Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Autumnal]

I was just reminded of something about naming versions while sorting and tagging books in my Kindle. If you’re following any current/recent fiction series where novels are flanked by interstitial novellas and short stories, it’s become very common for them to get decimal numbers.

One novella between two novels will be X.5. Three short stories might be X.3, X.6, and X.9, or X.1, X.2, and X.3. A novella and a short story will be X.5 and X.75. And so on. I see this across the spread of sf and fantasy; I don’t read Western, romance, military, and other genres where series with such mixes of length are common, so I couldn’t say about them. (This isn’t a sneer. I do read some in a bunch of genres, but when I do, it’s almost always singletons.)

A lot of us gamer types are also reader types. So it’s a source of influence alongside the memory of D&D 3.5.

 

[TiQuinn]

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It is my mission in life to kill this trend as fast as possible by repeating it to my kids until they move on because I keep bringing it up!

 

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[TiQuinn]

You have to look at other features of the "spaces available to them" to understand why they use them

I've explained why I'm here when I'm not a big D20 fan, and I don't think I'm a troll, so I can understand with people with a higher level of frustration can end up in places that aren't ideal for them.

They aren't really trolls. That implies too much intention rather than what's going on in many cases. Which doesn't mean you should care, but it then means you shouldn't feel surprised it happens, and if you are surprised, then perhaps understanding the dynamic is useful.

I’m more liable to say “skill issue” and block them. Their happiness or lack thereof is really not my concern, ultimately.

 

[Richards]

"Yeah, well I'm more X than you!" is always such a weird, sad, gatekeepy flex.

Replace X with any subculture, trait, or whatever.

Years ago, I took my little nephew to go see a "Thomas the Tank Engine" movie - "Misty Island Rescue," I think it was. After the movie was over, as we were walking down the stairs in the theater, some other little kid pointed at my nephew and announced, "I like Thomas more than he does."

His parents were embarrassed, but I just asked him, "How old are you?" He told me he was four.

"Oh, well that explains it," I said. "He's only two and a half, so you've been around a lot longer to like Thomas." The kid's parents told me that was artfully handed (and still apologized).

Johnathan

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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It is my mission in life to kill this trend as fast as possible by repeating it to my kids until they move on because I keep bringing it up!

 

[overgeeked]

Years ago, I took my little nephew to go see a "Thomas the Tank Engine" movie - "Misty Island Rescue," I think it was. After the movie was over, as we were walking down the stairs in the theater, some other little kid pointed at my nephew and announced, "I like Thomas more than he does."

His parents were embarrassed, but I just asked him, "How old are you?" He told me he was four.

"Oh, well that explains it," I said. "He's only two and a half, so you've been around a lot longer to like Thomas." The kid's parents told me that was artfully handed (and still apologized).

Johnathan

I’m not sure the 2-1/2-year-olds running around most fandoms would accept that the 4-year-olds are inherently “more of a fan” of the thing. Some of the conversations certainly reminds me of when my kid was a toddler though.

 

[Deset Gled]

Years ago, I took my little nephew to go see a "Thomas the Tank Engine" movie - "Misty Island Rescue," I think it was. After the movie was over, as we were walking down the stairs in the theater, some other little kid pointed at my nephew and announced, "I like Thomas more than he does."

His parents were embarrassed, but I just asked him, "How old are you?" He told me he was four.

"Oh, well that explains it," I said. "He's only two and a half, so you've been around a lot longer to like Thomas." The kid's parents told me that was artfully handed (and still apologized).

Johnathan

Gotta clap back with matching energy.

"Oh, I bet you do. You look like the kind of wimp that simps for Thomas. Us cool kids are Gordon fans all the way. He's smarter, stronger, and better. If Gordon was in charge, he would have stopped Thomas from being mean to Diesel, and the jobi wood would never have been lost in the first place. Thomas only ended up on Misty Island 'cuz he's such a screw up. Look at how much trouble he causes every day. Mr. Toppham Hat hates Thomas and his stupid shenanigans. You're a bigger Thomas fan? Grow up, brah. Grow up."

 

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Gotta clap back with matching energy.

"Oh, I bet you do. You look like the kind of wimp that simps for Thomas.

oh wrong Thomas

 

[Thomas Shey]

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Yeah, I've seen that a lot lately. Sometimes it is AI generated. Sometime someone is just having stylistic quirks that a lot of AI art does because, say it now, its popular. Either way, I'm starting to find the people complaining about AI far more annoying than most AI art.