TheLobster]

Slow down, slow down, I'm taking notes

Wait, it says "BASIC LATIN" - Does that mean I need to know Latin in order to use it?

It also says "Neutral", which means you can only use it between scenes that involve neither nor protagonists nor antagonists.

 

[onehitwanda]

It also says "Neutral", which means you can only use it between scenes that involve neither nor protagonists nor antagonists.

Pish Posh. Everyone knows Chaotic Neutral is both at the same time!

 

[cw5523729]

It also says "Neutral", which means you can only use it between scenes that involve neither nor protagonists nor antagonists.

What if I have both but they are sitting in a car with the gear in neutral?

 

[PennyThompson]

William Gibson came out with Pattern Recognition, which also intersects with the "experimental media" theme.

I've read that one! I may have gone through a brief Cayce Pollard style phase while in high school

 

[onehitwanda]

@ElectricBlue If I'm a witch can I at least be the maid as opposed to the crone?

 

[PennyThompson]

@ElectricBlue If I'm a witch can I at least be the maid as opposed to the crone?

What about Mother

 

[onehitwanda]

What about Mother

I have a very nice Mother Superior outfit that we could put you in, if you like?

(It's leather. Mostly)

 

[onehitwanda]

It kills me that you're still surprised by the things that come out of my mouth.

 

[stickygirl]

What if I have both but they are sitting in a car with the gear in neutral?

It's America and they don't have neutral in cars
They have shifters - things like a big indicator stalk: forward, backward and that's it

 

[PennyThompson]

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It kills me that you're still surprised by the things that come out of my mouth.

At this point I partly do it because I know you like it...

 

[onehitwanda]

At this point I partly do it because I know you like it...

For fuck sakes Penny we talked about this

 

[YmaOHyd]

https://www.cardealpage.com/column/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/e30shiftgate.png

The N must stand for something else then

 

[onehitwanda]

https://www.cardealpage.com/column/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/e30shiftgate.png

The N must stand for something else then

That's when the car starts making a noise like Nee-Ner-Nee-Ner

 

[Voboy]

*ducks in, understands about 20% of what any of these posts say, ducks out again*

Agreed that this is annoying; we should all expect the code to work. Also agreed that pulling all one's stories over this isn't quite the flex one might think it is. It's a bit much.

I just submit as a docx. Nary a problem.

 

[PennyThompson]

For fuck sakes Penny we talked about this

Day 124 of being objectified by Wanda...

Also, plot bunny about HTML Witches in a fantacyberpunk world where all of the programmers were killed by a Snowcrash virus and now the server infrastructure is maintained by barely understood dark magic and AI vibe-coding

 

[ElectricBlue]

There is a big difference here.

You're justifying it based on "causing problems."

That's not where I'm coming from at all, though it's a nice side effect.

No, that's a misread. Fundamentally, your position is absolutely right, special formatting is rarely if ever needed.

My comment was that it's an avoidable problem, and I cite myself as an example - I was trying to be clever, after someone showed me how to use html (for something as simple as italics in a story), and it went wrong

Ironically, I'm editing a story from that time, which has a bunch of code for italics that didn't render (why not, I don't know), still in the text. Which demonstrates that it added nothing, didn't matter, and not a single person noticed, worth a comment. But gosh, now I need to remove the story from the site because, fuck, you know, what a terrible situation to be in!