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Psycho love comedy book three - the main guys sister reunited with him - turnsout she's a yan dere
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Yeah I enjoyed how Kumo got frustrated with the Dragon's Warrior spirit to her rage against the dying light. Seriously it was exactly what I needed after realizing I waited weeks for three ish volumes of Slime Tensei were pointless power trips.
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Sep 4, 2015 20:54
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Chp 200: Kumoko eats an energy field and becomes a god.
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Sep 4, 2015 21:02
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I sort of want to read that if only to find out why she thought Eating an Energy Field constituted a good idea.
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Sep 5, 2015 21:45
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ConanThe3rd posted:I sort of want to read that if only to find out why she thought Eating an Energy Field constituted a good idea. Does wonders for the hair.
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Sep 5, 2015 23:29
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ConanThe3rd posted:I sort of want to read that if only to find out why she thought Eating an Energy Field constituted a good idea. Also in the latest ISSTH Meng Hao demonstrates the five step exploding balls technique.
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Sep 6, 2015 02:34
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this one Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari from the OP? It sucks rear end. Peace out, folks.
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Sep 6, 2015 03:46
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Algid posted:Chp 200: Kumoko eats an energy field and becomes a god. Kumoko-chan's gonna do what Kumoko-chan does. Eat anything and everything. I wouldn't be surprised if she winds up eating all the admins.
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Sep 6, 2015 14:13
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Part of me wants Kumoko to turn into a battleship-sized, hovering spider with multiple control centres and aerial bombardments. She's already pretty much got specialized targeting systems, magic systems, etc. The other parts of me are happy with where we're at. Algid posted:Also in the latest ISSTH Meng Hao demonstrates the five step exploding balls technique. Still loving ISSTH. It doesn't suffer so much from 'making poo poo up the further we get' like Xian Ni. Also been reading a lot of Douluo Dalu lately, which has more of a coherent overarching story. The MC is the typical special snowflake sure to be(come) more powerful than everyone else, but it doesn't bother me so much in this story, he's got personality outside of being powerful and there's usually a whole team of other decent characters to go along. The same can't be said for some of the same author's other work, like Shen Yin Wang Zou, which I've been trying to read but after Act 1 only gives me the impression that the author was trying to recreate what he had going with Douluo Dalu but fails. Instead, so far he's only succeeded in coming up with a needlessly complicated power-ranking system and a terribly bland MC who is instantly special with only good traits. I don't mind powerful MC's, but at least make them struggle and throw proportionate threats in their direction. Act 1 has been so uninteresting I'm not sure I want to continue. I've also tried reading Kuangshen by the same author and that one is equally not succeeding in convincing me.
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Sep 6, 2015 23:21
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Kuang Shen is weird. It doesn't read anything like his other works and is much more similar to other Xianxia works, with the ruthless protagonist, escalator power creep and oodles of women throwing themselves at the glory that is the main character. Douluo Dalu is a lot better. While the MC is the equivalent of a DnD 3.5 optimized monstrosity with templates and classes coming out of every orifice, it's fun to read, the characters are great and there's tension.
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Sep 7, 2015 06:55
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SYWZ seems to focus a lot on the ridiculously saccharine romance between the mc and an assassin who is considerably stronger than he is. Also, it is now switching gears from a very long tournament arc to a squad of weirdos going out to hunt demons, which seems promising. But yeah, it has taken entirely too long to get to this point.
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Sep 7, 2015 07:29
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OSO amazed me when the inevitable tournament was just a chapter. The benefits to having the MC just be someone in the audience!
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Sep 7, 2015 07:37
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The next volume of OSO should be out soonish according to the TL. Can't wait, it's such a chill read.
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Sep 7, 2015 07:42
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Kumoko, no! I understand that humans are delicious piles of experience, and they did kind of burn down your home, but mercilessly slaughtering them is bad!
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Sep 7, 2015 16:57
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Here's the soundtrack for the recent Kumoko chapters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcpGIVbPYrI
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Sep 7, 2015 17:05
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The Lord of Hats posted:Kumoko, no! I understand that humans are delicious piles of experience, and they did kind of burn down your home, but mercilessly slaughtering them is bad! I felt the same way at first, until I read her POV chapter. I don't think any of us have the right to judge her until we understand exactly how many experience points she was getting. Because it seemed like a whole lot, and maybe, just maybe, ruthless slaughter is okay if you level up a lot from it? I can only imagine how many levels she would have jumped from taking down lvl 78 Ronant. EDIT: \/ Dang it, I keep forgetting the multiple timelines issue. Cipher Pol 9 fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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Sep 7, 2015 17:29
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^ Those stats are from decades into the future at the point in time of this fight, i'd assume he was quite a bit lower leveled at that point.
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Sep 7, 2015 17:37
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They decided that whatever owned that nest was too much for them to deal with in combat and might have teleport magic, so they were going to run away, but they decided to burn it down first. Sure she could have done it without any deaths but she doesn't really have any motivation to do that, not when the alternative is tons of experience. If someone is going to burn down your home and all your food stockpiles I'm not going to get too mad if you kill them, especially if you're not torturing them like so many LNs like to do.
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Sep 7, 2015 20:06
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Desuwa posted:They decided that whatever owned that nest was too much for them to deal with in combat and might have teleport magic, so they were going to run away, but they decided to burn it down first. Sure she could have done it without any deaths but she doesn't really have any motivation to do that, not when the alternative is tons of experience. If someone is going to burn down your home and all your food stockpiles I'm not going to get too mad if you kill them, especially if you're not torturing them like so many LNs like to do. why would she torture them? isn't that taking extra time to do something that isn't gaining her experience? Plus, given that she knows the nature of the world thanks to having capped out Taboo, I'm wondering if she just doesn't even see them as being real. I'm interested to see how she reacts when she inevitably meets another person with ｎ％Ｉ＝Ｗ.
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Sep 7, 2015 20:21
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Adelheid posted:why would she torture them? isn't that taking extra time to do something that isn't gaining her experience?
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Sep 7, 2015 20:45
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Adelheid posted:why would she torture them? isn't that taking extra time to do something that isn't gaining her experience? No, she wouldn't and she has no reason to. A lot of these really lovely WN/LNs have the MC torture the people who've slighted him and it's often the point at which I drop them. The other lovely thing that pops up a lot is the weird obsession with slavery, which shouldn't be a problem for Kumoko.
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Sep 7, 2015 20:58
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Algid posted:Pretty sure they are real and that isn't what taboo is about. Just going by what Sensei said, that this world was like a game. It doesn't really matter the extent to which that's true, as the humans in the world obviously seem sapient enough, but Kumoko has the same information as Sensei and hasn't really dealt with humans' she still seemed to just think of the invading party as more food, even though they were human. Presuming that she's the demon lord from the side chapters, the future version of her still doesn't really seem to care about the wellbeing of either humans or demons. So, I'm curious what would happen if she encountered someone she used to know.
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Sep 7, 2015 21:11
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Feels like I'll need some popcorn for ch150 reactions.
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Sep 7, 2015 21:23
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They didn't intentionally set her nest on fire. Someone got caught in random threads and due to Kumoko imbuing them with resistances they couldn't get out easily. Once the mage used sufficiently strong fire magic to burn those threads, it spread to the rest of the nest and that is when Kumoko teleported in. She was already in a bad mood from the earth dragon, and then immediately after she found her house burned down the guys who did it appraised her. It wasn't as though she immediately went murder-happy for no reason. As for the world being like a game, that is because the skill system is completely artificial. Administrators are skill farmers. They sow a few seeds (points) and then the skills grow over time. People are forced to develop their skills due to the threat of those darn demons/humans/monsters/deranged god spiders, but even if they don't there doesn't seem to be a way to take points out of the system. That is, even if someone never gets a single skill the administrators break even at worst. After a person with skills dies, the admins harvest their souls full of skills and repeat the process with each new generation. Kumoko has mentioned how their system is completely broken and how the administrators have hosed up to let it get that bad, but what that means is still unclear. We also don't know what they actually use all that skill/soul/whatever energy for.
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Sep 7, 2015 21:34
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darkgray posted:Feels like I'll need some popcorn for ch150 reactions. well, if they continue at the "three chapters a day" rate, we'll be seeing that tomorrow, so...!
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Sep 7, 2015 21:37
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Adelheid posted:Just going by what Sensei said, that this world was like a game. It doesn't really matter the extent to which that's true, as the humans in the world obviously seem sapient enough, but Kumoko has the same information as Sensei and hasn't really dealt with humans' she still seemed to just think of the invading party as more food, even though they were human. Presuming that she's the demon lord from the side chapters, the future version of her still doesn't really seem to care about the wellbeing of either humans or demons. So, I'm curious what would happen if she encountered someone she used to know.
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Sep 7, 2015 21:38
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Adelheid posted:well, if they continue at the "three chapters a day" rate, we'll be seeing that tomorrow, so...! Sry, misremembered, it was ch151. 
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Sep 7, 2015 21:43
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Also, I went back and reread royal capital battle 1. I obviously didn't realise that Ronant was talking about Kumoko the first time, but that poo poo is hilarious.
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Sep 7, 2015 21:48
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Got around to reading The Lazy King since someone mentioned it earlier. It was pretty good, short, and to the point. I rather liked it but there is one chapter of R15 stuff that feels a little out of place but isn't terribly creepy. It's a reincarnation story but that doesn't factor heavily into it. Apparently there's a part 2 but part 1 feels complete enough on its own.
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Sep 9, 2015 09:12
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So I read I Shall Seal The Heavens and the spider story. Those were quite enjoyable reading, though I didn't really like the recent sexual peril plot in ISSTH. Fortunately, it was quite short. But otherwise ISSTH's been quite a blast. Anyone else have stories of similar quality to recommend? I also rather enjoyed OSO.
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Sep 9, 2015 16:47
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Desuwa posted:Got around to reading The Lazy King since someone mentioned it earlier. It was pretty good, short, and to the point. I rather liked it but there is one chapter of R15 stuff that feels a little out of place but isn't terribly creepy. It's a reincarnation story but that doesn't factor heavily into it. This is really great.
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Sep 9, 2015 16:51
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Kaja Rainbow posted:So I read I Shall Seal The Heavens and the spider story. Those were quite enjoyable reading, though I didn't really like the recent sexual peril plot in ISSTH. Fortunately, it was quite short. But otherwise ISSTH's been quite a blast. Anyone else have stories of similar quality to recommend? I also rather enjoyed OSO. Ze Tian Ji is awesome. It's a very atypical Chinese cultivation story, even more so than ISSTH. The main character still hasn't successfully cultivated.
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Sep 9, 2015 17:02
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Did I miss something in Kumoko? She was talking about having eaten her mother shortly after deciding not to enter the bottom level so that her mother would not attack her.
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Sep 9, 2015 17:29
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If humans weren't meant to be killed why do they give so much experience? Checkmate, atheists. Also betting the thing with her mother was just a mistranslation.
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Sep 9, 2015 17:47
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Serious Frolicking posted:Did I miss something in Kumoko? She was talking about having eaten her mother shortly after deciding not to enter the bottom level so that her mother would not attack her. Now go back and read the beginning of chp135.
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Sep 9, 2015 18:04
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Algid posted:She stopped using parallel will for combat a while back (right after taboo lvl10), and D just mentioned in 149 how the way she is using it was unexpected and its basically an out of system attack (direct soul manipulation/ attack). Huh, I did bit pick up on that either and it's still not completely clear to me what happened.
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Sep 9, 2015 18:31
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Desuwa posted:Also betting the thing with her mother was just a mistranslation. Looks like that to me. This is actually a really tricky phrase, since Kumoko speaks extremely casually and parsing some of this is a little beyond me. マザー食ってる影響 could be translated as "the influence from eating Mother" but there's no particle indicating what relation the word "Mother" has to the word "eating". On top of that, my dictionary is telling me that 食う has sixteen different definitions, and further Googling reveals that there's a ton of expressions that use that particular verb in fairly unique ways.  In short, gently caress this language, and I hope someone who actually knows what their doing can tell me what the real answer is. edit: Algid posted:She stopped using parallel will for combat a while back (right after taboo lvl10), and D just mentioned in 149 how the way she is using it was unexpected and its basically an out of system attack (direct soul manipulation/ attack). Ahh, how did I miss that. The simple explanation ("I'm eating Mother") makes a bunch more sense if we've got some weird Parallel Will thing going on where Kumoko is somehow remotely attacking her mother. blastron fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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Sep 9, 2015 18:33
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I thought they were just being coy and Kumoko had already split her extra minds into new bodies. Edit: Actually, I checked and her parallel will is now level 8. It is probably for the best that she got those voices out of her head. gimme the GOD DAMN candy fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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Sep 9, 2015 18:47
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Desuwa posted:Huh, I did bit pick up on that either and it's still not completely clear to me what happened. Well, to spell it out, in Kumoko ch131 we learn that all the parallel minds are off somewhere doing Strange Things that is meeting with resistance for one mind and going well for the others, and then in ch135 Kumoko bumps into the Spider Death Squad, which was sent out by Mother, who has "finally" realized she is being devoured from the inside. Kumoko then contacts whichever mind is in charge of attacking Mother (meaning other minds are attacking targets somewhere else) to get a location report. In ch153 it's further discussed that the (ongoing) process of devouring Mother is having distorting effects on Kumoko's psyche. Ch149 discusses the method somewhat. darkgray fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Sep 9, 2015 |
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Sep 9, 2015 19:01
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darkgray posted:Well, to spell it out, in Kumoko ch131 we learn that all the parallel minds are off somewhere doing Strange Things that is meeting with resistance for one mind and going well for the others, and then in ch135 Kumoko bumps into the Spider Death Squad, which was sent out by Mother, who has "finally" realized she is being devoured from the inside. Kumoko then contacts whichever mind is in charge of attacking Mother (meaning other minds are attacking targets somewhere else) to get a location report. In ch153 it's further discussed that the (ongoing) process of devouring Mother is having distorting effects on Kumoko's psyche. Ch149 discusses the method somewhat. Huh, when I read 131 I didn't pick up on the minds controlling physically separate bodies. I thought they were just deep in thought/mediation and not paying attention to what the body was doing. Makes more sense this way.
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