Talk:Mary Sue Test/@comment-24019647-20150723055026/@comment-4547854-20150723135659

The test was made with good intentions, but it is seriously flawed and doesn't live up to good intentions as you said. It isn't something to take seriously unless it gets a massive fix.

As for your whole spiel for depression, what the test does is take popular trends and penalizes your character for following them(there is a reason why it's called a POPULAR TREND.) A lot of people role-play characters that have "depression," although probably not correctly in a lot of cases. This just takes me back to the whole point that the test is flawed.

Also, for your point on the scoring and your point on de-Sueifiers. A really well-developed character can very well hit 50 or more simply because of all these "popular trends" people do to get highlighted on the test, and I can very much agree with you that the de-Sueifiers are low in number and their effect if used are just way too little, however this is completely banking on the fact that your character is human. You will not find a de-Sueifier on that list that helps a Mahjarrat EXCEPT the whole year thing, and very, very very few times will you find it helps a dwarf, elf, or what have you. Even humans for that regard, but all of those traits are very likely to be found in  human charaters. And the biggest de-Sueifier on the list, which is worth a grand total of three points(while being a Mahjarrat penalizes you 10 points), is if you don't speak a language at all.

Really what this test is is dated. Why people still care about it, despite its massive flaws, I don't know. It's just always been a tool for the absolute elite of the elitists to use to bash on other players. "Hahahaha, your character is a Mary-Sue!" While you score their characters and they breech 30 or so more points. Now, I don't really care for Themeplay. But I would hate to see this test made for Themeplay. Just go on without it. You don't need to be basing characters off of this. You could have the same idea and make a version of the test that isn't as flawed, but still.

The only sort of enjoyment I can get from this test is to see how large of a score my oldest and most developed characters can get.