Here we go again.
Oct. 17th, 2011 06:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedSometimes, you end up arguing with someone over something you don't mean to. Such was the case several years ago between me and Vincent, when he would try to convince me that I need physical friends to live a fulfilling life, and I would argue with him as to why I wasn't interested in making friends with people anywhere except on the Internet, when in fact I only meant to explain why I simply never go out of my way to.
Just recently, I had completed the initial draft of the very first chapter for Parasitic Trio. I had given it to Jake to refine, and he had gotten started, but then he questioned why it would take only a day and a half for Professor Oak to travel between Mr. Pokemon's house back to Pallet Town on foot. (I should mention that this ficseries will assume that Routes 26 and 22 are connected, and Route 27 would've had some land with which to cross from or into New Bark Town without HM Surf.)
Well, it's one thing that Professor Oak should use a Pokemon to fly directly back to Pallet, but the length of time it would take to travel either way is where the shit began. Jake even warned me to just drop the issue, but to be honest, the amount of distance coverable in any given length of time actually will be important to the ficseries. I have a need for a certain amount of order whenever I'm playing the games, and such will also be true as I write the ficseries. (For instance, it would determine things like who (between Jamie and May) will reach Eterna City first after both of them reach Sinnoh and disembark at their respective locations.)
So anyway, while Jake probably doesn't have any particular yardstick for measuring how long it would take to travel between any two points (at least none that I know of), I had decided before starting the ficseries that one step in the games would equal the distance that would be covered in a minute's worth of walking. I even measured the number of steps in interconnected straight lines from Mr. Pokemon's house all the way back to Pallet Town to determine things like how long it would take Ellen to come to Oak's lab from her house, what time she'd arrive at Viridian City the first time around, etc.
Jake had completely disagreed with that kind of logic, thinking that it should take weeks for someone to travel the entire distance that Oak would've originally covered by walking, and told me he was unwilling to accept my kind of logic for distance. I took this to mean that if I still insisted on it, he would refuse to continue reading any further chapters or even discuss the ficseries at all anymore. I told him not to bother revising the chapter any further, that he's free to ditch the whole thing if he wishes to, but that's not quite where I supposedly burnt bridges with him. He had something to say, but only if I was willing to hear him out, which I agreed to. He said something about verisimilitude, meaning the appearance of realism.
Ultimately, I asked him if I should keep him around or look for new beta readers (something which I'm gonna have to do anyway at some point), and then if he's still interested in reading and refining each chapter. To both questions, he responded with "You decide."
All of this was two mornings ago. From there, I PM'ed quite a handful of potential beta readers, but later realized that Jake might've been right about distance. From that, I figured that I might instead have 256 steps in the games equal the distance travelable in a single day (that being from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on average). That said, I figured that I might wait for him to come back onto MSN before I apologize to him, but the following made me decide just to email him the next morning instead (to which he still hasn't responded, and I still haven't been able to speak with him again).
So far, two people have replied to the notes I've sent, but only the first of those two have accepted. I told him that I would have to modify the chapter so that everything fits with time better. However, before I do that, I would like to speak to Jake to at least confirm whether he's still interested in the ficseries or not, and if he is, whether he's willing to accept a 256-step traveling day or would rather use some other measuring stick.
(On a side note, that person happens to be Kasune, author of Sonic: Dark Future, which he had since been unable to continue with. First mentioned here.)
Just recently, I had completed the initial draft of the very first chapter for Parasitic Trio. I had given it to Jake to refine, and he had gotten started, but then he questioned why it would take only a day and a half for Professor Oak to travel between Mr. Pokemon's house back to Pallet Town on foot. (I should mention that this ficseries will assume that Routes 26 and 22 are connected, and Route 27 would've had some land with which to cross from or into New Bark Town without HM Surf.)
Well, it's one thing that Professor Oak should use a Pokemon to fly directly back to Pallet, but the length of time it would take to travel either way is where the shit began. Jake even warned me to just drop the issue, but to be honest, the amount of distance coverable in any given length of time actually will be important to the ficseries. I have a need for a certain amount of order whenever I'm playing the games, and such will also be true as I write the ficseries. (For instance, it would determine things like who (between Jamie and May) will reach Eterna City first after both of them reach Sinnoh and disembark at their respective locations.)
So anyway, while Jake probably doesn't have any particular yardstick for measuring how long it would take to travel between any two points (at least none that I know of), I had decided before starting the ficseries that one step in the games would equal the distance that would be covered in a minute's worth of walking. I even measured the number of steps in interconnected straight lines from Mr. Pokemon's house all the way back to Pallet Town to determine things like how long it would take Ellen to come to Oak's lab from her house, what time she'd arrive at Viridian City the first time around, etc.
Jake had completely disagreed with that kind of logic, thinking that it should take weeks for someone to travel the entire distance that Oak would've originally covered by walking, and told me he was unwilling to accept my kind of logic for distance. I took this to mean that if I still insisted on it, he would refuse to continue reading any further chapters or even discuss the ficseries at all anymore. I told him not to bother revising the chapter any further, that he's free to ditch the whole thing if he wishes to, but that's not quite where I supposedly burnt bridges with him. He had something to say, but only if I was willing to hear him out, which I agreed to. He said something about verisimilitude, meaning the appearance of realism.
Ultimately, I asked him if I should keep him around or look for new beta readers (something which I'm gonna have to do anyway at some point), and then if he's still interested in reading and refining each chapter. To both questions, he responded with "You decide."
All of this was two mornings ago. From there, I PM'ed quite a handful of potential beta readers, but later realized that Jake might've been right about distance. From that, I figured that I might instead have 256 steps in the games equal the distance travelable in a single day (that being from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on average). That said, I figured that I might wait for him to come back onto MSN before I apologize to him, but the following made me decide just to email him the next morning instead (to which he still hasn't responded, and I still haven't been able to speak with him again).
So far, two people have replied to the notes I've sent, but only the first of those two have accepted. I told him that I would have to modify the chapter so that everything fits with time better. However, before I do that, I would like to speak to Jake to at least confirm whether he's still interested in the ficseries or not, and if he is, whether he's willing to accept a 256-step traveling day or would rather use some other measuring stick.
(On a side note, that person happens to be Kasune, author of Sonic: Dark Future, which he had since been unable to continue with. First mentioned here.)