The Tragedy of unfinished Stories

[@dankuser8303]

This a big problem with fanfiction, I’ve seen many good fics with strong potential that just get abandoned, and it’s a major reason why i write a lot of mine out before releasing them.

[@AngbangCorp]

This. It's my personal rule to never upload before a story is finished. Only exception is if it's a collection of oneshots/drabbles or if chapters could work as standalones

[@vasilduka1017]

they should just be writing regular old fiction in the first place

[@justcallmelucky]

@@vasilduka1017 what’s wrong with fanfiction

[@vasilduka1017]

@@justcallmelucky I don't consider it legitimate literature Are there well-written fanfics? Probably, yes, sure, and I think they can be a decent exercise in writing and creativity. Should fanfic writers be putting that energy into writing their own fiction? 100,00% yes

[@justcallmelucky]

@@vasilduka1017 how does that make fanfiction less than?

[@lamronjr8785]

Sheesh what jerks dying before they can finish the series. Should be like everyone else and just never finish it while still alive

[@MB-lz5eb]

Partly why I plan to write out my series (in broad strokes) before publishing any of it

[@bluebee1277]

There is a certain tragedy of unfinished stories for creators as well, not just readers. I have some unfinished fics, as well as two full manuscripts that will probably never see the light of day because they’re too rough to be salvaged. To me, though, they’re more growing pains before I got serious and buckled down to actually finish a third manuscript and edit it. To me, it’s not a moral failing, just… growing pains, even if it hurts. Fanfiction is just a more instant way of putting your stuff out there before you realize you should write the whole thing first before you release it.

[@nightwolfMKT]

The Manga industry provides an interesting insight into sudden endings, with the way their serialisations work. Cancellations with a short notice are fairly common, especially in the largest publication (weekly shounen jump) where series can get cancelled so early that they haven't had time to really start their main story yet. Some authors rush a makeshift ending in the last couple chapters, some see the signs early enough to switch gears and turn it into a complete-feeling short series, some shove in all their ideas at the end as a teaser for could've been, while some just keep going as normal until they have to stop and leave the story without an ending. There's a lot of variety in how each creator chooses to handle the news that they've only got a few chapters left to go.

[@marocat4749]

That sad too, like some manga really are great but either end rushed, which ends in at best ok endings like magi , dunno on piec might get there too. An definitly meses up the pacing at least. And its alredy hard to end well.

[@DMurphysLore]

Yeah, I remember reading a sports manga and the characters got to Their Very First Tournament and there were Rivals set up and Great Personal Stakes resting on future matches, What Will Happen Find Out Next Week In -- and then it got a one chapter flashforward and ended.

[@randombrokeperson]

This is giving me Honey Hunt flashbacks. I started reading it in middle school from the public library, my grandma bought me some of the other books… and then I found out it just ended. A part of me is still devastated - the story was just getting started but I could tell it was onto something good with some tweaks. Ugh. 8/4/22 🌙 918

[@uffy]

I'm still hurt by the Hunter's Guild: Red Hood cancelation, others like Ayashimon hurt to see go but man Red Hood had so much potential.

[@larsnyman2455]

@@uffy god, Phantom Seer’s cancellation really hurt

[@AK-tr6lo]

“…did you know that Daenerys has been stuck in Meereen since Bill Clinton was president?” Why did you have to hurt me like that James? Why? A bit more on the subject of your video, I actually did stick with the TV show because I wanted an ending from that story.

[@rociomiranda5684]

Yeah. At least the story in the show is finished. Good, bad or meh, but finished.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

Firefly and Sense8 were both cancelled before they concluded, but the creators pushed and managed to create movies that wrap up the show. Sure, it's not optimal, but they concluded the story. It also showed just how dedicated both the creators and fans were. It's really cool

[@douglasdea637]

I love Sense8. Wish it had a 3rd season but I'll take the movie we got as compensation.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

This might be the biggest fear I have is dying before I finish my book

[@BlueBeetle1939]

Also heights

[@OB-806]

I have to disagree with the idea that "good idea bad execution" is a useless description. If you gave a 12 year old the worldbuilding notes and core plot points of Mistborn, you'd get a poor quality book with a brilliant plot idea and world. A great set of ideas, executed poorly. Equally, if you let a 4 year old come up with a plot synopsis and had Brandon Sanderson write it, the execution would elevate the idea.

[@HotDogTimeMachine385]

Yeah, It's not all up to the execution, there's DEFINITELY good and bad ideas. Some...really bad ideas...

[@vasilduka1017]

I mean, "brilliant plot idea and world" is a little overstated but I get you

[@themythosarchives7520]

Jim Butcher actually took on the challenge to prove the legitimacy of a good execution with bad ideas. He told his friend to give him ideas that are either bad or incompatible and he would challenge himself to make a story out of it. He got Lost Roman Legion meets Pokémon and the result was Codex Alera.

[@joshuatardiff1531]

It baffles me how ideas end up being so overvalued compared to their actualization. A good idea is worthless until it's executed. A poorly-executed idea can become the inspiration for better work, so in a sense the original idea becomes valuable, but it still has to be put into the world and be consumed by others. The product of the idea is what actually matters.

[@marocat4749]

No i think it has value, even if the value is to find someone to find someone to write it better, that is value. It still can giove people doing omething btter with that idea. And there are cases where it gets so creative weird and a trainwreck with ideas that are enjoyable enough enjoying that trainwreck.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Stories need to have a general idea of where they're going, and not take detours for the sake of extending how many books/seasons they get to put out. Even if we don't fight the evil emperor this season, we'd better have made progress that feels meaningful.

[@noelcrist7109]

You’re absolutely right about fan fic’s. Started one a few years ago while in HS. Got 30,000 words into it and went on hiatus. I always viewed it as a project to improve my writing and not something I needed to finish. Especially when I can use all that time writing for playing games or chatting with friends.

[@celebalert5616]

😭😭😭 the cover quote is from George RR Martin 😭😭😭

[@fairycat23]

I am now thinking about my semi-abandoned Doctor Who fic where the Bachelor/ette is also a Time Lord. No, I'm not working on it, just thinking about it.

[@calliope3237]

Abandoned fanfiction is the absolute worst 😭 And most of the time you never even have any idea why the person stopped. It's why I avoid WIPs.

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

Genuinely surprised you didn’t bring up Game of Thrones until the very end. As limp as the show’s ending was it’ll always be better then the books stopping in the middle.

[@Kamarovsky_KCM]

"The good news is that the Polish are opressed in this world" As a Pole, I agree

[@lordmarshmal_0643]

D&D campaigns and their "primary cast" are another good example of this if the DM and/or players get burned out or some other complication arises

[@an8strengthkobold360]

Mood.

[@nadie516]

This topic makes me think about kafka never ending his novels. One left it in the last chapter but didn't finished it; another wrote the final chapter, but no connections with the other ones; and another he just stopped writing and told his friend a very vague idea of the ending. In his defense, those were published after his dead; the real tragedy is that he gave up on all of them

[@thezipcreator]

honestly, kind of fits the theme a bit

[@lilyjacks6995]

The fanfiction discussion makes me think of the LotR fanfic "Sansukh" (I never read it myself, but my sister said it's really damn good), which got so massively popular that there is even fanfiction for that fanfiction, and for years it went unupdated with only two (i think?) chapters left to upload. In a positive spin, this one actually was finished! Both remaining chapters were uploaded not too long ago, and subsequent hard-copies of the complete work were printed and sold independently. Stuff like that gives me hope for other unfinished works (especially with fanfiction) and its probably part of why I have so many long-since-abandoned works still in my subscriptions lol

[@nobledamask]

**glances at that Transformers fanfic I started writing and then quit after 20 short chapters nine years and three internet handles ago guiltily**

[@dreamof_me]

There are some fanfics that when I think about them I get so sad they’re sitting there unfinished

[@oddjam]

The OA got cancelled by Netflix after 2 seasons, and that's the most tragic example of this to me.

[@raccoonja-ronja]

I just finished the Star Wars: Republic Commando book series. It's an unfinished bookeseries based on an unfinished game series. Five of six planed books were written and major plot points never concluded. This sort of thing always makes me sad, that's why I normaly prefer watching and reading series that either have been concluded, have a certain ending planed or are written in a way where each season/book has it's own wraped up story.

[@UsmevavyPanacek]

I'm glad that Discworld could be considered finished, but I still would love to see, where he would take the characters.

[@jacobshore5115]

Yeah, I know how this feels myself… it’s like when I don’t have any inspiration, I don’t get anything done. I have a ton of notes for a book and a lot of fan fictions, but I’m just terrible at following up with them.

[@jacobshore5115]

And I guess we can add Inside Job to that list now…

[@themythosarchives7520]

Just over 10 years ago I played an indie game released in chapters and the second chapter dropped and even compared to the creator’s (who already had quite the reputation for phenomenal quality) previous work it completely blew me away. It was a lot like a jrpg but it was unlike anything I had seen done with the creation engine before or since. The gameplay was unique and fascinating, the story though a bit generic was engaging, and there was a lot of potential. Then the sequel never came and I was just sad. This experience combined with finishing a few things like my watching all of Avatar: TLA and finishing a few video games completely shifted how I create and consume stories (finishing Wheel of Time more recently has only strengthened my resolve here). Whenever I write something and get the desire to put it out I make dam sure I’ve got the ability to finish it. I’m not that great of a writer yet but I’ve improved over time. Same with stories I start. I’m very hesitant to start reading/watching/playing anything new unless I know there’s an ending or the author is consistent. If not I’ll keep tabs on it until I know there’s an ending. I also make sure not to start too many things at once so I can keep relative track of everything I’m on currently. I know it’s a huge amount of maintenance but I know what I like the most and it’s a well executed complete creative vision. But that’s just me.

[@viktorhermansson2284]

What game was it if you remember?

[@zealot360]

9:40 "The good news is that the polish are oppressed in this world" Hello, Based Department? I'd like to file a claim.

[@nirandon999]

Co jest kurwa

[@RBEmpathy]

This is pulling on my heart strings, since I'm an aspiring author dealing with not having enough time and energy to finish my works. But I do like the discussion

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

I always thought it was very silly for the guy who made that one show (I forget which) to "have a grand vision of it". Then do it in book form, not a TV show which is dependent on views, and can manage to get cancelled even while having good viewership. He wanted 8 seasons, he got 1. And apparently never went on to do it in any other form.

[@milestrombley1466]

I will always try to finish my stories.

[@Pystoria]

Really cool and melancholic video

[@victorias.f.]

Me trying to finish a fanfic that I don't update since April: ... Oh the pain. Oh the shame

[@digitalzealot7026]

It reminds me of the Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz. It was a rewrite of a series he had in the 80s. The 80s series was meant to have 5 books, but only 4 were published. It was only until 2005 when the newer series came out, which actually finished with 5 books ~~ Also my babysitter's a vampire, which had an ✨unfortunate😖 ending

[@ShaleNinja]

This cuts deep in excellent and heartbreaking ways. I'm that arsehole that has left people hanging for years at a time, for exactly the reasons you describe: real life is hard, keeping the lights on is hard, and trying to be creative while dangling off the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a tough gig. One of the main reasons I've switched to going full Brando Sando on the outlining, writing and editing in one go, even for fanfiction, from now on. Get the story compiled and FINISHED and edited so it can be properly constructed, cohesive, paced well and understands its themese...then bang it out on a regular release schedule until it's all live. Because you're right - there's a special kind of hurt to the lack of closure, and as hard as it is to be a creative on the side while trying to survive in this insane world for the other 7 days of the week, why inflict that wound on others? The world is unsatisfying enough as it is.

[@llindberg194]

Great video. I'm still not over Netflix cancelling Mindhunter... yeah this comment doesn't have a point to it, I just wanted to complain about it one more time.

[@swampo5675]

Lemme write a book The... okay I'm bored

[@jacobshore5115]

I know what that’s like…

[@spideysenses4275]

spongebob when he’s writing his essay: “the”

[@xTheOneToSaveUsAllx]

"The good news is that the Polish are oppressed in this world" finally, justice.

[@Nebulousart]

I see what you mean about good idea, bad execution but I don’t necessarily agree because (sorry to complain about GOT s8 yet again, BUT) game of thrones, the show bc I haven’t finished the books, had some really plot elements that were good in theory but either never went anywhere or were executed so poorly it was never worth it in the first place, such as the stuff with Quaithe, Craster’s sons, and the battle against the white walkers which COULD have gone a lot of different and cool ways but just… well, didn’t

[@user-wk3on9mt7f]

Don't worry, George hasn't finished the books either (:P)

[@Nebulousart]

If he even will lmao

[@user-wk3on9mt7f]

@@Nebulousart I'm not holding my breath

[@marocat4749]

And biggest of all dany, th weird disconnect to portray her as heroic in media, not ambivalent really undermines the whole thing that could work of her as mad tyrent (and its ecause o the stupidest twist posible loss of a dragon)

[@Venzynt]

Game of thrones season 8 was trash and fans of that show are within reason to want for it to be done better. It's a situation similar to Mass effect 3 and the Star wars sequels. On one hand, I would say it's hugely unrealistic for a production of that scale to run a second time. On the other hand, there are reboots and remakes all the time, some even resembling that style of "do-over" such as suicide squad and dark Phoenix.

[@ianvera4299]

Ah fan entitlement at its finest. Keep crying

[@v1olante]

This makes me so sad, I'm so scared of starting something and being unable to finish it

[@kingvan7872]

That feeling when James makes the argument that most folks can't finish their stories without capitalism driving them to do so.

[@zainmudassir2964]

Again it's Capitalism fault

[@kingvan7872]

@@zainmudassir2964 Actually James seems to be saying that a monetary incentive motivates artists to finish their work because if they don't finish then they won't get paid. Vs. those who do not have a monetary incentive who end up just procrastinating and never finishing. I disagree with this take but it's the argument he seems to present.

[@efrenyalung1348]

@@kingvan7872 yeah thats what i took away from that video on King, GRRM, and Rothfuss, that once the material needs are satisfied the drive to put out the books disappear

[@kingvan7872]

@@efrenyalung1348 Yeah. I will say for the sake of a counter argument that it's a take I disagree with. Many people have finished creative works throughout history just fine without profit being the driving factor. After all there are many other of jobs that make far more money then writing.

[@kittymcditty8960]

I self-published a couple books in a series that seemed to get good (non-family & friends) reviews. But life and changing self interests got in the way of completing the final book. Listening to this has re-inspired me to perhaps delve into completing the third book as leaving this project unfinished as always nagged at me. (Virginia Kingdom Chronicles if anyone is interested.)

[@JulianGreystoke]

I'm dedicated to finishing my fanfics! All my book length fanfics are complete!

[@douglasdea637]

I'll forever mourn not getting an ending to the TV shows Carnivale, Deadwood, Rome and Jericho.

[@pigmanpiggypiggyman3732]

I'm only now getting to writing a decent, well-formed and original book having previously written 7 DIFFERENT BOOKS. I think it's ok to abandon previous works if they don't mesh for you

[@Stokeling]

Go off oomfie Love your videos like this, I hope we get more soon!

[@RiaxaraCo]

This video came out at a perfect time since I just finished re-reading a twdg fanfic that never had the final planned installment even started. Rip.

[@JustforNow-ty5zt]

Raised By Wolves :(

[@jonnybarnes18]

Along with Carnivale and Spawn:The Animated Series.

[@shawnflynn8662]

The Salvation Wars is the one for me that I think of when I think of unfinished stuff. It also fills like that weird mix of internet books and military fanfiction. Unrelated but I always laugh when I hear one of your Paetron people being named Brother Santodes. Just a random place to hear a name from The Emperor's Text to Speech Machine. Which is now that I think of it, another unfinished series itself. Ok, so it is kinda related.

[@gregorysoldatman]

Certain Mr. Martin wouldn't like this video

[@whyonthefall5373]

Reminds me of the UK Utopia series. Series 1&2 were brilliant, but s3 never came (it was cancelled despite massive praise and the directors practically begging for it to be finished) . It just ends. The huge sense of mystery is just gone on a massive cliffhanger

[@petrfedor1851]

Stargate did this twice. In Atlantis it's arguably less of a problem since it's way more episodic than Universe.

[@darkvioletcloud]

Now I feel bad that I abandoned my fanfic... It's been a year since I updated it. In the time since, I've been attempting to write a book. It feels much better to write without deadlines, y'know?

[@morenicginiusthegreat4227]

Speaking as a tv fan, spectacular spider-man was planned to have like 3 more seasons and 3 MOVIES. Pretty annoying that it got canceled 2 seasons in because of corporate shenanigans.

[@yestoless]

still salty about the OA... You should check out the Cave World Saga, it too is an unfinished epic fantasy series by a German author and will be translated into English. We might get an ending if it sells well in the US/UK.

[@kaiosamatlj4031]

That name sounds familiar... Is this also related to the point-and-click adventure game also named Cave World Saga that Ross Scott (from Freeman's Mind fame) reviewed in his channel?

[@yestoless]

@@kaiosamatlj4031 yes the very same. The books were written by the game creator and are a mixture of scifi and fantasy like the game.

[@joaopedrosousa5636]

Oh no berserk does not end?! It is guiding my life!

[@harry_ord]

The danny thing is surprising to say the least and I doubt I will b able to forget it now.

[@robertgronewold3326]

One thing I have to say about tv shows. More show creators NEED to learn to not necessarily write huge arcs if they don't know if the show will be renewed. If you're writing a Netflix style series, make sure that each season could be an ending.

[@ShRkDa]

this reminds me of the light novel Black Bullet, Volume 7 is just only half as thick as the others and the author hasnt been writing since then.

[@sirpatrick549]

Damn James, you've got me wanting to go finish shows I just stopped watching at the last moment for no reason.

[@Tanth1982]

Pain and Rothfuss

[@PforPanthera]

There's this extremely well-written Mikasa/Annie Attack on Titan fic that hasn't been updated in almost three years and I want to believe it isn't permanently abandoned but I'm so desperate for the author to come back. Even if the ending wasn't as good as the rest of it it would at least be nice to know what happens.

[@marocat4749]

Berserks taken over is one of the best fruiends and has an actual relationship to the manga with the mangaka , spak he gets it, and h is already a really good mangaka whom i like, and he had sucss with holyland and sucide iiland and drstroy an revolution i think are great and dont hold back while being fun and dark and adressing social topics and dark coming of age. Which is very remicent of berserks mood.

[@Drudenfusz]

Am weird that I don't care about if a work is finished or not, I don't finish most series anyway, no matter if there is an ending or not. Sure, I remember that I had been upset as a teenager about the the lack of a proper ending for the Dune series, but I made my peace with that years ago and have not even checked if Brain Herbert has done anything that is not a prequel. And the few things I actually do finish I also don't understand the hate that gets, I liked how How I Met Your Mother ended, and even though the ending for Game of Thrones felt a little lackluster and I doubt G.R.R. Martin will get the book series to an end, I made my peace with that too. Hell, I am now even curious to check out the Dino series, since knowing it is not finished removes the stress from me to having read everything but gives me the liberty to drop it right the moment my interest wanes.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

Stargate Universe

[@omarbaba9892]

Oh yeah I didn’t it annoying when there’s something in a franchise that people don’t like so they say it’s not part of that franchise

[@terrinils3165]

Thank you for this depression video.

[@runningcommentary2125]

Are those action scenes from that film where Jackie Chan fights the IRA?

[@mathieuleader8601]

makes me think of Dickens Mystery of Edwin Drood

[@robbiesheerin841]

Love your thoughts on this. How do I submit my book for a review James? Do you accept books for review?

[@peterwindhorst5775]

Take Dune. After the original author died, his heirs proceeded to make ruination of books afterwards.

[@nowhereman6019]

In my opinion, it is better to have never loved at all than to have loved and lost, because the pain is never worth it.

[@ComedyPlastic]

"The good news is that the Polish are oppressed in this world." -James Tullos 2022

[@tristanmoors7835]

Berserk had the same thing happen, may kentaro muira rest in peace

[@TheKeyser94]

Something that I learned from a crack writer in the internet, shockingly, because most crack stories make no sense whatsoever, if you would write a serialise story, write it on arcs and Volumes, each arc have a beginning, a middle and a end, and the Volumes are the sums of all the arcs, with the same structure, beginning, middle and ending. Not matter if you not write the next arc for reason or another, the story have a ending, not a definitive one, but still have an ending.

[@markredacted8547]

Don't ever kill your self, I don't know you and you don't know me but the world is a better place with you in it 😁 Plus I really enjoy your content it makes me smile.

[@AllisonMiller30]

There were two series, I feel weren’t finished. The Dexter Loomis series by Michael Hachey and the Chandra Covington series by Jeffery S. Savage. Michael stopped writing, but Jeffery. Damn Mormon Jeffery is still writing, just not that series.

[@secondengineer9814]

I have an urge to subscribe to your patreon with an account named "I'm not redoing that I don't even care"

[@Rurtanar]

Using the Phrase "One Piece" while talking about SHORT series is a bit ironic, don't you think?

[@ender7278]

If this is such a big problem with fanfiction, we should normalize handing off fanfics to new authors (by which I mean readers who are left hanging and are willing to write a continuation).

[@ChristieBrewster]

Man, I don't agree with this at all. I'm generally looking to enjoy a writer or artists's voice in my media. Or the shared tone across an intellectual property. If stuff doesn't get resolved, I probably knew that going in. And if it takes too long to get there, I'm going to look at it as a shark jump and enjoy the parts where it did have me. I have a few biases there. I don't really do serial fiction, I'm more into music and movies, and not so much TV or books or online fiction writing. So if I'm looking at serial fiction it's a matter of research (people loved/disliked this, what's the buzz about?), or a matter of nostalgia, or fluke. So if a continuation to a defunct story or series comes along, Rankin Bass adapting Return of the King for instance, I don't find myself looking at it like "at last a continued story!". I just now have two chapters to assess and see how they complement each other. The best TV example of this is Red Dwarf, which doesn't have goalposts you could set the same from one era to another (and had split authorship in the book publishing side too). And if something's not going to end soundly, I wasn't really expecting that anyway. There's a lot of mediocre writing out there, after all (How I Met Your Mother is a show I feel influenced my perspective a lot). And few series I've loved have episodically built to something astonishing... As such, I don't quite get what you mean about things being so preferable to be resolved, whatever the compromises, over the alternative where we have a bunch of work to consider - as we already were while viewing.

[@Rabidragon9241]

Rip daybreak

[@BainesMkII]

I have no interest in a continuation of Berserk. I'd like to know what Miura planned, just to know if the series was heading towards one of my theories. But I don't have any interest in someone else coming in to "finish" the story. Even if the guy claims to know Miura's planned ending, he's not Miura. The guy most likely doesn't know the details of the path to get there, and isn't going to write the characters or scenarios the way Miura would. Nor will he be able to adapt to the developing story the way Miura could or would, years of additional writing could have seen Miura changing his mind.

[@rodrigo3732]

I just want to know how all kvothe friends die, man.

[@eugenebebs7767]

To me, this whole video is a long glare at George RR Martin.

[@duckhat7939]

At least he's not dead. For now.

[@qwellen7521]

As a long term half life fan, i know this pain.

[@kristianlamprecht4831]

The Expanse :(

[@kristianlamprecht4831]

I guess I need to read the books someday.

[@shinaxia7474]

Actually, I'm a writer with a few stories online, but so 100-350K words each Most of them are finished, but not all. The problem is that in order to make any money the author has to give away the book exclusively or invest, and quite a lot, in promotion. Someone doesn't want to get rid of the rights to the book and can't, won't or can't spend a lot of time and money on promotion, doesn't reach readers and earns so little that it makes you want to cry. The author may repeat to himself that he writes for his own satisfaction and the satisfaction of his readers, but at some point it occurs to him that this story is not selling, so why not try with another one? After all, such an author wants to eat, too, and he can't just write for nuts and acorns. I have stories that I really want to develop and finish, so I don't close them, but I also want to have money for rent and for food. So these unfinished stories are waiting until my financial situation is good enough for me to finish the books I don't make money on. I feel sorry for the fans, but hey, I want to eat too. With an empty belly it's really hard to think and write, so instead of writing I have to earn my keep simply by working hard at my boring job. And these stories are waiting to be continued, because after all, I have everything in my head, the whole plan....

[@notsteve5927]

Thank you James, someone fucking said it. “Good idea, bad execution” is the dumbest thing all the way to the Moon and back. No one cares how good the thing looked “on paper”, it’s all about the final result.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

I don't think so; there are lots of things that aren't very good themselves but are a jumping-off point for future creatives to make something. Dark Souls is literally unfinished, but it inspired SO many other games, some of which are even good. The ideas it presented were good, but the developers couldn't execute on them. Even if your first lightbulb design doesn't last a long time, you still showed people what was possible.

[@marocat4749]

It can do both be a good idea someone else can do better and be inspired, And thre is that things that the most fun bad media, has either good but squandered idea or really heart into it, that i even makes a ad piece o f media having value.

[@PeixeKing]

@@PlatinumAltaria Dark Souls isn't unfinished, though? Despite the rushed development and cut corners on the second half, they managed to deliver a complete game. Dark Souls wouldn't be as well regarded as it is if it wasn't well executed.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

@@PeixeKing People who think Dark Souls is a finished game will be sent to wherever the other halves of the dragons are.

[@pyeitme508]

Wow

[@no_mnom]

You know I just wanna read doors of stone as bad as it may be I just want to know the end of the story but the author has been blue balling for a decade and stalling intentionally editor even said he's not worked on it in years... When the author dies its unfortunate but we can't do anything when he's alive but is too busy streaming and creating anniversary/fancy releases of previous books it's irritating

[@bisalwayswright88]

Is George RR Martin watching this? I hope he is

[@citizensguard3433]

Me internet person. What is "comment make sense"? Also... I'll be writing a fan-fic about a fictional fan. Both the appliance commonly used for cooling a room, as well as a enjoyer of a specific piece of media. Both as one--two parts combined for one FANtastic whole. See what I did there? Did you? (Nudge nudge, wink wink). But... did you see what I did? (Nudges a bit too hard). COMMENTS! They exist.

[@benfisher6978]

Ok I agree with you but season 8 shouldn’t have been done the way that it was

[@ianvera4299]

But it did. Move on

[@benfisher6978]

@@ianvera4299 I have smart ass house of the dragons sick af

[@ianvera4299]

@@benfisher6978 ummm ok lol

[@rociomiranda5684]

I know a fanfiction author who never publishes anything until the whole thing is finished. When they start uploading chapters, the story is already complete. I'd say the advice is don't start publishing something you haven't finished.

[@neoselket562]

Honestly, fanfiction not finishing doesn't bother me as much as it does you. I go into fanfiction with the understanding that it most likely will never be finished. All of my favorites have been abandoned, and that's okay. I do wish that the author would tell us why they stopped, let us know if they'll ever continue, and ideally give a summary of the ending, but either way, I'd rather read part of a great story than none of it.

[@henrykdodwel6913]

Why polish tho? Recently i saw a lot of KZbinrs joke about polish. Do you know why?

[@adb4522]

Jooooo

[@dumpster_fiyah]

One of your better videos, dude. Sorry for the low view-count. (So far.)

[@user-sg3wp2qs2b]

As a Boogie once said,....“Money over everything”.Liberty and Justice for all trappers around the United States. #trappalyfe 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@user-sg3wp2qs2b]

maaaaaaaaaaaaan waht r u takling abt

[@A-Rather-Dubious-Character]

James out here trying to imply that I shouldn't hate GOT Season 8 with every fiber of my being because it was an objectively poorly written mess.