u/Gohantrash

I'm sure a lot of us have played a bunch of CYOAs and have come across common tropes. What are some that you find stupid/annoying, or even just ones you always take note of while playing.

Imo, in any CYOA where I'm getting supernatural powers of any kind, I find it really funny whenever there's a 'Get rich/infinite money' option.

Like, dude, I'm immortal, can regenerate from a single blood cell and can summon demons to do my bidding. Why would I give a single fuck about a billion dollars?

A. Any time you buy something from a vending machine, the machine will give you two of that item.

B. Any prepared foods/snacks you buy will always be at their best when you get them. You'll never get stale fries or flat soda at a drive thru. No gas station hot dogs that have been on the roller for days, no stale Doritos, nonice creams with ice crystals, etc.

How did they pick the two guys that would go on the date? What would the date entail? Who paid for it?

You get to pick four moves from the pokemon franchise. They will be your moveset, and you will be allowed to use these moves in your every day life. The MAX PP of each move is your maximum lifetime use, so if a move has 8 PP you can only use it 8 times in your life.

No held items or anything else, so there's no recycle + Leppa berry shenanigans.

Additional scenario: give up a moveslot and you get to gain a single ability. (Haven't given this much though so no clue if its good or useless)

Moves that are 85% accuracy and below recieve a 30% boost in power. Moves that are 90% accuracy and above receive a 20% decrease.

Think its be a really fun all or nothing ability for a high powered mon. Could also make it broken by giving it to something with coil or hone claws but letting it keep the power boosts.

I was never as high on HxH as most fans seem to be, but I'd still consider it one of the best shonen mangas of all time. I've been reading in real time since the election arc, I think Hisoks vs Chrollo was some of the most hype weekly reading ever. The start of the succesion war was great, the nen beasts were great, it was all very fresh and enticing.

The last, like–4 years?–have been an absolute mess, and I really don't understand how people are just glossing over it.

The story is bloated. There are 75 factions (and new ones keep getting added) all playing 4d chess. Are any of you actually keeping track of all of this without using explainer youtube videos or something? Every hiatus, we come back to a bunch of bodyguards and assistants who all sorta look the same and have to overexplain their complex motivations through inner monologue, plot threads that haven't been explored in so long they're basically from another manga.

He keeps throwing up massive walls of text. He keeps going on tangents about esoteric shit (diphtongs and legal codes this week), he keeps on just piling shit on top of shit, and then we're gonna get 12 chapters, go away for 2 years and pretend we can keep up with all of this.

Seriously, are you people actually enjoying this? Or is HxH the living embodiment of sunk cost fallacy?

Basically just any capability you wish the site had.

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For me, I've got two big ones:

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1. Main/major pairing selection: as inferior as FFN is, this is the singular thing it does better. Doesn't really affect most pairings, but there are some pairings (Harry/Ginny is a prime example) that feature a LOT as a minor pairing, meaning you have to wade through a bunch of fics focused on other couples to find them. Filtering for OTP is ok, but it also eliminates a bunch of fics that focus on the pairing you want while also having other pairings.

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2. AND/OR filtering: dont know how else to title it. Basically, when searching a specific tag and filtering out fandoms, I wish there was a way for me to select multiple fandoms and get results from all the fandoms I selected. As it is now, if I pick two fandoms, I'll only get results that include BOTH. I want it so that if I pick them, I'll get results from both regardless.

Your favorite sports team wins this(or next) years title. They do so in either dominant or dramatic fashion, whichever scenario you feel would be the most satisfying.

BUT, you cannot support them in any way during that season, or the next two seasons after that. You cant watch games, cant watch highlights, can't post about them, follow the team or the players, can't join conversations about them with friends and family, cant even wear their merch.

If you're sitting at a bar and they're being discussed on espn or any other sort of accidental contact, youll find your head forcefully turned away and your ears blocking out any sound related to them.

In most Gen discussions online or IRL, its always Boomers vs Millenials vs Gen Z. Memes always just include those three and online discussions about common childhood experiences never really talk about Gen X as its own thing.

Gen X barely ever gets brought up. It feels like elder Gen X just gets lumped into boomers and the younger ones get thrown in to Millenials.

I know the answer is there isn't one, but I feel like this would be a fun discussion.

When you think about it, not having the most common gameplay mode, the one casual players would immediately assume is the official format, even be a secondary format is crazy.

Personally, I think the big, glaring reason is that 6v6 would take way too long, eapecially with how clunky the animations are. Do you think there would be some optimization things they could do (idk, speed up animations), combined with a time limit, that would make 6v6 viable?

Also, lets say TPC decided tomorrow that 6v6 will be an official format, what do you think their clauses/ban lists would look like? I doubt they would take any leads from Smogon, and they'd probably have item clause in there as well, so itd be interesting to see what they deem broken/not broken.

I don't just mean tense changes between chapters or sections of a story, I mean, like, past tense suddenly jumping to present tense between paragraphs.

I find that when I'm writing, I slip between tenses. I then have to go back and move everything to the main tense I've been using, but sometimes I'm like, this section feels better in the tense I was using.

As a reader, is this really jarring? Obviously, I don't mean swapping tense back and forth every single paragraph, but lets say a 5 paragraph section of a fic suddenly switched, does it bother you?

Years ago, I remember seeing this collection of scholarly works (Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America) that pushed back against the narrative that diseases were the main cause of the genocide in the new world after europeans arrived.

Full disclosure, I didn't read the whole thing (still have it on my pdfs), but the points I did read were pretty convincing, pushing back against the whole hypothesis of natives having 'virgin' immune systems that couldn't possibly survive old world diseases that had arisen due to close proximity to livestock.

But, over the past few years, the disease narrative is still fairly entrenched, even in historians and people who as a layman I think have a pretty good understanding of history.

So, was that work an outlier and the majority of experts still believe the disease narrative is correct?

And just in case, I know that the work doesnt dispute that diseases played a role, just that it wasn't this overwhelming contagion that wiped out 90% of the population by themselves.

Don't care how cliche/melodramatic it gets. Just an itch I wanna scratch.

Basically fics where a girl rejects or even humiliates Harry, then she regrets it later on. Can either be one where they get together or where Harry moves on.