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If i remember correctly they would harpoon people out on the road and reel them into the vast orchard where they would get swarmed. It really was an amazing game for generating stories like that.
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I enjoyed Cultivation Chat Group a lot but the more recent chapters kind of dive deep into the usual cultivation stuff that just bores me a bit. The humor and Song Shuhang's great and awful luck is still pretty enjoyable but as he delves deeper into the cultivation world it's less capable of carrying things on. I think the real world setting helped a lot at first but over time it's just been harder to justify some things when cultivators are a thing. Going to keep reading but a lot less enthused lately.
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Telsa Cola posted:If i remember correctly they would harpoon people out on the road and reel them into the vast orchard where they would get swarmed. It really was an amazing game for generating stories like that. Jackard fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Sep 10, 2018 |
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Argas posted:I enjoyed Cultivation Chat Group a lot but the more recent chapters kind of dive deep into the usual cultivation stuff that just bores me a bit. The humor and Song Shuhang's great and awful luck is still pretty enjoyable but as he delves deeper into the cultivation world it's less capable of carrying things on. I think the real world setting helped a lot at first but over time it's just been harder to justify some things when cultivators are a thing. Yeah, I kind of stopped reading it myself. Gonna wait till the whole space adventure is over before I binge read it to catch back up. Did the same thing with RTW. That seemed to pay off as three actual battles happened.
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Forge of Destiny tournament arc climax just went up with the Bai v Sun Grudge Match being as vicious as advertised for Kung Fu Mean Girls
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Such an excellent end to the Outer Sect storyline. Looking forward to the closing chapters. And then on to the Inner Sect.
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Qidian's contract terms, allegedly:quote:First 200k words are free https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/qidian-original-authors-something-all-of-you-need-to-know.73509/
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That explains the slavery elements in stories.
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You have to pay back the money you earned? How is that even legal in China? Holy hell that seems like something that won't even be legal there.
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China has been speedrunning capitalism for the last 30-40 years, I'd think they're ahead of the world in many aspects by now.
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Holy poo poo, a few of these are exceptionally absurd, with these two in particular standing out:quote:While under contract, if they ask you to do a book signing in China/Ph etc, then you must attend at your own expense. I wasn't aware that it was legal in any remotely modern nations to force employees to pay back what they earned if they're fired.
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I doubt that they could actually enforce that part of the contract. It's just there as a scare tactic and most of the writers are probably too poor to afford a lawyer to look it over and tell them that it's bullshit.
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If they can actually enforce that kind of rule, it would also mean you could never end a story. "What it's over? Well you're fired, pay back all the money we lent you. And we're not publishing that chapter, someone else is going to continue your story."
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I think I can recommend Maou wa Sekai wo Seifuku Suru You Desu now. I've just caught up with the latest chapter, which is a terrifying cliffhanger that left me with sweaty palms, so it's maybe the worst timing to bring it up, but it's pretty dang good! The setup is that a Japanese man in his 30s drowns saving a girl, and gets reborn in a world filled with people who fly giant eagles and other mystical creatures, as a humanoid with long ears. This would make it the same as any other isekai story, but what's different here is that this world has no magic. And one night watching the stars, he is shocked to recognise the constellations, leading to the baffling discovery that this world is seemingly shaped just like earth, and his nation is located in what we know as Scandinavia! He sets out to use his vast knowledge as a former-life researcher to advance technology in this 16th century Europe-equivalent, in order to save his people from the invading Crusade made up of another humanoid species and spurred on by a religion eerily similar to Christianity, bent on literally eradicating the "northern demons". It's got the usual nobles and academies and clashing armies, with plenty of inventing goods for wealth, and charming pretty ladies. Yet it does so in careful detail, with a protagonist that somehow doesn't induce nausea in spite of being wiser than wikipedia, so it's quite enjoyable, even if annoyingly slow at times. Prose is decent too, by Narou standards. Currently there's roughly 2000 pages of material out, and it feels like the author has made it about a third through the entire story so far, though who knows when or if it will ever end. It had a long break recently, but is back in reasonably fast release pace now, thankfully. Can't find any translation, I'm afraid.
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darkgray posted:Can't find any translation, I'm afraid. You had me until this sentence.
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darkgray posted:Can't find any translation, I'm afraid.
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It's now on my raw reading list along with about 300 other series.
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I hope Christianity triumphs in pagan Scandinavia.
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darkgray posted:Can't find any translation, I'm afraid. This should be loving illegal.
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darkgray posted:Can't find any translation, I'm afraid.
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darkgray posted:Can't find any translation, I'm afraid. Mods?
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quote:*record scratch* No, no thank you amazon
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That title was originally published on an R18 sister site of Narou, called "Moonlight". Basically web novel erotica written for women. So not necessarily what we're used to getting translated.
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Customers who bought this item also bought
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Megazver posted:Qidian's contract terms, allegedly: " All ss revenue will be for paying ss only, any free will not generate any money for you." This explains a lot, actually. Users get free ss every day, which get used before the paid ones. Money wise, this helps with the ideal case for qidian - people buy paid stones, then don't use them.
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Really makes you wonder if the publisher who owns Quidan and Gravity tales looking at the monetization of both sites and seeing what works better in the western market.
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Are there any Chinese novels with female leads that are good and aren't "romance"? I read like 200 chapter of Venomous Consort because the premise tickled me and the first 50~ chapters grabbed my interest. The lead character is some sort of poison master who reincarnates. She assassinates someone in the first couple chapters and then she slowly claws her way back into her families good graces with her skills - it's all pretty cool so I sort of figured that would be what the story was about. But then it just sort of downslides from there because she never kills or fights anyone again and the main male lead gets introduced - he this weird omnipotent stalker guy who follows her around and sometimes randomly strips her of her powers some she can be a damsel in distress for him to rescue... some of it is probably different cultural norms or whatever that made the guy come off as hugely unlikeable to me but yeah. He was really unlikeable. I'd would much rather read a story about the witty female lead wowing everyone with her skills and whatnot rather than the "romance".
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sunken fleet posted:Are there any Chinese novels with female leads that are good and aren't "romance"? My Disciple died yet again is probably the best one I've read.
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sunken fleet posted:Are there any Chinese novels with female leads that are good and aren't "romance"? I read like 200 chapter of Venomous Consort because the premise tickled me and the first 50~ chapters grabbed my interest. The lead character is some sort of poison master who reincarnates. She assassinates someone in the first couple chapters and then she slowly claws her way back into her families good graces with her skills - it's all pretty cool so I sort of figured that would be what the story was about. But then it just sort of downslides from there because she never kills or fights anyone again and the main male lead gets introduced - he this weird omnipotent stalker guy who follows her around and sometimes randomly strips her of her powers some she can be a damsel in distress for him to rescue... some of it is probably different cultural norms or whatever that made the guy come off as hugely unlikeable to me but yeah. He was really unlikeable. There's MDDYA that the other poster mentioned (it's mostly a humor thing, but the humor is good), and Forge of Destiny isn't actually Chinese but shares the same sort of Xianxia setting (and is in my opinion way better than most of the "real" Xianxia).
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sunken fleet posted:Are there any Chinese novels with female leads that are good and aren't "romance"? I read like 200 chapter of Venomous Consort because the premise tickled me and the first 50~ chapters grabbed my interest. The lead character is some sort of poison master who reincarnates. She assassinates someone in the first couple chapters and then she slowly claws her way back into her families good graces with her skills - it's all pretty cool so I sort of figured that would be what the story was about. But then it just sort of downslides from there because she never kills or fights anyone again and the main male lead gets introduced - he this weird omnipotent stalker guy who follows her around and sometimes randomly strips her of her powers some she can be a damsel in distress for him to rescue... some of it is probably different cultural norms or whatever that made the guy come off as hugely unlikeable to me but yeah. He was really unlikeable. there are like a hundred different wn's where a badass body snatches some random noble girl in a vaguely historical setting and then spends most of her time swooning over a handsome noble who is disgustingly controlling and possessive. the premises always suggest that this rad lady will shake up a heavily stratified misogynist society but really it's just about marrying a rich guy.
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sunken fleet posted:Are there any Chinese novels with female leads that are good and aren't "romance"? I read like 200 chapter of Venomous Consort because the premise tickled me and the first 50~ chapters grabbed my interest. The lead character is some sort of poison master who reincarnates. She assassinates someone in the first couple chapters and then she slowly claws her way back into her families good graces with her skills - it's all pretty cool so I sort of figured that would be what the story was about. But then it just sort of downslides from there because she never kills or fights anyone again and the main male lead gets introduced - he this weird omnipotent stalker guy who follows her around and sometimes randomly strips her of her powers some she can be a damsel in distress for him to rescue... some of it is probably different cultural norms or whatever that made the guy come off as hugely unlikeable to me but yeah. He was really unlikeable. Forge of Destiny Edit: it will be tempting to read the thread conversations on some of the decisions while you're reading the story, but I recommend that you avoid it. It's like staring into the  abyss
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Thanks, I'll check out My disciple died yet again, it sounds funny. Might peek at forge of destiny too since you guys recommend it but I dunno how I feel about english original trying to ape xianxia
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Silynt posted:Edit: it will be tempting to read the thread conversations on some of the decisions while you're reading the story, but I recommend that you avoid it. It's like staring into the Somehow those people manage to completely take the fun out of everything. I just seems incredibly tedious to have to make decisions about all the pills and what sort of cultivating is going to happen, etc. The only decisions I'm ever really interested in are "who to spend time with" and, to some extent "what tactics to use during a fight" (how does the author actually deal with this? Do people just vaguely specify strategies like "focus on using X skill" or what?) sunken fleet posted:Thanks, I'll check out My disciple died yet again, it sounds funny. Might peek at forge of destiny too since you guys recommend it but I dunno how I feel about english original trying to ape xianxia It is absolutely better than everything I've read that plays the premise straight (MDDYA doesn't play it straight, since it's a comedy), plus the whole benefit of not having to be filtered through questionable translation quality. I was highly skeptical when I started reading it, but ended up really enjoying it. edit: One thing I'd mention about FoD is to at least read the first few updates; I remember initially being kind of put-off since I usually don't put much trust in stories with reader choice elements like that, but the author somehow manages to make it work (largely because they obviously have a very clear sense of the setting/characters, such that they can make the results of any decision the protagonist makes feel natural). Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Sep 29, 2018 |
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Cultivating to Become a Great Celestial is also really good. The main character is reincarnated as a seventy-year-old grandmother, cultivating in a world of Xianxia sociopaths. Not much of it is translated, though.
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Regarding the crazy number crunching on Forge of Destiny and resulting drama, that kind of thing seems to be fairly important to generating interest and an active community on Sufficent Velocity. I write a fairly popular 'quest' there despite my mediocre literary skills and getting people debating over logistics and budgeting or whatever seems to be a noticeable draw. Though in my case it was kind of deliberate. I commoditized political capital so that the thread would end up voting for nepotism and similiar before realizing they were very much not the good guy.
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Patrat posted:Regarding the crazy number crunching on Forge of Destiny and resulting drama, that kind of thing seems to be fairly important to generating interest and an active community on Sufficent Velocity. I write a fairly popular 'quest' there despite my mediocre literary skills and getting people debating over logistics and budgeting or whatever seems to be a noticeable draw. Mind linking us said Quest for those interested?
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Patrat posted:Regarding the crazy number crunching on Forge of Destiny and resulting drama, that kind of thing seems to be fairly important to generating interest and an active community on Sufficent Velocity. I write a fairly popular 'quest' there despite my mediocre literary skills and getting people debating over logistics and budgeting or whatever seems to be a noticeable draw. Heh. A lot of people who participate in quests seem to want to be the "good guy" and still be a murderhobo (even in settings that really don't support that sort of behavior - e.g., Worm, where even "villains" generally keep fights non-lethal). I guess it shouldn't be surprising that there are also people who want to be the "good guy" and still be a corrupt politician.
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Ytlaya posted:Somehow those people manage to completely take the fun out of everything. I just seems incredibly tedious to have to make decisions about all the pills and what sort of cultivating is going to happen, etc. The only decisions I'm ever really interested in are "who to spend time with" and, to some extent "what tactics to use during a fight" (how does the author actually deal with this? Do people just vaguely specify strategies like "focus on using X skill" or what?) It was always hilarious when people reacted with astonishment when voters voted primarily by social minors and didn’t give two shits about the cultivation parts As if the endless screeching and clutching of spreadsheets was the primary draw of the quest Thank god we hopefully are leaving most of it behind in Thread 2 as i could go the rest of my life without seeing another “it’s two dice less it’s trash” art argument
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