2833: Uncool – Oneshot

Posted: July 14, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Original Work, Uncool | Tags: , , , , | 10 Comments

Title: Uncool
Author: TacoMagic
Media: Probably paper
Topic: Original Story (With influences from Matlock and the Three Stooges)
Genre: Mystery / “Humor”
URL: Uncool
Critiqued by TacoMagic

All right, everyone, for this last stop on our trip down memory lane we’re going to tackle the much shorter, and arguably better written “Uncool” that I wrote just after R-Tron.  Uncool is actually the first in a series of three stories with this first installment being relatively well grounded and later installments featuring less coherent writing because of a mixture of influences from Mortal Kombat and R.L. Stein.  As a peek into that hot mess, Uncool 2’s hook was an alien shaped like a chicken nugget.

(Un?)Fortunately I don’t have either of the sequels because they’re either lost, or in a box somewhere in my parents house.  So, we’ll just be diving the first entry to the series. 

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2825: The War of R-Tron Series 1 – Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight

Posted: June 23, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Original Work, The War of R-Tron Series 1 | Tags: , , , , | 11 Comments

Title: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Author: TacoMagic
Media: Uh, paper?
Topic: Original Story (With obvious M.A.S.K. and Star Trek: TNG influences)
Genre: Sci Fi / Adventure
URL: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Critiqued by TacoMagic

Welcome back!  Today we finish off The War of R-Tron Series 1 of 1.

Last time things got thick and chunky with lots of sudden, and from behind, exposition and battle padding, a token funeral, and a confirmation that the evil robots are in fact a Borg expy.  Also, nitrogen.

Let’s finish this mess off!

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2820: The War of R-Tron Series 1 – Chapters Three, Four, and Five

Posted: June 16, 2021 | Author: | Filed under: Original Work, The War of R-Tron Series 1 | Tags: , , , , | 12 Comments

Title: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Author: TacoMagic
Media: Uh, paper?
Topic: Original Story (With obvious M.A.S.K. and Star Trek: TNG influences)
Genre: Sci Fi / Adventure
URL: The War of R-Tron Series 1
Critiqued by TacoMagic

Welcome back, patrons!

Last time Frank Nafin and his droid, Sir Not appearing in this Story, made some autobots Robotic Transforming Vehicles for the definitely not Federation of Planets.  Due to some budget cuts in security, one of the RTVs was promptly stolen by the Norg (original antagonists, donut steel).  And what do we do when evil robots steal one of you prototype ships?  Naturally you send the other two to get it back.

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2264: They Chose To Remain — A Retrospective

Posted: February 19, 2019 | Author: | Filed under: Admiral Sakai, How to Not End Up in the Library, They Chose To Remain, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 36 Comments

Title: They Chose to Remain
Author: AdmiralSakai
Media: Film
Topic: Jame’s Cameron’s Avatar
Genre: Adventure/Sci-Fi/Author Tract
URL: DeviantArt Gallery Page
Critiqued by AdmiralSakai

Yes, you read that correctly, I am indeed riffing an old shame of mine. Or, well, not riffing, exactly, because for reasons I will be getting into below this thing is a potential Librarian-breaker and I am extremely disinclined to do a full riff of it. I’ve actually been considering bringing it onto LotD for a good long while now, but due to its aforementioned unriffability I wasn’t entirely sure how to go about doing that until I saw HerrWozzek’s retrospective on Mass Vexations and decided I liked that format. If someone does want to riff it the link is in the page header and I can also put it in the orphaned-fics table, but you are a braver soul than I and I can already predict you are unlikely to see the far side of the thing. So let’s go ahead and dive into They Chose to Remain (Or, Why Getting An A In AP Computer Science Does Not Make You Isaac Asimov (You Self-Righteous Fuckwit)).

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2071: Mass Vexations Retrospective – Miscellaneous Odds and Ends

Posted: June 28, 2018 | Author: | Filed under: Mass Effect, Mass Vexations, Mass Vexations Retrospective | Tags: , , , , | 40 Comments

Title: Mass Vexations
Author: Herr Wozzeck
Media: Video Games
Topic: Mass Effect, with a dash of Heavy Rain, Dead Space, Dragon Age, and other assorted properties
Genre: Sci-Fi/Adventure
URL: Mass Vexations 1, Mass Vexations 2, and Mass Vexations 3. Also, the TVTropes Page.
Critiqued by Herr Wozzeck

Hello folks, and welcome to the fourth installment of the MV retrospective. Well, I think this is about gonna wrap it up here, and we’re going to go in with miscellaneous criticisms that aren’t super major, and also maybe even get into the rewrites I did throughout the series, and also some things about the series I don’t totally hate.

So yeah, this’ll be a slightly longer installment, but hey, we’re almost there! So let’s get to it!

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