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Uldor posted:TWI Patreon: wooooooooooooo Numbtongue lives! i just realized that i cant even remember Cloak Guy's name (shorthilt, maybe?) but he was my favorite. because ever since he got the champion class there was a line about him twirling his cloak whenever he got mentioned in a scene
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I think I'm just about finished with Worm and theres a lot of tangents that probably shouldn't be there. But I think it comes across as obvious that Wildbow is middle class, and believes in the system. That's why Worm is so focused on individuals. Another giant red flag is how he goes into Grue and Imp's broken home for a second. It's not very nuanced, stereotypical even. Maybe its just me talking but I remember when I went hungry way more often than I remembered my dad not being very warm.
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Velius posted:Oh come on, where’s Everybody Loves Large Chests? Or any of the many misogynistic fics by Mooderino? i dont understand why morning wood poo poo has to have a somewhat entertaining story combined with incredibly bizarre and pointless fetish stuff. the main character isn't even capable of loving
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Apr 2, 2019 06:29
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we obsess over it because our global culture is dominated by europe and europe's domination had pretty much everything to do with metallurgy, access to good iron and good coal. its what made armor plate and chainmail more viable, made terico squares and muskets more viable, etc
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drat, Mother of Learning is really good. The setting is pretty well thought out even though it only gives you a piece or two at a time. I thought at first it was just the typical web novel making poo poo up as you go kind of thing, but the author had to have planned it out, at least in broad strokes. It's cool how they managed to combine the 1700s technology with magic being fairly widespread and highly developed without falling into traps other settings have, like 'oh nobody ever bothered inventing guns or trains or large sailing vessels because magic makes economics irrelevant'. I guess that says nothing for how or why it's a good story, but I spent a lot of time working on ideas for MUDs as a kid where setting is a thousand times more important than compelling narrative so I guess it impresses me
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Cicero posted:I viewed the public trials/spectacles as similar to the French Revolution, he's trying to rapidly change people's values to accept witches/reject nobility when they've had the nobility and been told witches are evil their whole lives, and the people in question were lovely enough to deserve it. Brutal, but probably effective. you, uh, should try learning about mao some time. I think you're confusing his personal idiosyncrasies with the concept of a centralized socialist state that is starting from basically medieval technology
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A big flaming stink posted:TWI Patreon: I am seriously tilted by the casual manner of Ken stating that the world in TWI is, in fact, flat. Do the fundamental forces of reality just not exist there???????? the world being flat (or at the least the natives think it is) has been confirmed since the Flos chapters. He tells the twins about that and claims hes even seen the edge of the world. also, every continent is the size of Eurasia. The English thing continues to be inexplicable, and all of the Earth characters that think about it think it's incredibly weird.
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The new MoL is good, my favorite kind of chapter. I kind of like the later slice of life stuff more than the early ones.
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navyjack posted:Small Medium, the RR series by the same author and in the same world as Threadbear has a Muscle Wizzard and he is the best. I love that guy so much lol
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its funny that the wandering inn muscle wizard is literally just a guy talking about exercise like its magic, but the small medium version is a dude who's really a professional wrestler who just dresses like one and thinks wizards are cool. i like pirateaba but the idea that people would think someone insisting people do physical exercise is crazy just because magic exists is pretty funny
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A big flaming stink posted:Pisces did mention that he learned how to lipread without using a Skill and its portrayed as a pretty out there idea for him. there's also how nothing in the world manages to outlast the lifetime of its creator because they almost universally depend on their Skills without actually learning how to create it most of the time. Or more precisely, they never bother to teach the underlying theory because teaching a little bit is likely to convey Skills upon leveling. Laken for example vaguely explained how to construct a trebuchet and one of his engineers became an Engineer almost immediately and then intuitively understood the extremely complex physics behind the construction. the goblins are good at this specifically because it's the only collective society shown so far, so they're able to quickly communicate what they need and all of rags' crafter goblins get together and start work immediately without arguing about money or whatever. even the antinium dont count because most of them aren't sapient and cant think on their own
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It's funny, I read the wondrous version and didnt think that at all. I figured they were just implying they knew she had to have a specialized high level class and that they did too. A bunch of characters in the book have them and they tend to be pretty secretive about specifics.
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kind of a boring WI chapter but whatever. i like olesem.
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A big flaming stink posted:shut up you. Ilvriss and Erin tearing up because he had to finally leave was precious I'm pretty sure that's just her joking to her self.
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to be fair I cant figure out how to explain any particular religion without basic concepts that most religions share. so how would you explain it to someone who is not just unreligious, but doesn't even understand the idea of it?
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my advice is if your deaf, try not to bring attention to it with stuff like characters being temporarily deafened by explosions but nothing else. hearing is a lot like vision, it's a sense that can be overwhelmed. like I've got some minor tinnitus and its hard to sometimes understand people over this constant buzz. It's like if your vision was covered in TV static. But that doesnt mean I cant hear quiet stuff or loud stuff doesnt bother me, it just takes more focus to tune out the ringing
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May 9, 2019 23:16
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I mean that's basically what web serial authors already do. Anyway re: MoL, is it me or is this newest chapter like, 1/4th the size of the normal one?
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also iirc the dungeon master explicitly tells him to stop trying to meta-game his intentions and just do what he thinks is right. what juniper thinks about the exclusionary principle being the DM nerfing things is completely conjecture. it could also be just another wacky law of physics in Aerb, or it is controlled by an intelligence but it's not the DM, etc
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Yeah they assume that the DM is hostile not by his actions but because Aerb is based almost entirely on Juniper's work and Juniper loved to be a hostile DM. Especially since a lot of the stuff in Aerb is from when he was spiraling into depression, specifically
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Yeah the TWI chapter was excellent. I'm so used to Ksmvr whining about himself being an inferior copy that I forgot that even a lovely copy of Klbch should still be a one man killing machine
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I get that but since I cant really remember him doing anything exciting in particular for like, 100 chapters, it was cool
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someone give me the password because I dont get paid till friday
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A big flaming stink posted:you, uh, kind of lack pms. Yeah but the thing is they charge you on the first, and if you're broke on the first because its the end of your pay period, well,
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Ytlaya posted:One thing I find kind of implausible that I think you're just supposed to ignore is the whole fact that Goddess was able to take over her planet in the first place. That one guy described them considering it a victory if only 30 people died in the process of killing a parahuman, but the vast majority of parahumans are extremely vulnerable to regular guns and IIRC there are at least 10,000 people for every parahuman (and I think more than that). It's true that there are some parahumans who are basically invulnerable to all normal weapons, but they make up a minority of parahumans and they can't be everywhere at once.. i think wildbow wanted to make it clear that parahumans aren't invincible which is why almost all of them have no defensive powers, but then for some reason non-parahuman crime apparently doesnt exist. if people hated parahumans as much as the story claims youd think there'd be a lot more people sniping parahumans, especially because even ultra powerful ones like Taylor and Tattletale aren't omniscient. Like nobody ever thought to put IEDs in the neighborhoods where they hang out or something. it's just weird that the setting's back story makes a big deal out of that one guy dying in a sports riot when hes basically the only one to ever be killed by normals
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i havent read more than a chapter or two of ward but from the first book it always seemed like bone saw of all people was more relatable than panacea. Bone saw never wanted to do any of the stuff she had to, and it's not like escaping from jack is easy when hes one of the characters with bullshit superman like powers that can do anything. Whereas panacea just kind of stops caring what other people think and does whatever she wants, which is insanely horrifying when you can do literally anything to someone with a touch. honestly her power is terrifying. at least bone saw has to infect you with a magic super virus or do surgery on you first.
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A big flaming stink posted:this is a bit of an asterisk with the goblin chapters, though. The goblins are a systemically oppressed race constantly on the verge of being genocided out of existence and the work tries to realistically depict the individuals that would be shaped by those circumstances. The goblins are my favorite characters tbh
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parts of TWI is that the characters occasional relate that goblins are prone to raping any non-goblin women they gain control of. It's never explicitly stated as such, but this is 100% a hateful stereotype inflicted on the goblins by their oppressors, and while some individual goblins do engage in that activity, those individuals are exceptional and other goblin characters straight up call such behavior inhuman (ungoblin, specifically).
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so I've read a pretty good chunk of Ward, and it's kind of weird how much it's like Worm. Does wildbow purposefully write his criminal characters to be way more relatable than the other ones? Like Imp and Rachel were always better for me and in this one I like Ashley and Rain a lot more. Maybe it's just because besides Victoria they got the most background so far. But I kind of hate most of the characters in this. Maybe I've internalized hating middle class people so much that even fictional middle class people annoy the poo poo out of me, idk.
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So I just read the Ward chapter about Kenzie's parents and why is nearly every wildbow hero character 40x as insane as the average villain
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Also I caught up on WTC and frankly I figured that would happen eventually. That characters always been an alien weirdo about that stuff. But maybe it didnt bug me as bad because I felt like it was inevitable. Normally that sort of drama absolutely sucks to read and makes me hate whatever it was in
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my take is sexual assault is bad when it's there for jack off purposes and... well good is the wrong word but it's not bad when it's for a story purpose.
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I wanted more of the United Nations stuff tbh. Erin and Ryoka are cool but what they do doesn't feel as important usually. Also I want to know what the Wistram guy is up to now that he invented broadcast television and [Message] chat Hell I'd take another Insane Clown Guy chapter because Rhir is interesting
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TWI Patreon: holy poo poo Antinium heaven exists
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Yeah when I first watched it as a kid I was like, wow, hes so wacky driving the car off a cliff. As an adult I was like oh jesus christ he just wants to die already, that's dark as gently caress.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:The Wandering Inn is when Erin throws a party and the more party she throws the more The Wandering Inn it is. I want Relc to pick up magic
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The solstice stuff was genuinely pretty creepy to me tbh
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Yeah TWI is basically one of like two fantasy stories I've read where despite having big powerful heroes it seems to focus on people working together being much more powerful
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he's saying its bad when its the literary equivalent of those games that have romance options that are just always available to the player no matter what, so its not actually part of their character, its just there to make the Product available to as many people as possible. its not like books or even webnovels are immune to this kind of cancerous liberal capitalist thinking where representation is a checkbox thats there because we all know all gay people will consume any product with a gay person, therefor we need a token gay character in every product who's only there to be gay there doesn't have to be a point to a character being gay, but like. i didnt grow up around only heterosexuals, i dont assume everyone else is a heterosexual. but if theres no romance or sexual tension in a novel there's no reason for anybody's sexuality to come up. so its weird when a lovely book just has Side Character B that's there to make comments on male characters or whatever because the dumbass writer doesn't know how to write a gay character Larry Parrish fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Aug 17, 2019 |
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im kind of a prude so it actually kind of does bother me if a book is like 'Oh by the way this guy fucks a lot' but its never used to set anything else up, it's just a random one off detail. mostly I just find it kind of lazy. I guess I'm a big believer in chekhov's gun also I realize this is hilarious to say in the web serial thread, one step above bathroom graffiti in terms of literature, but maybe the dipshit who assumes every character is like them unless stated otherwise doesn't need to be considered
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Sampatrick posted:As an aside, this right here is stupid as poo poo. the kind of trash novels I read usually dont mention skin color at all, but unfortunately when they do, it's to illustrate them as Different. Sometimes it's in a racist way (lots of trash genre fiction has the bad guy be some flavor of non white, or in a rare but still racist reversal, they're the only white character). othertimes it's just one or two characters that get skin color described and you're left wondering why, exactly, it came up. anyway we were talking about queer characters that are queer just so you can say that theres a queer character in it, and that particular situation wouldn't change if it was having a random black character just to say you have a black character. Jazerus posted:the problem is when one character is queer, and their queerness is their character, or a majority of it. it comes off as "welll, i don't really know any gay people but i don't want to write a 100% straight story, so i'll just say john is gay and occasionally he leaves the group to hit on dudes. but nobody else who's a named character is gay, except maybe there's a lesbian princess because that's hot" this is basically what I'm trying to say but smarter
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