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TUTBAD Maybe they'll stop now, I blame Verity.
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TUTBAD: Alfric is gonna feel completely vindicated by this and also reaffirm his commitment to never get with Mizuki. Which, honestly is probably the smart choice considering how hilariously this is gonna blow up.
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Jul 15, 2022 03:53
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I demand it happen anyway.
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BtDEM wow Selkie now THAT is a cliff! 
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Jul 16, 2022 01:33
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Double post but who cares. I’m catching up on TWI after taking a break from it after Pisces wakes up in Roshar, and all I have to say is: Crusader 57 is precious and must be protected at all costs. “gently caress YOU, Kbtch!”
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navyjack posted:BtDEM wow Selkie now THAT is a cliff! Yeah I thought I was mostly done getting new patrons after the Night interlude had so many people joining. NOPE.
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Zore posted:TUTBAD: Alfric is gonna feel completely vindicated by this and also reaffirm his commitment to never get with Mizuki. Which, honestly is probably the smart choice considering how hilariously this is gonna blow up. Crazy talk.
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Zore posted:TUTBAD: Alfric is gonna feel completely vindicated by this and also reaffirm his commitment to never get with Mizuki. Which, honestly is probably the smart choice considering how hilariously this is gonna blow up. Who would have thought that two young people's first relationship that mostly stemmed from wanting what the other has going wrong??? Alfric and Mizuki are a far better potential match anyway.
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Jul 16, 2022 20:22
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Selkie Myth posted:Yeah I thought I was mostly done getting new patrons after the Night interlude had so many people joining. If they read the interludes they would know Iona can speak any language. Not as surprising from the readers perspective (still a little that she can sense that Elaine speaks English)
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Jul 16, 2022 22:33
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TWI Patreon: Chaos walks.
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Jul 17, 2022 08:04
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They're gonna turn the wandering inn into the first multinational corporation
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Jul 17, 2022 08:13
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TUTBAD 119: I've been waiting to see what the inciting incident is for one of the core 5 (along with the herb dragons) to get "kidnapped" by the-suspicious-woman-who-is-probably-a-dragon-in-disguise, and I strongly suspect this is it.
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Jul 17, 2022 08:15
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TWI public: danger zone
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Teriarch footage: https://youtu.be/m7wSA1-50DE
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Re: Beneath the Dragoneye Moons It's been clear this meeting would happen since the first Iona chapter. I'm liking how the long term set up is playing out here. Elaine having grown to become the word for healer rules.
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TUTBAD: Well that is certainly a shakeup
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Been reading Pact and it's genuinely impressive how wildbow manages to make things just keep getting worse. It felt like rock bottom three arcs ago, and yet things have managed to fall apart even more. Worm at least had periods of stability and gathering strength. Pact starts at "your totally hosed" and just steadily gets worse and worse. I'm at the part where Blake is taking his friends and family into the Abyss to try and help them. And I've got no idea how this story can keep going for another 4 arcs but I'm real curious to find out. Also Green Eyes is just the best. Edit: Goddammit Rose. Patrick Spens fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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Patrick Spens posted:Been reading Pact and it's genuinely impressive how wildbow manages to make things just keep getting worse. It felt like rock bottom three arcs ago, and yet things have managed to fall apart even more. Worm at least had periods of stability and gathering strength. Pact starts at "your totally hosed" and just steadily gets worse and worse. I'm at the part where Blake is taking his friends and family into the Abyss to try and help them. And I've got no idea how this story can keep going for another 4 arcs but I'm real curious to find out. I'm not trying to be rude here... But what is the attraction of that to a reader? 'Everything is miserable and is getting worse' sounds exhausting to read imo.
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Peachfart posted:I'm not trying to be rude here... But what is the attraction of that to a reader? 'Everything is miserable and is getting worse' sounds exhausting to read imo. Haha it was. I kept wanting them to have a break and explorer their available powers and abilities, but it is not the progression fantasy i apparently want everything to be.
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Jul 22, 2022 01:42
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Yeah it's exhausting. But A) it's cathartic, much like some people like being scared by movies or video games, I like it when fiction makes me feel anxious, trapped or hopeless. B) the overpowering bleakness makes the non-bleak parts shine brighter. There's a recurring gag where Evan, the ghost of a young boy in the form of a sparrow, keeps trying to convince magic users to light him on fire so he can be a phoenix, or infuse death essence into him so he can be a sparrow of death because that would be totally metal you guys. And that's not a great gag but it's much funnier in the context of how scary and miserable everything else is. Similarly, the protagonist being a limitless font of gumption is hardly a rare thing in webnovels and other nerdy media, it's a lot more inspiring to read when they actually have to go through some serious poo poo.
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it is very impressive how wildbow keeps making worse things, yes
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Patrick Spens posted:Yeah it's exhausting. But A) it's cathartic, much like some people like being scared by movies or video games, I like it when fiction makes me feel anxious, trapped or hopeless. Ah, okay, I think I understand why I hate Wildbow and also horror movies. I personally don't like any of that.
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Peachfart posted:I'm not trying to be rude here... But what is the attraction of that to a reader? 'Everything is miserable and is getting worse' sounds exhausting to read imo. it's a nice change of pace to feel bad about something that isn't my life
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Peachfart posted:Ah, okay, I think I understand why I hate Wildbow and also horror movies. I personally don't like any of that. Yep, this is why I tell people not to read him. He is unrelenting in his search for a not very interesting nadir beyond the latest not very interesting nadir. Then, goons being goons, they all tromp off to verify that yes it is a hole.
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Peachfart posted:Ah, okay, I think I understand why I hate Wildbow and also horror movies. I personally don't like any of that. what do you think about the fantasy author Robin Hobb
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Piell posted:TUTBAD: Well that is certainly a shakeup What the actual gently caress Verity. I uh, don't really know how they continue on from here
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Ah, I'm glad to see we've rotated from the classic "Pirateaba's work is bad and people who read her are bad" back to the even more classic "Wildbow's work is bad and people who read him are bad".
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Zore posted:What the actual gently caress Verity. I uh, don't really know how they continue on from here Therapy.
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nrook posted:Ah, I'm glad to see we've rotated from the classic "Pirateaba's work is bad and people who read her are bad" back to the even more classic "Wildbow's work is bad and people who read him are bad". tbh wandering into this thread a little while ago, it was nice knowing that I wasn't crazy for finding Ward incredibly boring. Going slowly through the backlog was additional fun because every ten pages wildbow happened again which really gives you strength to keep moving.
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The thread's opinion on Wildbow has changed a lot of the years. Originally nearly everyone thought he was amazing and the best writer of all time, and it has slowly moved towards distaste for many as time as gone on. But everyone is different and likes different stuff, we all just have our opinions to share. Speaking of opinions, I decided to pick up Prophecy Approved Companion last week, and I just finished with Book 1. It is... Good. Not amazing, but good. The plot really picks up from the middle to the end of Book 1, but the writing itself is competent. Just wanted to mention it since I don't think I have seen it in this thread.
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Latest chapter of Calamitous Bob is great. Always love when others first meet Solfis or Arthur and this chapter was probably the best of that.
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Peachfart posted:The thread's opinion on Wildbow has changed a lot of the years. Originally nearly everyone thought he was amazing and the best writer of all time, and it has slowly moved towards distaste for many as time as gone on. Its pretty good. The middle book feels pretty fillerish but the 3rd book has finally started hitting some serious payoff and its going to a more interesting place.
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honestly, i have a soft spot for reading about relentless misery, but for me if the setting seems like it is becoming contrived to torture its characters it tends to lose me. thats why I was so into The Fifth Defiance with Prevailer basically being Snoop from the Wire with godlike power and then completely lost interest when the twist that the extradimensional entities are responsible for literally everything that happened in the setting was revealed.
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Kyoujin posted:Latest chapter of Calamitous Bob is great. Always love when others first meet Solfis or Arthur and this chapter was probably the best of that. Bob ftw
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day-gas posted:tbh wandering into this thread a little while ago, it was nice knowing that I wasn't crazy for finding Ward incredibly boring. Going slowly through the backlog was additional fun because every ten pages wildbow happened again which really gives you strength to keep moving. I mean there’s nothing wrong with thinking wildbow is a bad writer and posting about it, Anias’s post just wandered past that directly into a “and people who read him are dumb idiots” zone that rubbed me the wrong way e: I actually read book 1 of prophecy approved companion awhile ago and it mixes a fun premise and a good dynamic between the protagonist and the player with very mediocre prose; this was enough for me to enjoy it, but others’ mileage may vary. nrook fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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nrook posted:I mean there’s nothing wrong with thinking wildbow is a bad writer and posting about it, Anias’s post just wandered past that directly into a “and people who read him are dumb idiots” zone that rubbed me the wrong way You can tell goons not to do something because it is mediocre and no matter what it is some goon will reply with "ACTUALLY" and another goon will immediately go forth to verify that it is Actually Mediocre. I wasn't calling someone dumb, I was noting that goons being goons none of us are willing to take someone else's word for something being awful. We'll all listen when someone says "this is great" but generally need to verify for ourselves just what level of atrociously bad thing someone has come to report about. See also digging and wells.
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To be honest, the discussion repeatedly swerving to Wildbow or TWI or whatever kind of makes the thread drag for me, not because I necessarily agree/disagree with those opinions but because I primary use this thread to find new stories and the x hundredth post about one of those everyone's already aware of doesn't help with that. I'm not a mod or anything though, so post what you want. For real, though, there are apparently (at this moment) 56,841 stories on RR alone and let's be honest, most of them stink. Finding good ones is hard. So that this isn't me being hypocritical, here are some less known stories I've been reading: Jackal Among Snakes Follows the often dreadful "Guy gets reincarnated into his favorite game" formula, but does a relatively decent job of it I feel. This one kind of combines elements of "reincarnated into an RPG" and "reincarnated as a villainess" genres (The MC is male both before and after reincarnation, but takes over a widely disliked midboss-ish character). If you hate the formula probably give this one a pass, but otherwise it has fun worldbuilding and characters. The MC is rather unrealistically quick to adapt to his circumstances but honestly I dislike the moping MC cliche so that worked for me, and he's both witty and clever with using his knowledge of the setting without crossing the line into annoying perfect. Rating: A very fun light read if you're as tolerant of the genre as I am. To Play With Magic A system apocalypse LitRPG with the caveat that the system apocalypse hasn't happened yet, featuring a small group of humans transplanted to an alien world with the goal of eventually returning to Earth in time to ameliorate the coming system integration. Though I have my doubts it will ever really get to the return to Earth part and will probably continue being mostly about exploring the alien LitRPG world. Definitely a numbers go up story, though less number heavy than something like Dragonseye Moon or (god forbid) Azarinth Healer. Updates slowly and inconsistently but at over two years old has accumulated a decent backlog. Rating: Enjoyable. Above average for a System Apocalypse LitRPG story but that isn't always saying much. Somebody Stop Her Deserves some kind of award for most misleading description. Presents itself as a comedy about a young supervillainess, rapidly adopts heavy elements of child neglect and body horror, including a race of monsters that body and mindjack people in order to turn their bodies into organic hives for their spawn. Tries to remain a comedy despite this. Also likes to play games with an unreliable (non)narrator in that it's never really clear if the titular child villainess is telling the truth or being extremely manipulative, which annoys me when all the other nominally heroic characters readily accept her arguments on why they should be her minions. Rating: I dropped it, as it checks a lot of my "avoid" boxes, but the writing is decent if it interests others. Apocalypse Redux: Another System Apocalypse LitRPG that got recommended to me, featuring the last man alive on Earth after humanity is destroyed by rampaging system generated monsters getting a chance to go back in time and do it over again. A fairly generic story for the genre with an OP MC and lots of fighting, but at least it updates quick and seems to be avoiding anything actively dislikeable. It also focuses on the preparing the world aspect instead of single-handedly killing all the monsters and becoming more powerful, which was a pleasant change. I liked To Play with Magic more but this one's here if you really like this sort of story. And this one does update far quicker. Rating: Average, which is still better than most LitRPG stories. Bremen fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jul 23, 2022 |
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Anias posted:You can tell goons not to do something because it is mediocre and no matter what it is some goon will reply with "ACTUALLY" and another goon will immediately go forth to verify that it is Actually Mediocre. I wasn't calling someone dumb, I was noting that goons being goons none of us are willing to take someone else's word for something being awful. We'll all listen when someone says "this is great" but generally need to verify for ourselves just what level of atrociously bad thing someone has come to report about. I do feel better when I post some absolute dogshit story and other people have read or are bored enough to try it too, because at least I didn't suffer alone.
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Thanks for the reviews Bremen. I'll add my thoughts to the ones I've read.Bremen posted:To Play With Magic A system apocalypse LitRPG with the caveat that the system apocalypse hasn't happened yet, featuring a small group of humans transplanted to an alien world with the goal of eventually returning to Earth in time to ameliorate the coming system integration. Though I have my doubts it will ever really get to the return to Earth part and will probably continue being mostly about exploring the alien LitRPG world. Definitely a numbers go up story, though less number heavy than something like Dragonseye Moon or (god forbid) Azarinth Healer. Updates slowly and inconsistently but at over two years old has accumulated a decent backlog. Bremen posted:Somebody Stop Her Deserves some kind of award for most misleading description. Presents itself as a comedy about a young supervillainess, rapidly adopts heavy elements of child neglect and body horror, including a race of monsters that body and mindjack people in order to turn their bodies into organic hives for their spawn. Tries to remains a comedy despite this. Also likes to play games with an unreliable (non)narrator in that it's never really clear if the titular child villainess is telling the truth or being extremely manipulative, which annoys me when all the other nominally heroic characters readily accept her arguments on why they should be her minions.
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Adding actual content? Okay fine, I guess. I recently read Doing God's Work which is set in the viewpoint of Loki, a depowered God that has to work help desk for a lazy and kinda of a jerk Yahweh. It is well written and comes out rather infrequently due to health issues with the author, but I think it is getting close to the end. I recommend it, it made me laugh and the plot is original.
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