good news, everyone! eliezer is writing fiction again (www.lesswrong.com)

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"glowfic" apparently. written in a roleplay forum format.

This is not a story for kids, even less so than HPMOR. There is romance, there is sex, there are deliberately bad kink practices whose explicit purpose is to get people to actually hurt somebody else so that they'll end up damned to Hell, and also there's math.

start here. or don't, of course.

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[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago

Ok, I tried giving it a fair shake, and I guess it's got the same problem as every other forum roleplay: it's fun to roleplay, not fun to read someone else's roleplay.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that's where I'm at. I don't think this is Yud doing HPMOR and trying to rope randos into rationality. Well, maybe he's trying to rope the non-rat glowfic enjoyers, idk. In any case, this is Yud playing with a pal and having fun, I guess? Take that as you will.

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago

glowfic enjoyers

A real category?

Seems like a write-only medium.

But then, LitRPG also exists, much to my confusion and dismay.

[+] gnomicutterance@hachyderm.io 6 points 10 months ago

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[-] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

There's a fine line between "no kinkshaming" and Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance

[-] Evinceo@awful.systems 6 points 10 months ago

I can’t understand people who watch streams of other people playing D&D but I know those are wildly popular.

I suppose people also watch other people play video games which is about the point where I started to feel like a confused out of touch elder.

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 5 points 10 months ago

While I don’t listen to any “narrative play” podcasts (as I’ve heard them labelled as) I do listen to an amount of improv based podcasts. So on some level I understand the appeal. Also if you like comic books or blaseball or anything lore-heavy, that would be adjacent to narrative play.

Let’s plays are speedrun adjacent so I also kinda like them. That being said that’s just what I get out of them. Everything I enjoy I have in mind that it ain’t for everyone (boy I wish it were for more people though…)

[-] locallynonlinear@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago

I love DnD and TTRPGs. I even love watching some streams when the quality is high. But I'm with you slides in pocket protector I don't generally like this new wave of people who bring the expectation to my tables that every scene and every situation is a massive mellow drama mary sue projection for their OC that must be maximized.

What was that about wit and brevity? Simple done well?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago

I’ll occasionally watch people play something that I deem as “looks interesting, but not enough so that I’ll want to purchase and play this myself”

(Also for watching high-skill players do their thing, but that’s a different dynamic I think)

[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago

Dawg, I wish it weren't real, but here we are.

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