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90s Cringe Rock posted:TUTBAD: "what the gently caress is a "landlord" " Made me smile.
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May 20, 2022 02:30
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I see what you guys were talking about with book 2 of memories of the fall, but I do find it mildly amusing that no xianxia novel can resist the allure of having at least one character craft a hyperbolic time chamber to meditate in. Which is I guess what all the ancient experts who aren't busy using the bones of the poor as toothpicks or some poo poo are doing
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May 20, 2022 07:09
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Mizuki about to introduce georgism to the dwodo
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May 20, 2022 08:44
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Katreus posted:She is a 4th stage (threshold) of both green soul and bronze physique realms as of the sect tournament. (Actually, she hit full 4th stage in month 12 of her Inner Sect year). She was at the 1st stage of green and bronze at the end of Forge. So she has made 3 stage advances in both spiritual and physical cultivation over Threads so far. Yeah, the main point is that Green/Bronze (the third level of soul/body) takes dramatically longer than the previous two levels. IIRC the previous two just had vague "early/middle/late" stages instead of the well defined 8 stages that Green/Bronze have. In terms of norms for the setting, IIRC pretty much every cultivator can reach the peak of the second level (Yellow/Silver) given enough effort, but only talented people ever make it to Green/Bronze (and only the truly elite make it beyond that). Is there even anyone in the Inner Sect who is beyond third realm? IIRC Liao Zhu, who is one of the highest rank Inner Sect members, is just in the late third realm.
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May 20, 2022 23:44
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Ytlaya posted:Yeah, the main point is that Green/Bronze (the third level of soul/body) takes dramatically longer than the previous two levels. IIRC the previous two just had vague "early/middle/late" stages instead of the well defined 8 stages that Green/Bronze have. IIRC Gu Yanmei (Xiulan's older sister) is the first ranked disciple and a fourth realm; Zhou's niece is also fourth realm but I don't recall if she's technically a disciple or just military and stays in the area due to it being on the border etc. There's definitely been a lot played up about how dangerous breakthroughs get at that point - see the last SV update's example of what happens when you fail - so it's likely a long way off even if Ling Qi could attempt it sooner. (Meta-wise: if she reaches fourth realm before a certain age she gets another automatic noble title, and there's zero chance Yrsillar is going to let all the build-up to fief management get thrown away like that).
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May 21, 2022 00:11
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Woah, Last Ship in Suzhou finally got another chapter. There was another one last month too, but it's been more or less dead for ages. The author was sick or something. Hope it comes back for good. It's an experience lol. A xianxia that's uh, I dunno. Actually Daoist, you could say? It's also an isekai and seemingly every character constantly quotes Chinese literature.
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Peachfart posted:There is a new chapter, and I'm enjoying it. But of course Tabitha just has to mention the super important story Worm, by Wildbow. And that takes me out of the future narrative because it is such a bad story. Forgive me as I know this topic has been strip mined and detonated into space at this point, but Worm does have things that made it notable - though I agree with all the criticisms and have plenty of my own. It had neat ideas and a whole lot of them, and seemed to introduce a lot of people into the general format of web serials. To summarize what could easily be a rambling bit of nonsense, it had so many ideas about its world, about different powers, and bizarre situations that I still think about it probably once a week on average, almost a decade later. Not arguing for its place in a hall of fame, but I do think it might be a tad aggressive to call it bad. My opinion ain't worth poo poo though and I enjoy your posts so take a big 'ol handful of salt. Entirely separate but I devoured Ar'Kendrithyst over the course of a week and change and it has torn my prior favorites ratings to pieces - it makes a lot of sense that the author has written novels before because the quality and plotting are there from the start. Every time something momentous happens, it feels like a natural extension of everything that has happened before in a way that I don't believe I've seen in a web serial so far. The depth of the systems in his world and especially how fully realized the conceit of magic and how it exists in our universe is incredibly robust. It is not perfect by any means but it's the first web serial I've read that has felt more like a proper work of fiction than a work where the quality is continuously improving from (for lack of a better term) an amateur author. With the strong urge to reread I'm definitely going to write a proper review of AK once I've read it through again but I gotta say I'm just blown away by the work. I've been increasingly pacifistic as I've gotten older and it was very nice to have a protagonist really believe in peace, as somebody earlier mentioned. Specifically, not the kind of "I believe in peace" trope where somebody refuses to fight and ends up letting violence win, but somebody who recognizes violence is necessary and strives for a world in which it is not. People deserve art that speaks to them and jeeze, this really got me good. day-gas fucked around with this message at 20:00 on May 23, 2022 |
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I don't think it's totally unrelated. Ar'Kenrithyst and Worm are both about power and how it shapes the world. Worm is just a misanthrope writing about an emotionally maladjusted trauma victim gaining and wielding power, while Ar'k is about an emotionally mature adult who really knows what they're about getting power. Both have flaws. I like Ar'k better and think it's a much more interesting and complicated point of view. But they do kind of contrast in an interesting way.
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Nick Buntline posted:IIRC Gu Yanmei (Xiulan's older sister) is the first ranked disciple and a fourth realm; Zhou's niece is also fourth realm but I don't recall if she's technically a disciple or just military and stays in the area due to it being on the border etc. Gu Yanmei was a 4th realm while the first ranked inner sect disciple, but in her case, she was being held back a bit because she's a high noble and the Sect is very reluctant to promote someone for higher resources when they can run off back home. (It was the same reason why the Sect was dragging on promoting Lin Hai from core sect to elder status until it became too embarrassing to have an indigo core sect disciple. At that point, the Sect just had to suck it up and promote him. Same with Gu Yanmei's situation.) In any case, it's very rare to have any fourth realm inner sect member, and they'd be promoted at the soonest possible opportunity if it did happen. Generally, they would even promote high greens. Liao Zhu is rank 2 and high green. Guan Zhou is core sect disciple.
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day-gas posted:Forgive me as I know this topic has been strip mined and detonated into space at this point, but Worm does have things that made it notable - though I agree with all the criticisms and have plenty of my own. It had neat ideas and a whole lot of them, and seemed to introduce a lot of people into the general format of web serials. To summarize what could easily be a rambling bit of nonsense, it had so many ideas about its world, about different powers, and bizarre situations that I still think about it probably once a week on average, almost a decade later. Not arguing for its place in a hall of fame, but I do think it might be a tad aggressive to call it bad. My opinion ain't worth poo poo though and I enjoy your posts so take a big 'ol handful of salt. Wittgen posted:I don't think it's totally unrelated. Ar'Kenrithyst and Worm are both about power and how it shapes the world. Worm is just a misanthrope writing about an emotionally maladjusted trauma victim gaining and wielding power, while Ar'k is about an emotionally mature adult who really knows what they're about getting power. I just wanted to say that I love these two posts and(in reference to the first poster) I'm glad someone else was able to enjoy Ar'Kendrithyst the same way I did.
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The last time I sincerely posted about what I like about Worm, you just replied with lol. Not sure if you're making fun of me here. The more I think about it the more I like comparing the two stories. Both have a preoccupation with creating a sense of verisimilitude in their worlds by way of connections and interactions between systems. Both have a lot of escalation of power level and stakes. Both have quite a bit of visceral violence and horror. (The mental monsters in Ar'k are so bad.) But the choice of protagonist makes such a huge difference. I think Ar'k would be pretty run of the mill if Jane was the main character.
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i mean if we kept it absolutely the same and Erick was just floating in and out of the background going through his enlightenment that would be a hilarious setting. I got isekai'd with my dad and he's becoming a new god, while I'm merely a competent soldier.
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Larry Parrish posted:i mean if we kept it absolutely the same and Erick was just floating in and out of the background going through his enlightenment that would be a hilarious setting. I got isekai'd with my dad and he's becoming a new god, while I'm merely a competent soldier. all the other blurbs I had I would have had to spoil ("killed all the Shades" and "my race says Human? now")
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Wittgen posted:The last time I sincerely posted about what I like about Worm, you just replied with lol. Not sure if you're making fun of me here. Nah, I understand what you said this time.
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quote:His class was the Rare grade Peril Sword, a class that required the Legendary grade skill Danger Sense to learn, and that skill worked like Spider-Man’s Peter Tingle.
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Man Name of Truck Pounded my Butt, so I was Reincarnated in an Erotic Short Story!
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TUTBAD 105: Hmm, being lost in a poison gas-filled canyon seems less than ideal. Wonder if this'll finally lead to a dungeon day reset by Alfric. I'm guessing that since Alfric takes this poo poo serious and is always carefully paying attention, Isra is probably good at tracking, and they have the helmet so they can jump up into the sky whenever they want, them being lost here means spatial dungeon fuckery.
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Is anyone reading Cheep? I binged through it last week since I'm a sucker for inhuman / no longer human protagonists. It took a bit of a dark turn a few chapter back but then the author did a huge edit of 10+ chapters (included patreon only) to change the flavor of that whole event. Cheep changes spoiler Originally, the paladin went right for the collar which was a permanent mind control thing so the adventurer group was rightly pissed. The MC was already depressed due to losing his family (again) and then lost his freewill so was understandably suicidal. They changed the whole encounter to lessen the danger of the collar, make the paladin's actions more understandable, and MC's suicidal thoughts to instead be due to overdose of the paralytic poison. Instead of the paladin being in the wrong, Skye is an overreactor in the edits and is now more of a spoiled brat that only cared about taming a legendary bird instead of being rightly pissed at the paladin's abuse towards a sapient individual. I did like how the edits clarified some things but all the deep introspection from the characters and their responses seem overly dramatic now with how the traumatic event was toned down.
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Cicero posted:TUTBAD 105: Hmm, being lost in a poison gas-filled canyon seems less than ideal. Wonder if this'll finally lead to a dungeon day reset by Alfric. TUTBAD 105: speculation I've yet to see Wales work discuss 4 dimensional space, and that seems like something that is EXACTLY up his wheelhouse.
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Outcast Patreon: They better bring Vul'to back, he's my favorite.
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Cicero posted:TUTBAD 105: Hmm, being lost in a poison gas-filled canyon seems less than ideal. Wonder if this'll finally lead to a dungeon day reset by Alfric. Someone in the RR comments suggested that the poison may be making them stupid. I hope it's that or some other unexpected problem. Otherwise they have lots of tools to quickly solve the "lost" problem. It's out of character for Alfric to have not marked the way out, helmet, left-hand rule becomes right-hand rule to back-track, Isra, etc, etc.
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It sounds like carbon monoxide exposure, or really any kind of oxygen displacement
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Outcast: It looks like Vul'to will probably end up being saved, but at some sort of cost (maybe he'll permanently be in the body of the soul eater guy). I was expecting him to be saved due to the soul doctor guy being there, but I assumed he'd somehow being able to stick him back in his own body (or use the Soul Clay). I'm happy that didn't happen because it would have been pretty lame. My one minor gripe is that most of the characters in that story tend to be a bit too reasonable/kind. Almost everyone that isn't a direct antagonist tends to act with an almost unnatural degree of respect and empathy towards others, with the exception of moments that are clearly intended to highlight some sort of personality flaw or conflict (like when Keira dismembers those Fiend assassins).
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Man Memories of the Fall would be a lot better of a story if it was just Arai and Sana doing missions in the hell jungle and trying not to get screwed over by bureaucrats.
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Patrick Spens posted:Man Memories of the Fall would be a lot better of a story if it was just Arai and Sana doing missions in the hell jungle and trying not to get screwed over by bureaucrats. yeah. i got caught up on it and the shard world stuff is all cool, mostly, but I struggle to care about any of it. it seems like it lacks relevance. also the story is on pause for the part one rewrite which sucks.
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Like I just started reading after the rewrite chapters, and there have been 15 separate POV characters so far, 4 of which are 20,000+ year old walking superpowers. That's dumb. The whole thing is just so unfocused.
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Patrick Spens posted:Like I just started reading after the rewrite chapters, and there have been 15 separate POV characters so far, 4 of which are 20,000+ year old walking superpowers. That's dumb. The whole thing is just so unfocused. The 'best' part is that shortly they're going to taper off into almost nothing. In fact it'll feel like time is loving frozen outside the shard. Which makes you wonder what the hell the point of introducing Blue Water Province in such detail was. In the moment to moment story I still like it but I really have to wonder what the hell is happening, and if any of this is like, planned out on purpose.
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TUTBAD: “Aw,” said Mizuki. She set the bottle down. “When did you become no fun?” “You said I’m never any fun,” said Alfric. “Right, it obviously predates us meeting, I was just wondering whether it was obvious to your parents when you were a baby, or whether it happened more around puberty.” lol
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Peachfart posted:TUTBAD: Mizuki going super saiyan is also exciting
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TUTBAD today was great. Not sure if I've read any other fiction quite like it. Maybe Legends & Lattes comes closest.
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There's a lot of good Mizuki zingers in this chapter actually. I think she's in a crabby mood.
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Anyone else happened across this Scorched work on royal road? https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/53044/scorched-the-winter-winds-litrpg Has this lived in feel to it that I don't see often with serials. I'm only a dozen chapters in though, so no promises on the author pulling through but that's the genre for you.
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shirunei posted:Anyone else happened across this Scorched work on royal road? This has the absolute worst stat sheet I have ever seen. That said, I burned through the first chapter and it's definitely a cut above the average. I like it.
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Any idea when the next book of Dungeon Crawler Carl starts? It feels like it's been a few months since the last book ended.
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Larry Parrish posted:This has the absolute worst stat sheet I have ever seen. That said, I burned through the first chapter and it's definitely a cut above the average. I like it. Wow, you weren't kidding. A bunch of the later boxes also don't have readable foreground/background color combinations.
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Bhodi posted:Any idea when the next book of Dungeon Crawler Carl starts? It feels like it's been a few months since the last book ended. He's released a few chapters on Patreon of the new book although it feels like they are coming out a bit slower than usual.
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