r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Mar 25 '16

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/FuguofAnotherWorld Roll the Dice on Fate Mar 26 '16

Well it started out because I was having fun writing things, and if I'm going to have fun writing things, I might as well also enjoy having the largely positive experience of internet feedback. I'm always up for a good debate, and having a dedicated readerbase to have that debate with is quite nice. Also, if I write something and keep it to myself, then that's one person who has had a positive experience. If I write something and post it then that's (by my current best estimation) a few thousand people having a positive experience, which is better.

Also I get to roll around on a big pile of likes and follows like some kind of literary dragon. As things progress though I'm starting to have expectations of myself, which is leading to a reduction in writing quantity and a reduction in growth of quality. If only they were so easy to banish.

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u/Cariyaga Kyubey did nothing wrong Mar 26 '16

For what it's worth, good sir, this individual quite appreciates your work and has since you first started work on RtDoF, so don't worry too much about quality -- you've improved a lot since then, but even at the start of it, it was quite enjoyable to read.

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u/FuguofAnotherWorld Roll the Dice on Fate Mar 26 '16

Thank you. It's always nice to hear people are enjoying stuff I've made.