Jul. 15th, 2014

agilebrit: (I regret nothing)
Hey, everyone? Just because a character's death causes another character pain does not make that a "fridging." [Warning: link goes to TVTropes.] And I say this as someone who has shamelessly fridged more than one character in RP. Trust me when I say I know what it is, and I know what it isn't.

A character death should cause other characters pain, if the dying character is someone they cared about. If it doesn't, then you're Doing It Wrong. There's nothing wrong with a character death providing angst and motivation to other characters. The problem comes when that is the only reason for that character's death, or if that character goes out in a lame way instead of an awesome way. There is a Right Way, and a Wrong Way, to do this.

And for someone to call Delilah's death in "Hard Magic" a "fridging" is hilariously wrong, and abusive of the definition, and--yep, I'm saying it--agenda-driven. But this gets back to the whole "message fiction" vs "storytelling" debate we seem to be having, and the fact that no one (including Larry Correia) is saying "don't write message fic." Rather, we are saying "don't write message fic while sacrificing story, because that is boring."

And Larry's books are positively stuffed with awesome storytelling, and that's why he wholly deserves his Hugo nomination.

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Jul. 15th, 2014 12:00 pm
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At least this one has a colorful EZPass header!

Dear customer,

You have not paid for driving on a toll road. This invoice is sent repeatedly,
please service your debt in the shortest possible time.

The invoice can be downloaded here.
[Where here is some rvtravelbuddydirectory or something.]

Considering the fact that we haven't even taken the RV out since April, and noplace I've taken the RV has that particular email address, and noplace we've driven the RV is a "toll road" (in fact, noplace I actually drive, ever, has a toll road), color me suspicious.

Also, they have a cute little line of things at the bottom that look like links but aren't, one of which is labeled "phishing policy." LOOOOOL

And the originator is "roasciomoto.it," which is an Italian website. Considering the poor English and lousy punctuation, I am not exactly surprised.

Dudes. Try harder. Italian origination + some RV reservation site + EZPass = SCAM. Even someone as math-impaired as I am can figure that out.

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