Angrish is overrated.

[shamanicshaymin]

Dear MSTers/Sporkers/Riffers/etc,

I read MSTs to laugh at badfic. If I wanted a detailed analysis of every spelling and grammar error in terrible fiction, I'd run a spellcheck. Unless it's a sentence like "Out pooped Sailor Mercury" or "Harry Potter masturbated his salad", I don't think we need commentary about how the author's spelling and grammar sucks. We can clearly see for ourselves, thanks.

The same goes for if you're doing a sporking in the style of Das Mervin's Twilight reviews, where you're being educational rather than funny. It'd be wise not to miss the forest for the trees; I think I'd be more angry about the brutal villianization of Princess Cadance to make the Mary-Sue look good instead of an instance that the author used "your" instead of "you're."

Sincerely,
Puri

I'm not as big a fan of the Nostalgia Critic as I used to be, but "The King & I" episode was pretty good. The Russell Crowe gag was overlong and felt out of place, but at least it wasn't as bad as the "Pearl Harbor" review where the whole Michael Bay sketch took up more of the episode than the riffing of the actual movie itself. I prefer my reviews straight to the point without obnoxious story arcs. :P

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[guardians_song]

THANK YOU.

I've wanted to complain about some uber-nitpicky MSTs for quite some time, but never had the guts. ...The constant rage in some of the das_sporking MSTs is making me uncomfortable. There's being angry at the badfic, and then there's just acting nuts. I mean, no matter how bad a fic is, referring to an author as "F.U.C.K.E.R." continually is worse than even the authors of Celebrian, Rose Potter, and Hogwarts Exposed were ever treated on Deleterius or the HMS STFU. It's creeping me out. (/mini-rant)

P.S.
"Harry Potter masturbated his salad"
...Was that in My Immortal? Or was that in a real fic? O_o

[shamanicshaymin]

I was prompted by the recent sporking of a ponyfic over at Das Sporking where it starred an Anti-Sue that was made fun of all her life for having a boring color scheme. It had so much potential for a riff, especially when you think about all the first-world-problems the Anti-Sue has. ("I'm a red pony with a black mane, which means I'm colorful compared to gray or brown ponies, but I'm still an outcast and so dull-looking, waaaaaaaaaaaaaah!") But nope. The sporker rarely focuses on that, and instead bitches about the awful spelling and grammar. I can understand being angry in a sporking, but an Anti-Sue being moronic because her friends don't like her for being the "real me" (despite the fact that said friends only know her through her disguise, so of course they don't know the "real" her) hardly justifies the capslock frothing vein-popping rage as much as say, Christian Grey victim-blaming Ana after he beat her for rolling her eyes at him, then justifying it with his Tragic Past and excuses like "I'm a man, I can't help it!"

All I remember is someone making a masticate vs. masturbate rant on an ancient post at fanficrants. ("Masticate is what Harry does to his salad. Masturbate is what Harry does to Draco. Be careful not to mix that up.") Lots of funny jokes were made in the comments. XD ("Salad: "OH YES!" Draco: OH NO! DDD:")

[redwoodalchan]

What I try to do if I'm riffing on a story with bad spelling and grammar is to read it like the author meant the mistake to be there for comedic effect. For example, I might deal with a sentence missing a comma thusly:

Badfic: "What have you got against her Natsuno?"

Me: "Whose Natsuno?"

[swordianmaster]

it wasn't as bad as the "Pearl Harbor" review where the whole Michael Bay sketch took up more of the episode than the riffing of the actual movie itself. I prefer my reviews straight to the point without obnoxious story arcs. :P

That was kind of the point of the skits, though - it was basically a shameless, violent parody of what Pearl Harbor actually WAS. Just a bunch of useless filler that totally detracts from anything of meaning or worth but takes up most of the screentime.

Yeah, it's not for everyone, but you can't claim it didn't prove his point in a strange sort of way. Ironically, the part that I liked least about it was the point where he pretty clearly breaks character and is not the Nostalgia Critic, is not acting any given role, but is instead just Doug and is very, very upset about what this movie portrays. You can kind of tell because he looks about two seconds away from bursting a blood vessel. You can't really FAKE that.

That kind of hurt a bit.

[shamanicshaymin]

That was kind of the point of the skits, though - it was basically a shameless, violent parody of what Pearl Harbor actually WAS. Just a bunch of useless filler that totally detracts from anything of meaning or worth but takes up most of the screentime.

I didn't know that! That makes a lot more sense. I don't mind skits if they relate to the review and/or contribute to the humor (NC going forward in time to watch "The Room" and TGWTG members begging him not to), I just have a harder time following TGWTG-exclusive subplots, I guess. I had the feeling that if I had actually seen Pearl Harbor, I would've been bored to death due to all the filler. XD

late comment is late but

[sarajayechan]

THIS. The only time constant spelling and grammar comments in a spork work in my book is if someone's using a character who's canonically a grammar nazi. And if it's played for a joke and the character gets nudged and poked to stop doing it. Or if it's a hilarious running error like "knealt" in Cori's fics. Otherwise...how can a person focus entirely on mechanics if the fic has disturbing or narmy subject matter like two bumbling baddies being mentally triggered by HAIRCUTS? XD