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Narmi posted:The bad guys literally saying they're ok if the world burns, so long as they can rule the ashes. lol have you seen real life?
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90s Cringe Rock posted:At least it's not metaworld. Y'know, Metaworld's actually been getting better recently. The villains are more complicated, the victories are more ambivalent and less straightforward, the side characters (marginally) more well-rounded. And then it turned out that all the gay subtext was intentional, and going somewhere, which took me completely off guard. So now the MC's got an entire new dimension of gayngst going for her??
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Jan 17, 2021 00:27
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Found another serial that I'm enjoying so far; this one is superheroes plus time loop: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/37103/reroll You know the drill by now; big disaster occurs and main character is caught in a time loop (roughly 2 days each iteration) and has to stop it. He gets a different superpower each iteration.
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Jan 18, 2021 04:04
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Argue posted:Found another serial that I'm enjoying so far; this one is superheroes plus time loop: This is pretty much the worst thing I’ve ever read?
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Jan 19, 2021 10:48
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Affi posted:This is pretty much the worst thing I’ve ever read? This is a bold claim. Worse than wildbow? Worse than the trench of kindle? Worse than the machine translation soup? I didn’t check it out the first time, but now with your rec that it is the best at being awful...
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Jan 19, 2021 15:51
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Im probably just grumpy? But it’s not good. Maybe it gets better? He’s playing in some tournament? Names are dropped? Some hot supervillain pukes on his carpet? He gets a girls number in a cafe because they’re both super good computer game players? There are heroes? Maybe a conspiracy?
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Jan 19, 2021 17:03
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Affi posted:Im probably just grumpy? But it’s not good. Maybe it gets better? He’s playing in some tournament? Names are dropped? Some hot supervillain pukes on his carpet? He gets a girls number in a cafe because they’re both super good computer game players? There are heroes? Maybe a conspiracy? you read a single chapter and then said it was the worst thing you'd ever read
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Jan 19, 2021 17:25
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Jazerus posted:you read a single chapter and then said it was the worst thing you'd ever read Why would you read a second chapter if it starts that badly? If anything, I'm impressed he read a whole chapter.
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Jan 19, 2021 17:30
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i mean i understand abandoning a story quickly but i generally don't post about it unless i've gotten a few chapters in at least, particularly if someone explicitly recommended it anyway i struggled pretty hard to get through the first chapter as well, but it's not really reflective of the quality once he gets stuck in the time loop. feels like a story that has potential but could easily wreck itself
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Jan 19, 2021 17:36
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I read the first four chapters. It's pretty bad. The characters feel fake, the dialogue is cringey (that newscaster spat in particular), and the writing is below average. I wouldn't call it the worst I've ever read since there are certainly worse, but it's definitely near the bottom.
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Jan 19, 2021 17:50
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Are we on earth or some other dimension? Is 6pm really in the middle of the night? Why did he go out with his trash at 2 in the morning? Why is he totally fine with a supervillain just randomly showing up? Why does he recall hearing that she torched an office building when the news report that was on just before doesn't mention that at all? I mean I liked how he described the car accident? I think I read two chapters.
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Jan 19, 2021 17:51
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Affi posted:Are we on earth or some other dimension? Is 6pm really in the middle of the night? Why did he go out with his trash at 2 in the morning? Why is he totally fine with a supervillain just randomly showing up? Why does he recall hearing that she torched an office building when the news report that was on just before doesn't mention that at all? 1. still uncertain. it seems to be an earth with a bunch of made up cities? 2. all of the "middle of the night" scenes take place at 2 AM afaik 3. i guess he didn't want to leave the glass in his trashcan for some reason 4. he's a huge nerd that draws superhero/villain porn for even sadder nerds, and knows that she's just a thief. 5. the building she torched was on the news at some point before he mentions it. i'm not going to defend it as high art and the main character is thoroughly unlikable for the most part, but that's sort of standard for a time loop story isn't it? part of the story is going to be him maturing due to his experiences in the loop. my biggest criticism is definitely that it feels overly derivative of worm, and especially worm fanfic. i feel like if you ignored the different powers you could find-replace most of the heroes with worm characters, particularly wraith -> armsmaster
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Jan 19, 2021 17:59
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LLSix posted:Why would you read a second chapter if it starts that badly? If anything, I'm impressed he read a whole chapter. If the first chapter isn't a million words and isn't significantly worse, I'd probably give it a second just because the premise of the fic hasn't kicked in yet. Maybe a third if I'm feeling generous, but at that point I may have briefly switched tabs and never come back if it wasn't rapidly improving. It's an ok fic but I tend to drop superhero ones quickly.
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Jan 19, 2021 18:18
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Jazerus posted:1. still uncertain. it seems to be an earth with a bunch of made up cities? Wow, a more poorly written worm fanfic. A must read for sure!
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Jan 19, 2021 19:26
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Jazerus posted:i'm not going to defend it as high art and the main character is thoroughly unlikable for the most part, but that's sort of standard for a time loop story isn't it? part of the story is going to be him maturing due to his experiences in the loop. The bigger crime in this case is that the dialogue is extremely bad and basically reads like some nerd fantasizing about the witty dialogue he would have with a hot woman (I skipped ahead to chapter 8 to see what things were like later and oh jeez).
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Jan 19, 2021 20:44
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Ytlaya posted:(I skipped ahead to chapter 8 to see what things were like later and oh jeez).
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Jan 19, 2021 20:47
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Ytlaya posted:The bigger crime in this case is that the dialogue is extremely bad and basically reads like some nerd fantasizing about the witty dialogue he would have with a hot woman (I skipped ahead to chapter 8 to see what things were like later and oh jeez). Thinking “critical hit” when a girl wanted to drink coffe with him. (I read two like one chapter. It’s crammed with bad decisions)
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Jan 19, 2021 21:18
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It does indeed manage to be worse than kindle and wildbow but maybe better than the bad machine translated stuff. Wow.
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Jan 19, 2021 23:18
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Fun fiction fact: I once tried the first chapter of Metaworld Chronicles to see what all the buzz was about, and genuinely thought it was machine-translated because the writing was just that awkward and weird.
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Jan 20, 2021 00:01
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Geez, now I feel embarrassed for having posted that link. SORRY
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Jan 20, 2021 01:37
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It's okay dude. This is the web serials thread.
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Jan 20, 2021 02:04
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Argue posted:Geez, now I feel embarrassed for having posted that link. SORRY Just letting you know that I was already reading this story and kind of like it because I have terrible taste
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Jan 20, 2021 02:26
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If you’re looking for a superhero time loop story that isn’t aggressively terrible, I’m enjoying The Perfect Run. The viewpoint character is hundreds of years into his loops and is both extremely manic and extremely overconfident, which might turn people off, but once it gets past the introduction it smooths out a lot. It’s got a decent—if derivative—setting, actual characters, and plot progression via accumulating time loop knowledge. It’s pretty alright!
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Jan 20, 2021 02:47
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blastron posted:If you’re looking for a superhero time loop story that isn’t aggressively terrible, I’m enjoying The Perfect Run. The viewpoint character is hundreds of years into his loops and is both extremely manic and extremely overconfident, which might turn people off, but once it gets past the introduction it smooths out a lot. It’s got a decent—if derivative—setting, actual characters, and plot progression via accumulating time loop knowledge. It’s pretty alright! That’s the same author who wrote Vainqueur the dragon. I am enjoying it more than his other stories.
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Jan 20, 2021 02:52
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blastron posted:If you’re looking for a superhero time loop story that isn’t aggressively terrible, I’m enjoying The Perfect Run. The viewpoint character is hundreds of years into his loops and is both extremely manic and extremely overconfident, which might turn people off, but once it gets past the introduction it smooths out a lot. It’s got a decent—if derivative—setting, actual characters, and plot progression via accumulating time loop knowledge. It’s pretty alright! I'm reading this one and, like all of his stories(except his first one that even he got bored with and gave up on), it is quite good.
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Jan 20, 2021 03:04
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Argue posted:Geez, now I feel embarrassed for having posted that link. SORRY I don't mind and I'm sorry if I was insulting. I read bad stuff too. But on a whole nother note I kinda like perfect run. Only complaint is that people haven't figured out his powers given his name is Quicksave.
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Affi posted:But on a whole nother note I kinda like perfect run. Only complaint is that people haven't figured out his powers given his name is Quicksave. I've got a few quibbles about it too and this is probably among my biggest. The author plays it off as "not many people know about video games anymore" but, honestly, he runs into enough people who do that I can't understand why none of the people who speculate about the nature of his power have managed to put two and two together, especially because he constantly introduces himself as "Hi, I'm Quicksave! I'm immortal!" It's really fun to see other people guess about the nature of his power, though. I'm legit surprised by all of the guesses other people make as they try to make sense of him.
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blastron posted:I've got a few quibbles about it too and this is probably among my biggest. The author plays it off as "not many people know about video games anymore" but, honestly, he runs into enough people who do that I can't understand why none of the people who speculate about the nature of his power have managed to put two and two together, especially because he constantly introduces himself as "Hi, I'm Quicksave! I'm immortal!" Having read a few more chapters I guess it's because He does that in all his trial runs because it doesn't matter to him. The perfect run would have him ghost everything? Still quicksave is a dumb name for someone trying to hide his powers. Maybe rewinding time is just such a bullshit power that nobody considers it?
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Jan 20, 2021 10:54
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Almost everyone Quicksave meets thinks he's insane, so that probably helps explain why nobody thinks too much about his nickname. Also, I think at one point they talked about it, and they believe time manipulation is impossible (like, he'd run into photons or something) Also, they have a semi-plausible explanations like he jump realities, or can see different realities and choose the one he likes best. Rewinding time is just not something they consider.
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Jan 20, 2021 14:38
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Tower of Somnus continues to deliver in a big way. The worst thing about it is that I wish there was more of it.
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Jan 20, 2021 20:41
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LLSix posted:Tower of Somnus continues to deliver in a big way. The worst thing about it is that I wish there was more of it. I find myself liking the second arc more so far. The first arc's real world half was so predictable and shallow. So was the game half I guess, but you expect an MMO to be pretty much straightforward and fighty. So I'm glad the author seems to be trying to add more interesting scenes and (hopefully) characters to the real world than just more fights. But yeah, I think it has potential and I look forward to a more lengthy story.
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Jan 21, 2021 01:18
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It's Day 19 of no PracGuide. It's getting tough, but I'm hanging in there. It's all about just taking things one day at a time.
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blastron posted:If you’re looking for a superhero time loop story that isn’t aggressively terrible, I’m enjoying The Perfect Run. The viewpoint character is hundreds of years into his loops and is both extremely manic and extremely overconfident, which might turn people off, but once it gets past the introduction it smooths out a lot. It’s got a decent—if derivative—setting, actual characters, and plot progression via accumulating time loop knowledge. It’s pretty alright! I was annoyed by the protagonist's attitude until it came up that hes been doing this for hundreds of subjective years, and then it made perfect sense. I, too, would turn myself into roger rabbit for the fun of it.
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Thanks for the recommendation of Perfect Run. I'm impressed by just how much better it is than Valinquer the Dragon. It has the same zany high energy comedy and action, but the characters are much stronger. Everyone is the way they are for a reason, and it grounds the wilder stuff. I really love how you meet Len relatively quickly, and she just kind of sucks. Don't get me wrong. She's sympathetic and it makes sense that she'd be a broken shell of a person. But part of that is she just kind of sucks.
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Wittgen posted:Thanks for the recommendation of Perfect Run. I'm impressed by just how much better it is than Valinquer the Dragon. It has the same zany high energy comedy and action, but the characters are much stronger. Everyone is the way they are for a reason, and it grounds the wilder stuff. you try being a marxist-leninist in a capitalist hellscape 
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Being a Marxist is about endless, indomitable hope. But whatever. The ridiculous comic book post atomic setting is cool too. The Gods Are Bastards has slipped into the 'basically post apocalyptic ultra future' style of fantasy setting and honestly I'm here for it.
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Perfect Run is significantly better than I expected (the basics of the plot and the way it's written are good enough that I felt compelled to keep reading), though I unfortunately think that the author actually believes the protagonist is cool and funny, even if there's some level of "he's gone mad from the reruns" involved. Other stuff like the evil bunny rabbit plushie kind contributes to my perception that the author just has the same sense of humor that I had when I was like 19. One thing that bugs me about this that Re:Zero (which the author of this is very obviously partially inspired by) gets more or less correct is that people absolutely do not adjust to anything after experiencing it countless times. In reality going through terrible suffering repeatedly just makes you more afraid of it - you don't become "numb" to it or whatever. The idea of being able to become a super-expert through endless time loops is also goofy, since if that logic applied in reality all older professors/programmers/writers/engineers/etc would be dramatically better and smarter than their younger counterparts. "Getting a wide variety of skills to a somewhat high level" would be a reasonable result, but you wouldn't become some sort of hyper-expert who can type with your toes while simultaneously building things with your hands. The author also seems to have a wildbow-esque juvenile perception of drug addiction. Wittgen posted:Thanks for the recommendation of Perfect Run. I'm impressed by just how much better it is than Valinquer the Dragon. It has the same zany high energy comedy and action, but the characters are much stronger. Everyone is the way they are for a reason, and it grounds the wilder stuff. The second time you meet Len kind of soured me a bit because her dynamic with the protagonist seems to be "Len is enamored with him to the point where she's been remotely spying on him, but he's just too unpredictable and dangerous!" Kinda contributes to the general feeling I get that the author unironically thinks the protagonist is really cool, even if he's not entirely mentally stable. It's cool that she's a communist tho.
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Wittgen posted:Thanks for the recommendation of Perfect Run. I'm impressed by just how much better it is than Valinquer the Dragon. It has the same zany high energy comedy and action, but the characters are much stronger. Everyone is the way they are for a reason, and it grounds the wilder stuff. I gave this a dozen chapters and bounced off it, unfortunately. Both the author and the MC try way too hard with the humor and a lot of it doesn't really work. I was low-key cringing the whole time. It's a shame - I wanted to like it.
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Megazver posted:I gave this a dozen chapters and bounced off it, unfortunately. Both the author and the MC try way too hard with the humor and a lot of it doesn't really work. I was low-key cringing the whole time. The story hooked me up enough that I'll look past some of the bad humour but it relies too much on pop culture references. I really liked the humour in Vainqueur because it was a bit loony and camp, but this yeah this one tries a bit too hard.
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