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The promised road trip will be taking place Outside and the silly will only last about five minutes. Katalepsis is a great demonstration of the value of tonal contrast in a story. It's like the exact opposite of Wildbow, and it makes me wish the silly shenanigans bits of Worm were a lot more common.
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I personally would prefer slightly less silly in Katalepsis.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:I personally would prefer slightly less silly in Katalepsis. 
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These recent Wandering Inn chapters kinda bum me out with the allusions to ongoing events. It's enjoyable to read nonetheless but it's a bummer to get drawn back into reality when you were trying to escape. Also did the author always cut back into the inn during alphabet chapters for a significant portion of the chapter? I don't remember her doing that so much and devoting it mainly to those other regions or viewpoints.
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shirunei posted:These recent Wandering Inn chapters kinda bum me out with the allusions to ongoing events. It's enjoyable to read nonetheless but it's a bummer to get drawn back into reality when you were trying to escape. Also did the author always cut back into the inn during alphabet chapters for a significant portion of the chapter? I don't remember her doing that so much and devoting it mainly to those other regions or viewpoints. she started doing it more in vol 6 as a means to keep the readers invested in new viewpoints also yeah, TWI 7.33 I wasn't expecting the chapter to jump from mining hijinks straight into intersectional racism 
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Jul 8, 2020 03:59
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i too dislike it when authors attempt to provide meaning and context to the things they are writing
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Jul 8, 2020 04:09
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The new Pale chapter is Pretty Rad. Pay attention on your first Read through and maybe you can feel smarter than I did.
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A big flaming stink posted:she started doing it more in vol 6 as a means to keep the readers invested in new viewpoints I had not finished the newest free chapter when I wrote the post and the ending of that basically sums up why. They are no longer alone and the world is a much more connected place these days Guess I should finish these before whining.
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shirunei posted:These recent Wandering Inn chapters kinda bum me out with the allusions to ongoing events. It's enjoyable to read nonetheless but it's a bummer to get drawn back into reality when you were trying to escape. Also did the author always cut back into the inn during alphabet chapters for a significant portion of the chapter? I don't remember her doing that so much and devoting it mainly to those other regions or viewpoints. TWI has always been about these things; the setup for the seemingly too-on-the-nose topical events was written months and/or years ago. at this point if something big happens in innworld that could happen in real life you should probably prepare for it to actually happen.
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Jul 8, 2020 06:02
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I still wonder how many zombie outbreak stories got trash canned over the span of maybe a week
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Jazerus posted:TWI has always been about these things; the setup for the seemingly too-on-the-nose topical events was written months and/or years ago. at this point if something big happens in innworld that could happen in real life you should probably prepare for it to actually happen. Yup, the Yellow Rivers disease was in the story long before covid reared its ugly head from what I remember.
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So, stumbled across this gem in the third chapter of a new LitRpg I was giving a try.Bitter posted:She could see how people got obsessed with them, but only in the way you could get obsessed with scrunching up sheets of paper and lobbing them into a bin on the other side of the room. Mindless, repetitive actions soothed people who had nothing better to do. Video games were another version of catching a ball in a cup. Why would you write that in a LitRPG? One about playing an MMO even.  I understand feeling that way, but why would you write an MMO story if you did? It's not even a, oh look at this stupid person moment. That's the viewpoint character thinking that.
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Also from what I've gathered from the discord, pirateaba had always been planning the golden triangle blowing up and subsequent riots manipulated by scared rich people long before it was unfortunately topical, and made some minor changes to make the whole thing less... that.
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Pirateaba is the protagonist of a do-over web novel and they're using their second chance to warn us about 2020 through TWI. And speaking of TWI, latest nonpatron update: Oh man, long-awaited meeting finally happened. I am, of course, talking about Erin's 9th chess match with Teriarch  Really looking forward to seeing what comes next, this volume's set a collision course in motion for most of the earthers and this is the biggest leap forward yet; I've gotten so used to the slow burn that I thought everything that happened in this chapter would take another 5 volumes to get to. Argue fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Jul 8, 2020 |
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Argue posted:And speaking of TWI, latest nonpatron update: Oh man, long-awaited meeting finally happened. Silver Swords catching Ryoka
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I just caught up with Vainqueur the Dragon and I wanted to recommend it. It is LitRPG trash, but funny and fairly well written LitRPG trash.
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New Pale interlude: - The Belangers are real interesting and this continues to be my jam. - Snowdrop sucks, and doesn't care about Avery, and I am very sad about this development.
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The Humble Life of a Skill Trainer is very good. The writing is engrossing and exciting. Since this is the web serial thread, I'll add that I haven't seen any misspellings or typos. The story is internally consistent. The main character is surprisingly likeable. Unfortunately, it only updates 2-3 times a week, so there's not very much of it yet.
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TWI Patreon: This chapter was just bad. It was boring, wasn't funny, and didn't really go anywhere. Maybe this just happens with Rhir chapters? Which is a shame because Pirateaba's recent writing has been quite good.
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Peachfart posted:I just caught up with Vainqueur the Dragon and I wanted to recommend it. It is LitRPG trash, but funny and fairly well written LitRPG trash. picked this up and it's delightfully stupid, thanks for the recommendation
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I just caught up with the recent PracGuide chapters. I feel like we're seeing some trend of Catherine becoming more isolated. Hakram is obviously mostly out of the picture indefinitely, she just likely created a long-term (if not permanent) rift in her relationship with White Knight, and she's distancing herself from Vivienne. I also get the impression that Archer is starting to really mature (with the interlude where she decides to make an earnest effort at mending her relationship with Concocter basically being the turning point), and to some extent that's going to make her less "bound" to Catherine, even though they'll still be friends (and Archer and Masego seem to be closer to each other now than either are to Catherine).
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LLSix posted:I think Homicidal Aliens are Invading and All I Got is This Stat Menu is a more fun take on the same idea. Still an alien invasion, but much more upbeat and light-hearted. As you can probably tell from the title. This one's also on indefinite hiatus, unfortunately.
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John Lee posted:This one's also on indefinite hiatus, unfortunately. I hadn't noticed. The last couple chapters are basically an epilogue anyways. There was a good stopping point before the current one too, and I kind of feel like it would have made a better ending.
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Jul 13, 2020 03:13
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Holy poo poo the latest Threads of Destiny chapter.
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I'm on 5.32g of TWI Where someone's interfered with the mage spells to force Lakens soldiers to attack and I'm loving real tired of Magnolia's bullshit I don't know it's magnolia, but who the gently caress else could it be
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Omi no Kami posted:Holy poo poo the latest Threads of Destiny chapter. Yeah, that's...that's sure a thing. Was definitely not expecting the problem with the various Sun/jungle theories to be that they were wildly underestimating how hosed up the situation is. Given how hosed CRX got from brief accidental exposure to a White's full power, pretty sure this is RIP Sun Liling, whatever's left after they literally tear out all of her blood probably ain't gonna resemble her much anymore.
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tithin posted:I don't know it's magnolia, but who the gently caress else could it be
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Nick Buntline posted:Given how hosed CRX got from brief accidental exposure to a White's full power, pretty sure this is RIP Sun Liling, whatever's left after they literally tear out all of her blood probably ain't gonna resemble her much anymore. Well, CRX was barely red.On the other hand, this is power being used much more intentionally & on a deeper level here. And I expect that it would have been preferred to happen much much later (like in a few decades in Cyan/Violet) with a stronger foundation and way set, if at all.
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What I don't get is, what's the point? The Sun family's leadership is pretty much all thralled/brain-zapped by the jungle already, what does it gain by yoinking sun liling in particular? Given how much of a problem that poo poo is, I'm pretty sure it didn't really need more firepower or influence.
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tithin posted:I'm on 5.32g of TWI Where someone's interfered with the mage spells to force Lakens soldiers to attack and I'm loving real tired of Magnolia's bullshit If I recall correctly, even now we don't know for sure who it was, but it wasn't her. I think Magnolia prefers peace with goblins, less because of altruistic reasons and more because she considers the true enemy of the world to be the antinium.
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Omi no Kami posted:What I don't get is, what's the point? The Sun family's leadership is pretty much all thralled/brain-zapped by the jungle already, what does it gain by yoinking sun liling in particular? Given how much of a problem that poo poo is, I'm pretty sure it didn't really need more firepower or influence. My interpretation from the chapter is that it's basically realpolitik - The Sun's major issue/gripe is that the ancient clans basically practice MAD amongst themselves due to their Sublime Ancestors, so when the Bai start doing poo poo like "actively poisoning every member of the Sun they can get their hands on", no one can/wants to call them on it. They had plans in work to counter this, but the Empress doesn't seem to be interested in continuing her predecessor's work centralizing power in the government/sects, and the Cai/Bai alliance indicates the non-Sublime Ancestor clans also aren't interested in helping counteract them, so Grandpa Sun basically views his only option as "officially make the jungle our Sublime Ancestor so people will stop starting poo poo with us". And unfortunately that means Sun Liling has to get "adopted" (read: forcibly turned spiritblood so the jungle is now literally her/her descendant's ancestor and will continue to protect them going forward).
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Omi no Kami posted:What I don't get is, what's the point? The Sun family's leadership is pretty much all thralled/brain-zapped by the jungle already, what does it gain by yoinking sun liling in particular? Given how much of a problem that poo poo is, I'm pretty sure it didn't really need more firepower or influence. the jungle didn't want liling, the grandfather wanted to secure the clan against the future. the sun clan doesn't have any power outside of the western provinces with the aunt dying and so they have to do something to secure their power within the province. the jungle just wanted the grandfather for whatever reason (it is implied that the goddess loves him but who knows). i'm pretty sure the goddess was just after getting a white firmly under her control in terms of strategy.
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Sampatrick posted:the jungle didn't want liling, the grandfather wanted to secure the clan against the future. the sun clan doesn't have any power outside of the western provinces with the aunt dying and so they have to do something to secure their power within the province. the jungle just wanted the grandfather for whatever reason (it is implied that the goddess loves him but who knows). i'm pretty sure the goddess was just after getting a white firmly under her control in terms of strategy. Ooh that makes, sense, yeah. Because I can totally see what the Sun get out of it, to wit not being effortlessly annihilated by the Cai/Bai, but since the jungle/goddess appears to already have what it wants, I was hazier on their motivations for playing ball- the Sun seem like somewhat of a captive audience in that regard.
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The Shortest Path posted:It's a forum that originally started for nerds to argue over whether star wars ships could beat Star trek ships in a fight or whatever, with excessively complicated citation and debate rules. It's grown a lot from that origin but still has quite a lot of the most insufferable kind of nerd imaginable, so be wary. edit: dang that was an old post, happens when you have literally hundreds of tabs open I guess.
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Wow thats a lot of tabs, I usually cull what I dont need open when I get to around 25-30. The wandering Inn chapter a couple days ago wasn't particularly exciting, it felt more like a large info dump about loads of characters so that we will feel a bit bad when they get horribly murdered in the next one. Rhir sucks.
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LLSix posted:The Humble Life of a Skill Trainer is very good. The writing is engrossing and exciting. Since this is the web serial thread, I'll add that I haven't seen any misspellings or typos. The story is internally consistent. The main character is surprisingly likeable. Unfortunately, it only updates 2-3 times a week, so there's not very much of it yet. Thanks for the recommendation. I really enjoyed it. I don't know if I have seen a low fantasy LitRPG before, and it's pretty refreshing. I think part of what makes the mc likable is that even though it's his PoV, the writing does a good job of showing you that he is kind of an obsessive, socially maladapted weirdo. That really plays well with how the various social dynamics work out. Allows some good dramatic irony.
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Argue posted:If I recall correctly, even now we don't know for sure who it was, but it wasn't her. I think Magnolia prefers peace with goblins, less because of altruistic reasons and more because she considers the true enemy of the world to be the antinium. It was at least heavily implied if not stated outright that Tyrion Veltras was behind it, to manipulate Laken into the attack on Liscor.
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The wandering Inn In a later chapter when Ryoka is talking to Laken, she accuses Lady Rie of masterminding the plot. Because Tyrion had asked all his nobles with a truth stone if they did it and none of them were lying which vexed Laken. It is implied that Lady Rie did it on behalf of the Circle of Thorns to create a rift between Laken and the 5 families.
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More specifically, Lady Rie did it to try to create a rift between Laken and Magnolia
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