The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: something that rhymes with "clicks"

[KittyOfSteele]

I don't believe in poetry, I'm just here to screw things up.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

The Box of Shame, seems never the same, it fluxes and varies with who is to blame.
But just in the Corner, no Box to adorn her, sits NuclearFairy who's staking her claim.
Demanding the box, but to everyone's shocks, the box and the corner they both split in twain.
For corners and boxes, create paradoxes, in this great plot twist, they can't co-exist, and just over yonder but fairies remain.

 

[cw5523729]

The Box of Shame, seems never the same, it fluxes and varies with who is to blame.
But just in the Corner, no Box to adorn her, sits NuclearFairy who's staking her claim.
Demanding the box, but to everyone's shocks, the box and the corner they both split in twain.
For corners and boxes, create paradoxes, in this great plot twist, they can't co-exist, and just over yonder but fairies remain.

Well damn, I give up now.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Well damn, I give up now.

Don't give up, make your own and own it!

 

[KittyOfSteele]

The Box of Shame, seems never the same, it fluxes and varies with who is to blame.
But just in the Corner, no Box to adorn her, sits NuclearFairy who's staking her claim.
Demanding the box, but to everyone's shocks, the box and the corner they both split in twain.
For corners and boxes, create paradoxes, in this great plot twist, they can't co-exist, and just over yonder but fairies remain.

Not all fairies; for they flew away. From radiation they wanted to stay away.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Well damn, I give up now.

Just wait, I'm sure I screwed something up. If the Box can move, and the Corner is here... Maybe NuclearFairy is in another castle?

 

[cw5523729]

Just wait, I'm sure I screwed something up. If the Box can move, and the Corner is here... Maybe NuclearFairy is in another castle?

It's Dr. Suess - who TF cares if it makes sense? Actually, check that - making sense would be very anti-Dr. Suess. The more nonsensical the better.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Just wait, I'm sure I screwed something up. If the Box can move, and the Corner is here... Maybe NuclearFairy is in another castle?

So in a DND campaign where I play a fae creature, we got to the vampires castle, and keep in mind we were a bit op by this point with everyone having various means of reaching giant strength, and I suggested that we use a simple size change spell to reach giant size as well and simply shake the castle down.

But everyone else thought that would be too boring, so we didn't go with the simplest most direct method of reaching the boss.

However, the ranger pissed the dm off by making her called shot to the heart with a purely wooden arrow. But he saw this coming and had already prepared a flock of dragons to throw at us. They didn't last long either...

Waaay too overpowered, we only play group when the dm can think of something crazy balls to throw at us, and then we spend most of the night just talking with each other in character.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

Not all fairies; for they flew away. From radiation they wanted to stay away.

A Kitty so sad. No poems she had. The rhymes and the sentences always went bad.
All throughout the thread, with increasing dread, she pondered the poets who all seemed so glad.
But there an idea, instead they would fear! No longer despairing, in hope she was clad.
With keyboard and pun, she'd ruin their fun. No more would they laugh, their verse cut in half. Her scheming would drive them all insane.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

So in a DND campaign where I play a fae creature, we got to the vampires castle, and keep in mind we were a bit op by this point with everyone having various means of reaching giant strength, and I suggested that we use a simple size change spell to reach giant size as well and simply shake the castle down.

But everyone else thought that would be too boring, so we didn't go with the simplest most direct method of reaching the boss.

However, the ranger pissed the dm off by making her called shot to the heart with a purely wooden arrow. But he saw this coming and had already prepared a flock of dragons to throw at us. They didn't last long either...

Waaay too overpowered, we only play group when the dm can think of something crazy balls to throw at us, and then we spend most of the night just talking with each other in character.

It would've been so much fun to improvise giving the boss the same Enlarge/Reduce effect and have everything become one giant mech battle.

A Kitty so sad. No poems she had. The rhymes and the sentences always went bad.
All throughout the thread, with increasing dread, she pondered the poets who all seemed so glad.
But there an idea, instead they would fear! No longer despairing, in hope she was clad.
With keyboard and pun, she'd ruin their fun. No more would they laugh, their verse cut in half. Her scheming would drive them all insane.

Meow, said the steel-clad kitty.

 

[NuclearFairy]

It would've been so much fun to improvise giving the boss the same Enlarge/Reduce effect and have everything become one giant mech battle.

I know right! But they wanted to go through the castle and repeatedly interrupt the villainous monologue instead.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

A Kitty so sad. No poems she had. The rhymes and the sentences always went bad.
All throughout the thread, with increasing dread, she pondered the poets who all seemed so glad.
But there an idea, instead they would fear! No longer despairing, in hope she was clad.
With keyboard and pun, she'd ruin their fun. No more would they laugh, their verse cut in half. Her scheming would drive them all insane.

I know I wrote it, but the last line actually does drive me a little nuts.
I think I could deal with the last word not rhyming, or with the verse meter being off.
But the fact that it's written to fit 'mad' into the meter and 'insane' has an extra syllable...

I did it on purpose, so good job me I guess, but argh!

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I don't believe in poetry, I'm just here to screw things up.

It's all working according to plan...

 

[Z_TheWriter]

It's all working according to plan...

We love you too evil armored kitten.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

@KittyOfSteele
Btw, you ever consider that your name could be said in Jack Black's Minecraft voice? "Ha ha! ...Kitty of Steele!"

You're welcome <3

 

[Bramblethorn]

If the Box of Shame is in the Shame Corner, is that doubly shameful or do they cancel each other out?

 

[SmilingLez]

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From a quantum mechanic standpoint using Schrodinger's cat is an example, the choices are, doubly shameful, not shameful at all, or a combination of both. All possibilities exist at the same time until the box of shame is actually opened.

 

[Euphony]

 

[onehitwanda]

A new bug.

I was browsing through my older stories, rereading some sections for inspiration, and I suddenly noticed that section separators were missing.

I use <center></center> blocks and either unicode characters or groups of characters as a visual block separator... and some of them are just gone. Not all of them, just... random ones.

So either the new story display screen has some buggy rendering code, or else there's a new background process retroactively going through and making changes to stories.

Yay. Not.

 

[cw5523729]

A new bug.

I was browsing through my older stories, rereading some sections for inspiration, and I suddenly noticed that section separators were missing.

I use <center></center> blocks and either unicode characters or groups of characters as a visual block separator... and some of them are just gone. Not all of them, just... random ones.

So either the new story display screen has some buggy rendering code, or else there's a new background process retroactively going through and making changes to stories.

Yay. Not.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

A new bug.

I was browsing through my older stories, rereading some sections for inspiration, and I suddenly noticed that section separators were missing.

I use <center></center> blocks and either unicode characters or groups of characters as a visual block separator... and some of them are just gone. Not all of them, just... random ones.

So either the new story display screen has some buggy rendering code, or else there's a new background process retroactively going through and making changes to stories.

Yay. Not.

My story has very little in the way of html formatting, but the pre- and postscripts are italicized. When I open the story, only the first paragraph will be. If I then reload the page, it looks like it should. Same thing when going between pages.

Pretty annoying, because readers obviously won't reload the page to fix it. I don't know if your bug behaves the same way though.

 

[iwatchus]

I have had two recent readers complain about missing section breaks in my holiday event story. I didn't understand what the first meant. I just went and checked the story and found a missing one. It's in my copy that I cut and paste from, but missing in the story as displayed.

I use the same <center> tag approach that Wanda does. And it was there in preview, I'm sure, because I always do a careful proofread in preview.

I also noticed an extra s rendered in a chapter title that is not there in the original text.

 

[iwatchus]

Pretty annoying, because readers obviously won't reload the page to fix it. I don't know if your bug behaves the same way though.

Reloading does not fix either of the issues I am seeing. I have tried it across two different browsers as well.

 

[iwatchus]

I have started a new thread talking about this bug so this thread can return to it's usual spot.

 

[Z_TheWriter]

I have started a new thread talking about this bug so this thread can return to it's usual spot.

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