Iwanako: Mean Time to Breakdown {updated 2015-4-1}

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Leaty wrote:
AntonSlavik020 wrote:It looks pretty cool, but it might be distracting. Thinking about it, I would probably prefer it without the flashing thumps.
Yeah, I wanted it to replicate the heartbeat effect from the VN, obviously, but it seems like that's pretty much impossible to do in text. At least, the way it is now, with three different thump speeds, doesn't work at all.

I deserve ridicule for trying to gild the lily like this. I edited it all to the slow thumps because I couldn't stand looking at it anymore.
Yeah, I have to agree here. I have a severe nystagmus in addition to being legally blind, and if there's any moving images on a page that I'm trying to read my eye gets drawn to it repeatedly. Not just distracting but causing me wicked headaches.
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Leaty wrote:I deserve ridicule for trying to gild the lily like this. I edited it all to the slow thumps because I couldn't stand looking at it anymore.
I think it's cool you tried something new. The forum medium offers some interesting possibilities, but it's hard to know how it'll look until you try. Plus, there's stuff like screen width and mobile users to think about.

I was curious, so I tried as well.

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Oh, you changed your avatar. As someone who recognizes people on the forum based on their picture, I didn't recognize you initially. It may no longer be Maddie, but its still really cool. Who is it?
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Leaty wrote:Plus it would drive Dewelar crazy, and I would be the biggest bitch on the planet if I wrote a story about overcoming disability that was unreadable by the disabled.
*laughs* I do appreciate that. Just to clarify my limitations, it wouldn't be so bad if it was just one occurrence, because I could easily scroll it off the page quickly. That particular batch was just too highly clustered. Also, avatars don't bother me, because I can set the window size so that they're off the right edge of my screen. Otherwise, I probably would have come to Mahorfeus' house with an ax by now :D.

ETA: Oh, he doesn't have that dancing girl with all the flashing green and black circles anymore. Those of you who've been here a while know the one I mean.
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Leaty wrote:
AntonSlavik020 wrote:Oh, you changed your avatar. As someone who recognizes people on the forum based on their picture, I didn't recognize you initially. It may no longer be Maddie, but its still really cool. Who is it?
Wait, you recognized her? I thought I was the only person on these forums that read The Royal Trap. It's one of my favorite visual novels ever.
Its a visual novel by Hanako Games, of course I recognized her. I play every VN by her and Winter Wolves.
Leaty wrote: Anyway, as I said above, my avatar is Spider-Gwen ("Spider-Woman" in canon), a Marvel Comics superheroine. She's the Gwen Stacy from a universe where she was bitten by the radioactive spider instead of Peter Parker (who then became the Lizard out of envy for her and wound up getting killed.) So she's basically the Spider-Man equivalent of Iwanako in this fic.

Also, her title is amazing and I'm in love with her.
That sounds really cool. I love AUs like that.
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The flashing images were a nice idea, but it really doesn't work on the forums.
Apart from maybe necessitating an epillepsy warning the main difference between this and a VN is that there visual effects appear exactly timed with the event. Here they appear as soon as you scroll down so you see them two or three paragraphs before ou even get there, in effect creating an inadvertent spoiler :-)
In this case it would also ruin the effect of surprise Iwanoako feels when she notices Hanako, because the reader is no longer limited only to her point of view.
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Leaty wrote:Maybe the time I wasted on that will elucidate for somebody what Iwanako's supposed to look like.
See, after reading the last few bits of thread... I now think that Iwanako looks like Spider-Gwen but with black hair. :D
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I admit, I'm also thrown off by the change in avatar, mostly because my mental image of you was essentially Madeline. (No, I haven't read it, but I do know my visual novels...)

Also, I am my avatar. Physically and mentally.
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I may have already commented something like this in one of the several month intervals between parts but I just want to say that I really like this and I'm happy to see it's still going strong.
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