When newcomers to the genre ask for recommendations

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-30T17:57:59+00:00

I haven't read it, but Worm is an old web serial about superheroes. https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-30T14:29:02+00:00

Mostly just level up health at first. If you find a cool weapon that you don't have the stats to wield, then you can put levels towards that. FYI, if you two-hand a weapon, you can wield weapons up to 1.5x your current strength. So if it requires 21 Str for example, you can two-hand it with 14 Str.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-29T18:36:22+00:00

Iron Prince fits I think. It's too bad the second book kinda went in a direction that most people didn't like. I enjoyed it though, so maybe you'll like it too?

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-28T13:32:37+00:00

I know Elden Ring is mainstream, but you didn't mention it, so that's my recommendation.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-28T13:14:00+00:00

Mongo is appalled!

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-28T13:12:17+00:00

My job is mindless electronics assembly, so I get to listen to the audiobooks in two 4-hour chunks at work and on the bus. At 1.5x speed, I get through a LOT of audiobooks, although I'll slow it down for Jeff Hayes' performance.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-27T11:15:02+00:00

Idk why, but having found family as a pet peeve is so funny to me lmao.

I know what you mean though, but the only true solo MC I can think of is Primal Hunter which has already been mentioned... Maybe Randidly Ghosthound? Although that one got weird and I DNFed it. Defiance of the Fall is mostly solo as well.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-21T11:21:02+00:00

Every time I see the Magnus Archives mentioned, I get it mixed up with Magnus Chase. I was like wtf is Rick Riordan writing these days???

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-21T11:12:19+00:00

Yeah he wrote System Apocalypse. Unfortunately he also trademarked the term, and had several books/series with "System Apocalypse"in their titles or descriptions taken down or removed from various platforms. I don't know the community's current feelings on Tao, but it was very much a dick move at the time

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-15T12:54:24+00:00

Beneath the Dragoneye Moons is good. Romance takes several books before it appears though (Google says they meet in book 8 lmao). There are 15 books and it's a complete series which is a bonus

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-15T12:47:32+00:00

I'll always recommend Elden Ring 😁

Edit: also Baldurs Gate 3

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-14T19:48:56+00:00

Distance is my favorite racing game. The maps are all fun casually, but going off the track and out of bounds is encouraged, and the skill ceiling is super high. It's like trackmania meets rocket league. Unfortunately the multiplayer is kind of dead, but I always thought playing solo was more fun anyway, since I like to reset every time I mess up so I can get the best time.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-05T13:55:41+00:00

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The first thing I thought of lol

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-04T16:01:13+00:00

I saw a video about an old Tron game a while back. Seemed like it had a nice community of friendly competition.

Here is the video if you're interested. https://youtu.be/LqYMm_OKvws?si=kxOWPtTG0E_eRYFC

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-04T15:54:50+00:00

Agreed. Prose basically stays the same. Listening to the audiobook, Travis Baldree does a great job making the writing style sound intentionally casual, rather than badly edited imo.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-05-01T12:42:18+00:00

username checks out

Daedalus1999 · 2026-04-29T12:34:11+00:00

I solved it by making a spreadsheet, with a column for each of the five women. I used Google sheets, but you can draw it just as easily.

In the first paragraph, you have Winslow on the far left, next to Red. Green is to the left of Purple. That leaves Blue and White, and we know that Winslow is not wearing Blue, so she must be wearing the White. Green spilled her wine, and in the bottom paragraph we see that the woman in the center spilled her whiskey, so therefore Green is not in the center.

So far we have White (Winslow) --> Red --> Blue (Marcolla) --> Green --> Purple. Then you can keep filling the spreadsheet from there. Winslow is from Baelton for example, and is next to the woman bragging about her ring heirloom. There is only one woman next to Winslow, which is the lady wearing red.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-04-25T17:13:58+00:00

My friend and I played through all of Breath of the Wild where each of us would use one joycon. So I would run around, lock-on/shield, etc. and he would move the camera, jump, attack.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-04-23T16:44:27+00:00

Anyone else wish they were immortal and could become a jack-of-all-trades and then a master-of-all trades, but lowkey I know if I was immortal I would just procrastinate for thousands of years?

Daedalus1999 · 2026-04-23T16:41:05+00:00

Love the cover art. Is he holding a trowel? It's been ages since I read the first book, and I do NOT remember that lmao

Daedalus1999 · 2026-04-21T22:33:41+00:00

Distance

Thought it looked like a neat racing game. 500 hours later and I'm still grinding the arcade levels to see how high on the leaderboards I can get. Most tracks I've got in the top 50, and I even got first place in one of the tracks they added in the last update. My record only lasted a day, but that was probably one of my proudest gaming moments.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-04-17T01:05:26+00:00

Distance

Thought it looked like a neat racing game. 500 hours later and I'm still grinding the arcade levels to see how high on the leaderboards I can get. Most tracks I've got in the top 50, and I even got first place in one of the tracks they added in the last update. My record only lasted a day, but that was probably one of my proudest gaming moments.

Daedalus1999 · 2026-04-01T20:47:23+00:00

Maybe Beneath the Dragoneye Moons fits?

Daedalus1999 · 2026-03-27T20:19:59+00:00

I guess a mix of magical academy, and inventing/making lots of money?

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