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There's almost certainly some of that ilk in both, yes. Just a matter of finding them in two of the most glutted series in the fanfiction world, heh. Relatively sure I've read some good ones, but... well, I've read easily a couple hundred 60k+ fics from both of those fandoms over the years. It... blends together. Gets fuzzy. You forget stuff over the years. It's actually kinda' amusing when you start reading something and about three chapters in suddenly realize you've actually read this before, like, a decade ago or something, but you hadn't realized it from the title/summary/whatever. It's a different sensation from knowingly setting out to re-read something, heh.

... which is why you ask if others have, of course. Decentralize the filtering process, etc.

Ehn, it's definitely anecdotal (personal experience, etc.), but from what I've seen that actually ties back into the belief you can't do much. If you believe you have very little capacity to enact change, but still want to at least try, you pick small targets. You chip away at the superficial stuff -- get done what you (think you) can get done, in the hope it opens the path to larger changes. It's been a pretty consistent narrative, at least with the stuff that I've been involved in, that there is deeply seeded problems, but they're not something that can be directly addressed. Activists, or just people who want to make a positive change, simply don't have the capacity -- resources, social weight, whatever -- to have an effect. So you do what you can until (in the hope that) addressing the deeper issues becomes possible.

And the potential domino effect feeds back into that, to a degree. Since you're focusing small (because you think that's all you can manage), then your proverbial field of vision is fairly narrow. You don't expect you're going to make a big splash because you don't think that's possible. Which, of course, occasionally bites the proverbial hindquarters, especially when the change is enacted without good foundational methodology (hard statistics, preliminary experimentation, etc.) -- which is pretty common simply because of the political cycle being as short as it is. Since groups are in a rush to get things done in a (comparatively) small time frame, sometimes stuff gets left behind in the rush.

Which, yeah, is a problem, but considering a lot of the bigger deal stuff involves studies and whatnot that have been continuing for decades with no sign of stopping, and the problems they're attempting to shed light on are existent now...

... well, the urge to just do something -- try to improve the situation, even in the light of limited information -- gets strong. It gets especially strong when you're regularly involved with the highly... call it shrill? Political situation that seems fairly standard these days. And if/when things do go tits up, it's pretty rare the causal forces are still around and able to exert enough power to make any amends. Bankruptcy or political/institutional marginalization are pretty common in cases where things go wrong, even if the problem wasn't foreseen. People love their scapegoats, etc., etc.

... yeah. Second time using Quickbooks, today. For a class. I... I have already begun to hate this program and wish foul and terrible things upon whatever lackwit(s) programmed it.

Current case in point: I have to generate four reports. Each and every goddamn one of them used different methods of defining the dates covered by the report. For anyone out there that programs. If you do this, and I find out, and I meet you in person. I am going to hurt you. Maybe not much. But some. You do not let shit like that clear a finished, commercial program. Ever.

This... this is representative. Paying bills? At least two (actually more than that, but two different places it pops up while in a particular window) different areas that the amount paid is listed -- where you'd think to look to change the amount paid (making a partial payment, etc.). Only one of them can actually be edited. It's not the one that pops up for defining the check number.

The thing is slow -- clunky. It crashes regularly. It's clumsy, too, as opposed to just slow and possessing outsized extremities, and I'm already running into places where it hides stuff it really doesn't need to hide. It beeps at stupid goddamn times for violently idiotic reasons. It brings upon me hatred and wroth.

Makes me wish parsing and writing code didn't give me a massive and literal headache, so that I could go forth and make something that's not shit. Because seriously. This is not how to do a freaking UI.

E: Also: Exporting reports? Oh no. You have to print. To an ASCII file. Not .html, or a picture, or... whatever. Printing. To a text file. Did they ever actually use wording like that, at some point in the depths of programming? If so, why the name of the blue hells is it being used in a 2012 program? Bloody hell, frakking export button you dullards!

E2: AHAHAHA. And, of course, it asks me to blanket turn down IE's security settings every time it opens (which is often, due to crashing). I don't even use IE with anything approaching regularity, but the only possible response to that is "Fuck you very much, sir or madame. No."

Also, this thread might fit better in Other Games.

It did! Though I guess that was more about the lead up/pre-release stuff (to the extent it was about anything beyond the first few posts, which is about how much attention the mobile port deserves, really) than actually complaining about the game released.

I can't think of a word with no negative connotations. Society seems to somehow be under the opinion that it's a bad thing to acclimate yourself to society.

I just like to keep my image on the up.

Nah, it's of the opinion it's a bad thing to acclimate yourself to society knowingly, so far as I've been able to grok. Manipulating people around you is fine so long as you don't do it intentionally and keep within the standard cultural vectors of influence.

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Clicked the post button six seven bloody times I have

... y'know, I think that may make for the first time I've actually read your alias, G. I've always just been kind of glossing it over goo-wen-something. But now I see it's actually, like. Words. There's meaning behind it, not just a string of vaguely phonetic symbols.

I... think I'm going to forget that now. I liked it better when it wasn't comprehensible :V

I just... I just want to kinda' reiterate. Throw it out there.

The coloring/lighting in Cucumber Quest is glorious.

I have been digging this latest arc with entirely too much enthusiasm, especially. Everything involving the, like, retro arcade etc. whatever. It tweaks like 35% of my joy toggles, simultaneously.

I remember Freedom Force/Freedom Force vs the Third Reich being pretty decent, haven't fired it up in a decade or so though...

Played the first one a bit just a little while ago... earlier this month, late last, something like that. Didn't get very far and then got buried under a glut of christmas stuff (Including Dominions 4, so...) and haven't got back since, but the bit I did play was definitely decent enough to be worth what I paid for 'em. I'd recommend 'em. It's also very customizable in regards to heroes, from what I saw, if you're willing to sink some fiddling time into it.

There's also a number of X-Men games ranging back into the forever (Genesis, at the least) of a whole host of different styles. Several of the more recent ones are set-up like Freedom Force in terms of gameplay, iirc (Mind, I've never played any of 'em, but there's some LPs and whatnot on the archive if you're interested in a peak.).

And yeah, ZHP is emulatable. It's not really what I'd call superhero themed, though. Sentai themed, maybe, but that's not-so-subtly different from what Siru's talking about.  Plays just slightly more on the PC roguelike side of Mystery Dungeons. By the same folks that did Disgaea, iirc. Good, but definitely not a super-powered dude spraying superpowers everywhere.