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Oh wow, I've never heard of anything like that before. That really sucks! It's going to screw with me, honestly. To give you an idea of what I was talking about, I went back and took a screenshot of how I posted another story to a different site. Each one of those Parts was uploaded over the course of about two weeks. This is what I was hoping to go for with the Spoilers tag, so you just click on the post, and right there, in very first entry, would be the entire story, organized neatly like this, being updated as I write it, instead of having to go scrolling and looking through however many posts for a specific chapter. Presentation has become pretty important to me over the years as I've learned more and more about both how to do it, and how much it affects the perception of the media being presented itself. Is there a specific reasoning for this? I'm guessing if it's baked into the site then it must be pretty immutable.

Hey, so, I'm new here. I just signed up very recently. I started a topic about music that reminded people of The Long Dark, and as people chimed in, I wanted to update the list of links to the music in question, but...I can't find the option to edit anywhere. Like, I have to be missing something. I've seen an almost exact duplicate of this particular forum setup before, and I know for a fact I could edit posts. Could someone help me out? Is it because I'm such a new member? I guess that'd be fair. Thanks.

Oh yeah, a lot of Trent's isolating ambient stuff. Like In This Twilight. And The Frail.

@ThePancakeLady I love that song! And yeah, I can see it.

Okay, cool! Thanks!

I tend to listen to music when I write, and subsequently I've gathered a lot of ambient tracks that evoke certain moods. Given that I write horror more often than not in some capacity, I tend to look for creepy or lonely tracks. Some of the ones I've found really strike me as fitting well in The Long Dark, and I thought I'd share, and ask if anyone here has any tracks they've heard that they think might fit. Alone by Jay-Lounge POU by Carbon Based Lifeforms Love is an Infection by Lzn_02 Writing the Letter by Marc Streitenfeld Suicide by Marc Streitenfeld (Both from The Grey OST. Honestly, that whole soundtrack fits since The Grey is basically the TLD movie.) These are some of my top ones. All the links lead to YouTube videos. Anyone else have any?

That's a good point. I'll think about it some more, play some more of The Long Dark, (I'm currently going through Episode Two Redux), and see if it strikes me as a good idea. I appreciate the encouragement.

Thank you! If I can find some spare time and the ideas continue assaulting me, I might just go ahead and begin writing it. Although admittedly there are a few other things kind of making me hesitate, now that I've thought about it a little more. One is a formatting issue. Although I would be posting it over on WattPad and FFNet, I'd like to post it in the forums, but I feel like it would become overwhelming. I tend to write large chapters, but even if I managed to keep them decently sized, there would be a *lot* of chapters. I've actually tried something like this one before, on another site with a similar forum layout, (RockRaidersUnited), and they solved the problem by having a 'spoiler' feature, which basically meant I could hide chapters inside of collapsed boxes that had to be clicked on and opened to reveal the entire chapter, which made the whole thing reasonably sized and fairly presentable. But I don't see any kind of spoiler option here. I'm hoping that I'm missing it. For frame of reference, if this was a typical mass market paperback novel, I could see this story easily becoming 4-500 pages. The other thing making me nervous is that although I enjoy and respect The Long Dark a lot, I also understand that I'm not the kind of player that the game typically appeals to. The video games I normally write for are Halo, Half-Life, Doom. All first person shooters. The Long Dark is clearly a game of strategy and, more importantly, patience. I do not excel at either. Even after reaching 500 days in Survival and going through Wintermute, as well as a smattering of other playthroughs, I know that there are things I'm just not seeing. There are probably mechanics that I'm not aware of, strategies that could optimize my gameplay more. I haven't even seen the entire map yet! I'm more of an 'in-the-moment' gamer, which is kind of antithetical to The Long Dark's playstyle, narrative, and foundational meaning. And I feel like that would come out a lot more if I attempted to translate the game, and subsequently the gameplay, into my own narrative.

Thank you!

Hello. My name is Sean. I've been a fan of The Long Dark for about a year and a half now after my wife bought me a copy of the Xbox One version for Christmas in 2017. I had been hearing about the game for a little while, and thought it sounded really interesting. I like survival and I like isolated, winter settings. And I was right: it was interesting, and I liked it a great deal. I still do. I've played the game a lot since then, and I've been lurking on the forums off and on pretty much the whole time. I finally decided to join and be a little bit more active. I'm pretty asocial, even online, and I'm not really part of any communities, but I felt that the TLD community seems like a very quality community. Both in the fans of the game, and in the developers, who seem open, honest, and communicative with their fanbase, which is too rare nowadays. I respect passion and commitment. The only other thing I really have to say is that at some point, I'd like to write a lengthy TLD fan fiction. I write for a living, and split my time between original fiction and fan fiction, (also a little Halo machinima now), since, even after 15 years, I still have a great love of fan fics. I'd really like to write a long, sprawling story that would basically feature original characters in the survival version of the game. Admittedly, the only thing holding me back is the fact that I'm working on other lengthy projects at the moment. At present I have four stories going, (though one is on hiatus until the end of the year), and that's just the fan fiction. And that's pretty much what I have to say. Thank you for reading, and Hinterland, thank you for this game, and your steadfast dedication to it. -Obsidian