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I just remembered the Wiz Biz series (https://www.fictiondb.com/series/the-wiz-biz-rick-cook~10189.htm) which involves a late 80s programmer getting isekaid into a classic western fantasy setting and obviously turns out magic is like programming. I recall it being goofy fun but it was some years ago so I'm not sure how it holds up.
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To discover cooking you need somebody that a) was willing to take a mostly-RP subclass, b) level it up, c) knows how to cook IRL, d) has the specific disposition to larp out the act of cooking despite being completely unnecessary as far as you can tell and e) hasn't fallen into depression and ennui. This is surprisingly difficult to find, especially among the population segment that's willing to stay awake past midnight to day 1 a new MMORPG patch.
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Aug 7, 2022 19:51
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Jackard posted:This all sounds pretty weird out of context. Do the ingredients themselves taste fine and the automation just turns it into gruel? Almost. Raw ingredients taste like raw ingredients, but combining or manipulating them beyond applying some seasoning counts as cooking and would turn into mystery mush for most adventurers. Conversely, picking a dish outta the cooking menu would deduct your ingredients and give you a very pretty but entirely flavorless finished dish. So people would have to rely on flavorless food with salt or get used to whatever fruits they have on hand. Can't even chop some veggies for a salad. There was also the secondary issue that most people could not really handle the transition from "fighting monsters on a screen" to "I am personally stabbing that thing in the head" so there was a huge population of combat-specced characters who wouldn't bring themselves to do the one thing they could do, which would contribute to their depression. And there was body dysphoria to boot. Kyte fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Aug 8, 2022 02:57
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Jackard posted:They can still add salt and pepper? What about other things like sauce or butter? Cheese on a cracker? This plot point seems dumber the closer you look at it. How'd you get sauce, butter or cheese? Those are all processed foodstuffs. EVIL Gibson posted:there's no cereal in the world. just ingredients/grown stuff. you would have to make the cereal from scratch first. Kyte fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Aug 8, 2022 05:18
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That's what makes it so good though. It's a neverending train of karma.
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Aug 13, 2022 07:01
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Just for the record while the core gimmick of the manga is various lovely people breaking themselves against the immovable wall that is the protag, there's still story arcs with some other characters, some of which are actually pretty wild.
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Aug 14, 2022 04:58
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But only after figuring out their story, which takes precious time when many of these isekai people are shitheads actively causing harm.
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Sep 28, 2022 18:48
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I completely forgot who was the gluttony dude. e: oh the guy in tama's arc. he really was such a lame guy. Kyte fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Sep 30, 2022 |
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Sep 30, 2022 01:00
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Captain Invictus posted:I like the horrific demilich necromancer priest turning into the neighborly grandpa who asks you if you'd like some hard candy. Just for the record those guys got some proper staff and they've graduated to the lofty heights of "it's okay now". Although I don't think they've gone back to fix those horrific early translations so you might have to power through those.
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VictualSquid posted:Just read through "The Earth-san Has Leveled Up". Learn how to mage by bonking enough enemies with your magic book. Too bad it hasn't seen a new release in 9 months.
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Dec 12, 2022 23:05
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tbf it seems to be based on reaching a certain negative karma threshold which is probably not reachable via occasional bad behavior lol at drug use being penalized the most. although in japan that often involves meth.
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Dec 14, 2022 18:43
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That probably happened but it's not really the aim of the story anyways.Lord Awkward posted:Wonder what driving slow in the passing lane gets you. quote:"But my state legalized recreational marijuanaaaaaa
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Fellis posted:Yeah I was thinking about this also, and I think it’s telling what the author decided to show for their example. Would have been much more interesting if there were some wrinkles to the negative karma about pollution, sustainability, etc. and the definition of harming/helping the earth. Also the societal changes it introduces as people frantically engage in conservation/green energy for their own survival, which could all be just in the background kinda quietly. You're looking too deep into a manga about cute girls doing cute things. Seriously, just assume all that stuff is happening in the background where the barely-teenage main character does not know or give a poo poo because there's more fun stuff to do.
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Captain Invictus posted:General Isekai Thread: I have said all I need to about the issue of slavery back in chapter 305 For those wondering what chapter 305 says it says "it's not chattel it's only indenture".
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Ytlaya posted:I mean, in the most literal sense it does mean "another world" since it's just written with the kanji of "another (or different/strange, something like that)" and "world" (though I guess you could use "world" in the same way as something like "realm"). many isekai are simply "transported into a post-apocalypse" in disguise. planet of the apes is an isekai too, I suppose
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:don't worry, it drops every single interesting aspect soon enough. I remember the manga adaptation stopped after, like, the first arc. I take it the novel takes a downturn?
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khy posted:https://mangadex.org/title/3b999f4a...i-wo-musou-suru The entire prologue is basically a ripoff of FSN Archer up to and including the MC's motivations so at least it's relatively sensical. Anyways you buried the lede which is he comes back in a Japan that's about 10 years after he left it and now there's monsters and superpowers on Earth too so he inevitably ends up having to use his own (vastly OP) abilities while trying to keep a low profile.
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Nitrousoxide posted:So it's basically a super sentai manga in disguise? gimme the GOD drat candy posted:he's really bad at keeping it a secret to bullies (so he can give them their comeuppance) and hot girls (so they can be impressed by him). so, pretty standard.
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I read Barbaroi but I kinda got sick of the barbarians being basically elves who are in tune with nature and are super powerful and also are friends with the spirits and etc etc etc.
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thetoughestbean posted:I realized that I could read the first volume of QA in Another World for free on K-Manga and I’m liking it a lot so far. Leaving a man infinitely falling after he clipped through the world is loving brutal It's surprisingly grim!
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Tunicate posted:For me it went past grim into a sleazy "wait, does the author get off on people being permanently paralyzed but not technically dead since this is happening a LOT for a bunch of different reasons" It's the realistic outcome for most bugs, really. It's basically what softlock means.
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Kwyndig posted:Yeah the fact that you can get katsudon and carbonara in the same restaurant as one of those ridiculous parfaits the chef loves to make would be mind blowing to your average fantasy inhabitant. Yet the restaurant to another world is only extraordinary because of its dimensional magics. Another restaurant Isekai is Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" although it has the dumb natives flaw. Dumb natives? Nobu? What makes you say that?
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Schubalts posted:So I'm on the part of Giant Sister where they're in the capital. I got the impression it was the inevitable reaction to a lifetime of heroes with cheat powers showing up and making a mess of things. They had to learn how to nip them in the bud, and from there to cruelty is but a few steps.
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I haven't read that one in years but I vaguely recall hearing the original story was told in diary format hence why the manga is almost all narration.
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Cynic Jester posted:Wait, i figured he'd get together with the leader of the Valkyries. Please tell me it doesn't usagi drop. Please From the spoilers I've seen in the comments it doesn't. And nothing in the story really presents the 13yo daughter as anything more than daughter, it's just SA posters what SA posters do.
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Brought To You By posted:
Honestly the most busted part is that she can channel wifi signals and decode MPEG video streams in real time.
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I could see this joke a thousand times and it will always make me smile. Also
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Lord Awkward posted:"Oh For the first half: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/a9as6l4/sarariiman-ga-isekai-ni-ittara-shitennou-ni-natta-hanashi Where the demon lord is also a great boss.
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Nebrilos posted:"Hero's Party Want to Experience LOVE" is an isekai, right? If a guy that says sweet nothings to any girl hanging off their arm tried to flirt with you, would you actually believe them to be sincere? Shaayu may be a woman but she's still presenting as a womanizer. Plus, Itsuka wants to be popular and he probably sees Shaayu as stealing all the attention.
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GateOfD posted:too bad baseball sucks the story does a good job of selling baseball, fwiw even if you don't know poo poo about the sport
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The whole point is that it's not a game, even if he can glitch his way through.
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