The Herald
Well, fanfic is an important business, it's worth getting up from the bed *nods approvingly*

And I have added a couple of rows to the code of the ad bot and now watching it work to see if it has accumulated any errors in the database. Fixed 5 or 6 so far. For the corpus of 250 forums, that's certainly not bad

Last edited by 42 (2024-06-22 15:05:42)

Hello! Sounds fantastic!
Are you renting your bot to some forums? Or you are doing it entirely for free?

Lucifer
This bot has been originally made for another forum, and we made an agreement with the admins: they are paying for the hosting of the bot and I maintain it. They can use to it promote whatever forums they like, I can use it to promote whatever forums I like. But we don't open it to the public and don't rent it out. Because clearly if everyone used it it would kill the idea of forum ads altogether XD

Fuego y sangre
Why indeed? Who has won?

Last edited by 42 (2024-06-22 15:34:39)

Because it's fun!
Well, the war is not over (and probably never will be), but the opponent got banned (not sure if it's permament or temporary). Because "Martin's books are garbage, only dumb girls read them, and the Real Men use fandom wiki and 1 (one) quote from Stannis" is a rather bold position to express at the forum of Asoiaf fans

Last edited by Fuego y sangre (2024-06-22 15:41:16)

Thanks!

hm, that is also true. you are right
I wonder if there will be an alternative soon then

what is life without some drama?

Lucifer
I was thinking about this. It is possible to create a crawler to visit role forums, use AI to find the right place where wanted posts live, parse them with the help of the same AI and thus to create an auto-updating gallery of wanted posts across all forums. But then I asked myself what would be the profit in it for me personally and decided not to bother)

Fuego y sangre
One part of me wants to ask what he was even doing on that forum, but the other part of me already knows that people are simply idiots weird

Martin does that to people) The thing is, in the main ASOIAF he is portraying an imagined patriarchal society, but his moral estimation can and does fly over some heads)
And then Martin hits everyone in the face with the Dance of the Dragons which does not have POVs or much nuance, but where it suddenly turns out that in the pseudomedieval succession war only bad guys would support a brother against a sister, and the sister would be supported by all the good guys (plus her uncle-husband, author's favorite Daemon Targaryen )
And people's brains shortcircuit)

42
Of course, but the text is rich enough to lure in someone with no reading comprehension such differing values that the author's point just flies over their heads. And then there's Dance where there's barely no place to bargain.

42
Which guy?)

42
Oh, no-no-no, it's a Russian forum)
English-speaking fandom is another beast. They can't just say "we hate women", so they have to work around it like "Targaryens are horrible colonizers!" and "Greens (who are techhically also Targaryens but no one sees them as such ) follow local tradition and law. They will be better for smallfolk! Rhaenyra does not understand duty and law and Daemon would be a tyrant!"

42
There are different degrees of insanity though
For Green fans the first fragment is bad but the second and third are okay...

Last edited by Fuego y sangre (2024-06-22 17:19:14)

Lucifer
If you are afraid of disappointments, HotD might not be the best thing for you... I approach it like "it's so bad that it's good")