tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post5105300317636748962..comments2024-03-04T02:09:30.979-06:00Comments on One Man's Pony Ramblings: Mini-Reviews Round 143Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-7646893028525416952016-07-28T03:26:01.881-05:002016-07-28T03:26:01.881-05:00Arcadia's good. I might have to check out Led...<i>Arcadia</i>'s good. I might have to check out <i>Lederhosen</i>. I've actually had one of MrNumbers' fics in my queue for over two years now! I only added it because the title contains one of my favorite words: demesne<br /><br />All that data (plus Bad Horse's own research) has me thinking one could write a program to crank out popular fics. Grammar doesn't appear to be important enough that it would be an issue, and a computer could spew out hundreds of thousands of words matching what readers like. The trickiest part would probably be making the stories coherent. Maybe the user could break the story down into logical segments. Create an outline and the computer fills in the rest!Holly Oatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01703437987958922954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-6706136153933704122016-07-25T18:38:27.845-05:002016-07-25T18:38:27.845-05:00Wait, it counts smart quotes but not dumb quotes? ...Wait, it counts smart quotes but not dumb quotes? What? Why? That seems like bad string handling to me. What about smart single-quotes/apostrophes?Icy Shakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00490981784760484964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-6325703672749588442016-07-25T14:44:23.805-05:002016-07-25T14:44:23.805-05:00Don't forget that Fimfiction counts 'smart...Don't forget that Fimfiction counts 'smart quotes' as a word, so <br /><br />Twilight said, "Ouch!"<br />is 5 words in smart quotes.Georg Felishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03550333227450728733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-21891612344530027422016-07-25T12:34:59.073-05:002016-07-25T12:34:59.073-05:00...Right. Because 10^6 isn't ten with six zero......Right. Because 10^6 isn't ten with six zeroes after it, it's one with six zeroes after it. I knew that. Man, that's like one of those mistakes accountants make that end up accidentally bankrupting entire companies. Or a mistake chemists make that ends up getting slightly more atoms in their moles than they wanted. Now I feel dumb.SVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-44531089418068463682016-07-25T10:57:31.223-05:002016-07-25T10:57:31.223-05:00On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that SS&...On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that SS&E has more than 10 million words spread between his alts.Sogehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01458447650766183354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-12386953315561095182016-07-25T10:29:15.855-05:002016-07-25T10:29:15.855-05:00I think you're mistaken on the word-count fron...I think you're mistaken on the word-count front: 10^6 is one million. To date, no story has broken 2.5 million, and only one's broken 2. http://www.fimfiction.net/stories?order=words<br /><br />The collected works of Rainbow Dash Flying East just breaks 3, though.Icy Shakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00490981784760484964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-46110033307678517362016-07-25T08:41:40.788-05:002016-07-25T08:41:40.788-05:00That analysis is mildly interesting, but also mild...That analysis <i>is</i> mildly interesting, but also mildly concerning. According to it, there are apparently stories on fimfic that are nearly 10 million words long, which seems... unhealthy. No one should develop carpel tunnel syndrome from a single pony fanfic.<br /><br />Also Arcadia sounds intriguing. From your description, I'm not sure it's something I would actually like, but still. <i>Intriguing</i>. Perhaps I'll check that out too.SVnoreply@blogger.com