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General HPMoR sneer collection (awful.systems)
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Since Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is apparently still a thing, I figured I'd spend a few minutes before fediverse monster-movie night to collect relevant links:

And a question dug up from one of those old threads: OK, so, Yud poured a lot of himself into writing HPMoR. It took time, he obviously believed he was doing something important — and he was writing autobiography, in big ways and small. This leads me to wonder: Has he said anything about Rowling, you know, turning out to be a garbage human?

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The same chapter has another instance of trademark bad Yud writing: "gom jabbar" is a torture spell that Draco applies to Hariezer's hand. Few things kill tension faster and yeet the reader out of the story with greater force than a superfluous Nerd Culture(TM) reference. And the very next chapter has the smegheaded Death Note bit. It's Ready Player One for cult inductees.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 12 hours ago

References that I thought this was before I looked it up: star wars EU (gom jabba-r), or one piece (gomu gomu jabbar). It was neither and just dune.

I can picture Yud smirking to himself, thinking of how clever he is for shoving a sci-fi reference into a fantasy universe, in doing so injecting just a little more rationality into an otherwise irrational genre.

Anyway here’s the rejected RP1 theme song