Site updates

[BenoitRen]

augmentedfourth's "The Forgotten Song" and Black Sword's "The Doll's Hatred" were added to the Fan Fiction section. I've also added an episode of WING-0's "Phantasy Star: OFF-line" story.

Finally, the Timeline page in the Other section has been revamped.

[carlsojos]

I promise I won't make you do a last minute update this time- I haven't gotten the stories-to-release in code yet, and one of them still needs a title. Next week!

[LegoMuskCat]

Finally, the Timeline page in the Other section has been revamped.

Since we have Toyo Ozaki's PSIII character book for reference also, won't the birth dates of the rest of the PSIII cast be included? Or no, because it's not "official"?

[BenoitRen]

I didn't know the PSIII character book had birth dates for everyone. I consider it a valid reference, as the timeline shows already.

[LegoMuskCat]

Cool, cool. I know that it lists birth dates for all the characters, s'why I was asking. o:

[Tanith]

I hate to nitpick here, but I noticed in the one work of fiction I have posted here, quotation marks were added to internalized speech. I use italics for character's unspoken thoughts, but even italics are not necessary. If it's not too much trouble, I'd like for the quotation marks to be taken out (it's easy to find them, but if you'd like, I can post the specific pieces of internal thoughts I'm referring to), because it now appears the characters are speaking aloud when they're not.

Also--and I'm not accusing anyone here and I'm not saying this out of anger--I would have really appreciated a note letting me know my work was edited before it was posted here, and to be shown copies of my edited work so that I can approve the changes. I'm going to have to read through the entire story now and see if anything else was edited without my permission. It's not that I don't appreciate proofreading; I do. I encourage it and I commend this site for reading through these works of fiction before posting them. However, it's not proper to edit my work and post it without bringing proofreading issues to my attention first.

In the future, if I do decide to post more of my fictions here, I would like to see the final version of my submissions before they are posted. Thanks. :)

[carlsojos]

I hate to nitpick here, but I noticed in the one work of fiction I have posted here, quotation marks were added to internalized speech. ...

...I would have really appreciated a note letting me know my work was edited before it was posted here, and to be shown copies of my edited work so that I can approve the changes.

I noticed from observation that generally, the story is first posted briefly exactly as written (assuming the tags didn't contain overt errors or were omitted), then later (usually between 1 day and 3 weeks), HTML-level changes are typically performed silently (an example being the <code> tag being replaced with <dl class="console"> in Hacking), and grammar/spelling level errors usually result in a PM from Benoit as the change occurs (my inbox is full of these examples)- this is the point where I accept or contest the change(s). Indeed, I've glanced through some of my older works and found such issues with thoughts becoming spoken, and one or two intentional errors getting corrected. I've pointed out most of these right when they happen via PM, but yeah, I'm gonna have to get around to scanning my works again when I have a free moment as well (I luckily still have copies of my pre-release code to compare against the online source, so it won't be hard for me). I do agree, a more permission-based proofreading process would be nice, although I'm quite happy that there is someone out there to catch the errors I miss- I think Benoit found in the ballpark of around 100 mistakes with Dark Energy when he read it, without once complaining of my downright shoddy writing skills.

I can't really argue against the author's right to be privy to changes before they're implemented, no matter how I look at it, to be honest.

[BenoitRen]

Sorry about that, Tanith. As carlsojos points out, I usually PM issues I have found, but I guess I didn't do that with the first few I posted.

The quotes come from the usage of the HTML q element (though they can be customised or even removed with CSS), as the character is being quoted. I thought the quotes themselves would be natural, but I guess I was wrong. Fixed!

[carlsojos]

Yeah, the significance of quotations will vary from author to author. Tilinelson2 utilizes quoted italics to mark internalized thoughts, I insist on using legacy italics tags to mark internalized thoughts (I don't want browsers to control formatting, and I hate the multiplying quote bug I sometimes cause), some of the others use the "thoughts" class, some choose not to offset thoughts in any way (prevalent in first person), etc. Everyone does things a little different, and it's simply first nature. That's why I try to reinspect stories after they go online here- I don't fully understand where my coding should improve, or where I want something else.

[BenoitRen]

I've added augmentedfourth's "Scratching the Itch", Black Sword's "Entwined Vigil", and carlsojos' "Prospective Student" to the Fan Fiction section.

I've also finally added character pages to the PSIII section, as suggested by Dreamer some time ago.

[BenoitRen]

• One story by augmentedfourth, The Awkward Dance, has been added to the Fan Fiction section.
• One chapter of augmentedfourth's Tales from PS 3 story and two chapters of Black Sword's Entwined Vigil story have been added.

[BenoitRen]

Added augmentedfourth's "After 'Happily Ever After'" and the last chapter of Black Sword's "Entwined Vigil".

[BenoitRen]

• The Phantasy Star TurboGrafx ROM has been updated.
• The following stories have been added to the Fan Fiction section:
  
  • Wingspan by augmentedfourth
  • The Tormented Doll by Black Sword
  • Heart of a Ghost by Black Sword
  • Quietus by Black Sword
  • Paper Log by carlsojos
• Chapter 2 of carlsojos' Song and Dance story has been added.
• Episode 5 of WING-0's Phantasy Star: OFF-line story has been added.

[carlsojos]

I could've sworn there was one more story I had sent....

Yeah, what's the word on that Rika one that I sent with those two?

[Missagh]

Great update. Benoit, is the PS TG update recent? Do you have the URL to the developers website? I remember visiting it a while ago but can't find it anymore....