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Ytlaya posted:TUTBAD somehow manages to make the sort of "adorkable" interactions that annoy/irritate me in most other stories good. I think it's mainly because the characters have clear voices and aren't obviously just "the writer speaking through their characters." For the opposite of brevity: look at how on the nose He Who Fights With Monsters is with Jason's sense of humor, just constantly bringing it up and spending time on people talking about it or reacting to it or duplicating it.
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Ar'Kendrithyst Patreon: I like how at the end of the chapter that unknown to Erick, people are working on taking down all the plots against him, to the point where 6 people out of a 10 person group are spying for Erick. Like some gangster meeting where everyone involved is from different federal agencies. Also that Melemizargo is one of those spying for Erick, lol Peachfart fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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Larry Parrish posted:it's much better when a character is cringe because they're cringe and not because the author is bad at writing and/or has a terrible sense of humor. macronomicon kind of does lovely dialogue in that everyone sounds really similar but he's actually funny so it's not a problem Speaking of, I've been enjoying Industrial Strength Magic https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic Macronomicon's take on superheroes. It much more of an easy read than his past works.
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Dikkfor posted:Speaking of, I've been enjoying Industrial Strength Magic https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic This guy's name is Perry Zauberer 
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John Lee posted:This guy's name is Perry Zauberer
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Dikkfor posted:Speaking of, I've been enjoying Industrial Strength Magic https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic Yeah it's awesome. He gets a chuckle out of me almost every chapter. He's gotten much funnier over the years but the inherently ridiculous setting helps it out.
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Dikkfor posted:Speaking of, I've been enjoying Industrial Strength Magic https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic I'm enjoying this. It's a very easy/"comfortable" read.
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Dikkfor posted:Speaking of, I've been enjoying Industrial Strength Magic https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57011/industrial-strength-magic How did "Wake of the Ravager" end? I dropped it after it seemed like they'd be in the weird desert-trope area forever, specifically after they got stuck in the other dimension.
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LLSix posted:How did "Wake of the Ravager" end? I dropped it after it seemed like they'd be in the weird desert-trope area forever, specifically after they got stuck in the other dimension. it hasn't, it's just on hiatus
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Dunno if others are like me, but I will usually not read a story unless I either trust the author or the story has at least 40ish updates. People usually go through their first arc by that point so you can see if you only had one good idea, or at least there is a decent amount of content.
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Larry Parrish posted:it hasn't, it's just on hiatus Macro came back, dropped like 30 chapters to get to the end of a book/arc, then went back on hiatus but they plan to pick it up again in the future.
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I enjoyed Paranoid Mage despite it being really cheesy, but apparently the author is, uh, not great:
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I wish I could even pretend to be surprised about that.
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Are you gonna post this in a size that someone can read, or...
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Sorry, webp url's are weird. Should be fixed now.
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Interesting to see that in someone who is (presumably) at least somewhat young. I usually associate "mass voter fraud conspiracies" with boomers.
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🤢 I prefer my authors to be at least closeted racists and conspiracy nuts.
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Cicero posted:I enjoyed Paranoid Mage despite it being really cheesy, but apparently the author is, uh, not great: Lol I had detected some Chuddyness from the text, but I didn’t realize that he was full on QAnon and the mages were subtext for LIEBERALS.
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No the mages are subtext for Muslim invaders 
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Ytlaya posted:Interesting to see that in someone who is (presumably) at least somewhat young. I usually associate "mass voter fraud conspiracies" with boomers. He's totally a boomer. Just maybe not literally 75 years old.
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no wonder she's always calling him Big Man
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90s Cringe Rock posted:no wonder she's always calling him Big Man edit: hidden expert nerd chick who you damsel-saved and now is gonna live with you in isolation, dresses like in the 40's (right?) and constantly calls you "big man"
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I always thought the 'Big Man' thing was just just the world's most awkward written flirting.
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Boy am I glad I never Patreon'd Paranoid Mage.
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Cicero posted:I enjoyed Paranoid Mage despite it being really cheesy, but apparently the author is, uh, not great: Christ time to bail from that Patreon. Cynic Jester posted:Boy am I glad I never Patreon'd Paranoid Mage. Doesn't feel great I gotta tell ya
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Cicero posted:I enjoyed Paranoid Mage despite it being really cheesy, but apparently the author is, uh, not great: not at all surprised lmao, a real shame though. i kind of dug the idea behind paranoid mage
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SerSpook posted:not at all surprised lmao, a real shame though. i kind of dug the idea behind paranoid mage The first book was alright, but it's really gone downhill in the more recent stuff
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paranoid mage always read sort of like ten seconds after or whatever that post apocalyptic EMP rightoid novel was called. poo poo like that. you know the author is crazy from the first couple chapters just from the way he depicts the world
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Huh, I never got around to reading paranoid mage but blue core never gave me qanon vibes.
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Plorkyeran posted:Huh, I never got around to reading paranoid mage but blue core never gave me qanon vibes.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:The comments in the reddit review of paranoid mage had a lot to say about his understanding of consent in that.
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TUTBAD: Time to summarize the characters in one line eachTUTBAD 134 posted:“No,” said Alfric. “Imagine that you’re her, and that you’re responsible for disappearing somewhere between three dozen and two hundred people, maybe even more. You’ve been doing this entirely in secret for a number of months, being careful to evade a cursory pastwatch, manipulating memories so that no one can tell on you, all that other kind of thing. If someone comes to you with questions, what do you do?”
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He's also pro-slavery and repeats things about IQ that Peterson made up, which I guess isn't surprising.
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Ytlaya posted:Interesting to see that in someone who is (presumably) at least somewhat young. I usually associate "mass voter fraud conspiracies" with boomers. He's over 40
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Plorkyeran posted:He's also pro-slavery and repeats things about IQ that Peterson made up, which I guess isn't surprising. slavery was "necessary", dude what
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I'm starting to think that the Industrial Strength Magic guy has some sort of weird complex/fetish involving parents being sexual. At first I overlooked it, but then it comes up in nearly every appearance of the protagonist's parents (and even during the first time his grandparents show up together!).
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Ytlaya posted:I'm starting to think that the Industrial Strength Magic guy has some sort of weird complex/fetish involving parents being sexual. At first I overlooked it, but then it comes up in nearly every appearance of the protagonist's parents (and even during the first time his grandparents show up together!). dude, its supposed to be a running joke.
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Larry Parrish posted:dude, its supposed to be a running joke. ok, big man
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