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navyjack posted:I got into Maker of Fire today. It’s pretty good. Isekai but no cultivation or system. Can be a little or a lot distressing depending on your sensitivity because it’s set in a Bronze-age magically enforced slave culture with all the awfulness that entails. Doesn’t wallow in it but doesn’t shy away, either. Primary MC is a 71 year old geologist/materials scientist reincarnated into the slave caste and enjoined by the Gods to fix the world through applied science. The author seems to be knowledgeable and there’s not the usual hand wavy bullshit that most of these stories use to get around tooling and supply chain issues(except when the gods get involved and do something explicitly hand wavy). I don't mind it so much when it's the main character because presumably the story is about getting out of that situation, and hopefully getting others out of it as well. That said... Secondary character: "I remember my life in Coventry, Warwickshire. Here is a handwritten message in English for you." Main character: "Hmm, could this person be from earth as well? drat, I wish there was some way for me to be sure..."
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War Queen The Sovereignty gets more and more hyper fascism revealed as it goes huh? They're at the point where humans are eungenicing out Peanut allergies and if you show even temporary allergy as an infant you are immediately placed on the 'can never have kids' list. And of course this was after getting rid of every other 'defect' they felt was more important which has just horrifying implications. I do wonder how the conflict is actually gonna develop from here though. Right now the Formites are basically all in on that ideology themselves so I wonder if the captured Coalition member is gonna start changing some minds or if we get all the way up to the flashpoint where 'giant bugs' aren't useful anymore and the Sovereignty starts exterminating them for being different.
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Zore posted:War Queen The Sovereignty gets more and more hyper fascism revealed as it goes huh? They're at the point where humans are eungenicing out Peanut allergies and if you show even temporary allergy as an infant you are immediately placed on the 'can never have kids' list. And of course this was after getting rid of every other 'defect' they felt was more important which has just horrifying implications. I got the impression the blessed guy was really keen on their abilities to integrate other species, which has some awful implications.
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Zore posted:War Queen Right now the Formites are basically all in on that ideology themselves so I wonder if the captured Coalition member is gonna start changing some minds or if we get all the way up to the flashpoint where 'giant bugs' aren't useful anymore and the Sovereignty starts exterminating them for being different. i don't see how the prisoner could be changing minds, the bugs are deathly afraid of frenzy and he is seen as the human equivalent of that i think they'll interrogate him and then dissect his corpse to get a better idea of how human bodies tick your idea about the sovereignty exterminating them seems too extreme when they can just leave them on their low tech planet, but who knows, paranoia makes people do extreme things
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A huge conflict is going to arise when aadarsh or the humanities find out about the enslaving jelly and think it's the best thing ever.
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Doctor Jeep posted:i don't see how the prisoner could be changing minds, the bugs are deathly afraid of frenzy and he is seen as the human equivalent of that I mean the whole reason humans showed up to the planet and started shooting in the first place was because they were planning on colonizing it. And the only reason they stopped exterminating them was because Hathan was uncomfortable with it/thought they'd be more useful alive. If that isn't true they are 100% gonna kill em all. Sovereignty is super fasc and you had Aardarsh literally threaten that this chapter.
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Zore posted:I mean the whole reason humans showed up to the planet and started shooting in the first place was because they were planning on colonizing it. And the only reason they stopped exterminating them was because Hathan was uncomfortable with it/thought they'd be more useful alive. yeah, you're right about all of that I just don't think there's any chance of the bugs going with the resistance
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I haven't read further than the first book, but the bugs are still getting limited on the tech they keep by the evil empire, right? And the protagonist is still not happy about being a humanite slave? I figure that if the Resistance offers to share technology and not hold nuclear obliteration over their heads, bug-friends might at least give that deal some consideration. The main argument against seems to be that their old planet is basically being held hostage, but that seems potentially solvable.
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I'm up for a Stabby for Beneath the Dragoneye Moons! It's SUPER EXCITING!! And looking at the numbers, I only need about 200 votes to win if this year's a lot like prior years in terms of turnout! The competition is INSANELY stiff - Guide? Journey of Black and Red? Azarinth Healer? Beware of Chicken? Path of Ascension? But I have something they don't - Complete and utter shamelessness when asking my readers to vote for me. ANYWAYS! I'm super excited that I managed to get nominated in the first place, and I'm sharing it everywhere
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Journey of Black & Red just introduced communists and everyone loves Bi De, so Oh thank gently caress it's multiple choice
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Where does one cast these votes? Have not heard of that award before. The first thing that comes up when I google "stabby awards" is reddit.
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Azarinth Healer Patreon What the gently caress. The Mava are adorable. I'd have loved to meet them earlier in the story.
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The ebook version of The Last Tide (the TWI spinoff comic) is out (backers only at the moment I think) and it comes with pirateaba's script for the comic, and... the script is literally a 30k chapter. Pirate just wrote a 30k chapter and that's what the artist turned into the comic.
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Argue posted:The ebook version of The Last Tide (the TWI spinoff comic) is out (backers only at the moment I think) and it comes with pirateaba's script for the comic, and... the script is literally a 30k chapter. Pirate just wrote a 30k chapter and that's what the artist turned into the comic.
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The Last Tide: solca is a loving crazy person
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what is there that's like Delve but with slightly fewer spreadsheets I enjoy when people try to optimize within systems but reading actual loving spreadsheets is definitely a bridge too far for me
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Ar'kendrithyst gives off bigly Delve vibes at first, but quickly becomes its own thing. It also side steps the issue of only one thing a year interesting happening in Delve and has a lack of monotonous soulscapes.
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shirunei posted:Ar'kendrithyst gives off bigly Delve vibes at first, but quickly becomes its own thing. It also side steps the issue of only one thing a year interesting happening in Delve and has a lack of monotonous soulscapes. It feels like a different author took over Delve at some point because the soul stuff is a 180 flip from how fast paced and problem/conflict oriented the story was before he started self diving. It updating once a week also means if I want to get anything out of reading the camp segments, I might have to start over because I sometimes forget which camp follower is which because we've been reading him build a blimp in his head for what feels like six freaking months.
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Whaleporn posted:It feels like a different author took over Delve at some point because the soul stuff is a 180 flip from how fast paced and problem/conflict oriented the story was before he started self diving.
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I can forgive the soulscape, barely, but I'm also getting annoyed that there's like 30 named characters in the camp who we kinda know from 100 chapters ago who are mixed in with people he picked up in the new town and they are all having conversations with Rain where they only are described by name and I'm like 'who is this person?' which means I feel like I'm missing important things from reading. What's odd about the math spam in delve is that for as many things that are just words on the page, he's shown he knows how to tie it in with the physical reality of the system manifesting. The fire arrow theory crafting that Amelia does in the underground training section actually gets used in a real life situation to solve a problem pretty soon after when they sat down to talk about the math. A lot of the other spreadsheets I don't get a sense of what .6 mana a second is compared to .2 mana a second, aside one is three times as much. It's why I put up with, as an example, He Who Fights Monsters having insane gear/ability bloat: the author was pretty good at listing a billion skills then using them and having the character describe what they actually do and how they interact in a fight. This is in contrast to Delve where I get that he's probably going to figure out how to break the leveling system's level caps or learn to infuse monsters with blue energy or something with his soul tinkering, but to the reader it's very boring and hard to imagine, partially because when there's no reality to ground you to. Those segments feel SUPER unimportant because his soul is apparently in a fail state and he's not moving forward or backwards with it. He spends 2 chapters at a time in there over and over and nothing changes as far as we can tell with the rip.
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I was really hoping that finally raising his level cap would be the thing that'd finally wrap up the endless soul introspection that doesn't go anywhere.
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I read litrpgs to get away from a sad whiny dude messing with spreadsheets ho ho ho 
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Plorkyeran posted:I was really hoping that finally raising his level cap would be the thing that'd finally wrap up the endless soul introspection that doesn't go anywhere. Porky pig in a full Hecatomb set, reading Delve: W-w-w-wow! This se-se-segment is s-s-s-s-slow as hell!
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Yeah I gave up on Delve a while back because the author seemed intent on making the story incredibly boring. People bringing up how badly written it became reminded me to go back and leave a review on RR.
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It is weird because the author can write quite well. They would just rather have Rain do nothing for months on end.
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Man, people really mad about lack of chicken. I get that it'd be nice to inform readers when there'll be a delay/skip, but ultimately we're getting a bunch of content for free. We ain't entitled to poo poo.
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awesmoe posted:I read litrpgs to get away from a sad whiny dude messing with spreadsheets ho ho ho
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Man, the latest Anaxares bit in Practical Guide to Evil was really nice. I like how they showed that he can have a bit of empathy without at all compromising his principles. Good chapter!
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Cicero posted:Man, people really mad about lack of chicken. I get that it'd be nice to inform readers when there'll be a delay/skip, but ultimately we're getting a bunch of content for free. We ain't entitled to poo poo. In general, I agree, but there are more than 4K people paying him more than 16k a month. Some of those people being disgruntled after months of infrequent updates is to be expected. I’m not on his patreon, so I, personally, don’t mind waiting for more awesome chapters. Hmm, I just saw he posts BoC updates on QQ as well as RR. I kind of wonder if there have been a bunch of Updates there that weren’t family friendly enough to be posted elsewhere, but I am not brave enough to go check.
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LLSix posted:In general, I agree, but there are more than 4K people paying him more than 16k a month. Some of those people being disgruntled after months of infrequent updates is to be expected. No, there aren't. I think there's like one or two on Patreon from early into the first book, of Jin and Meimei getting marital. He started off as a QQ poster and I think his original plan was to do more sexy chapters, but the story blew up and/or he realized he was interested in other stuff, so he shifted focus. On the other hand, there are more flags set up for Mei Mei and Xiulan to eventually smooch it up than there are at the UN building, and this is anyone who doesn't see it:  So I think he's no longer interested in actual sex scenes, but I do think he's interested in teasing us with a will-they-won't-they throuple. Megazver fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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LLSix posted:In general, I agree, but there are more than 4K people paying him more than 16k a month. Some of those people being disgruntled after months of infrequent updates is to be expected. No, he posted an explanation to Patreon. He wrote a chapter and then decided there really needed to be a few more chapters before getting to the events of that chapter so he didn't post it. The general theme of his patreon posts is "holy poo poo I have no idea what I'm doing and the fact that people love my story terrifies me because I have no idea how to live up to your expectations", and there's been a decent number of chapters that he rewrote after posting the initial version on patreon and getting reasonably positive responses. I am continually worried that the stress is going to burn him out. Peachfart posted:It is weird because the author can write quite well. They would just rather have Rain do nothing for months on end. It makes me wonder if he just kinda ran out of ideas and is stalling, or if enough of the people actually paying him love the current arcs and he's just rolling with that.
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delve is weird because it's always ping-ponged back and forth between "holy poo poo lots of stuff going on" and "absolutely nothing is going on" , but the nothing-going-on chapters used to be good because they were spent hanging out with tallheart or whatever. now they, uh, aren't.Plorkyeran posted:The general theme of his patreon posts is "holy poo poo I have no idea what I'm doing and the fact that people love my story terrifies me because I have no idea how to live up to your expectations" you have to admit, this is very Jin
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Missed updates is whatever, but at the very least Beware of Chicken's author does update Patreon with a general message. Some authors just flat out vanish. No message, no nothing, just stop updating. Like they don't need to get into details, just be "Hey I'm having issues and won't be able to write/post more chapters for an unknown amount of time." Though I guess social anxiety can play a big part in to that. Also I like the person complaining about a certain author deleting reviews and then being all I read the rules. I'm fairly certain that Royal Road isn't going to see mentioning whatever amount someone makes on Patreon as a fair or valid criticism for a review on RR itself. The review has obviously been deleted and I can't go back in read it, but the person has the whole "why have I been banned?" energy when the response from mods is usually like "showing your dick on stream" or "racial slurs".
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Has Amber Skies been brought up in this thread yet? I just got into it and I can't believe I don't see more people trumpeting how good it isquote:"Oh my daughters! Come quick, come see! You have a baby brother and he is just perfect!" quote:Deeper. The city grew cooler. The first sign of life was a demon. The student spotted it from far away. They hushed the group and pointed to the form keeping low in the bramble of hair along a train track. It seemed to be the same species at the one she met in the tunnels beneath the housing block, but this one was younger, an earlier stage of its life cycle. It was much smaller, only about as big as Nico, lacking the layers of grey leathery nercroflesh, the chitinous bone armor, or the biological wrist blades. It was soft, so pale white it was almost blue. The tiny armblades were barely enough to support its weight and it moved with an awkward hobble. It reminded the sorcerer of a child wearing their mothers heels. The student knew the signs in how it moved, the careful and un-sudden pace of a hunter tracking prey. It had something.
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catgirlgenius posted:Has Amber Skies been brought up in this thread yet? I just got into it and I can't believe I don't see more people trumpeting how good it is 
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I AM misrepresenting it just a tad. It is only about 5% earnest horror per pound, give or take. The author is as good at horror as they are at portraying the close emotional bonds that are part and parcel of writing what is basically "the Fellowship of the Ring traveling through Qud". But horror is punchier. quote:
dangit I forgot the link. this concludes my lovesick advertisement Ramie fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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LLSix posted:In general, I agree, but there are more than 4K people paying him more than 16k a month. Some of those people being disgruntled after months of infrequent updates is to be expected.
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