tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post4434284636023472837..comments2024-03-26T18:28:06.391-04:00Comments on Evil Editor: Face-Lift 1078Evil Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03879826770199639420noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-17776759877932386742012-11-27T11:51:56.539-05:002012-11-27T11:51:56.539-05:00Hey! I just wanted to check in and say thanks to E...Hey! I just wanted to check in and say thanks to EE and to everyone who took the time to comment on this query. I got an agent!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-52804241947564621972012-10-23T17:27:12.389-04:002012-10-23T17:27:12.389-04:00Hi, Author here. Sorry it took me so long to respo...Hi, Author here. Sorry it took me so long to respond. Thanks for posting EE and for all your comments! <br /><br />You've given me a lot to think about. I'm going to chew on this a while and see what I come up with, but some aspects of the story as well as the query are definitely shifting and some different world-building is going down to address plausibility.<br /><br />Thanks again!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-11608527631018749292012-10-16T15:44:34.560-04:002012-10-16T15:44:34.560-04:00I wasn't trying to be offensive before, btw. Y...I wasn't trying to be offensive before, btw. Your comment just took me by surprise me. But now I think it comes down to a difference in definition of torture, rather than perception.Chelsea Pitcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16301150715189103602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-70343143642704685022012-10-16T14:34:39.288-04:002012-10-16T14:34:39.288-04:00Per my earlier comment: being blown to bits + havi...Per my earlier comment: being blown to bits + having ones limbs shot off = things that are torturous. <br /><br />I do hope the author shows up and will give us a rewrite.Chelsea Pitcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16301150715189103602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-91513018593899138562012-10-16T10:52:56.951-04:002012-10-16T10:52:56.951-04:00Can I presume her full name is Dorothy? Dorothy Pa...Can I presume her full name is Dorothy? Dorothy Parker?<br /><br />I, too, had trouble understanding why the nation's roller coasters, haunted houses and movie theaters can't be retrofit as local power suppliers. Or maybe brothels, churches, or sports stadiums. Aside from not being objectively evil, that just seems easier.<br /><br />In a second read, I'm also curious how Dot ended up behind Door Number Four if she's the creator's daughter and an important person to keep alive. Maybe describing those circumstances would make everything clearer.150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-17666905794117815622012-10-16T09:42:00.972-04:002012-10-16T09:42:00.972-04:00Is it just me, or is this the basic premise of Mon...Is it just me, or is this the basic premise of Monsters, Inc. except in reverse?<br /><br />(energy from fear vs. energy from joy/love)A. M. Perkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08680290781463023921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-42664764172774621372012-10-16T04:20:13.622-04:002012-10-16T04:20:13.622-04:00erostru 1072To me, torture connotes pain, not fear...erostru 1072To me, torture connotes pain, not fear. Fear is much more subjective. You could probably run the world on the common netizen fear of clowns.khazar-khumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-62840198662176281792012-10-15T19:31:25.945-04:002012-10-15T19:31:25.945-04:00Right. Much more believable that we would torture ...Right. Much more believable that we would torture just a few people. Perhaps by carting them off to a US military base in Cuba, holding them for years sans court proceedings, and waterboarding them. Or we might ship them off to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Uzbekistan to be tortured by people with more experience.<br /><br />Just wildly imagining dystopia here. <br /><br />Sigh.<br />AlaskaRavenclawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-86903673414228342002012-10-15T19:26:10.188-04:002012-10-15T19:26:10.188-04:00[It's 0112358.]
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That&...<i>[It's 0112358.]</i><br /><br />A-HA HA HA HA HA HA HA<br /><br />That's so very cruel of you. Mathematically speaking. <br /><br />1123581321 would be artistically crueler. Dave Fragmentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18217202416002233005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-27471927547494694402012-10-15T19:01:17.579-04:002012-10-15T19:01:17.579-04:00Hmm, so, presumably using emotions for power consu...Hmm, so, presumably using emotions for power consumes them. Would you want to be in the room with someone you've been torturing once they cease to feel any fear at all? Cos I wouldn't.nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415222406280230021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-81420596606508222232012-10-15T18:16:49.727-04:002012-10-15T18:16:49.727-04:00Yes, like cars. Maybe the author isn't the onl...Yes, like cars. Maybe the author isn't the only one who shouldn't use the word "millions."Evil Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03879826770199639420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-42465747811919131822012-10-15T17:49:13.012-04:002012-10-15T17:49:13.012-04:00This is a really great query, and I think you'...This is a really great query, and I think you'll definitely get some bites on this. I'd read it.<br /><br />I do have a few questions though:<br /><br />Since the cube was invented, why is America the only one using it? Surely other counties would want it, and if the US didn't want to share it, they'd probably try to take it. And then America would obliterate them by using the power of love.<br /><br />Now that's ironic.<br /><br />Is that what happened? Or has America become a superpower because they have the cube and everyone else is dependent on now-archaic methods of energy?<br /><br />For the record, I had no trouble believing Americans wouldn't go back to using oil after they'd had the cube. Why would they, if the cube worked so much better? And if the government was like, "We're only tormenting Really Bad Guys, and if you fight us on this, we'll have to go overseas to get oil again, and that'll kill millions"... <br /><br />Well, anyway, I buy it.<br /><br />Which brings us to the word "millions" in your query. Where are these millions coming from? And if fear is such a reliable energy source, why do they need that many victims? These kind of questions can be avoided by taking "millions" out of the query. "The torment of innocent people" is still a very high stake, and we'll empathize with Dot's desire to stop it.<br /><br />I just have one more question: is Dot running toward her dad, in the California facility, and at the same time running from the agents, who want to take her to the California facility? <br /><br />"It's hard to imagine Americans putting up with torturing millions of people just so our appliances will work." <br /><br />...........Like cars?Chelsea Pitcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16301150715189103602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-353450406070959812012-10-15T17:08:05.652-04:002012-10-15T17:08:05.652-04:00Yeah, I feel like we're dealing with plausibil...Yeah, I feel like we're dealing with plausibility issues here.<br /><br />Regretfully, I've come to realize in the last twenty years (or twenty-one, to be exact) that Americans en masse can be gotten to do and believe and feel just about anything you want them to. Er, want us to.<br /><br />You want millions of Americans scared? You don't have to torture anybody. Just:<br /><br />1. Announce that the Threat Level has been moved to Red.<br /><br />2. Suddenly proclaim that we have an Immigration Problem.<br /><br />3. Tell us that six people in three different states have die from a previously unknown virus.<br /><br />4. Tell us that some tyrant or other has Weapons of Mass Destruction, honest to God, they're just invisible is all.<br /><br />5. Set us down in front of a tv tuned to Fox News for a couple hours.<br /><br />Seriously, this is the land of the free and the home of the scared. Your story would work better if there was some other reason why your girl was being tortured.<br /><br />Patriotically,<br /><br />ARc<br />AlaskaRavenclawnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26791026.post-70214702902966927402012-10-15T15:40:53.194-04:002012-10-15T15:40:53.194-04:00This sounds a lot like the plotline of "Monst...This sounds a lot like the plotline of "Monsters Inc". <br /><br />Things I don't understand:<br /><br />Is there no way to restart the old infrastructure of gas, coal, nuclear etc plants? <br /><br />Why kill the guy who can make it work?<br /><br />Why torture your daughter to prove a theory? Yes, lots of people experimented on their own kids, but you want me to believe she loves her Dad. <br /><br />khazar-khumnoreply@blogger.com