Illadelph's Team Tournament Discussion Thread

Originally posted by King Kandy
Are you kidding? Your Writeup in batdudes tourney final was so boring I didn't even read past the second part...

Pfft. My art is obviously not meant for the simpleminded.

Somewhere up there in wherever Russian anarchists go when they die, Leo Tolstoy is smiling upon me.

Originally posted by DarkCrawler
Pfft. My art is obviously not meant for the simpleminded.

Somewhere up there in wherever Russian anarchists go when they die, Leo Tolstoy is smiling upon me.

You mean your writeup is as messed up as Tolstoy's novels where monstrous grammatical constructs scare the hell out of readers no matter how sophisticated and wise the ideas are? Something when you forget the beginning of thr sentence by the time you reach its ending? Dostoevsky and Chekhov own Tolstoy any day in terms of style.

Originally posted by Charlotte DeBel
You mean your writeup is as messed up as Tolstoy's novels where monstrous grammatical constructs scare the hell out of readers no matter how sophisticated and wise the ideas are? Something when you forget the beginning of thr sentence by the time you reach its ending? Dostoevsky and Chekhov own Tolstoy any day in terms of style.

Well, the joke was more based upon the fact that "War and Peace" is a huge brick of an book. 😛

Originally posted by DarkCrawler
Well, the joke was more based upon the fact that "War and Peace" is a huge brick of an book. 😛

With awful style. Tolstoy couldn't shorten his thoughts so 90% of his books are overblown, no matter how good ideas are, compared to Chekhov and Dostoevsky it's close to unreadable.

Tolstoy is overrated quite a bit as a writer.

Have you heard the saying "Every book is good as long as it's not boring"?
Just kidding.

Originally posted by Charlotte DeBel
With awful style. Tolstoy couldn't shorten his thoughts so 90% of his books are overblown, no matter how good ideas are, compared to Chekhov and Dostoevsky it's close to unreadable.

Tolstoy is overrated quite a bit as a writer.

I guess. It's a long time since I read the book...and I guess I skimmed some sections even then. Barely remember what the story was about.

Originally posted by DarkCrawler
I guess. It's a long time since I read the book...and I guess I skimmed some sections even then. Barely remember what the story was about.

Back when I studied in the high school I thought it was some sort of torture invented by Russian Literature teachers for students to f*ck up their minds by making them read that stuff. And I wasn't the only one with that opinion on that thing.

Maybe it's better in translation...I read it in Finnish.

Yes, sometimes translation is better in terms of readability (due to clearing some of those overcomplicated constructs which are frequent in the novels written by Tolstoy) but the overall volume of the novel isn't affected much....

Never read it .... and the way you guys are describing it, it looks like I never will.

Originally posted by Charlotte DeBel
With awful style. Tolstoy couldn't shorten his thoughts so 90% of his books are overblown, no matter how good ideas are, compared to Chekhov and Dostoevsky it's close to unreadable.

Tolstoy is overrated quite a bit as a writer.

Originally posted by Akuki
You haven't seen unreadable literature until you try and wade through Moby Dick.

I think that pun only works because you didn't mean it.

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Moby Dick is a novel akin to Brasilian\Mexican soap operas- long, boring and it doesn't even proven it ever has an ending.

Originally posted by Charlotte DeBel
Moby Dick is a novel akin to Brasilian\Mexican soap operas- long, boring and it doesn't even proven it ever has an ending.

I was considering reading Moby Dick , thanks for killing my drive 😛

Hopefully 1984 is better...

Originally posted by grey fox
Hopefully 1984 is better...

Originally posted by JasonK4
1984 is great. 👆

Doubleplus good !

Originally posted by grey fox
I was considering reading Moby Dick , thanks for killing my drive 😛

Hopefully 1984 is better...

"1984" is a classic book, the definition of the very genre. I highly recommend you that.

That and Brave New World. Also a classic.

Tourney Question:

We have 6 characters and 6 battle sites, and use each once for prep. Cool. But what are we doing about prep for the semis and finals? If we have access to all 6 again, it kinda favors whoever has 1-2 hardcore prep sites, rather than who has the best team. Or is it a neutral prep site?

I'm good either way, but I was just curious.