Curryman's Meta-Amalgam Tourney!

Originally posted by leonidas
i lol'd. a little. 😐

Originally posted by leonidas
teleporting is instantaneous though--i mean teleporters leave and return instantly. making pit stops and hanging out in places outside the BF isn't teleporting per se, its more like dimension traveling. it's not limiting on the power at all imo, because the ability is ALLOWED. it's no more limiting than giving pg's guy (with northstar) the same RELATIVE time in prep that everyone else has. it's done not to limit but to ensure a certain degree of fairness. you CAN leave the BF, you just can't STAY outside.

Originally posted by Digi
Writing is hard. Part of what I do for a living is write/edit, but it's almost entirely for magazines and newsletters. So, like, interviews, news, professional spotlights and announcements, etc. Even short stories are a different beast entirely, let alone novels. And that's before you get published. I have respect for anyone who can actually write well in those mediums, because as comfortable as I am as a writer in my field, I'm completely lost once you take me out of my wheelhouse. It's harder than many think. Anyway, good luck.

I also assume you've already sent in your judge review, so I'm not trying anything funny here. Friggin' tourney politics...

And I wrote short stories and poetry back in high school (mostly in Russian). I considered majoring in journalism back then but found it not my cup of tea (and had not enough published works to enroll to the journalism department, so I majored in translation in college and now I translate scientific articles in the medical field from English into Russian for a living).

Originally posted by abhilegend
Good thing is that for my teleportation, no time would pass. So its instant teleportation any way. Since you can access any point of time from phantom zone, I can return to BF just a moment later I teleported off.

Well, leo also made the point about the potential time limit being "relative" to the teleporter. So, say the limit is 3 seconds, it would be 3 seconds for you relative to your experience, not relative to the flow of time outside. Am I explaining the distinction well? You're likely already familiar with this kind of thinking, but sometimes no one encounters it outside of tourneys.

Originally posted by Charlotte DeBel
Digi, sorry for ridiculous question, but do you live in New York? Cause my boyfriend Mark is a columnist for a Brooklyn newspaper - something for Russian Brooklyn community in Russian language.
http://reporterru.com/?author=85
I think of moving to New York permanently in a couple of years but Mark discourages me. His Brooklyn home is in the "red zone" of flooding, among first to suffer in every hurricane worth its name.

And I wrote short stories and poetry back in high school (mostly in Russian). I considered majoring in journalism back then but found it not my cup of tea (and had not enough published works to enroll to the journalism department, so I majored in translation in college and now I translate scientific articles in the medical field from English into Russian for a living).

Heh. No, I don't live in NY. Would love to be in a major city, but I'm stuck in the Midwest.

@Charlotte, if you weren't terrified of hurricanes I'd suggest checking out Miami. When I went there in June I met more Russians than Cubans. They were easy to spot: they were either dressed in incredibly stylish clothes or else in kitschy Americana (bluejeans, Heat jerseys, American flag baseball caps, basically a tacit way of saying "I BELONG HERE!!!"😉

They have a huge community in Sunny Isles, and in a lot of places there's Cyrillic signage alongside English, Hebrew, Spanish, and French. It's probably cheaper than New York.

Originally posted by Digi
Writing is hard. Part of what I do for a living is write/edit, but it's almost entirely for magazines and newsletters. So, like, interviews, news, professional spotlights and announcements, etc. Even short stories are a different beast entirely, let alone novels. And that's before you get published. I have respect for anyone who can actually write well in those mediums, because as comfortable as I am as a writer in my field, I'm completely lost once you take me out of my wheelhouse. It's harder than many think. Anyway, good luck.

I also assume you've already sent in your judge review, so I'm not trying anything funny here. Friggin' tourney politics...

For me short stories are harder than novels to begin, but for obvious reasons a novel is harder to finish. My main problems are that I write long, my characters tend not to change much during the course of the story, and the way I write a lot of people think I'm "trying to sound smart" when really I'm just writing what occurs to me--the sounding smart is a happy bonus. ha_som

But then it's sad when people in my workshops circle words like "inornate" and say "Is this really a word?" or "hey, use common language next time." And I'm like, that is common language to me. dur

I must have misremembered my facts, then. Sorry🙂
I'm not big on collecting factoids on fellow KMC members. Not to mention I hardly visit offtopic thread. Hell, I hardly visit Versus forum anymore, honing my skills by trolling Quanchi in mixed genre vs forum.

Moving out of Europe and into America, wow : D

Originally posted by Omega Vision
@Charlotte, if you weren't terrified of hurricanes I'd suggest checking out Miami. When I went there in June I met more Russians than Cubans. They have a huge community in Sunny Isles, and in a lot of places there's Cyrillic signage alongside English, Hebrew, Spanish, and French. It's probably cheaper than New York.

Yeah I sent it in to Curry. So whenever the other two judges get theirs in it will be posted.

For me short stories are harder than novels to begin, but for obvious reasons a novel is harder to finish. My main problems are that I write long, my characters tend not to change much during the course of the story, and the way I write a lot of people think I'm "trying to sound smart" when really I'm just writing what occurs to me--the sounding smart is a happy bonus. ha_som

But then it's sad when people in my workshops circle words like "inornate" and say "Is this really a word?" or "hey, use common language next time." And I'm like, that is common language to me. dur

Originally posted by Charlotte DeBel
LOL. I suffered from the same problem with my essays back when I was 14 years old. My parents even had to go to my literature teacher and explain to her that this is how their daughter normally expresses her thoughts and not plagiarizes essays from some random novels.

My boyfriend lives in America, in Brooklyn. Moved there from Ukraine a few years ago.
Though his life pretty much sucks there. He is stuck with his Jewish grandfather (to whom said apartment belongs) and has to be a dutiful and obeying grandson to him. Hell, he even voted for Romney because his grandfather asked him (even though he hates Romney guts) - the grandfather threatened that he'll go vote for Romney himself, the weather was pretty shitty, and Mark was worrying that his grandpa may break a leg or something. So he went and voted for candidate his grandpa preferred (and was very happy Romney lost the election).

And well, I'm scared of hurricanes. I live in landlocked country with no direct access to seas and "hurricane" to me is something "god awful scary that makes the news". Maybe in realty it's not that scary at all... but I only know what they show on TV of Atlantic hurricanes.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Were any of those novels Nikolai Gogol novels by chance?

I love Dead Souls. I think it's the best book of the entire 19th century period. Only the works of Mark Twain challenge it. Dickens can eat a dick. 😛

I feel the same about Tolstoy. I haven't read much of anything by him, but I get the impression that he was a stuffy snob who thought literature's only purpose was to glorify the Orthodox Church.

I'm actually planning to read Crime and Punishment soon...

Originally posted by Charlotte DeBel
My boyfriend lives in America, in Brooklyn. Moved there from Ukraine a few years ago.
Though his life pretty much sucks there. He is stuck with his Jewish grandfather (to whom said apartment belongs) and has to be a dutiful and obeying grandson to him. Hell, he even voted for Romney because his grandfather asked him (even though he hates Romney guts) - the grandfather threatened that he'll go vote for Romney himself, the weather was pretty shitty, and Mark was worrying that his grandpa may break a leg or something. So he went and voted for candidate his grandpa preferred (and was very happy Romney lost the election).

And well, I'm scared of hurricanes. I live in landlocked country with no direct access to seas and "hurricane" to me is something "god awful scary that makes the news". Maybe in realty it's not that scary at all... but I only know what they show on TV of Atlantic hurricanes.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
@Charlotte, if you weren't terrified of hurricanes I'd suggest checking out Miami. When I went there in June I met more Russians than Cubans. They were easy to spot: they were either dressed in incredibly stylish clothes or else in kitschy Americana (bluejeans, Heat jerseys, American flag baseball caps, basically a tacit way of saying "I BELONG HERE!!!"😉

They have a huge community in Sunny Isles, and in a lot of places there's Cyrillic signage alongside English, Hebrew, Spanish, and French. It's probably cheaper than New York.

Yeah I sent it in to Curry. So whenever the other two judges get theirs in it will be posted.

For me short stories are harder than novels to begin, but for obvious reasons a novel is harder to finish. My main problems are that I write long, my characters tend not to change much during the course of the story, and the way I write a lot of people think I'm "trying to sound smart" when really I'm just writing what occurs to me--the sounding smart is a happy bonus. ha_som

But then it's sad when people in my workshops circle words like "inornate" and say "Is this really a word?" or "hey, use common language next time." And I'm like, that is common language to me. dur

yeah, doing short stories is quite difficult. i enjoy them though. i wrote a short called INTO POHJOLA and was really pleased when it was voted fantasy short of the year by an online web mag i used to submit to. ended up being published in a book anthology called DEEPER MAGIC. i've had a couple other online publications. i have a couple novels hanging around, but, thouhg i had some good feedback from a couple agents and publishers, a nice rejection is still a rejection. and many were NOT so nice. 🙁 i've recently just read it to my kids (i'd written a few years back anf now they are finally old enough to understand it) and they loved it (they better have!! lol) so i'm currently reworking it and will attempt--again--to get it published. i just found writing soooooooo frustrating and sooooo subjective.

did you hear about rowling's writing as a pseudonym? her book (written under a man's name) was selling very poorly. she came out and said it was hers and WHAMMO, instant best seller. then there was that guy back in the 70's maybe, who copied word for word an older book, also a best seller, and past it on to publishers under the illusion that it was his. and every publisher REJECTED it! it was already a bestseller and no one would even take it on. crazy and frustrating and a bunch of 4 letter words.....

Getting published is hell, but I feel like the industry will have to change the next 5-10 years.

Sorry for derailing your thread, Curry. 😂

Originally posted by leonidas
yeah, doing short stories is quite difficult. i enjoy them though. i wrote a short called INTO POHJOLA and was really pleased when it was voted fantasy short of the year by an online web mag i used to submit to. ended up being published in a book anthology called DEEPER MAGIC. i've had a couple other online publications. i have a couple novels hanging around, but, thouhg i had some good feedback from a couple agents and publishers, a nice rejection is still a rejection. and many were NOT so nice. 🙁 i've recently just read it to my kids (i'd written a few years back anf now they are finally old enough to understand it) and they loved it (they better have!! lol) so i'm currently reworking it and will attempt--again--to get it published. i just found writing soooooooo frustrating and sooooo subjective.

did you hear about rowling's writing as a pseudonym? her book (written under a man's name) was selling very poorly. she came out and said it was hers and WHAMMO, instant best seller. then there was that guy back in the 70's maybe, who copied word for word an older book, also a best seller, and past it on to publishers under the illusion that it was his. and every publisher REJECTED it! it was already a bestseller and no one would even take it on. crazy and frustrating and a bunch of 4 letter words.....

Tolstoy actually had some issues with Orthodox Church but he had whole other set of issues - starting with "military service sucks" attitude he gained after his military career failed. This attitude SEVERELY affected the portrayal of many characters in War and Peace.
Russian officers in Napoleonic wars thinking like the officers in Crimean war because Tolstoy was projecting his own sucky military experience on them? Self-insert sues? No thank you.
Had it not be "the first historic epic in 4 big ass tomes" in the history of Russian literature, which in addition to being first one in genre was written by a noble from the family of great influence - it would have probably been laughed off by critics.

Yay ree raa Russians and novels. Aren't we smart?

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ANYWAY.

Did we ever get a final ruling on dimensional stuff? Time limits? Is the limit relative to the one doing the teleporting? I'd be more than ok if it's only for instantaneous (by any measure) teleports, but I'll make it work either way.

I don't plan to compete in anymore future tourneys. And well the selection is set in stone. So more on fun ideas.

Earlier I mentioned this tourney is soo easy to exploit, and bring big power with relative ease using canonical feats.

Body: Bette Noir
Mind: Modeus
Powers: Metamorpho

Gotta love those canonical feats. Anyhow, that lands you a nice High Herald with the capacity to wield Gravity, and Black Matter at stellar level.

Ok here is another one.
Body: Jared Stevens (Fate)
Mind: Hector Hall (Silver Scarab)
Powers: Cobweb or Scatterbrain (Special Executive)

This is quite easy. Jared Stevens tools would remold themselves in the presence of Hector Hall.
Helm of Fate
Cloth of Destiny
Amulet of Nabu

I would pick Cobweb over Scatterbrain, as her power is internalized, and would grant Hector Hall all the experience, and knowledge of all his incarnations across time/realities. All happens on its own, no prep required.

Folks that's how you bring Hector Hall (Dr. Fate) a trans level character, into a mid tier tournament.

Originally posted by Digi
Yay ree raa Russians and novels. Aren't we smart?

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ANYWAY.

Did we ever get a final ruling on dimensional stuff? Time limits? Is the limit relative to the one doing the teleporting? I'd be more than ok if it's only for instantaneous (by any measure) teleports, but I'll make it work either way.

yeah, i was hoping curry was gonna say a little more on that as well....

and id--of course you'll compete again. why the hell not? these things are a blast. you'll get some new idea somewhere and you'll want to use it. the brainstorming is the best part!

How about building Ego the Living Planet on your own?
Mind: Hank Pym
Body: Omega Sentinel
Powers: Metamorpho

Unlimited mass thanks to Pym particles, access to nanosentinels to replicate and ability to shift your mass into whatever you wish. Though it is good for tournaments with longer prep time than this one.

Pretty sure any body of Fate would've been banned. Didn't beatboks try that actually?

Still, the cleverness is appreciated. I think I had 1-2 mega ideas at various levels that I never shared, and now they're only half-remembered. I was saving Dark Angel to use at high meta, though. She's a fan crush I've been keeping under wraps for years.

And yes, like leo said, I've discovered that you never want to say never. Hang onto those ideas, unless they're so specific to a particular tourney setup that you could never use them again.

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CURRY - question above in my last post, still needs addressed. Thanks!