(account deleted) 22 Jul 2018 04:53
Upvoted, i wasn't getting the horror from this RPc until reading the addenda, great job.
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(account deleted) 22 Jul 2018 04:53
well written and to the point, I liked it however a world ending scenario is a little too far fetched imo…
InsectMeNot
Let me put it to you this way; the Milky Way is divided into arms.
2 stars
This article has a lot of tonal and flow problems for the first part.
It also doesn’t make much sense to me. Why would it not destroy the entire wing of the milkyway already? It touched earth, which is a part or the milkyway. It doesn’t make sense that it would cause this if exposed to the vacuum of space, because the vacuum of space is not a part of the milkyway. It is quite literally nothing, not part of anything.
The only reason I am not giving this a 1 is because I enjoyed the revelation that it could destroy the milkyway. It was a very nice “oh shit” moment.
This is a very horrifying item once you get past how mundane a pair of electric mosquito rackets look.
Never have I seen a short article be such a predictable and boring ''thing that does a thing''. In this story, the ''twist'' is the only thing this article has to offer, because if it wasnt it would be in perfect grounds for a Lesser Anomalous Object classification. It has been done to death a million times before, and leaves zero ground to explore anything because of how simple it is.
Sure, the idea that a bunch of rackets ending life at any given point without us even noticing is spooky, but it's by no means mysterious. A Gamma Ray Burst killing us at any given point is scarier, not because it's a possible Real Life scenario, but because we have NO WAY TO PREVENT IT.
1 Star. Would be far more interesting as a Beta Red object, because then you'd have something else to tell other than ''LMAO END OF THE WORLD''. I advice every author to learn from this article on how to make a plot twist predictable.
starts off as a mild object, then gets interesting (category confusion is always nice), then chops its dick off at the end in an attempt to be scary and dangerous
Rude, unconstructive comment.
Would have been a 2 if it didn't obviously go against the stated facts - "RPC-600’s anomalous properties surface when its racket area makes physical contact with the limb of a living subject". It shouldn't be able to influence anything that is not living, let alone influence things that can be called "limbs" through similarity or any other reason.
World ender that should have had much more effort put into thinking out the properties, would use a rewrite.
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