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[MK] [FF] The Evil Overlord List: Harry Potter fanfic with a "read the HP series" munchkin stuck in Tom Riddle's head.
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Author: u/Nevereatcars The Greatest Is Behind*
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URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10972919/1/The-Evil-Overlord-List
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Score: 21
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Created: 2015-08-30T01:45:03
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u/ArgentStonecutter [+7] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (an hour later)
Needs to do some work on the anachronisms. Like, the ball point pen was technically invented in 1888 but there were a lot of false starts, and the Biro wasn't sold under that name until World War II.
u/Nevereatcars [+1] The Greatest Is Behind (an hour later)
I hadn't noticed any anachronisms but I am not the expert on this subject. I think that I would not be very good at historical fiction.
u/ArgentStonecutter [+1] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (6 hours later)
He'd be better off using muggle fountain pens. It's easier to write longhand with, and it's still better than quills.
u/Rangi42 [+3] (2 hours later)
I just got to the chapter where it's revealed that the munchkin, Jerry, taught Tom to do maths with octal numbers and postfix notation. "Think about how far ahead you'll be once computers are actually invented!"
u/Uncaffeinated [+1] (2 hours later)
Wouldn't hexadecimal be better than octal?
u/Rangi42 [+6] (2 hours later)
My personal favorite is duodecimal/dozenal. Divides evenly into 2, 3, 4, 6, or 12 pieces, with only two more digits than usual; which also makes more of the rational numbers have short
decimalplace-value representations. You can even count to 12 with one hand: place your thumb on the 12 segments of your four fingers. Overflow to your other hand and count to 144 = 100b12.
u/GaBeRockKing [+3] Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857 (3 hours later)
Bizzarely, I first found out how convenient base-12 was while reading a first-contact MLP fanfic. That fandom remains the most dichotomous I've been a part of.
u/bbrazil [+3] NERV (5 hours later)
The most surprising one I found recently was a time-loop story that was using vector-clocks as a plot element to coordinate between the characters.
u/Predictablicious [+1] Only Mark Annuncio Saves (11 hours later)
Which story is it?
u/bbrazil [+5] NERV (16 hours later)
Hard Reset is the background then Hard Reset 2: Reset Harder is the spinoff you want.
u/Predictablicious [+1] Only Mark Annuncio Saves (20 hours later)
Thanks.
u/tj48 [+1] (a day later)
Fair warning: that's 40k words of background and then 70k words of unfinished mindfuck.
u/tj48 [+1] (a day later)
Great fic. Preview quotes:
"By the way, C-378 and I'm assuming the Darjeeling loop was T-35, but if it's all the same to you I'd prefer we reset the numbering back to zero."
"Delta-2 T-25 C-11. How did you know the trigger?"
"We both know that with your voice trigger, you can reset faster than I can, so there's no reason to do anything rash. Hear me out."
u/Rangi42 [+2] (3 hours later)
Do you have a link to this fic? It sounds interesting.
u/FaceDeer [+5] (7 hours later)
My guess would be Celestia Sleeps In. The author is extremely rigorous with his worldbuilding, after every chapter is posted he posts a blog about all the behind-the-scenes worldbuilding details such as analogous 18th century technology, social structures, and etc.
For one chapter IIRC the author actually made a real-life daffodil and daisy sandwich (a canon example of Equestrian cuisine) and ate it to see how it would taste to the human character.
u/Nevereatcars [+4] The Greatest Is Behind (7 hours later)
That's dedication, damn.
u/Rangi42 [+1] (14 hours later)
Thanks! That's seriously doing the research.
u/GaBeRockKing [+2] Horizon Breach: http://archiveofourown.org/works/6785857 (13 hours later)
u/alexanderwales [+1] Time flies like an arrow (2 hours later)
u/ArgentStonecutter [+1] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (6 hours later)
Yep. Octal was so common that even the PDP-11, which used 8/16 bit words, used octal.
u/ArgentStonecutter [+1] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (6 hours later)
Octal was more common early on.
u/traverseda [+1] With dread but cautious optimism (4 hours later)
And that that's the system he learned as a child...
The culture maybe? I'd expect them to be less evil. Maybe certain parts of special circumstances.
u/callmebrotherg [+2] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae (19 hours later)
Kind of crappy, to be honest. I couldn't even make it past "Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you..."
The writing is bad, and Tom Riddle doesn't make any sense. He's not even as smart as canon!Tom was, which I suppose is quite the downgrade.
How does he know about computer uploading?
/skims further
If Jerry has been in Tom's head since Day 1, then how is Tom still so stupid? Does Tom have a severe learning disability? What is going on?
Jerry says "Let's eff this place" at one point and then Tom says "bullshit" and says that he learned it from Jerry. So... what is Jerry's stance on foul language, really?
u/leniadolbap [+7] (23 hours later)
I think the pilot is just a blurb he wrote before really starting the fanfic, and isn't representative of what will really happen. FWIW I thought it was stupid too, but the actual fanfic isn't bad at all.
u/Transfuturist [+2] Carthago delenda est. (a day later)
Pilot? Where should one start reading?
u/None [+7] (a day later)
He seems smarter to me. Canon!Tom was great at magic, but intelligent? He made horcruxes and tortured and branded his own minions.
Your post seems to be based on reading a single chapter or so. Keep reading, it makes more sense from there. I personally think Jerry is not evil at all and he's just manipulating a sociopath into becoming a good guy from birth, seeing as suspiciously he's only doing bad things to people who would become Death Eaters later on.
u/callmebrotherg [+1] now posting as /u/callmesalticidae (2 days later)
Hm. I read to the point where they enter Hogwarts. Still have complaints with the writing style, and especially with Tom's voice.
There are also... lots of holes, I suppose you might call them, that are not impossible for me to fill but cause me to wonder whether the explanations I'm coming up with were actually intended by the author or if they're legit oversights that I just happen to be able to explain away.
I can see where the appeal is for some people, but it just isn't my cup of tea.
u/None [+1] (2 days later)
Remember it's a (admittedly dark) humor story and it's not meant to be taken too seriously.
u/None [+1] (4 hours later)
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u/Nevereatcars [+1] The Greatest Is Behind (4 hours later)
I think that there must be a mess-up in there somewhere, then, because Hitler invades Poland in the most recent chapter.
u/JackStargazer [+2] Primordial Apologist (13 hours later)
The current chapter seems to be Tom's third year, and it's September 1939. So he started in 1937.
Which I think is a year off, because if I remember in canon, Tom Riddle was in the class of 1945.
u/gbear605 [+1] history’s greatest story (4 hours later)
It was just a problem with the first chapter; Jerry says 2015 was a little over a hundred years in the future. When they go to Diagon Alley, however, they talk about it being 1937...
u/ArgentStonecutter [+1] Emergency Mustelid Hologram (7 hours later)
Harlem wasn't nearly so scary a place in the '20s and '30s.