I've just prepared a review for the next Ponyfic Roundup in which I absolutely lay into a fic with over 50,000 views and a 97% upvote score. I only give it even two stars because of the single good section of the story. This should be interesting! Okay, I've also given a story four stars, so it's not all bad. You'll have to wait until next week to see which these stories are, though a couple of you may be able to guess the first one.
On another note, hotel prices in Leicester city centre this October are really rather silly now. The Travelodge there is charging £209 (flexible rate) for the Fri/Sat/Sun, while the Travelodge I'm booked into in Loughborough, ten minutes away by train, will still do the same thing for £114. The Rugby World Cup, even when it's only Argentina v Namibia, really is skewing things significantly this year.
Controversy! You have my attention :)
ReplyDeleteHaving now read some other reviews, I'm not sure my assessment is going to be all that controversial. After all, My Little Dashie has half a million views...
DeleteWell, I think I know what story you're on about (in fact, there is only 1 that fitted your stats). I haven't read it, but two stars for that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Delete50,000 views. Man, I bet all of my stories combined don't have that...
ReplyDeleteWelp, I figured it was going to be Hard Reset, but it looks like you've already reviewed that. The search continues...
ReplyDeleteThat would certainly be a story that someone could get controversial about (let's not be surprised that I'm one of those downvotes for it), but the ratio is off. Hard Reset has about 98.4% upvotes, rather than 97%.
DeleteMy guess is at 97.3%. Sadly, if I'm right it won't be controversial at all, since I've never seen anything but a resounding negative review of it.
Heh. I don't care for Hard Reset, either. It's one of the few stories I've read that actually made me angry at it. The longer it went on, the more irritated it made me. Too bad. Eakins seems like a nice guy. I'd really like to have loved it...
DeleteI like Hard Reset and its sequels quite a bit, though I'm not sure I'd score it quite as highly now as I did back then. It had more novelty value at the time.
DeleteI'll have to try to find something to be properly controversial about. Best I can do so far is not much caring for SpaceCommie's Chompers: most people seem to love that, but it only got two stars from me, largely because I found the narrator's asides deeply annoying.
Yes, Juggy, that fits my recollection perfectly. Though, I'm guessing you actually managed to finish it.
DeleteI did finish it, but I didn't read the sequels. The first was quite enough for me.
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