09-03-2015, 11:47 PM
Yup! And all that excess fluff means nothing. You gotta trim out what isn't necessary otherwise what you got is a mess. With the Avali being so overly convulted because its trying to be so hard-scifi it needs to have more handwaved away than to simply try to explain everything away.
"Frankly both topics go way beyond the scope of the original thought exercise and stemmed from people like yourself demanding a scientific answer to every little thing (and the answers used, were derived from their research) even when it went way beyond my own plans for them."
This line alone was really telling. No author is ever truly forced to squeeze out details from nothing.
The fact that they have a wiki even though they don't have a true story attached and can easily be simplified to one page is also a major red flag.
(I know that was sarcasm, but it still serves my point!)
"Frankly both topics go way beyond the scope of the original thought exercise and stemmed from people like yourself demanding a scientific answer to every little thing (and the answers used, were derived from their research) even when it went way beyond my own plans for them."
This line alone was really telling. No author is ever truly forced to squeeze out details from nothing.
The fact that they have a wiki even though they don't have a true story attached and can easily be simplified to one page is also a major red flag.
(I know that was sarcasm, but it still serves my point!)
(09-03-2015, 11:46 PM)UnamusedAvali Wrote: Specifically Sharpteeth, the problems you raise are limited to humansI don't really buy the "fiction is fiction so no need to criticize it" argument, as plenty of people make a living doing exactly this. I have no problem pointing out the flaws in a concept because I want to see it improve in the first place. If you hold something truly sacred as to not be able to point out its flaws, what is the point? All you have got is a stagnant concept, one that Ryu promised to rewrite more than a year ago, but hasn't because some part of him doesn't want to start anew and make something much more fleshed out. Even if others might not see it, I want Ryu to look upon his own work, his flaws, and be able to confidently take steps towards a better story. If no one else points these problems out, none of them would be fixed in the first place. You have to break eggs to make a cake, after all.
The Avali are three things
1. Not real
2. Not humans
3. Fucking cool why should you need to deconstruct everything about them?
Harshest critic of the Avali. An idea that never changes is a truly dead one.