Oh, interesting. EY just asked his readers to solve an impossible problem. I wonder how many will feel they have enough at stake here to actually pay the mental and emotional tax involved in solving impossible problems, to maintain that awful tension. I mean, at the end of the day, it’s a fanfic on the Internet.
I sure hope the problem looks easier to some smarter readers than me, because it’s gonna be silly from a promotion-of-rationality angle if the addition of rationality to Harry Potter changes the outcome from “hero wins” to “hero dies and people he cares about get horribly tortured to death”.
Oh, interesting. EY just asked his readers to solve an impossible problem. I wonder how many will feel they have enough at stake here to actually pay the mental and emotional tax involved in solving impossible problems, to maintain that awful tension. I mean, at the end of the day, it’s a fanfic on the Internet.
I sure hope the problem looks easier to some smarter readers than me, because it’s gonna be silly from a promotion-of-rationality angle if the addition of rationality to Harry Potter changes the outcome from “hero wins” to “hero dies and people he cares about get horribly tortured to death”.