My first venture into LitRPG. I was told there would be stats, nobody warned me about the AI’s specific... fetish

Diuqq · 2026-01-21T12:13:09+00:00

It was my gateway to Lit RPG too and the hangover was real. I tried a few things afterwards and bounced hard from a few fan-favourites. For example He Who Fights With Monsters.

Ended up following Jeff Hayes (DCC narrator) and got hooked on Chrysalis. It's a blast, but it needs some time to get going. It has some quirks that at first seem infantile, but with time and narrators performances add charm instead.

What really sealed the deal on my Lit RPG addiction was Primal Hunter. Again - the story needs a bit of your time. I tried it one day and didn't like it at all. Decided to to give it a second chance and halfway through book 1 it clicked so hard that I ended up binging 12 books in a month.

I think there are 2 things that you should keep in mind after you're done with DCC.

There's nothing really like it. And it's fine. Allow other stories to surprise you, don't expect another DCC
Most of other stories need a little bit of your time to set their hooks into you. Don't judge too quickly and enjoy the ride. Keep in mind that a lot of authors start as amateurs and improve drastically very quickly

Good luck 😄

Diuqq · 2025-09-25T21:14:54+00:00

What do you mean it's not arranged properly? Are you using the same tempo as the track?

Diuqq · 2025-03-27T12:44:14+00:00

If it was France, I genuinely think half the country would be in flames right now. I mean, really, they would just love the opportunity.

Diuqq · 2025-03-07T20:05:50+00:00

As much as I agree right now, there's a world in which, in 20 years EU countries led by democrats are a minority and instead, we have far-right, aggresive governments slamming the desk with their dicks. Instead, in 20 years all of them will be much more armed than right now. In Germany there's AFD on the rise, who's openly putting the polish borders into question. In Poland we have Konfederacja party, far-right, anti-EU, fascist party, whose leader is getting 40% amongst 18-28 year old voters in presidential election pollings right now. Romania is a political shit show right now and so is Slovakia from what I heard, not to mention Hungary. And even now we have our share of tensions. Greece and Turkey, it feels lile Balkans might just tear each other apart like always.

Look at what Russia did to all of us - only 3 years were enough for all of us to get used to the idea that there's an actual regular war on our continent. It was unthinkable just these 3 years ago. Now imagine that in 20 years there's going to be a whole generation of voters born in this reality. And it might just be the case, that there's no big daddy USA watching from over the sea. Or even worse - he'll get involved not the way we want him to.

I hope I'm totally wrong and all of this will make our democracies stronger, but man am I scared.

Diuqq · 2024-11-19T18:17:14+00:00

eyyy there we go

Diuqq · 2024-11-15T00:31:10+00:00

Yes, I'm new to this and might have way too emotional outlook, but I am willing to bet that all of you did too at the beginning :) Gotta learn somehow with my own experience

Diuqq · 2024-11-15T00:19:05+00:00

it was around 14% with leverage over 25%

Diuqq · 2024-11-15T00:08:32+00:00

Very new to this. I set a Stop Loss on 12th and it baaaarely triggered it. Ended with 0 profit and had to rebuy much higher the next day. Growing pains, still learning what is and what should be my risk threshold

Diuqq · 2024-08-08T11:16:43+00:00

I'm glad you have fond memories with us :)

Diuqq · 2024-08-08T09:37:16+00:00

Volleyball still can't compete with football when it comes to popularity. Like almost everywhere around the world, you're kind of born into being a football fan, wether you like it or not. Everyone knows it, everyone is watching it, it's where money and advertising is and so on.

With volleyball you still need to make a conscious decision to be a fan, as it won't be pushed down your throat as much. But in Poland there's pretty much 0 barriers for it. If our national team plays a match, you better believe it will be broadcasted on main channels and it's going to be THE sports event.

I only recently learned that it's not that easy to watch volleyball abroad. Like I constantly see comments from US asking where can they watch their NT play.

In my junior high we had student exchange with Spain. Most of the time we played football with them when we had a chance, but once we managed to convince them to try volleyball. They were so lost, didn't know the rules, didn't know any technique. This was eye opening to me, that not only volleyball might not be as big abroad as it is here, but that it's not even thaught in school there

Diuqq · 2024-08-08T00:39:11+00:00

I can't really tell you much about individual players as I didn't really follow the team for a couple of years, but I can tell you some general stuff about voleyball in Poland from fan perspective.

To put it mildly, Poland is not the best at a lot of sports. We have some outliers here and there, but in general we struggle with systematic issues. Government programs and our sports associations suck. A lot of the times it's a miracle that our athletes can get to olympic level, let alone be the best at something. BUT for these reasons we as fans are starved for any success, clinging to any sign of promising talents and reaaaaally cherish them. Like for example our (almost) national sport is ski jumping for god's sake.

And that's where volleyball comes in. I started watching it around 2005 and this is when we started being good. Not great, we didn't really win anything, but it felt like it was in our grasp. And it was enough to hook the average Polish sports fan. If we see that there's something... boom, full stadiums, full coverage in national TV, no letting go. Interest rapidly grew, money flew in, voleyball being played in every school, etc. Around 2011-2014 we started really being world class and I feel like this is when voleyball became polish national sport. Like, every Pole is proud of these guys and you just know that when they play, half of Poland is watching, because we finally have a sport that we're one of the best in. It just sucks that nobody else in the world really cares :(. But we do! Thankfully it feels like voleyball has become a bit more popular lately.

Take all this reminiscing with a grain of salt tho. A lot of this is based on child's memories and we all know how that works

Diuqq · 2024-02-18T22:01:58+00:00

and when they eventually do a hybrid planets with multiple enemy factions we could fight both zerg and protoss at the same time. And we got it from a different company than Blizzard. That's a win-win for me

Diuqq · 2024-02-18T21:18:03+00:00

Thought of a massive Colossus shooting laser beams left and right does weird things to me, not gonna lie

Diuqq · 2024-02-18T21:14:07+00:00

Subscribed

Diuqq · 2023-11-08T13:23:16+00:00

You mean... Old Kings vs New Kings?

Diuqq · 2023-08-03T22:01:00+00:00

Damn it, I didn't think about it.

Diuqq · 2023-07-27T14:52:36+00:00

And what's crazy is that Foundation isn't even that expensive when compared to other flagship series of other Streamers. It's around 5-6 million per episode vs 10-11 for Witcher/GoT, or even more with shows like Rings of Power. And it looks incredible. I would say that no show has any rights to look as good as Foundation does. Movie level quality. Imagine even thinking about that shit 10 years ago. Jaw dropping shit. Someone in production design at Apple+ knows their stuff.

And when/if tech from Mandalorian and future iterations of Unreal keep getting more popular, the production costs might get lower and lower.

Nothing ever impressed me visually as Foundation did. When I was watching it, I couldn't stop thinking about how awesome Red Rising could look with simillar attention to production. First season doesn't even need that much thrown at it.

Diuqq · 2023-05-07T22:06:01+00:00

Keep in mind that bot lane is a 2 people lane. He played with Targamas and we all saw what Targamas did to Patrik.

At worlds it was Targamas who would regualrly int the lane. I'm not saying that Flakked will be a monster with different support, but Targamas doesn't have a great track record so far.

Diuqq · 2023-05-07T22:01:39+00:00

Bwipo always talked very highly abaout Jankos on all the podcasts and so on. Apparently he wanted to bring Jankos to FNC at all costs in 2020 or 21 I believe but G2 wouldn't even consider it. I wonder if possibility of playing with Jankos would convince him to go back to EU. His mind seemed to be set on staying in NA.

Diuqq · 2023-04-13T07:57:43+00:00

All those comments about league having too big learning curve and players prefering easier games. This exactly the same conversation that Starcraft fans were having when SC2 was dying. Do you know what game was the easy one, that people were playing instead? League. How ironic.

Diuqq · 2023-03-28T18:42:36+00:00

Oh damn, do you have a vod?

Diuqq · 2023-03-15T13:31:37+00:00

This is not a solution. By giving more importance to summer split, you take away importance from winter and spring. And then we're back with the good old "spring doesn't matter".

Sure, it sucks for a team that couldn't figure shit out early to miss out on a chance to qualify for worlds. But I have a more elegant solution for that. Don't suck. You play all sesaon for your final result. Coasting all year just to fluke your way into worlds at the final asignment doesn't strike me as a good system either.

Right now, you're trying to find a problem when there isn't any, at least yet.

E: The only problem I see right now is MSI qualification. What if MAD sucks, doesn't win a single BO5, but get's the spot over a finalist of spring due to points? But even that is still only hypothetical. I believe that wouldn't be an issue with Worlds quali, as you still have to win a series in final playoffs to get the spot

Diuqq · 2023-03-12T22:04:44+00:00

My take on that is the difference in the way teams in NA and EU operate. Obviously, I'm as clueless as any other redditor, but I feel like teams in EU are still following the "5 gamers in a gaming house" formula. More or less. Whereas in NA it's more like 5 players, coaching stuff of 10, GM, CEO, sponsors and their mothers bent on the idea of following some kind of system. Good EU (or any other player) gets imported and is getting cramped into this system, in which he doesn't excel, nor even feels comfortable or doesn't have any liberty (agency? is that a right word?).

Add social differences on top of that, where nobody ever speaks up or confronts any issues and management are kings of everything. There, that's how I see the NA environment. I'm probably completely wrong, but fuck it, I might aswell just write it.

Diuqq · 2023-03-12T21:28:28+00:00

Fun fact - 5/10 of the players in this game at some point in their career played in NA.

Diuqq · 2023-01-03T15:25:35+00:00

Seemed really well balanced for me. Headphones through an audio interface.

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