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I feel like this is one of the first times I've read to one of these novels where it turns out the author did in fact think of what you can use magic for. in this case, WW2-style fire storms
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another thing that came up in the TWI discord: Califor(nia) wildfires
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Latest Into the Mire: ”At least there was no possible way their destination could be as horrible as the last one.” Uh huh. Sure. There isn’t any foreshadowing going on here. Weird, ancient, scorpion caves are just good fun.
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Sep 23, 2019 17:04
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Affi posted:Holy poo poo Jason you're getting kinda messed up there... (patreon chapter latest) This was a while ago but I assume you were talking about what is now the latest non-patreon chapter and man, that was pretty hosed up. I feel like the story's veering a little hard into protag as a sociopath lately.
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Sep 24, 2019 17:39
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M. Night Skymall posted:This was a while ago but I assume you were talking about what is now the latest non-patreon chapter and man, that was pretty hosed up. I feel like the story's veering a little hard into protag as a sociopath lately. Turns out the title is kind of a clue about what the story arc will be. I'm not enthusiastic about it, but I guess it's still readable for now.
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M. Night Skymall posted:This was a while ago but I assume you were talking about what is now the latest non-patreon chapter and man, that was pretty hosed up. I feel like the story's veering a little hard into protag as a sociopath lately. Eh I’m assuming he’s performing for the audience. I wouldn’t feel comfortable describing the “real” Jason at this point.
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Sep 24, 2019 19:33
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Anias posted:Eh Going out of your way to build up an elaborate image of yourself as a sociopathic rear end in a top hat, as he has been for the past twenty or so chapters, is hardly a sign of mental health either.
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Sep 24, 2019 20:05
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For now I am assuming he is just a great method actor, and has watched too many horror movies. I like the 'trying to be a good person, despite everything' thing the story has going.
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Sep 24, 2019 20:05
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Megazver posted:Going out of your way to build up an elaborate image of yourself as a sociopathic rear end in a top hat, as he has been for the past twenty or so chapters, is hardly a sign of mental health either. Except he also spent days at a time being kind and demonstrating empathy to the non-Essence population? I think he’s deceptive, but I don’t know that his mental health prior to vast trauma was sociopathy, and I think he’s acted more in line with post trauma than active malevolence so far.
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Sep 24, 2019 20:23
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On one hand it seems obvious that he's hamming it up for psychological warfare, that's a valid tactic. On the other hand, the way he's doing it is making enemies unnecessarily.
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Sep 24, 2019 20:24
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Anias posted:Except he also spent days at a time being kind and demonstrating empathy to the non-Essence population? sociopathy isn't a mental health diagnosis
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Sep 24, 2019 20:37
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TWI 6.46 E: I guess Wiskeria is Sasuke now. RIP Califor.
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Cicero posted:TWI 6.46 E: I guess Wiskeria is Sasuke now. RIP Califor. A big flaming stink posted:Califor(nia) wildfires
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Sep 24, 2019 21:59
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Cicero posted:On one hand it seems obvious that he's hamming it up for psychological warfare, that's a valid tactic. On the other hand, the way he's doing it is making enemies unnecessarily. But he's doing exactly what the matriarch wants him to do. Seems clear to me the lesson he knows well that the clan at large doesn't really get is, "Death is scary and ugly and very close at hand when you're adventuring." Some of the Geller family might have a lowered opinion of him, but many of them will probably get the point that adventuring is not a game. That could work in Jason's favor in the future, and having Danielle or whatever her name is as a closer ally is definitely a big plus. Jason isn't a sociopath. He's putting on a show in VR that he was implicitly asked to put on.
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I think my only reservation with what Jason is doing is that it’s constantly hammered in that the simulation is indistinguishable from reality. I can absolutely buy an otherwise perfectly normal person turning into an absolute monster of a heel while playing a video game, but when you’re actually trussing someone up from a tree, slitting their throat, and taunting their teammates by desiccating their corpse in front of them and using it as a shield and it’s perfectly lifelike then there’s something wrong with your head. Oh, also, grinding someone’s face into the mud so that they choke to death while bleeding out is extremely hosed up. I’m legit hoping this gets more development, it would absolutely suck if he gets a pass on it because he was doing it on someone’s request and it was just a simulation. e: i just read the latest chapter and, welp blastron fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Sep 25, 2019 03:37
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Hungry posted:So, I've been writing a web serial for almost nine months now, called Katalepsis. So I checked this out, I read the whole thing, it is pretty drat good! Not just for a web serial either, I actually ended up taking a break from the novel I was reading to catch up with this story instead.
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Sep 25, 2019 12:30
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blastron posted:I think my only reservation with what Jason is doing is that it’s constantly hammered in that the simulation is indistinguishable from reality. I can absolutely buy an otherwise perfectly normal person turning into an absolute monster of a heel while playing a video game, but when you’re actually trussing someone up from a tree, slitting their throat, and taunting their teammates by desiccating their corpse in front of them and using it as a shield and it’s perfectly lifelike then there’s something wrong with your head. It's not indistinguishable from reality because THEY KNOW IT'S FAKE. I'm on the Patreon and won't go into spoilers but this gets discussed further in the story.
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Sep 25, 2019 13:26
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Lone Goat posted:It's not indistinguishable from reality because THEY KNOW IT'S FAKE. Waterboarding is considered legit torture because it feels like drowning, even though people who are subjected to it know they're not. He did something to that dude that's much worse than waterboarding.
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Omi no Kami posted:All in all I had a lot of fun reading, so thanks for being a cool writer person and sharing a neat story with us! Plorkyeran posted:I read through chapter 4.2 of useless lesbian ghost adventures on a plane flight today. It was good. Thank you both very much! I'm delighted that people are enjoying my story. Musluk posted:I thought she was malnourished. The ambiguity may be intentional. Patrat posted:So I checked this out, I read the whole thing, it is pretty drat good! Not just for a web serial either, I actually ended up taking a break from the novel I was reading to catch up with this story instead. Ah! Thank you, that is a very significant compliment. I know my style isn't the best, but I'm glad people are getting something real from reading it.
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Caught up with PracGuide. I like how Catherine now realizes her "justifications only matter to the just" motto on her standard is kinda cringe and is trying to figure out how to remove it without causing a fuss. It's also neat seeing her gradually become the character who out-thinks and tricks other characters, instead of just the one who manages to outmaneuver people by the skin of her teeth (and even that was often part of some events outside of her control earlier on). The scene with Scribe was pretty good. I'm pretty sure she just got tricked by Tyrant, though. Tyrant was being very vague and she was inferring all the stuff about Malicia using the zombification alchemy on her own from things Tyrant was saying that could mean something completely different. Hanno is also kind of strange/interesting as a character. He seems unusually thoughtful and "unbiased" for a Named/hero but also it's kinda hosed up how he flips a coin and beheads people.
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Plus, this would be kinda cheap but the goat makes a great way to get around his inability to lie- he can just name a goat Malicia or First Prince or whatever, and have his pets re-enact misdirections so he can describe them to people.Hungry posted:I know my style isn't the best, but I'm glad people are getting something real from reading it. For what it's worth, it's probably in the top 20% of serials when it comes to technical writing; everyone can always get better, but it's not like Ward or Mother of Learning where there are constant writing problems or linguistic oddities to trip over. It scans fine and most people have a distinct voice, which is a better foundation to work from than some authors start with. ^^
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Prac Guide 5.81:What's the list of people who have made treaties with the Queen of Callow? (this formulation is probably specific)
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Think we might have seen enough of the rules of Raising the Tower to actually play it now.
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Cicero posted:Think we might have seen enough of the rules of Raising the Tower to actually play it now. It seems kind of interesting.
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I'm a huge rear end nerd so I wrote out the rules, as best as I could figure them out from the latest chapter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VNvIErv3D6YV48A8grvRMxxSugtkUlkrw1K60GrMfDE/edit?usp=sharing Think I'm in agreement with the Dead King, I...I'm not sure it's actually a good game at all. Still planning on trying it out at least once, though.
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Cicero posted:I'm a huge rear end nerd so I wrote out the rules, as best as I could figure them out from the latest chapter: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VNvIErv3D6YV48A8grvRMxxSugtkUlkrw1K60GrMfDE/edit?usp=sharing It may be a bad game in the way that monopoly was intended to be. edit: Now that I've read the chapter, I'm certain of it. The game is absolutely intended that way. NinjaDebugger fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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It would be funny if the game accidentally reflected on the crapsack nature of their world- like, we hear Cat and Akua going "Oh my god, Hakram's game is brilliant, it's the most realistic simulation of politics and rulership we have ever seen," then we see the rules in action and it's like 90% dice luck and 10% mean-spirited broken mechanics.
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yeah if I want to play a psychological diplomacy game that ends with everyone hating each other forever I'll just play Diplomacy
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GreyjoyBastard posted:yeah if I want to play a psychological diplomacy game that ends with everyone hating each other forever I'll just play Diplomacy Dominions. I don’t have my logs anymore but I think I hate you.
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:Dominions. I don’t have my logs anymore but I think I hate you. I've only played in like maybe ten or so goongames of Dominions but that's probably enough!
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Sep 28, 2019 04:38
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Why have any other rules. We've run popularity contest right here on the forums - straight voting 1 player out per round, majority vote, no other mechanics.
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Sep 28, 2019 06:20
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90s Cringe Rock posted:I didn't see that coming. ...so I didn't see the quote's source, and thought that Praem was a nation in PracGuide and that I'd somehow missed Tyrant figuring out how to lie. (Which would be a heck of a twist, to be sure.)
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So this last Ward interlude is one of the first time in years that a story has made me physically sick to my stomach.
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Ward's been making me sick to my stomach since the prologue.
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Illuen posted:So this last Ward interlude is one of the first time in years that a story has made me physically sick to my stomach. It's good to see that, now that it's been made extremely explicit, the people in the comments have finally (mostly) come around to realizing that Amy Is Bad. Amy is actually a pretty well-written antagonist, in that her mindset and behavior are pretty realistic for an abuser.
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Ytlaya posted:It's good to see that, now that it's been made extremely explicit, the people in the comments have finally (mostly) come around to realizing that Amy Is Bad. oh yeah, she's one of my favorite characters in Worm/Ward, for certain values of favorite
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