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** Also: ''If a video game has user-created content, a large amount of it will be based on [[Video Game Perversity Potential|male or female genitalia]] or "[[LittleBigPlanet|LittleBig]][[Godwin's Law|Holocaust.]]"''
* [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Ruri]]'s Law:'' "The vast majority of people are idiots".'' or, in other words, ''You're probably crud.''
* [[w:Isaac Bonewits|Bonewits]]'
Sturgeon's Law is particularly obvious when the barriers to entry—the whims of publishers—are removed. Self-publishing, especially in the virtually cost-free environment of the Internet, makes the cruddy 90% ''very'' visible to the public; it no longer languishes in an aspiring writer's desk drawer. This often leads to the false impression that [[Fanfic]] attracts poor writers; the fact is that the poor writers have ''always'' been out there, but until recently, their poor writing had few mass outlets. As one writer put it, "flipping through [[Fanfiction.net]] is like flipping through hell with an occasional slice of the heavenly cheesecake thrown in."
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