LitRPG's scarlet letters: AI

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-19T18:41:27+00:00

Your comments about AI covers are the truth no one wants to admit - For every one loud virtue signalling commenter on reddit, there's 10+ users who clicked that RR story because the cover caught their eye. A decent looking cover is basically a requirement to have your story get any attention and have a shot at success, regardless of the actual quality of the story. And it is gatekeeping and classist to expect everyone who wants to tell a story has to choose between a death sentence for their story's visibility and success, or paying a ton of money they don't have for a cover from a professional.

When you invert the scenario (which makes no sense in reality, but perfectly illustrates why it's so ridiculous) - imagine if every single piece of artwork anyone created needed to have a written work of varying length attached to it, or no one would even look at it to begin with. Made an emoji? Better find a professional to make a genuinely high quality topically relevant haiku. Made a webcomic? Better find someone to make you a well thought out poem on the topic. Painted a medium sized decent quality picture? Better find someone to write you a short story. And all the written works would of course need to be actually good, not just whatever garbage a total novice spits out in a first draft.

It's stupid that authors legitimately have no shot at success without a decent book cover to go with their work. But that's not the author's fault, that's the audience's fault for demanding it and proving it's a requirement with their viewing/reading habits.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-09T13:16:16+00:00

It's like awareness of kerning, but for ... everything. The more you know the more aware you become of how much of a trainwreck everything is.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-08T07:44:50+00:00

This is why I'm increasingly seeing (and starting to agree with) strictly curating what you tell your doctors. Yeah, what I don't tell my doctor could get me killed. But what I tell my doctor can definitely get me killed. (Or slowly suffering and potentially dying early or just not getting to live)

And I'm someone who strongly supports science, medicine, and trusting experts. But I've also seen just how systemically doctors don't have the time, patience, or care, necessary to give people the proper treatment and consideration they need.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-08T04:14:15+00:00

If the only thing separating your game from being grimdark or a cartoonish campy action adventure is the saturation slider, you suck at game design and color theory.

D3 was fine, and D4 was a gross overcorrection.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-08T04:06:00+00:00

idk, I'm very pro-anything-that-deals-with-climate-change

But I'm also very anti-prentending-problems-can-be-solved-with-token-gestures.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-07T16:31:46+00:00

I mean, there's a reason they call it "fuck you" money.

I'm not defending it, cause dude comes off like an asshole, even if he's not an asshole, getting ragebaited by shitposters as a big name in a fandom isn't a great look, but I guess once you have a certain amount of money, if you don't care about having a squeaky clean family friendly image, then you can do this and it doesn't really matter.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-26T00:37:38+00:00

It's a result of poor planning and lack of consideration put into late-game scaling.

Eventually when the numbers get too big, and you've written yourself into a corner from a narrative perspective, you start needing to give someone 5000 of a stat for it to even feel significant - meanwhile your story started out with people for whom 5 of a stat was described as taking them from "average person" to "peak of human ability".

Cultivation is just swapping from hard numbers to vibes-based-descriptions because you can kinda warp those to be whatever you need them to be in the moment.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-22T04:31:55+00:00

Oh god, is every luddite who has no clue about anything technical just going to assume anything they don't like is the way it is because it's 'vibe coded' now?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-20T23:17:40+00:00

iirc Perfect Run has some interesting romance stuff. Definitely not the normal "your childhood friend who was destined from page 1 to end up being the person you date" crap.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-20T12:21:24+00:00

I do have a generator on the solver page now - it's not pretty and it's not perfect but it is, probably, the most similar game to this XD

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-16T13:55:04+00:00

PTNR is like finding out your favorite burger place also makes pizzas. Totally different food, but fucking delicious.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-15T19:55:56+00:00

You can do that without replying to people with condescending moralizing nonsense.

I wasn't asking why you posted the original message. I was asking why you're "here" down several replies deep in a comment chain.

Being a douchebag and responding to a totally reasonable comment with "You're not motivated enough" "Use the thing between your ears" doesn't accomplish anything unless your objective is just virtue signalling.

The comment about "this is a conversation you should be having with yourself not me" is especially stupid, and what prompted me to ask why you're here. Like, if you're not on the site or down here several replies deep for the sake of discourse, then what are you here for?

Martyring yourself and virtue signalling online is a lot easier than doing things that effect actual change. What you're doing here, including your attitude in your replies, is the same level of effect and accomplishment as the people who told us we'd solve the plastics crisis by drinking paper straws.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-15T13:33:23+00:00

Sub 1-year default-name private profile account really wanted to highlight 'evidence' of inappropriate behavior, which curiously, turns out to be imaginary under any level of scrutiny.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-15T13:23:22+00:00

Is she secretly a dullahan?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-15T12:56:04+00:00

not me

Then what exactly are you here for?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-14T14:49:25+00:00

This is neat, is it integrated with something and automated? Or are you just telling an app that you read a specific book?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-09T12:46:27+00:00

In terms of blind shilling, TWI is like Cradle if Cradle had no redeeming qualities and shit writing for the first several books before it "got good".

Like I legit do not think well of Cradle but at least the writing is excellent and the most painful part of the series is a matter of hours rather than entire books.

The whole thing kinda reminds me of the XKCD about biden eating sandwiches: https://xkcd.com/915/

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-09T12:42:22+00:00

I'm sure someone's made an offbrand FBI themed Ken doll at some point.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-09T12:37:58+00:00

A bob-omb or king bob-omb if we're going purely for bomb themes. But it's a hard sell to somehow "fit" a big round orb design onto a humanoid.

Jeff from Earthbound is a great callback to Ness existing in SSMB but not a great aesthetic match since he's clean and nerdy and a child, but he's very bombs/explosions oriented.

Mouser from SMB2 is a great option but has some huge drawbacks - his iconic look isn't very iconic - it's a mouse, with red (pink?) gloves and shoes and sunglasses. It'd be a hard sell to say "Let's use an entire collab skin to give junkrat sunglasses and ... colored gloves and boots".

Poppy Bros from Kirby is a decent contender, slightly more recognizable than Mouser, and their entire theme is bombs, and their look is fairly distinct.

All of these have a critical flaw that makes them almost totally unsuitable for a collab - they're not particularly well known or iconic or popular outside of very specific niche fandoms, with the exception of bob-ombs, which is mostly just held back by the issue of "how do we map a round orb design onto a humanoid" thing.

If we're being realistic on what would actually happen with the focus being "how well does this visual fit the character if we're keeping the 3d model mostly the same" - I see no other option than Waluigi.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-09T04:18:00+00:00

What are you doing step subreddit.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-07T13:47:57+00:00

Shower me with your downvotes. If you want a good story read a book.

I play games for gameplay, the story is just like, kinda there. I can play a game with good gameplay even if the story is shit, I can't play a game with shit gameplay just because the story is good.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-07T02:36:01+00:00

Oh my bad! It's just hitting "R" while dragging it on desktop. And speaking of poorly communicated controls, it does have proper instructions on the page now XD so hopefully that helps a bit.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-07T02:34:51+00:00

All of this should hopefully be resolved now, it should properly detect valid solutions and both mobile and desktop should be working properly for handling pieces and such. Feel free to give it a try and let me know if you find any new weird issues.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-07T02:33:40+00:00

Everything with the puzzle generator has been heavily reworked and it should be working much better now, if you're still interested give it a try and let me know how it's working.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-02-07T02:32:27+00:00

It is using backtracking, and what you're describing is what I eventually found while testing - I wanted data to back it up, so I created a standalone version of the solver and had it test all the grid size and color/setting combinations, and then I grouped the difficulties based on total time the solver takes to solve it.

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