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Meme Emulator posted:Romance of the Three Kingdoms https://www.amazon.com/Three-Kingdoms-Historical-Novel-Part/dp/0520224787 Not sure why someone decided that joke was worth the effort, but w/e lurksion fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Jul 24, 2017 |
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jon joe posted:Crossposting from the new Web Serial thread: lurksion fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Aug 26, 2017 |
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Katreus posted:If we're reccing fanfic, I'd like to rec something in a similar vein, an original xianxia quest called Forge of Destiny. A quest is basically like a forum game where all the questers control a single character and vote on actions or decisions that the character does, and the Quest Master responds with the results and controls all non-protagonist characters. Like web novels, quest posts can vary in quality. I'm completely ignoring the background mechanics, though I am curious how much fudging is done (not in the faking rolls sense, but in the setting "appropriate" challenge level). lurksion fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Sep 10, 2017 |
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The earlier volumes of Desolate Era have pretty good fights with decent variety of things being shown, e.g. making rain scary. Before the scaling breaks everything into swordlight dickwaving or something. Sindai posted:Speaking of hilarious scaling, the main character in Desolate Era just spent fifty thousand years hiding invisibly by a (magic) door waiting for someone to open it so he could sneak in.
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Nov 3, 2017 23:29
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In this train of discussion, the translation comparison posted a few pages back was interesting to see
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Dec 23, 2017 07:26
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Was the tax evasion on purpose or is the author just a dumbass?
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Feb 3, 2018 01:00
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Yeah its the sentence structure being really abrupt with no flow that seems a hallmark of chinese -> english translation, even in the better translated stuff. Especially character interactions. Info-dumps can be alright, like some of the earlier chapters of 40K.
lurksion fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Mar 22, 2018 21:50
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No longer following RTW, but true faithful do exist, and there are conceivable reasons for the lack of faith - the religion/church is actively political, isn't actually all that old, and was manufactured. Though that fact does bring up other worldbuilding issues of its own that aren't addressed afaik - for one why the gently caress no one has even kept even a cursory oral history.
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Myriad Truths posted:The Girl Who Bore the Flame Ring's translation wrapped up. I really like this author.
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May 6, 2018 00:14
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It is interesting that they've managed to tap into a market of people willing to pony up more $ than books for poo poo. The only redeeming feature of this stuff is that it is (was) free.
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Aug 21, 2018 04:32
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Customers who bought this item also bought
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This is interesting. I can sort of see the Mary Sue thing, she has fallen rear end backwards into wealth, but there is a lot of trauma involved in getting that bullshit (and then later consequences of that to herself and those attached to her), so... Also lol the paragraphs of fashion description that need to be skipped every few chapters. Yeah, I guess that's counts towards the author self-insert fantasy leaking straight through lurksion fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jan 12, 2019 |
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TheDemon posted:absurd paragraph-long...descriptions of how sexy and fashionable every single protagonist-aligned female is.
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I mean...from a mechanical perspective, many ARPGs are xianxia-like with the several order of magnitude differentials between level 1 noob and max level. In fact, when I first stumbled onto Desolate Era, my reference frame comparison was actually giant MMO with a giganticly wide skill tree and lootbag evil NPCs/arbitrary loot dungeons that have no reason to exist except as loot generators.
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Huh. At some point I wonder if said authors are trolling the readers.
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Feb 25, 2019 04:48
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Just server problems apparently.
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In other qidian news, apparently some translations have another (lump sum) payment block in front of them, but still have the standard pay for chapter attached. So basically pay to have the privilege of paying to read. lol
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Megazver posted:I'm reading it right now after stopping 100 chapters before the ending to wait for it to get translated and boy, I forgot how terrible the translation was. I hope whoever translated this never gets hired to do this again.
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Jymmybob posted:For all its faults, overlord fits pretty well because of the tons of side stories and world building. https://m.wuxiaworld.co/Way-of-the-Devil/ https://boxnovel.com/novel/way-of-the-devil/ appear to be up to date with whatevers on qidian/webnovel. also lmao you need to get to page 3 of google before the official qidian/webnovel shows up as a result lurksion fucked around with this message at 22:55 on May 15, 2020 |
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:I'm reading the Demoness' Art of Vengeance at the moment and it's killing me. It also spends way too much time in the heads of the retard villains and their silly plans and really stupid motivations (we don't need to spend multiple chapters on these). Pros: Legititmately good fight scenes. I basically skim the chapter names and read the ones that look fighty. Who the enemies are & their context are meaningless and would just be stupid anyway. lurksion fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jun 11, 2020 |
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Yeah I'd say the first half of Desolate Era is the best of the, uh, standard approach?
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The other thing to be wary of generalizing is that we're only seeing what's getting translated, and that's a filter that introduces additional biases. lurksion fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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Jun 21, 2020 05:57
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Probably to no one's surprise, PracGuide will have another book.
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lmao at the original beware the chicken thread (on spacebattles) being shut down due to a gun derail
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Artificer posted:The voters haven't entirely decided on it quite yet but that's a hell of a good move imo! Wouldn't call that not entirely decided on it.
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