Talk:Hyper Realism/@comment-4332975-20140330154334

The formatting is a little off on this, and some of the errors look to be the work of an overzealous autocorrect. Just for the sake of pointing it out, I'm going to remind everyone that our rules are that you not post from your mobile device, and the author is going to pretend that this is just an offhand statement, and not argue about whether or not they broke this particular rule. From there, we can talk about the pasta itself.

It's not bad, per se. However, I would call it a bit uninspired. While not entirely predictable, the ending isn't entirely unexpected either. From the beginning of the setup, you pretty much know the structure - impressive tests, then the horror sim, where something terrible happens. Yes, the form of that horror was a little bit different from what the rest of the story might indicate, but that doesn't make it a mindfuck. It doesn't really even make it a good twist. What it really does, is make the rest of the story fade into irrelevancy. What's worse, it flat-out hamstrings the believability of the story. That one incident has so little to do with anything else that it begs the question of why the technology wasn't pushed out regardless. Moreover, it offers no rationale as to why this story wasn't widly covered in the media.

Overall, I don't regret reading this, but neither was I particularly impressed by it.