tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post2574481135702985759..comments2024-03-16T22:55:45.557-04:00Comments on Anarchy Is Hyperbole: Significant Digits, Analysis and ThanksADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211720060888169877noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-29445347387593238312021-11-15T13:11:08.296-05:002021-11-15T13:11:08.296-05:00PS: sorry for the grammatical errors, didn't p...PS: sorry for the grammatical errors, didn't proofread :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11387562006823318302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-62264236094967813672021-11-15T12:28:17.841-05:002021-11-15T12:28:17.841-05:00Wow... just wow... it was amazing. Thank you for t...Wow... just wow... it was amazing. Thank you for this wonderful story. I can't imagine how much hard work went into it.<br />I felt the same way after reading HPMoR, or maybe I feel even better now. This is indeed your world now, you have developed it and its characters in a masterful and unique way. Reading and savoring the intricacies of the plot, the gentle flow of the development of the story, complex and realistic logic of... everything, Signifiacnt Digits has been a true intellectual delicacy. This a very rare gem and am I glad to have found that. <br /><br />Thank you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11387562006823318302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-41167639673684753902021-11-10T20:32:13.326-05:002021-11-10T20:32:13.326-05:00Thanks for keeping me up at night ;)Thanks for keeping me up at night ;)Yodohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824068437844409071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-70389599615594756962021-11-10T20:31:01.630-05:002021-11-10T20:31:01.630-05:00I didn't mind the untranslated language parts ...I didn't mind the untranslated language parts when short, since I have been, and still am, often surrounded by people speaking a language I don't understand, context still reveals a lot. <br />But I was sad to see that some of the longer parts were wholly written in English after about the first third/half. <br />What initially annoyed me was the amount of new terms, and I searched then up immediately leading to some serious spoilers; in the non-spoiler cases, the terms were explained shortly. <br />About everyone being interested in linguistics, I think that wasd just Hermione and Reg Hig, and knowing multiple languages is important as a diplomat. Yodohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824068437844409071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-21859290313544249242021-11-10T20:20:03.013-05:002021-11-10T20:20:03.013-05:00By chance, do you speak Dutch?By chance, do you speak Dutch?Yodohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824068437844409071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-51546765659759578332021-10-02T18:32:53.402-04:002021-10-02T18:32:53.402-04:00This was my second time reading through, so I knew...This was my second time reading through, so I knew going in that it would start fairly slow and then get better and better. Such a different feel from hpmor, a more mature style, which I think works really well to keep you reminded that this is 7 years later. <br /><br />Loved the ending of Harry, talking about the Fermi paradox and great filter, as he gets on a spaceship headed for a black hole...<br /><br />I had no idea what I wanted for an ending to this story, but that was just perfection.<br /><br />The one (small!) problem I had with the final battle is that every defender realistically should have had a mokeskin pouch with an AK and a few thousand rounds of ammo in it, courtesy of the Weasley and Neville adventures, and I'm sure Harry would have created and then made permanent a high powered ir laser on every corner of the castle, which would be able to cut down everyone. Even regular grenades instead of having to transfigure the blast bombs when they started using them.<br /><br />Not saying the fight should have gone differently, it just would make more sense if they had all those ready, and then Merlin or Nell cast something that made them all malfunction, and that's why the battle was so hard and bloody.<br /><br />Not really criticizing, I was just expecting a technological weapon to turn the tides at some point. Though I guess, launching the mirror into orbit is really technical, so just not the way I was expecting I guess! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283160825271776297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-34797100061466653742021-03-24T08:50:15.674-04:002021-03-24T08:50:15.674-04:00I just reread this story, and it was amazing like ...I just reread this story, and it was amazing like before. I remembered some plot twists, but I forgot a lot, and it was nice to be surprised all over again. I do still have some questions, like why Harry decided to revive Lucious at the end and not any previous time, but maybe I'll see some of that in HPMOR reddit discussions.Irinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04193401434307836283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-65039762789087481002021-01-09T11:45:37.817-05:002021-01-09T11:45:37.817-05:00"Chapter Fourteen, Azkaban, is everything for... "Chapter Fourteen, Azkaban, is everything for which I have aimed, and will continue to aim in my fiction."<br /><br />Chapter 14 was beautiful. I loved it. Loved it.<br /><br />For years, I've been collecting sayings and mottos that *move* me in a word file. Where I smile gently, and my eyes are wet. It's my literary bible of sorts, of moments embedded in narratives to serve as touchstones.<br /><br />HPMOR - Chapter 45<br />o And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!<br /><br />HPMOR - Chapter 122<br />And there are also people who don't even try to do what they can, and yes, those people are doing something wrong.<br /><br />Chapter 14<br />o Minutes were passing. Minute after minute. One more minute, every minute, that she wasn’t fixing this.<br />o Once you just committed, you didn’t have to worry.<br />o She would go and try and be damned.<br />o Granville… his name is Granville<br />o She would never wait again. Never allow suffering when she could stop it. <br />o Not one more minute!<br />o You are Death and you can fly, but we are Life and we can teleport!<br />o Because even if it seems impossible now ... I can do anything if I study hard enough!<br />o We can save everyone.<br />o She brought her own special gift. She brought hope.<br /><br />The vision of Chapter 45 is moving to me. Of a future for humanity that is better. Of working toward that vision. HPMOR is See Life, and Know that it is Good, and Make it Better. <br /><br />But Chapter 14 just brings a better Yes to Life. It's Yes to Life 2.0. You can't say Yes to Life and *live* it while you're still saying No to Yourself. No to your imperfections. To your ignorance. A No built from uncertainty, doubt, guilt, and shame. A No that looks at any imperfection or possibility of failure with contempt.<br /><br />Hermione is Harry 2.0. In extremis, Harry busts out his inner titanium perfection, finds the *solution*, and acts on it. <br /><br />Hermione uses a word Harry doesn't use enough of. We. We are Life and we can teleport. We can save everyone. <br /><br />Hermione is like *us*. Like *us*, she doesn't have inner titanium perfection to draw on. She has her own, special gift. She has hope.<br /><br />Buybuydandavishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16919837695460772781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-6895413866831155562020-05-23T23:15:35.701-04:002020-05-23T23:15:35.701-04:00I've seen some complaints about the fast seemi...I've seen some complaints about the fast seeming ending. So I just want to say--it seemed perfectly reasonable to me that Merlin walked away and left Harry in library after Harry's speech. Voldermort-as-box gives us a great explanation for this many chapters before when he is talking to Meldh/Lord Foul. He says something about how no one who had lived that long/wanted to live that long would take many risks. The sense I get from Merlin is that he values his own existence more than he values his stated goal of saving the world. Taking on Harry once he knew Harry was not Meldh would have been a huge risk that he had not calculated for. jordanstarouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12515132077255696533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-12244766070259256162019-11-29T11:08:14.588-05:002019-11-29T11:08:14.588-05:00I feel like I've commented here in my first re...I feel like I've commented here in my first readthrough... but lately did a second re-read of HPMOR and this, and it's still amazing. <br /><br />Though, I still have qualms with the way that everyone in this world seems to know 13 different langauges, and that 1% of readers will actually be able to understand everything that's written (if you want to include non-english phrases, at least translate them in subtext somewhere). It also kinda felt like every character was basically the author; they all were obsessed with linguistics, knew dozens of languages and phrases from cultures around the world, and even the American Magical Embassy was named in some foreign language that I, as an American, don't even recognize. <br /><br />Despite this weirdness, though, the story was great, generally made sense and had few plot holes, and it was all well-written and decently well paced. <br /><br />I also really like the end idea of putting the mirror in orbit, reflecting the entire Earth. Seems like it'd be trivial for Harry (or even anyone who knew the command word) to make the mirror a portal to an alternate universe where there is no longer any Death; at the very least, it'd be an alternate world (and maybe a few stars in one direction, whatever's reflected in the mirror)<br />Of course, this solution sort of destroys the storyline since this is something Harry could've done immediately after launching his first rocket. So I suppose there would be some good reasons this wouldn't workD.Mentiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15952127385628898488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-56683414956023620952019-04-30T22:05:54.488-04:002019-04-30T22:05:54.488-04:00Thank you, loved it start to finish. Surprised tha...Thank you, loved it start to finish. Surprised that Voldie didn't persuade Harry to let him out, as E.Y. alleges to have persuaded people to do when simulating an "AI in a box" at Less Wrong. Riveting portrayal of Bellatrix Black. Happy about the Goblin turnaround.Illithidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14683471574928120081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-86306222940005841612018-11-10T04:52:38.049-05:002018-11-10T04:52:38.049-05:00I came late to this continuation, but am unspeakab...I came late to this continuation, but am unspeakably grateful to find that it not only exists, but does HPMOR justice. You've taken characters that touched my heart and carried them another step further on their journey through eternity. Thank you. Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17795478584800180059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-88957001684562589742018-09-16T15:35:52.031-04:002018-09-16T15:35:52.031-04:00Just finished rereading Significant Digits. It was...Just finished rereading Significant Digits. It was even better than that first time a few years ago.<br /><br />I wonder what became of your next writing project...SonOfLilithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10962968891209256143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-80445556319750515092018-07-27T19:41:56.300-04:002018-07-27T19:41:56.300-04:00I am not a wordsmith but I cannot in good conscien...I am not a wordsmith but I cannot in good conscience finish this story without saying thank you. I came in skeptical a fan fiction of a fan fiction could be provide a satisfactory continuation and resolution of another story I read that I didn't believe could be better than the original. My life is a little better for having read your story. I am excited to see you have another something written for me to read once I've had time for SD to digest.Khanstanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11323492783557842549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-45762327875776219302018-03-05T08:52:46.760-05:002018-03-05T08:52:46.760-05:00I'm a Harry Potter fan, but on an intellectual...I'm a Harry Potter fan, but on an intellectual level find it frustrating (mainly because I'm an adult with an unreasonable expectations around logic and things making sense).<br /><br />I had never read or even entertained reading fan fiction, but somehow in my mind HPMOR wasn't really the same. I can't even remember how I came across it or what made me start reading it, but once I started I could not stop. It extended and explained the Potterverse in a way that very much satisfied my need for logic and rationality in a fictional world that is neither logic not rational - and gelled the two together in such a clever and fulfilling way.<br /><br />Then when I found out about Significant Digits, a fan fiction of fan fiction, I once again doubted that I could read something that *surely* couldn't capture the intent of HPMOR and expand it further. I was very wrong, and have just finished Significant Digits, which becomes one of the two best books I have read in several years - both of which were downloaded somewhat accidentally off the internet.<br /><br />Well done on your amazing effort, and I look forward your next endeavor.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09914216446121202651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-62548309350979593592017-08-29T21:45:18.106-04:002017-08-29T21:45:18.106-04:00This is majestic story, it's as good as HPMOR,...This is majestic story, it's as good as HPMOR, even better in its own way.<br />Soon after reading it, I thought that with this I associate one song (Starset - CARNIVORE), especially the part where Harry was under the control of Meldn<br />Thank you for your excellent work :3<br />(Sorry if there are mistakes, I'm bad at writing in English)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14273237784546008642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-63061564477932689752017-07-10T16:01:49.028-04:002017-07-10T16:01:49.028-04:00I have far too many thoughts and emotions to recou...I have far too many thoughts and emotions to recount here, but suffice it to say that I will carry this story with me, perhaps for the rest of my life. You tore me to shreds, before systematically healing the most painful wounds in the epilogue. Harry speaks of kintsugi as a metaphor for the world -- I find it representative of the epic story you have created as well.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12452407700691026174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-6055850291552776082017-05-22T21:43:16.297-04:002017-05-22T21:43:16.297-04:00Hey man, realy nice story!
"Last battle"...Hey man, realy nice story!<br />"Last battle" was a little bit odd <br />howewer<br />It is rather not "fanfiction" on original HP or even HPMOR, you have different styleand different magical laws from those both, but a solid book what is also with HPMOR lot better then most of "originals" today, including a LOt of better than Rowling.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16482857039779031470noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-46443849234880848672017-05-12T00:14:23.135-04:002017-05-12T00:14:23.135-04:00for my part, I am glad that rational beings can ha...for my part, I am glad that rational beings can have enough love for the absurd that the Weasley Twins spend most of the story flying around with semi-automatic weapons as if that's a perfectly normal thing or something. :) (in what possible Rational!world does Harry or the Weasleys let each other out of each other's sight?!)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05495683505881561068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-45232009009864002482017-04-08T02:32:03.531-04:002017-04-08T02:32:03.531-04:00This story was awesome and awe inspiring! The last...This story was awesome and awe inspiring! The last few chapters were especially brilliant! I started reading this story when it was first being posted, but lost track of the updates half way through. I just came back and read from the beginning, binging it whenever I had a spare hour. The plots and foreshadowing are master work, especially the riddles whose answers come from HPMOR or the original Harry Potter books.<br /><br />Thank you so much for the exhilarating read!CopperZirconiumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09703895954247870369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-38060754553004168702017-03-29T21:30:22.918-04:002017-03-29T21:30:22.918-04:00This was an excellent story from start to finish. ...This was an excellent story from start to finish. Thank you for sharing it with us.Brickmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05205279994171209511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-92215783662873113612016-09-29T03:30:07.044-04:002016-09-29T03:30:07.044-04:00AMAZING fanfanfiction.
Gamp's law was inconsi...AMAZING fanfanfiction.<br /><br />Gamp's law was inconsistent with original HPMOR as in the original the fact that transfiguration is temporary is Elizier's explanation of how Gamp's law works. you however used Gamps law as an example of the ridiculousness of magic.<br /><br />anyway, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WRITING THIS AMAZING PIECE OF BEAUTY!!!<br />5 stars.Randohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03871523545825478198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-53208063988336896952016-09-07T01:43:33.612-04:002016-09-07T01:43:33.612-04:00I would agree, ch14 was definitely a great chapter...I would agree, ch14 was definitely a great chapter. I actually shed tears when Hermione finally cast her Patronus. Well done indeed. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08713258412521902262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-71982361377098520472016-08-07T02:18:05.414-04:002016-08-07T02:18:05.414-04:00Thanks so much for writing this - it has been a pe...Thanks so much for writing this - it has been a perfect continuation of the HP:MOR story. Exciting and heartbreaking and thrilling and inspiring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8047698153058029905.post-73888408653916367172016-07-10T22:28:31.948-04:002016-07-10T22:28:31.948-04:00Let me just say one word.
Wow.
Never mind, actua...Let me just say one word.<br /><br />Wow.<br /><br />Never mind, actually. One word can't encompass the feeling I had when I finished this book. I'd like to say several words, if you'll bear with me.<br /><br />Neville's retribution.<br /><br />Astounding intelligence from the author who did the thinking of seven super-intelligences.<br /><br />Bonus chapters.<br /><br />Keeping the readers satisfied.<br /><br />And much much more. So I add to this book the only things I feel worthy to add to it. I add my thoughts, like so, and I tell others about it.<br /><br />Well done.Nate [error]https://www.blogger.com/profile/04631606308240961180noreply@blogger.com