> I'm GethN7, one of the senior administrators of the All The Tropes wiki
I'm a guy who has a website, too!

> I apologize if that sounds harsh, but I have to admit this colored my desire
> to read anything else produced here, but Vorticity convinced me to give SotS
> a try anyway.
Luckily, I left out the part about the crypto-lesbians.

>>You may wanna avoid the UF core; I like it, but it's rife with in-jokes,
>> weirdness, and it's about 20 years out of date.
>> ...
>>If you wanna try reading it all chronologically, then well...
>>may God (or your higher power of choice) have mercy on your soul.
>
> That's what I did when I first discovered UF. It's...
> not an experience I would recommend

I still don't understand the CORE hate. It's not the most well-written part, to be sure, but it's still fun to read. And it's still produced a stable framework upon which hundreds of stories have been built, which is pretty damn impressive for a story intended to be a big in-joke for a few friends.

The core stories are like being invited into someone else's social group, and getting to see how all the people interact and have fun. And then getting to think about how you could be a part of such a cool crowd. Like what Utena and Miki and Juri felt when joining the WPI band geeks.

>Anyway! This post is such a mixed bag of aggressive disdain and cautiously
>backhanded praise that I'm not even sure how to engage with most of it, but I
>guess I'm glad you're enjoying the Symphony in spite of itself? I don't know
>for sure. It's hard to get a read on whether you're pleasantly surprised or
>just feel dirty. :)

LOL! Having worked with Geth-kun, let me sum it up: he is in love with the Symphony, abhors NXE, and cannot reconcile the two opinions. Since Geth-chan can't synthesize a clear opinion without additional Geth to help on the calculations, he just kind of word dumped whatever was going on in his head (which sounded polite internally, anyway).

>Just to be clear, I'm not a total putz.
Dude it doesn't work when you're saying it yourself.

>I would also like to apologize if I offended anyone with my bluntness.
No one was offended, just confused. Again, welcome.