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Larry Parrish posted:I should point out that l don't regard that as a problem at all, but it definetly does get even slower.
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Onean posted:That's fair. I am only about 50 chapters in, out of 150, so there's a bit for me to get through yet. You notice it less when you're binging the series but when you catch up to live and an entire chapter is "they have lunch and decide they gotta fix the bathroom" and then the next chapter they haven't gotten to the bathroom yet, you'll notice it. I don't know what chapter number it was but I checked out a little after they got back from the other town . The arc that's under the spoiler was interesting but then it felt like things came to a screeching halt after that - or maybe that's where I caught up to live updates, I forget.
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Bhodi posted:"yeah it's slow but not like delve slow" Unironically yes lol.
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dis astranagant posted:pgte epilogue 1 just dropped. Is PracGuide ending?
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Bhodi posted:"yeah it's slow but not like delve slow"
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navyjack posted:Is PracGuide ending? Once epilogue 2 drops thursday.
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Bhodi posted:"yeah it's slow but not like delve slow" you're right, it's slower
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Feb 22, 2022 19:02
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Impossible, the only thing slower than Delve is being on hiatus.
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I hope that Prac Guide gets even the most basic editing/proofreading pass now that it's done. I think my dad would really enjoy the story if he wasn't being tilted out of his chair by the typos and other errors.
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It's slower than Delve but there's no overarching plot that it's neglecting in favor of spending five chapters on building a bathroom. You will never start reading a chapter of Demense in the hopes that this is the one which finally moves the plot forward only to be disappointed when it doesn't unless you are very confused about which story you're reading.
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:I hope that Prac Guide gets even the most basic editing/proofreading pass now that it's done. I think my dad would really enjoy the story if he wasn't being tilted out of his chair by the typos and other errors. The web novel isn't getting touched. EE intends to go through a traditional publisher and for them the current mess is a feature.
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Plorkyeran posted:It's slower than Delve but there's no overarching plot that it's neglecting in favor of spending five chapters on building a bathroom. You will never start reading a chapter of Demense in the hopes that this is the one which finally moves the plot forward only to be disappointed when it doesn't unless you are very confused about which story you're reading. I would like it if (spoilers for Demense) rian comes back soon, but the depression stuff has been interesting, if slooow.
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I just went to Demesne royal road page on this thread's recommendation and had a flashback to when I last read the opening of this book and put it down in disgust.The literal first page of Demesne posted:In the middle of the rains, they finally finished digging the core for the demesne. This is your periodic reminder to anyone not reading Demesne that their is a reason for this.
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Rob Filter posted:I just went to Demesne royal road page on this thread's recommendation and had a flashback to when I last read the opening of this book and put it down in disgust. I am with you though so I'm not gonna harp on it too hard because what the gently caress who names their character loli l. yuri
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I think any author who wants others to read their work may wish to judiciously weigh the tremendous self satisfaction of naming a character Patrick Edo Phile against readers never getting past that sentence in the story.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:the post recommending it did point out her name Ah, I see I glazed over the original recommendation. Frankly, (cw: csa) The name blatantly marketing the text to paedophiles is just such a screaming red flag. Minimizing how hosed up that is is... side eye. I am side eying the recommender. I don't want to consume the thread in a long discussion about this and derail the discussions of other texts, so that's the last ill post about this. edit: important context Rob Filter posted:To be clear, anyone recommending Demesne is 1000% not a paedophile, nor is anyone ITT talking about the text. It was not my intention to imply that, and I apologize if I accidentally did. Rob Filter fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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dis astranagant posted:Once epilogue 2 drops thursday. Oh man, I dropped all my heavy/wordy books last year when school got hectic, so I’ll have to catch up/reread.
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Whaleporn posted:I think any author who wants others to read their work may wish to judiciously weigh the tremendous self satisfaction of naming a character Patrick Edo Phile against readers never getting past that sentence in the story. lmao
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Tom Clancy is Dead posted:I hope that Prac Guide gets even the most basic editing/proofreading pass now that it's done. I think my dad would really enjoy the story if he wasn't being tilted out of his chair by the typos and other errors. It will be
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Rob Filter posted:Ah, I see I glazed over the original recommendation. Frankly, (cw: csa) The name blatantly marketing the text to paedophiles is just such a screaming red flag. Minimizing how hosed up that is is... side eye. I am side eying the recommender. jesus christ the name is literally the only thing in the text that's even vaguely objectionable. if there was a spectrum of "wholesome to pretty hosed up" in web serials recommended in this thread, demesne would be all the way to the wholesome side (worth the candle would be the other pole obv). you do not need to "side eye" anybody because they are recommending the story, not the main character's name. it's hosed up and bad and makes no sense considering the actual content of the story, to the point that i'm left wondering if the author genuinely just got the name out of a d&d character name generator and has no idea what they're implying with it.
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Rob Filter posted:Ah, I see I glazed over the original recommendation. Frankly, (cw: csa) The name blatantly marketing the text to paedophiles is just such a screaming red flag. Minimizing how hosed up that is is... side eye. I am side eying the recommender. Lol. Bro I understand your point but the author is just a massive weeb. The name is the only sus thing in there. Which is why it's strange that it's there at all but whatever.
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Jazerus posted:jesus christ chapter one of the book is literally called Our Unfortunately Named Protagonist so yeah i strongly doubt the author didn't know what they were doing
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I can't imagine a reason for doing that other than trying to hook in creeps in hopes that you can keep them reading when your story is actually good. Not a great look at all but if it really is the only sketchy thing there then 
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dis astranagant posted:The web novel isn't getting touched. EE intends to go through a traditional publisher and for them the current mess is a feature. ah, so just like how a properly edited and published worm is coming any day now...........
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Speaking of editing, has anyone tried the new published version of Mother of Learning? One goon said the audiobook had awful voice acting, but I haven’t heard anything else. I don’t have a good impression of the publisher he’s using so far.
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dis astranagant posted:The web novel isn't getting touched. EE intends to go through a traditional publisher and for them the current mess is a feature. I'd be fascinated to see if that works out. Like, do they already have a publisher talking with them, an agent, or what?
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Rob Filter posted:I just went to Demesne royal road page on this thread's recommendation and had a flashback to when I last read the opening of this book and put it down in disgust. That's a reasonable response, and why I mentioned it in the first place with a disclaimer that there's none of that content in the story. It is a worrying factor that an author would put a reference like that into a story that's otherwise completely wholesome, and I didn't want to hide that. Rob Filter posted:Ah, I see I glazed over the original recommendation. Frankly, (cw: csa) The name blatantly marketing the text to paedophiles is just such a screaming red flag. Minimizing how hosed up that is is... side eye. I am side eying the recommender. Okay.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:I'd be fascinated to see if that works out. Like, do they already have a publisher talking with them, an agent, or what? I think rn it's just hopes and dreams. He wants to split it into smaller books and also add a couple set in praes around what's currently books 1 and 2. In the mean time he has another serial in the works that he's going to announce a release date for with the final pgte update. He posted a 2 chapter teaser at the start of book 7 https://palelights613694448.wordpress.com/ dis astranagant fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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TUTBAD 80: Isra desperately trying to disney princess her house with animals and it failing miserably was hilarious.
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Cicero posted:TUTBAD 80: Isra desperately trying to disney princess her house with animals and it failing miserably was hilarious. She's the best.
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Rob Filter posted:Ah, I see I glazed over the original recommendation. Frankly, (cw: csa) The name blatantly marketing the text to paedophiles is just such a screaming red flag. Minimizing how hosed up that is is... side eye. I am side eying the recommender. It's pretty messed up to call someone a pedophile because you didn't get satire/a dumb joke name. Also the MC lays down the law that kids aren't for sex in any way. It's like the first law she makes. The story is the exact opposite of CSA pedo-marketing Narmi fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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Narmi posted:It's pretty messed up to call someone a pedophile because you don't get satire. Hey, they didn't call anyone a pedophile, they just said "wow, that's some pedo poo poo, to the extent that you in thread sure are [i] suspicious [i/]," but did not actually state what they were suspicious of, and that's all it takes to skirt around the rules against calling other posters pedophiles, which ofc were established because it became bizarrely common
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LLSix posted:Speaking of editing, has anyone tried the new published version of Mother of Learning? One goon said the audiobook had awful voice acting, but I haven’t heard anything else. I don’t have a good impression of the publisher he’s using so far. From what I read, there wasn't really a noticeable difference. I didn't read too much of it though.
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John Lee posted:Hey, they didn't call anyone a pedophile, they just said "wow, that's some pedo poo poo, to the extent that you in thread sure are [i] suspicious [i/]," but did not actually state what they were suspicious of, and that's all it takes to skirt around the rules against calling other posters pedophiles, which ofc were established because it became bizarrely common Just say what you mean instead of this weird implication poo poo because it's creepier. Imo.
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Rob Filter posted:To be clear, anyone recommending Demesne is 1000% not a paedophile, nor is anyone ITT talking about the text. It was not my intention to imply that, and I apologize if I accidentally did. I've got no idea what the author was thinking with the name, if it was supposed to lead to some revelation about horrible parents or whatever, but I'm pretty much 100% sure it wasn't intended to market itself to creeps, as it's really not that sort of story. And yeah, the story itself is pretty much entirely unobjectionable, at least the chunk I read. I ended up dropping it because it didn't really hook me, but not because of anything creepy.
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PracGuide Epilogue (or the first part of it anyways) was really good. I kind of felt bad for Hanno when Cat is asking to un-paralyze Hakram. Poor guy has lost a bunch of the heroes he seemed closest to, including the one he loved (even if not exactly romantically), and Catherine is begging him to heal the one member of her party that didn't come out relatively unscathed. There are other good reasons to help Hakram, so it's not exactly a bad choice, though they weren't mentioned (namely the fact that he's the Warlord and fills a very important and hard to replace role as the orc leader). Vivian just losing a hand in exchange for healing Hakram's memory was also a pretty minor cost (especially since magical prosthetics aren't hard to get in this setting). It just kind of stands out given the huge number of other prominent Named who died. That being said, I don't think there was much of an alternative. It would be difficult/awkward to allow any member of Cat's group to die. Vivienne and Hakram both have vital roles in the post-war order, Indrani just became Ranger (so it'd be awkward to suddenly end her story immediately after that), and Masego had to complete his arc of becoming a god. It's just that Cat comes out looking *really* lucky compared with most other people in the war - most of the people close to her survived.
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Cicero posted:TUTBAD 80: Isra desperately trying to disney princess her house with animals and it failing miserably was hilarious. "The squirrels were a mistake" had me cackling.
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Ytlaya posted:PracGuide Epilogue (or the first part of it anyways) was really good. I kind of felt bad for Hanno when Cat is asking to un-paralyze Hakram. Poor guy has lost a bunch of the heroes he seemed closest to, including the one he loved (even if not exactly romantically), and Catherine is begging him to heal the one member of her party that didn't come out relatively unscathed. There are other good reasons to help Hakram, so it's not exactly a bad choice, though they weren't mentioned (namely the fact that he's the Warlord and fills a very important and hard to replace role as the orc leader). Vivian just losing a hand in exchange for healing Hakram's memory was also a pretty minor cost (especially since magical prosthetics aren't hard to get in this setting). It just kind of stands out given the huge number of other prominent Named who died. For those heros, their time had ended, as per the conversation about Christophe and where Hakram is Christophe's Villain mirror, in that they gradually grow from self-abnegation into people. But unlike Christophe, Hakram has a role building the future for an oppressed people. Don't forget that Hanno has adopted a Role of protecting the potential of the a better future so that Cat's way isn't necessary, so that desperate deeds aren't needed for mere survival. That's how they can work together while still keeping the Wager. If Hakram was in his old role, he probably would have lost out to someone who wanted to go home and run a tavern.
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