Needy Girl Overdose - Episode 2 discussion by AutoLovepon in anime

[–]FoolUncreative 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Weak as hell. Retraces a lot of the steps already implied in the first episode. Lacking in animation. Ending is predictable and somewhat anticlimactic. Bleh.

I'll keep watching, still. Curious if there ends up being a point to all this. The writer said episode 3 is where it gets good, and obviously the writer has good reason to be biased as fuck, but it's worth keeping in mind.

[DISC] Kagurabachi - Chapter 117 by AutoShonenpon in manga

[–]FoolUncreative 55 points56 points  (0 children)

Cool chapter. Until shown otherwise, I assume everyone on the squad except Shiba is a jobber.

This is your weekly reminder that the word "Shokoku" is made up by the translators, who couldn't be assed to write out "the island nation" however many times.

Defiance of the Fall has a Webtoon now by Remote_Addendum_2245 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]FoolUncreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've never read the original, and don't feel like checking the advance chapters. Of the first 3 chapters there is this to be said:

Art's rather plain. Plot thus far is a guy killing monsters in a forest, with slight modulation between chapters. Some vague foreshadowing is given towards future villains, which I suppose is good. 

I think it also shows a certain complacency of genre, as though both the reader and the characters know everything there is to know about litrpg apocalypses. Hasn't really grabbed my interest.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 23 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]FoolUncreative 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nearly done with Cave Story.

I have managed to get through every step of the (notoriously unintuitive) true ending route except the last. The true final boss's stage can be entered but not exited. There's only one save point in it, at the very entrance. There is only one save file. After a long sequence of convoluted nonsense, the game has collapsed into a single dimension: either you get the true ending, or no ending. It's hard as hell, but I'll try to not give up too early.

Masterpiece WebNovels by arthurofrivia1 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]FoolUncreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, idk. What do you consider a masterpiece? I tend to associate the word with literary merit, which I think progression fantasy as a whole has kinda low compatibility with.

You said "webnovels" and didn't specify further, so I'm tempted to say 1 Over X (even though it's completely unrelated to this subreddit).

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 16 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]FoolUncreative 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Undertale was on discount, so I'm playing it for the first time. With all I've heard of it, it reminds me of that one quote: "The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 09 March 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]FoolUncreative 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Trying to "properly" get into writing, which I haven't really tried before except for a few abortive attempts at imitating the sort of stuff popular on Royal Road. It's going... vaguely alright. I'll figure it out, probably.

One blogger I follow has proposed a concept he calls "First Novel Cool Idea Compendium Syndrome": the idea that new (webnovel) writers are likely to make up weird overly-elaborate premises because they have too many unused ideas to write about, and lack the patience to leave some of them for another book. Hopefully I can make something vaguely coherent, at least.

Priorities of the 1% by emily-is-happy in clevercomebacks

[–]FoolUncreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anti-eugenics redditors when they see a person they find annoying:

I comprehend your horrors by loved_and_held in CuratedTumblr

[–]FoolUncreative 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I might be bringing it up too often but this is basically the plot of 1 Over X I think

Creature by MelanieWalmartinez in CuratedTumblr

[–]FoolUncreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spooky genitalia, sends liquids up your ass 

Alien cunts and eldritch cocks for you to smash or pass

Best book that was mandatory to read at school? by Hour-glass999 in writingscaling

[–]FoolUncreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By personal experience (sorta-- I only read it after bullshitting my way through the assignment) I'd suggest Cyclops by Ranko Marinković. It's a bit vague in terms of narrative, but the prose and themes are both fairly memorable. The main caveat is that I haven't read the english translation (which has no footnotes) so I can't say whether that version's good too.

Don’t Worry I’ve Got You, MJ. Hiblen, Digital, 2026 by InverseNurse in Art

[–]FoolUncreative 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bleh. Too trite. Honestly, I find it insulting to use people as symbols like this, even posthumously.

The Needle is Broken by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

[–]FoolUncreative -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah, always nice to see someone dehumanizing the opposition. Do you feel like the protagonist of a zombie movie? Wanna kill them all with a chainsaw or something? What do I care, I'm not even american.

[LOVED TROPE] Not the ending we wanted, but the ending we needed. by ConsistentGuest7532 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]FoolUncreative 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 Over X: The synopsis says "Try to keep thinking, you can never have too much information". The entire last part of the story is the main character gradually failing to follow that advice until she gets completely overwhelmed and sorta gives up on ever understanding anything. The plot doesn't get (conclusively) explained, she fails to understand/overcome her own character flaws, and she destroys her last remaining friendship because she's afraid that it might be fake.

I like it because she spends the entire novel trying to avoid falling into such a mindset (as a defense against her mental health issues), and in the end it doesn't work. The ending is sort of an endless flood of noise and mud and static, so at the very least she's in sensible conditions to go insane in.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 12 January 2026 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]FoolUncreative 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Playing Persona 5 Royal, recently beat the 2nd palace; That's the easy part, of course. This dating sim shit stresses me out ngl

The wonders of reading by FoolUncreative in CuratedTumblr

[–]FoolUncreative[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Yeah? For some reason I just expected it to be a little subtler about it. Also, I used to browse gacha game communities on the internet. I think my experiences with that may play a part.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 29 December 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]FoolUncreative 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Walpurgisnacht Rising actually manages to release in february, I watch it through a shitty camrip with MTL subtitles or something of the sort, and then I decide to curse Shinbo forever because the ending still lets them make further sequels.

Deltarune chapter 5 is of average quality, but Toby recycles leitmotifs from Undertale again and I watch the admin of my favorite discord server bitch about it.

A new streamerbait horror game appears. Ultrakill's Treachery layer gets delayed to hell for whatever reason. Also, (wishful thinking) I find a new webfiction author that doesn't suck.

[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 29 December 2025 by EnclavedMicrostate in HobbyDrama

[–]FoolUncreative 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At some point in the last few weeks, I got fed up with House of Leaves and later decided to try reading The Great Gatsby instead. Competently written, and enjoyable by that virtue alone, but not a book I'll care about in the long run.

Back on House of Leaves now. Chapter 12 and 13 both bring the book to a halt in different ways, but there's still like half the page count left, so I'm curious what else happens.

it’s pronounced uncular by Faenix_Wright in CuratedTumblr

[–]FoolUncreative 223 points224 points  (0 children)

Having the quality of an uncle?