RL Anger

[Arkandel]

No, people on Goodreads. Rating novels which haven't been written yet (let alone read) with 5/5 is not how it's supposed to work.

You're destroying the credibility of the entire system with the stupid fanboy idiocy.

[Coin]

@Arkandel said:

No, people on Goodreads. Rating novels which haven't been written yet (let alone read) with 5/5 is not how it's supposed to work.

You're destroying the credibility of the entire system with the stupid fanboy idiocy.

I hate that. I don't even really use Goodreads, though. I keep meaning to, but lazy.

[dontpanda]

@Arkandel Out of curiousity, how would you rate a book you liked by an author you found repugnant?

[Ganymede]

@wanderer said:

Examples:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crowgirl/hackers-versus-banksters-a-visual-novel-about-reve
http://www.depressionquest.com/
Super embarrassing stuff, if you ask me.

Sure, but then, there are games like That Dragon, Cancer, which are emotionally resonant and enlightening. For me, it sure sheds a light under the fears I've had, living with a multiple-cancer survivor. And by "multiple-cancer survivor," I mean "someone diagnosed with a condition so rare that she's part of a fucking case study about childhood-cancer survivors that underwent chemotherapy, which may have altered her DNA so badly that she can manifest cancer anywhere, at any time."

DepressionQuest seems alternatingly patronizing and dehumanizing to me. And yet, it's entirely possible that the game wasn't meant for me, and means a great deal more to others who can empathize with it.

I'm not going to poo-poo it for that.

[Arkandel]

@dontpanda I rate the work, not the author. So for example I'd rate Ender's Game highly.

As for Goodreads, it's led me to discover several of my favorite series since I can look at what other people who like the same stuff I'm in have rated highly as well - it also has an "if you liked <X> then you should check out <Y>" function but it's iffy at best.

Another issue is so many people are plugging their own sites/blogs in the comment section it's sometimes annoying to wade through the noise and get to the actual review. Animated gifts, memes... I don't want to see that crap, dammit.

I just need to know (if possibly in a spoiler-free way) what the novel is generally about and if it's good or not.

[Arkandel]

Double post!

My absolute favorite function of Goodreads is its mobile app. It lets you scan a book's barcode and add it to any folder you tell it to.

So I can easily scan my bookshelves (which is convenient) but way more importantly it lets me walk into a bookstore, peek at books I might like, take a quick scan then later on at my own convenience look them up to see if they were actually good or just well marketed/with a cool cover before I commit.

My to-read folder is ever-growing but that's a good problem to have.

[Kanye Qwest]

Basically all I do on Goodreads is scan for other people who hated the Malazan series even half as much as I did.

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Have a downvote for that.

[Arkandel]

@Kanye-Qwest said:

Basically all I do on Goodreads is scan for other people who hated the Malazan series even half as much as I did.

There are thousands of books people don't like (but others did) due to $reasons. Why focus on those?

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Harry Potter? Poorly written crap.
Lord of the Rings? A book about walking and sometimes singing to midgets.
Wheel of Time? 1 million pages of BDSM subtext with a dash of male chauvinism.
Pern? I'd rather get pegged.
Dresden/Anita Blake? No thanks, Mary Sue.

But I liked the Malazan series.

[Arkandel]

@Admiral said:

Lord of the Rings? A book about walking and sometimes singing to midgets.

<gasp>

You need to be put down, if only for your own good.

[Kanye Qwest]

Because my hatred for that series goes beyond your usual "oh this book is crap I am going to forget it and move on with my life."

I hate read all 9 of those books, and each of them was the worst book I've ever read in my life. I am convinced that guy's editors all committed suicide around about book three and no one was left alive to tell him that rewriting the same dumbass plot with the same dumbass characters two and three times in the same dumbass book is not a hot play. Or that having a list of plot threads as long as the actual series that never go anywhere is not the done thing. Or that maybe it would be ok for a female character to do something cool onscreen that isn't 'be possessed by a male god to knife some fools" or "get hella raped, then get hella raped some more, and by the way have you considered maybe being raped to inspire a dude to turn into a tiger?"

[Arkandel]

@Kanye-Qwest said:

Because my hatred for that series goes beyond your usual "oh this book is crap I am going to forget it and move on with my life."

I hate read all 9 of those books, and each of them was the worst book I've ever read in my life.

Uhm, I can understand one book ("I didn't know better"). I can see two books ("I was curious to see if it was going somewhere/would get better").

But seeing as these are some really long-ass very densely written novels, why on earth did you read nine of them if you hated each so much?

[Ganymede]

@Kanye-Qwest said:

I hate read all 9 of those books, and each of them was the worst book I've ever read in my life.

If the first was the worst, why the hell did you read the others?

I read the first chapter of The Da Vinci Code, and then refused to read any more. It was horrible.

I don't understand why anyone would want to waste their life on shitty reading. There's a lot of it out there.

[Misadventure]

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[Kanye Qwest]

So I started those books, and I was like wow that was kind of whatever, and people who love the series are like NO JUST WAIT, IT GETS BETTER. IT PICKS UP AND GETS REALLY COOL, YOU'LL SEE.

So for a couple of books, I was waiting for it to get good. Then there were two characters off in some other place that I actually really liked so I read on, thinking I'd hit the mythical turning point I had been promised (That turned out to be a lie. The story was tolerable for about 1/3 of a novel and then it was right back to your regularly scheduled hella rapes and overpowered dudes being really ridiculous and spazzy).

Then I kept reading because I was like you have got to be kidding me, there is no way he can do this for 9 books and get away with that, right? When I was pretty sure that was exactly what happened, I had to finish it just so I could say I had. It was my Sisyphean task.

I had PTSD and didn't pick up another book for months. I have stopped taking any and all recommendations from the friend that kept urging me "NO REALLY IT GETS GOOD"

[Rook]

Needing 3 mice on your desk to operate all systems that you use, like, quite regularly. And yes, the constant turning has aggravated me enough that now I link the desktops and just use one keyboard+mouse. But, before then, ANGER. Yes, it was silly. BUT ANGER.

[deadculture]

@Groth Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, man. If someone is a face to any effort, you work on destroying and discrediting them. Same tactics being used both sides of the pathetic aisle. (On a belated post).

[Coin]

@Rook said:

Needing 3 mice on your desk to operate all systems that you use, like, quite regularly. And yes, the constant turning has aggravated me enough that now I link the desktops and just use one keyboard+mouse. But, before then, ANGER. Yes, it was silly. BUT ANGER.

I don't actually know how to link desktops so that I can use just one keyboard and mouse. I wonder, could that also be done to use only one monitor (or the same set of monitors) by running one coputer through the other and then out to the monitor?

fuck, i know very little about modern technology, man.

[Thenomain]

@Coin & @Rook

http://synergy-project.org

I haven't tried it for a while, but it was kinda cool when I did.