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Dozer (Urako) vs Lost (PitchEnder)

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Aug 3, 2015 2:36 PM #1391147
Okay everyone. Both PitchEnder and I looked were looking for someone to fight, so we fought each other. If anyone wants to know, here are our characters;

Dozer Vs. Lost.

Anyways, here are our stories.


Lost vs Dozer (PitchEnder's version.) (Click to Show)


I hope you all enjoy reading these. May the best writer win:D
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Aug 3, 2015 4:49 PM #1391174
Yeah I messed up big time, lol. Good job urako
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Aug 3, 2015 6:49 PM #1391199
Let's keep it short and sweet-ish (Mal and Vern are reading this right now, so I know I don't need to bother much).

Pitch...ow.
Way too short. In my opinion, you might have won. There was just too little here.
Me: "Let's read Pitch's bat-"
Me a half second later: "Well then...I blinked and missed the whole thing."
That's the only thing that I have to say, mainly since...well, there isn't enough material for me to say anything else.

Urako...fl-ow. (Hehe, lame joke, right?)
You overused the same transitional words and descriptors, and used somewhat choppy (and repetitive) sentence structure.
Most paragraphs repeated certain words/phrases at least twice, sometimes thrice.
Additionally, you made Lost something of a sub-plot, rather than the main issue at hand. I understand having an over-reaching theme in your work, but make sure it doesn't steal the spotlight. The first 6th and last 6th of your work didn't even have Lost in there.
In all, compared to other work of yours that I have read, this seems...well...lazy. Like you didn't proof read whatsoever.

I voted for Urako because Pitch's just seemed (in addition to the mistakes that other people will point out)...ephemeral. That is the best word for it, in my opinion (I know it's an odd term, but look it up and you'll see what I mean).

By the way, whose idea was this battle?
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Aug 3, 2015 8:43 PM #1391214
Quote from Shadowolf
Let's keep it short and sweet-ish (Mal and Vern are reading this right now, so I know I don't need to bother much).

Pitch...ow.
Way too short. In my opinion, you might have won. There was just too little here.
Me: "Let's read Pitch's bat-"
Me a half second later: "Well then...I blinked and missed the whole thing."
That's the only thing that I have to say, mainly since...well, there isn't enough material for me to say anything else.

Urako...fl-ow. (Hehe, lame joke, right?)
You overused the same transitional words and descriptors, and used somewhat choppy (and repetitive) sentence structure.
Most paragraphs repeated certain words/phrases at least twice, sometimes thrice.
Additionally, you made Lost something of a sub-plot, rather than the main issue at hand. I understand having an over-reaching theme in your work, but make sure it doesn't steal the spotlight. The first 6th and last 6th of your work didn't even have Lost in there.
In all, compared to other work of yours that I have read, this seems...well...lazy. Like you didn't proof read whatsoever.

I voted for Urako because Pitch's just seemed (in addition to the mistakes that other people will point out)...ephemeral. That is the best word for it, in my opinion (I know it's an odd term, but look it up and you'll see what I mean).

By the way, whose idea was this battle?


I don't mean to try and excuse my mistakes and I certainly hope to do better next time, but things came up in real life and I barely managed to finish. So you would be right about me hardly proof reading it at all:p

I'll try to do better about the plot next time as well.

And the battle was my idea.
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Aug 3, 2015 9:13 PM #1391217
And now, your sins.
PitchEnder, aka the earplugs (bad joke is bad) (Click to Show)
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Aug 7, 2015 3:44 PM #1392647
Alright, I'd give you both some more thorough critique but sadly I'm on little internet right now so I don't have the time to do so, thus I'll keep it short.

Urako, you know I love you man, but you did let me down on this one... There's seas of mistakes everywhere and the battle itself feels quite sloppy as well. I can see the potential for it being quite a nice battle but the language is very repetitive, and that long with the many mistakes and awry sentence structure completely ruins your flow and clarity. I read you had little time, though, so I'll stay off of your back on the matter. Just know that the battle, as it is now, is something that could've been nice, but turned out to be quite the letdown. There's nothing wrong with asking your opponent for a little more time to proofread your work, and if they refuse to give you that time then quite honestly you gotta wonder why you're battling them in the first place.

Frankly if it weren't that I appreciated your work so much I most likely wouldn't even have bothered reading past page two. I've set myself to reading it to the end but frankly couldn't get myself to reading the last few pages of the fight (I skipped it around page 9 to read Decks' note) as the battle was quite linear and straightforward. There's nothing wrong with length but making battles too long tends to ruin it as well, so either cut down on your work or give it that extra 'umph' next time ;)

I don't really think I need to tell you anything else, really. I believe you're already good enough to look at your battle again and see all the things wrong with it, so I won't be bothering with going in depth on that later on because I have a battle and an OCT to do myself....

Now Pitch, I sincerely wonder why you picked Urako up on his challenge. He's on a completely different level (though really with how sloppy this one's battle was this time you could've possibly won if your work was longer and more interesting) and frankly, if you want a chance at winning then I suggest looking for people around your skill level. A lot of other new writers have joined the fray as of late so there should be plenty of opponents for you out there. Your battle is far from a letdown though, because I thought you worse than this. Still, Urako's out of your league for now.

I'd give you an elaborate analysis of your work, but as stated earlier I have no time for that right now (also : Battle and OCT are, quite honestly, higher on my priority list). If you want a general clue of what I'm trying to get at then refer to the feedback I gave to Chaotic in his battle with Mal and compare it with your own work. There's lots to learn from the works of others as well, if improving is something you even bother with.

Sorry if my critique is a bit asshole-ish, but once again I'm on little time and I'm just trying to get the message through. Some of my feedback may be false but I can't properly revise it right now (Yes, I'm feeling you Urako, still, feedback is something completely different from a battle).
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