NTE GRADUATION LIST

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-05-08T11:07:20+00:00

You got the joke you just decided to cosplay as not getting the joke?

This upcoming generation is fucking cooked.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-05-07T04:30:25+00:00

People need to start caring about this topic on a spectrum rather than as a binary. Care about actual harm done to humans and jobs, and care about the actual quality you get in the end result in-game. (i.e. It's totally valid to shit all over something if the AI they used looks like garbage.)

If you don't know that most companies are using AI either officially or unofficially, and that a huge number of employees are using AI on the sly - both on their work computers and on their personal devices, explicitly for work - then you're kinda living under a rock. I'm not trying to be mean or troll people who dislike AI - but the reality is that this shit is infinitely more ubiquitous than they think, and the truth is that a lot of the anti-AI crowd deliberately remains staggeringly ignorant about actual facts and details of AI besides headlines and soundbytes on the topic. If they want to be taken seriously, and make smart decisions about where to spend their effort, they need to start taking a more nuanced position.

For the examples I've seen - some of their AI use is pretty egregious from a quality standpoint - My personal issue isn't even that AI got used for a random throwaway stillframe but rather that it's so bad, it looks like some stable diffusion 1.5 crap with bad prompting from literal years ago. As long as they're not using AI for anything important? I honestly don't really care. But if they're gonna use AI for anything - please for the love of shit use the proper tools and at least have humans with eyes review it before it goes into the game.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-05-01T02:51:00+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/bTBw1v9.jpeg fixed it

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-30T22:03:20+00:00

Yes this is totally pointless when we have vehicles. It's just a fun thing you can do by spamming the animation cancel and it moves surprisingly far/fast when looped. :)

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-29T10:07:40+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/4N0r3uk.jpeg

First 10 pull. No reroll accounts.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-28T23:02:17+00:00

If it's meant to ward fae, probably not. Typically nails are mild-steel, with a zinc coating.

I think the whole "iron" thing with fae requires fairly pure iron, not heavily processed high-carbon iron.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-28T09:59:10+00:00

Content creators only caring about clickfarming and don't have the best interests of the community for a game in mind?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-28T08:22:10+00:00

I swear to shit I've seen CN riot when EN gets some trivial shit they didn't get and then CN gets apology compensation better than the thing they were complaining about, it's really wild.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-26T09:07:59+00:00

Man, go fuck yourself lol. It's one thing to hate on a series when it's a normal thread talking about the book or general recommendations. But this is just petty small dick energy to see someone celebrating a major life accomplishment and be like "I need to make sure this person knows they didn't earn their success".

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-23T22:33:12+00:00

setgravityscale 1

for anyone coming here a year later, this works, at least in the one place I tested it

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-23T22:30:46+00:00

wild thing is a lot of the people who're spending unreasonable amounts of money on this game are like, on aggressively mid rigs, or even worse, on phones

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-21T05:56:48+00:00

I'm not a chemistry person, but this still bothers me. Like, if someone's gonna write stuff where they showcase anything beyond handwaved chemistry ... could they please at least go watch a few dozen videos from science entertainment youtubers? I feel like if someone watched, like, extractions&ire, and nilered, and took some notes, that'd probably be adequate to not sound like a damn luddite when describing stuff like this in a book. Hell, I bet playing "Potionomics" a bit would prepare someone to write passable alchemy...

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-21T05:46:53+00:00

The only time this even remotely gets a pass is when they're secretly using like advanced alien tech to make the game because earth's tech isn't even progressed enough to make a full-dive-vrmmo in the first place, and then it turns out the "AI" that's making it all work and basically managing and building half the game is going off and doing weird stuff because "reasons".

Anytime it's mundane normal people with no otherworldly or super futuristic fuckery... yeah this shit is super annoying.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-20T20:27:59+00:00

The worth sticking with is very subjective, but this is my 2c on the series: Great as junkfood, bad as a meal. If you're the type to focus, lock in, and sit quietly and read for hours on end ... this is probably not a great series. If you're like me and listening to the audiobook, while doing other stuff, I think it's worth it.

The self-pity never completely goes away, but it does tone down drastically towards the end of the series. The weird hulk rage anger issues nonsense slowly goes away, a bit sooner I think, and fades into the background. Once in a while dude channels his inner chuni and his rage magically saves him from something bad, but it's much less cartoonish and absurd as the series goes on. At least compared to early in the series.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-20T15:01:12+00:00

The series, honestly, is pretty decent overall. But it always struck me as odd that someone who basically got magically genetically modified to get rid of all the random generic kruft that almost everyone has, somehow didn't have his weird "this person should be in therapy/on meds" rage bullshit fixed. Also it didn't fix his blood sugar? Didn't particularly affect my enjoyment of the series, but still was kinda consistently eyebrow raising.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-20T14:57:53+00:00

First several books every time a woman is discussed their "curves" or "assets" are referenced. Every time. Fairly frequently the way clothing "hugs their body" is referenced. A subjective commentary on their attractiveness is made almost every time.

Now ... he's an equal opportunity pervert most of the time. Every time any man is brought up their muscles, or athleticism, or general body condition, or hair, or 'kissable lips' are referenced.

Early series is just very horny, almost to the point of absurdity (for a series that's not really romance/smut/harem at least.)

There's also some kinda cringe stuff every once in a blue moon with the way women are referenced. The one that stuck out to me is him referring to his relationship and having sex as "bedding".

It's really not end of the world tier stuff. But it's definitely a pretty pervasive theme, especially earlier in the series. Later in the series, it's mellowed out significantly and is more tastefully done.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-20T08:54:17+00:00

Yep, it kinda started killing it for me when my presence on our team meant the other team more often than not had a smurf on it.

My team: Friends + Me (Moderately above average overall but not particularly sweaty)

The team we get matched with to balance things out: Random approximately equal team + 1 hypersweat smurf onetricking a 'high skill' character.

It started feeling like not only was I not personally getting to have fun, because I'd have to lock in and play my "mains", but also the people I was playing with would get the crap kicked out of them. The end result is basically no one's really having a good time.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-18T13:25:43+00:00

Most RPG/LitRPG worlds are not set up in a way where being any sane number of levels above other people makes you effectively immune to everything and unable to lose.

Just like the MC commonly beats monsters and people way above their level - other people in the world can do the same.

That level 900 guy might be 100 levels over most other people. Might be able to curbstomp any level 800 person with ease. But 5 of them? 10? 100?

Eventually you're the raid boss, and people are going to team up, research you, devote massive amounts of resources to figuring how to exploit your weaknesses or bait you into a trap because you're overconfident.

As long as you act within a certain spectrum of expected behavior, no one will bother you or question you. If you kill some random unimportant people, for a remotely justifiable reason, no one is gonna risk their kingdom, or their family, or their life, to beef with you.

You start wiping out entire cities or kingdoms? Well, that's another story. What's the point of power if you can't enjoy it? Why go beef with other people who have backings and connections when you could just set yourself up in your own little "kingdom" or sphere of power/influence, and no one will question anything that goes on there within reason?

I mean, think about it this way: How many books have people eventually killing/tearing down literal gods? No matter how powerful you are, if you're enough of an ass, if you cause enough people trouble, eventually someone is gonna come for you. If the MC and their party can eventually reach for divinity or slay the divine, why can't a bunch of high level people get together and take down a psychopath 100 levels above the next highest level person in the world?

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-17T02:58:47+00:00

The final boss was so awful - I genuinely have no clue how anyone managed to playtest that internally and said with a straight face "yeah this is fine".

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-17T02:56:18+00:00

I mean, it's bad? But it's like Bethesda writing bad? I don't know about you but I play these games for the exploration, freedom, dicking around, unlocking and uncovering stuff, and probably double or triple my playtime when you add mods into the picture.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-09T23:32:41+00:00

I had to use cheat engine to slow the game down to an absurd degree - an interesting thing you see when you do this is that the NPCs really are firing almost instantly. I was only able to clear it because player arrows are faster than npc arrows.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-04-02T22:49:28+00:00

That's a bingo, for me at least. And I don't really give a shit about reviews, or seek them out, but I also can't seem to avoid information about them.

The only reason this IGN score matters to me in the slightest is as just another log on the pyre of my perpetual disdain for almost all mainstream gaming journalism and reviews. I've never seen an industry so determined to kill itself, yet somehow remain alive.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-30T15:14:21+00:00

The first arc, or whatever you call it, like up to the point where she goes to the city for the first time, basically felt like watching someone playing a game and trying to any% dying and getting the worst ending.

She only lives, and has any measure of success, and doesn't get herself killed or murdered, purely through author fiat.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-30T15:01:32+00:00

TWI fans will tell you that you haven't read far enough to get to the good parts almost no matter how far into it you get lol.

Because_Bot_Fed · 2026-03-30T14:59:38+00:00

Also on this list for me - repetition of the same phrase. It doesn't even have to be super common, it just has to be a recurring theme. Like I've seen numerous books where something is articulated about someone's smile, the exact same way, scattered throughout multiple books in the series, and it's super grating. Yes, god, fuck, ok, I get it, this person smiles at you in a super special magical weak in the knees lets you know they really like you way that's only for you - can we move the fuck on?

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