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The Shortest Path posted:Rhir sucks.
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TWI Patreon Despite the hints that the demons aren't evil it's kinda hard to reconcile that with Silvenia their version of Tom. Except if Tom was the ranking general as well as some ancient murder mage. Then again the Blighted Kingdom murdered a ton of unborn babies. Rhir sucks.
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Jul 19, 2020 07:27
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shirunei posted:TWI Patreon Despite the hints that the demons aren't evil it's kinda hard to reconcile that with Silvenia their version of Tom. Except if Tom was the ranking general as well as some ancient murder mage. Then again the Blighted Kingdom murdered a ton of unborn babies. Rhir sucks. The whole story on Rhir doesn't seem to make a lot of sense now. The mage is clearly insane even though the other demons and giants don't seem to be it's unclear why the person from Earth helps them. I thought the antium heavily implied a god was sleep under the continent and was displacing them thus forcing them to fight the kingdom and finally flee. It's not clear how that or the crelers fit in. The kingdom totally deserves their spell helping the demons more than them.
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Jul 19, 2020 08:38
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Omi no Kami posted:Fun Katalepsis chapter, but i'm feeling worse and worse for Raine. You know what? Me too. She really needs to just goddamn talk.
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Jul 19, 2020 09:23
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Three Rhir chapters? Ugh.
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Jul 19, 2020 11:19
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TWI Patreon 3 Rhir chapters? That’s too bad.... oh, these aren’t in the Clown’s head? And we’re meeting a new cast of characters who will join Ilvriss’ new army? Ok, interesting..... Oh, everyone we just spent 75k words meeting gets killed in a meaningless fight. Awesome writing.
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Jul 19, 2020 17:31
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The Mother of Learning author has posted some story ideas on their patreon for the next thing he is going to do. Unfortunately, two of them are litrpgs. I really hope he doesn't choose one of those two.
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Jul 19, 2020 21:50
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IShallRiseAgain posted:The Mother of Learning author has posted some story ideas on their patreon for the next thing he is going to do. Unfortunately, two of them are litrpgs. I really hope he doesn't choose one of those two. Where is his patreon so I can try to stop him?
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Jul 19, 2020 23:13
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Affi posted:Where is his patreon so I can try to stop him? https://www.patreon.com/nobody103 I think his Zenith idea is the most original. It might fall apart under its own weight though. The Infinite Dungeon is obviously just the Gamer. I read King of The Junkyard as a two part novel so bad I can't remember the name of. It was a romance novel masquerading as fantasy and had a female MC with elf lovers. Aside from those bad memories, the basic shape of the idea is promising and I think would play to the author's strengths. I would like Refuge a million times more if the MC wasn't an NPC. It's also obviously inspired by the success of HWFWM.
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Jul 19, 2020 23:29
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Ytlaya posted:This actually brings something to mind that I hope the author addresses - nearly every single other non-production cultivator peer in the series is a direct fighting type. It'd be good if Ling Qi had to face off against someone with a similar skill-set (or the "disruption"-focused one Sun Liling mentioned that is apparently strong against cultivators like her). Ling Qi's fights are generally less interesting to read than fights between other characters, because all she does is flit around laying down her arts and freeze someone once they've been worn down (now with the help of Zhengui making walls to further obstruct people). She only ever loses to people who are capable of just directly overpowering her. It's effective and makes sense for her, but not interesting to read. She does fight a disruptor-type ... It's Cai Renxiang. Cai Renxiang is theorized to be a dual disruptor / blaster type. Xuan Shi is obviously a tank / support. Meizhen is some sort of tank / controller combo. Most people are guessing that part of why the ducals are insane is that they can manage to hit top tier in two or more categories whereas even as talented as Ji Rong and Ling Qi are, they're top tier in one. Lu Feng is probably a disruptor type. Controller wise, Han Jian might be the closest in a different sort of way (buffs vs. Ling Qi's debuffs) or perhaps, Bian Ya or Ruan Shen.
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Jul 20, 2020 01:27
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IShallRiseAgain posted:The Mother of Learning author has posted some story ideas on their patreon for the next thing he is going to do. Unfortunately, two of them are litrpgs. I really hope he doesn't choose one of those two. King of the Junkyard sounds the best to me off hand, though how compelling it is in the long run will depend a lot on the meta plot.
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Jul 20, 2020 02:29
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Cicero posted:I only see one LitRPG there. The 4th story has a NPC from a litrpg world as the main character.
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Jul 20, 2020 03:03
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Yes, but the story itself is not actually a LitRPG, it sounds like. I think it's kind of a clever idea, NPC from video game world treats 'conventional' fantasy world as if it's a LitRPG even though it's not.
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Jul 20, 2020 03:15
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Oh, oh, I'd totally read that one possibly, because Harry Potter and the Natural 20 is the best
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Jul 20, 2020 03:53
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Royal Road's gamification system is weird. Occasionally I load a page and it tells me that I leveled up and I have no idea what that's supposed to mean or if the levels do anything. I'm guessing that it's trying to do something like stack overflow's system where contributing gets you points and then you unlock new exciting powers like getting to be an unpaid moderator? If so it would probably work better if they actually displayed your level and linked to a page that explains what it does. Is it just a totally pointless thing that exists only because RR readers really like gaining levels?
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Jul 20, 2020 04:12
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Plorkyeran posted:Royal Road's gamification system is weird. Occasionally I load a page and it tells me that I leveled up and I have no idea what that's supposed to mean or if the levels do anything. I'm guessing that it's trying to do something like stack overflow's system where contributing gets you points and then you unlock new exciting powers like getting to be an unpaid moderator? If so it would probably work better if they actually displayed your level and linked to a page that explains what it does. Is it just a totally pointless thing that exists only because RR readers really like gaining levels? [Account Name] => My Profile => Reputation Shows both your current level and your reputation level, as well as what points you received for your comments.
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Jul 20, 2020 04:16
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lurksion posted:OK, throwing this in as a strong recommendation (though the first "book" is quite uneven while it tries to set the setting up) Thanks for recommending this! I'm in early book two and the setting is a lot of fun
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Jul 20, 2020 10:13
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Katreus posted:[Account Name] => My Profile => Reputation
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Jul 20, 2020 10:52
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Cicero posted:Yes, but the story itself is not actually a LitRPG, it sounds like. Well, it sounds like he goes from an actual MMO to a fantasy world that still has some RPG-ish rules, so I'd call it 'gamelit'.
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Jul 20, 2020 12:22
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The Last Angel 3: Tokyo Drift thread is up.
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Jul 20, 2020 16:41
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I lost my place in thread 2 and the format (being posts in a megathread) is pretty horrendous that I don't want to go back and figure out where I was. Is there a repost anywhere or an ebook or osmehting?
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Jul 20, 2020 17:54
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Sibling of TB posted:I lost my place in thread 2 and the format (being posts in a megathread) is pretty horrendous that I don't want to go back and figure out where I was. Is there a repost anywhere or an ebook or osmehting?  E: Also reader mode which filters out everything that's not a main threadmark lurksion fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jul 20, 2020 |
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Jul 20, 2020 17:55
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Sibling of TB posted:I lost my place in thread 2 and the format (being posts in a megathread) is pretty horrendous that I don't want to go back and figure out where I was. Is there a repost anywhere or an ebook or osmehting? But there are thread marks and chapters?
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Jul 21, 2020 09:34
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Affi posted:But there are thread marks and chapters?
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Jul 21, 2020 09:54
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90s Cringe Rock posted:They're advanced new technology for a lot of people, and easy to overlook. You're talking to someone whose forum had load-bearing slurs and copyright dates. I know  I can't figure out how to read only the OPs post on those newfangled forums.
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Jul 21, 2020 10:43
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Affi posted:I know
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[quote="90s Cringe Rock" post="506658711"] You can't, but they should have threadmarked all their story posts and you can just hit reader mode in the threadmark menu to only see those. [/quot They have but there is a lot of info that doesn’t get added to story posts imo.
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Jul 21, 2020 16:08
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You guys should read the There Is No Antimemetics Division and Five Five Five Five Five over at SCP Wiki. You don't need to have read any of the other SCP stuff and it's dope-rear end cosmic horror that's not about people freaking out about giant octopuses. EDIT: Ah, forgot. It's from the author of Ra if that makes any difference for you.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:16
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Am I the only one who imagines the Hungry Choir as this
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Jul 22, 2020 08:50
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Katreus posted:She does fight a disruptor-type ... It's Cai Renxiang. Cai Renxiang is theorized to be a dual disruptor / blaster type. Those are all her allies who she only ever fights in training, though (with the exception of Lu Feng if I'm remembering him right; I think Ling Qi fought him at some point, though I think she was higher cultivation at the time and it may have been part of a group fight or something? don't remember). Her actual real enemies (and even tournament/rank duel opponents) haven't included such people. Also Bai Meizhen and Cai Renxiang (who are the only ones she's even fought in training) were both in the "significantly higher cultivation level" category until pretty recently (they're still higher, but I get the impression they're close enough now that it's not completely impossible for someone at Ling Qi's cultivation to win against them). It would also be good to see more group fights with cooperation between cultivators, though I'm wondering if there may have been ally-related arts/domain calculations occurring behind the scenes in battles like the recent one in the caves.
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Is the Forge of Destiny on RoyalRoad just Forge, or does it include Threads too? If it includes Threads, is it caught up at all with the forum version?
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Jul 22, 2020 19:15
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Cicero posted:Is the Forge of Destiny on RoyalRoad just Forge, or does it include Threads too? If it includes Threads, is it caught up at all with the forum version? RR is Forge. It hasn't finished Forge yet. Ytlaya posted:Those are all her allies who she only ever fights in training, though (with the exception of Lu Feng if I'm remembering him right; I think Ling Qi fought him at some point, though I think she was higher cultivation at the time and it may have been part of a group fight or something? don't remember). Her actual real enemies (and even tournament/rank duel opponents) haven't included such people. I mean, she's fought Shen Hu, Ji Rong, and Sun Liling in tournament before. She's fought other controllers and disruptors; we just don't have their names. Like the bard Cloud Nomad is a controller. The shishigui assassin was a disruptor.
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Megazver posted:You guys should read the There Is No Antimemetics Division and Five Five Five Five Five over at SCP Wiki. You don't need to have read any of the other SCP stuff and it's dope-rear end cosmic horror that's not about people freaking out about giant octopuses. EDIT: Ah, forgot. It's from the author of Ra if that makes any difference for you. I absolutely second this recommendation. qntm consistently knocks it out of the park and this is no exception. It uses his usual non-linear storytelling style where he releases a series of chapters that, while not chronological in order, lay out the setting and the plot in a way that pulls you in and makes you feel clever for putting things together. The core background premise is that there are ideas and concepts that are supernatural in and of themselves. There’s memes, which get stuck in your head like a catchy song, and there’s antimemes, which fall out of your head like the name of the person you just met. Sometimes these ideas have effects that go beyond just getting stuck in your head, and that’s where the Foundation gets involved. (Here’s an example SCP entry, also written by qntm.) There’s a division in the Foundation, the Antimemetics Division, that does it’s damnedest to secure, contain, and protect things that are unknowable. This is a very daunting task because if there’s an undetectable monster that eats people and then erases its victims from other peoples’ memories then there’s going to be a lot of dead people before someone notices that the office has twice as many desks as it really needs to. Antimemetics is about finding these holes in reality, charting the shape of them, taking a lot of experimental drugs so that you don’t forget about the shape you just charted out, and then building a fence around it. Sometimes, though, there are ideas too big or too forgettable to contain. Sometimes it’s better to just let them be forgotten because remembering them long enough to even try to contain them is fatal. qntm’s Antimemetics stories are about how to stop one such idea from destroying the world, and they’re amazing.
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Katreus posted:RR is Forge. It hasn't finished Forge yet.
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Katreus posted:RR is Forge. It hasn't finished Forge yet. Ji Rong and Sun Liling are both the "duelist" types that Sun Liling says are bad against people like Ling Qi, though. Sun Liling basically says "it was a bad match-up, people like you and me are bad against people like her." Sun Liling obviously still wins against Ling Qi, but that's mostly due to a difference in raw power. I'll grant you those barbarians (though I can't remember what arts the assassin used), though their whole system of cultivation seems different so it's not quite the same as a conflict against some named character where we have some understanding of their cultivation/arts. I'm not sure what Shen Hu would be considered. He (or that one non-material spirit he has) has that one spiritual attack, but his main mode of combat still seemed to be physical attacks with his black crystals and his swamp beast spirit. Shen Hu was actually probably one of my favorite Ling Qi fights, though. All of this being said, such a conflict (a Ling Qi-like cultivator fighting Ling Qi) actually might not be that interesting to read, since it would likely boil down to "one manages to resist the other's effects or win in a battle of attrition." My favorite fights to read are usually ones that Ling Qi isn't a part of (Gu Xiulan vs Wen Ai is one of my favorite).
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if we're repping scp stuff everyone should go read Gamers Against Weed, especially the stuff written by Communism Will Win
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Today's He Who Fights Monsters really drives home how much better it is when comedy is front and center.
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I just don't get what the poor guy wants to do with the story at this point. All signs point to burnout/fatigue leading to turning the comedy thing into a by-the-numbers serious litrpg, and that seems like an astonishingly bad idea. Edit: Huh, caught up with tonight's Katalepsis. I'm glad Heather isn't jumping feet-first into the zombie threesome thing and screwing up everything forever, and good on everyone for having a happy time for once, but I was not expecting the ending- when Zheng said "Dude wtf, four sheep? I hanged one up there," I thought the implication was going to be that the other three corpses were soylent green. Omi no Kami fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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I mean, I like comedy as much as anybody, but I think HWFWM at the moment is still... fine? As for what he's doing, he's obviously setting up pieces for the second book.
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Wittgen posted:Today's He Who Fights Monsters really drives home how much better it is when comedy is front and center.
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