Benkei

This has been clear for decades. You've just not been paying attention. And not just Gaza, the rest of Palestine as well.

It's still weird because given that, you'd expect a more even distribution between the stories.

I think the discrepancy between votes is big this time. Bigger than i recall at least. I think Yuletide Justice got 4 but the most comments (what give...

I read it and scored it but it wasn't for me. The lack of spacing didn't make reading it pleasant but also the conversations felt inconsistent. Jerry ...

The Allies' goal wasn't to displace an entire people and ethnically cleanse the area of Palestinians. So this is false. You have an idiotic idea of re...

I loved boobs first and then I got bored with it for about 15 years but it will always be my first love.

https://youtu.be/jH_XoDeje7c?si=GpM701WFzgAEz4Rm

are you currently under the influence or something? You're making less and less sense.

The rules are stipulated. Participating means you adhere to the rules. Making up other rules doesn't make sense. That's common sense. Your protests ar...

That doesn't make any sense whatsoever but whatever. Since you're just being OCD, why don't you write a summary of your findings here instead of bothe...

@"L'éléphant" Not sure why you're tallying already when it will be an average and also note there's an extension: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discu...

Lol. Your had already read it and voted a 5 for it, so it got worse on second reading.

Lord is banging away and then nuclear war breaks out. Everybody dies but Lord. The wanderer is born, gets eaten by mutated moths but returns because i...

"The system" is a whole bunch of people acting in various ways. Some activities are conducive to a healthy political discourse, others aren't. To pret...

The time line is Laird, Lord, The Wanderer and Thing. They are all the same character because the idiot Laird wished the wrong thing.

I only liked Haroon and the Sea of Stories.

Funny. I hated it too. Shortest book of literature I could put on my reading list for high school. I begged my teacher to let me put Ken Follet's The ...

Well, I can't say the UK and the Netherlands are improvements currently. Sunak and Wilders, what a joke.

I don't vote for my own story because that would be pointless as I wouldn't submit something that I don't think is a 5. The fact I don't consistently ...

Yes, even friends who claim they want to read my stories never get around reading them. And then here, there's usually plenty of feedback and generall...

I think we need an extension. I've seen stories with 12 votes, several with only 5 and one with only 3. It does seem as if the longer stories appear d...

Ever heard of the reasonable person test? Because what Trump claims he believes is irrelevant. It's what a reasonable person is allowed to believe. Ot...

The simplest fix is probably ignoring the lowest and the highest vote but with some stories only garnering 3 votes that would be even sillier.

Only Trump supporters pretend to not understand inferences. But they're good doggies all the same when the tail wags.

The story of Thing = Baden

I would care if you would give me a 1 vote actually. :lol: And there are soon other posters whose voting I'd take seriously: Baden, Vera Mont, Tobias,...

Yes, we don't care about the 1 but I disagree this isn't something we ought to discuss. I think it's common decency that if a person gives very low ma...

Even when I write a post on my phone my sentences are automatically properly capitalised. Doubly so when it's an email which has their own build in sp...

Fantastically written, great holy cow moment at the end. MeLikey! Poor Mr. Laird. The good news is he got the physics wrong and he will die before the...

That said, the story was special. I was appropriately disgusted at the end, which is plus 1 point. Pacing was great; like Nils Loc said it was easy re...

I zoned out at all the bullshit you come up with for describing a rather straightforward analogy. How do you do it? Studied literature I presume?

FYI, punctuation is using comma's, points, elipses, question marks etc. You mean a low mark or score. But yes, there are no 1's submitted by anyone, s...

I really liked it (second highest grade from what I've read so far). It would've gotten top marks if I understood what solar activity we're talking ab...

You could be right but I cannot make sense of this then: That suggests the guns were Nick's all along. Maybe he's in on it as well?

Indeed. There's barely any showing.

Seems like he's being punished by reliving the murder of his victim in a sim pod. The second poem seems to break the fourth wall though because he onl...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/israeli-public-figures-accuse-judiciary-of-ignoring-incitement-to-genocide-in-gaza It's been going on mu...

I never share the apparent clarity the protagonist feels as I'm not quite sure what happened. It's something I struggle with with writing myself: how ...

It's like a picture with words. Craftsmanship is undeniable but I would've liked more of a story.

A drone strike in Lebanon possibly pulling in Hezbollah into the conflict. Dumb decision.

It doesn't seem like Nick pulled the trigger though, with Larry's wrists and shoulder aching. I think Larry shot his own parents with Nick there. I'm ...

Gunman in Colorada supreme court. Funny how the people scared of leftists and the law feel like it's perfectly fine to shoot people. Also funny how th...

Okay, I'm anally retentive but I can't read this with the lack of capitalisation. I will force myself to read it at some point but... :rage:

I found the point underwhelming because there's no real death as we understand it. I was like "so what?". If it talks like a duck and sounds like one,...

Whoever voted a 1 is an ass and should back up such a low vote with a decent review. It's well written but doesn't reach the level of some of the othe...

Rip out the grass! = javi Fugue = Noble Dust

Is it really that mysterious? It seems to me to be an analogy for working through trauma by confronting it head on.

Seems expensive with phones.

:lol:

The writing style is terse but it works for me as I generally don't like getting bogged down in confusing descriptions. The slight idiosyncrasies in E...