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The nice thing about a dedicated supsup patreon thread is it means both threads are entirely black box free. Or Jeffery could advance us to the forums technology of 2001 and give us hidden spoiler sections instead of just blacked out, that would be nice too.
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Wittgen posted:"People are talking about something that I don't want to talk about. That's bad and they should go elsewhere." I have a hard time reading this impulse in any other way. If there are so many posts about one thing that it takes up whole pages, then yeah. It's pushing other conversations out and needs its own thread. That's not happening here. There's people talking about a variety of stories on every page. You made this post on page 427. Page 426 has 30 SupSup posts, and page 425 is only SupSup posts. This is not an uncommon sight lately, at all I don't think making separate thread is a particularly good idea when I don't think people will spool up other discussions in the absence of SupSup talk, but assigning motivations to other people when you don't even have the facts right is petty poo poo. Silly and sullen, even Ramie fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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i would like to click on the thread when there are unread posts and not feel like there's an 80% chance they will all be about a story i am actively disinterested in. if that makes me silly and sullen then i'm silly and sullen
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Apr 25, 2024 22:10
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There is now a Patreon SupSup thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4059389
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Nitrousoxide posted:There is now a Patreon SupSup thread Nice, thank you.
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Nitrousoxide posted:There is now a Patreon SupSup thread 
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Currently reading through the back half of Worth The Candle Dump your social stats, Shinji Also a little annoyed at how everyone knows that the world harshly punishes if people do a trick to become long term overpowered and then everyone in the party and the protag goes "wow! you're temporarily overpowered! What if we made this indefinite with a little trick?". Usually, there would be people chiming in about how do we avoid creating great harm and spending page after page discussing the possibilities but there's relatively little to none. It feels bad, like the author wanted to show off this setting element and forced it through.
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Pale LIghts Book 2 Chapter 5 Angharad, you've been on the island for mere hours, and already you have made a lifelong enemy of one of the most powerful families in the Watch by defeating an aspiring swordmaster lordling with a butter knife and all but agreed to steal something from the Black Cloaks to give to the queen who killed your whole family, without even considering if she's lying. Girl, please, I beg you.
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Apr 25, 2024 23:43
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Nitrousoxide posted:There is now a Patreon SupSup thread finally Megazver posted:does anyone want to restart the exciting and fruitful "SS-posters should at this point just do their own thread" discussion yet 
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Apr 25, 2024 23:51
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I hated the SS discussion until I started reading SS 
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Aware posted:I hated the SS discussion until I started reading SS Same. And honestly I only started reading it since it was all this thread talked about :P
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I like Ss, but it's very much not friendly to non patreon readers in here, so I overall agree it should be moved to its own thread.
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Honestly I read all the spoilers and will probably follow the patreon thread even though I don’t sub to the Super Supportive patreon. Its charms as a serial to me are unspoiled by and unrelated to knowing what’s going to happen.
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Yeah I read plenty of the black bar text before I even started and it was largely impenetrable anyway. For current RR readers I guess it's something to avoid. But the volume is such that it does legit drown out other great serial discussion or recs so I'm all for a seperate thread. Good job sleyca!
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Kyoujin posted:Is that the one with the old man with a cane (Rowan?)I thought that got dropped since I used to follow it then it had delays for awhile before disappearing from royalroad altogether. One and the same. It's very well done.
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theres been so much classified posting i was getting ready to goatse bomb. thankfully youve all come to your senses
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GTSE CH3.22 UPDATE SPOILERS:https://fi.somethingawful.com/flags/e5/30/0000012186.gif?by=-B%20l%20a%20z%20e%20i%20n%20g- (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Somebody fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Clearly I should not have made a supsup thread.
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Clearly we need three threads. One for soup only, one not for soup, and one with both.
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cumpantry posted:GTSE CH3.22 UPDATE SPOILERS: https://fi.somethingawful.com/flags/e5/30/0000012186.gif?by=-B%20l%20a%20z%20e%20i%20n%20g- Nitrousoxide posted:Clearly I should not have made a supsup thread. Lmao Somebody fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Nitrousoxide posted:Pale LIghts Book 2 Chapter 5 Whenever Pale Lights focuses on Angharad, I spend the entire time amazed that someone so dumb has survived for so long. But at least she finally realized she is a moron with a sword(mostly because she currently can't use that sword)
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cumpantry posted:GTSE CH3.22 UPDATE SPOILERS: https://fi.somethingawful.com/flags/e5/30/0000012186.gif?by=-B%20l%20a%20z%20e%20i%20n%20g- Somebody fucked around with this message at 14:35 on Apr 26, 2024 |
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Have to say I fully support the new Sup dedicated thread as there were so many pages of spoilers I stopped even skimming this thread. If there is that much to discuss it should have its own thread so other web serials can flourish in the sun and battle for thread supremacy
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fez_machine posted:Currently reading through the back half of Worth The Candle I feel like there’s a lot of this kind of forced self-destructive behavior in WtC. This Used to be about Dungeons is much better in this regard. The characters still make objectively bad decisions, but they’re such messes it feels more consistent.
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fez_machine posted:Currently reading through the back half of Worth The Candle I just finished this last week so I've been thinking about it as well. I think Juniper ruminates a few times about being railroaded by the DM into making these decisions to force exclusions but ends up deciding that it's pointless to think about it since he can't really know anyway. But yes, the exclusions ultimately end up pushing them towards forced conflict and the conclusion, I think. The ending gets very meta with the reveal of the DM and what the world is, so it does end up mostly explained anyway. Now to find something else to read
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When Immortal Ascension Fails ch27 Lin sure is doing a great job pretending to be a Demonic Musician and keeping a low Alchemist profile... I'm sure that flaunting all that knowledge won't backfire at - and there it is! Only question now is did Noxious Fang notice who she is or is the sect capture her as a spy?
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She is the most low profile.
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She just needs to play some Alice Cooper to explain why she's good at poisons.
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In an attempt to move the conversation on, I wanna talk about something completely different! Disclaimer: I have a financial interest in the web serial. Figured I'd put that out there. Ultimate Level 1 is CRUSHING IT in so many ways. It doesn't have the depths of Soup (to be fair, I'm putting the bar in the sky), but it's a well-executed progression fantasy litrpg that's crushing it on the charts. Hit #1 in both the litRPG genre AND action-adventure, beating out Sanderson, Pratchett, and LOTR. Author has an insane writing speed as well - at one point he told me he wrote 4 chapters in 2 hours, and I'm over here like "what." It doesn't do anything particularly new or insane - it simply executes extremely well on a simple premise. MC awakens to a cheat skill, the powers that be know it's a cheat skill and don't want them around, can MC cheat skill his way to be strong enough to stay one step ahead of the executioners?
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Went and had a look at it. This is a nitpick, but I really hate the double-spaced lines. BTDEM does it too. It looks fine in Scrivener sure, but it doesn't look good on RR! Oh, nevermind it's stubbed on RR anyway. Looks like they fixed the lines thing later too.
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It got stubbed REALLY fast too, I remember reading it up to the current endpoint fairly recently and when I went back to my tab I was stubbed out of it lol. Also while I know there are limited overpowered cheat skills, the basic power concept is literally one to one with a mediocre manhwa I read once which was kinda funny to me.
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I swear that the ads for it are everywhere. Or maybe I'm just in the spaces that ads for it are appropriate for.
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i want to hear about the sub ten thousand views people here may be reading
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It's not even close to sub ten thousand but I just caught up with The Shining Wyrm, about a dragon raised as a daughter by a local baron. Its main character is likable and charming, and the world it depicts is interesting. It does a good job of depicting a realistic medieval setting--- there's a lot about the ponderousness of armies marching, the cruelty of forage, etc.--- with cool magic stuff. What I don't love is that the prose is a bit mediocre, and it's rarely too exciting. But I'm still enjoying it overall.
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I'm just going to once again plug Player Manager which is baller good. I even bought a signed copy of the first book to give to a friend. Author is very nice too. Oh was also looking forwards to ultimate level 1 but it's stubbed. Wait I think player Manager is stubbed too.. dammit. Affi fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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cumpantry posted:i want to hear about the sub ten thousand views people here may be reading Skill Thief is the one I've been reading and keep posting about - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72327/skill-thief-the-color-of-another-world-litrpg It's unquestionably the biggest gap between quality and (low) popularity that I've ever encountered. I'm going to be pretty crushed if it ends up getting discontinued, because it's absolutely one of the top few serials I've read (PracGuide is #1 and I'd say that #2 and #3 are a toss-up between SupSup and Skill Thief). I think it might be hurt a bit by the fact that it sort of advertises itself as a "progression" series while not actually being structured like one. Based off of the title, you'd assume that the protagonist uses his skill thievery to become really powerful, but in practice his progression is far slower and dependent on him being clever and/or working with others. There also isn't much quantification to the various powers involved, despite there technically being a "system." Probably my only minor criticism is that it frequently does this thing where the protagonist keeps his plans secret from the reader, despite being written in first-person. But this doesn't really bother me because there's usually a good pay-off once his plans are revealed. Despite still being pretty short, there have already been multiple extremely cool scenes where there's some sort of big climax/pay-off to a tense situation.
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Ytlaya posted:Skill Thief is the one I've been reading and keep posting about - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72327/skill-thief-the-color-of-another-world-litrpg There's some rule in heist writing where if you detail the plan, then it's destined to fail(detailed before it begins). The obvious thing is that if you don't tell the plan, then it's supposed to succeed. It's part of the genre. As someone who has written a fantasy heist and a sci-fi heist (stealing a spaceship, anyone?) you have to be a little opaque about these types of things.
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Ytlaya posted:Skill Thief is the one I've been reading and keep posting about - https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/72327/skill-thief-the-color-of-another-world-litrpg I must admit I tried the first few chapters and it seemed extremely mid. I might give it another look eventually.
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Affi posted:Oh was also looking forwards to ultimate level 1 but it's stubbed. I totally get why authors need to stub (Amazon contract stuff and income is vital to keep writing), but it feels really frustrating when you want to read something and NOPE, first 3 volumes are gone. But the author is still posting updates on RR, it's just that you got in too late. I skipped reading a serial called "The Villainess Is An SS+ Rank Adventurer" for a few months, only to notice that the volume I was reading is now stubbed. Did I enjoy it? Yeah sure. Enough to pay 5€? Eeeeh. Which feels awkward writing it out like that, but..  One day once I've accumulated enough "I wanted to read this, but it's now stubbed" serials I'll just give Kindle Unlimited a try. With that said, wow did these latest Wandering Inn chapters knock it out of the park. TWI 10.11 quote:Ceria stared around at Medain balefully, eyes bloodshot. Then she glanced at Yvlon. Either she was still ‘melted’ from last night or she was being more honest. I've never wanted a sudden appearance of the new [Pavillion of Secrets] as much as I wanted it at that moment. That in combination with just how bad Erin seemed both in the eyes of Fetohep and Ulvama (not to mention herself) has me really curious how Pirateaba will steer volume 10. It's a great sign that I want to know more about Erin, the Horns, Nerin and Kehlts future at the same time. So many plot threads, aaaaa.
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