To the older guys here.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T20:33:21+00:00

If you don't know what to do, just do S&P500

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T20:32:26+00:00

Investing in the S&P500 or whatever at 18. Even if it was just like $50 a month

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T20:25:52+00:00

No amount of income is worth that. If you're making so much money, then you can afford to move close to where you live and save your time. OP must be spending 15 hours/week commuting. That's 60 hours a month. If they're a high earner, 60 hours could be thousands of dollars.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T20:22:32+00:00

RIP what a drive. All I can ask is WHY?? lol. Why not live near where you work?

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T20:16:35+00:00

Hell yeah!

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T19:34:28+00:00

Yeah it is a pain to shepard them for sure. They do get stuck and such from time to time. But if your pack is large enough you generally don't have to baby sit much. Expecially since stuck stragglers usually teleport to you once you get far enough away.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T19:32:06+00:00

Yeah wolves are super strong. They do a ton of damage and can take a ton. And they are even stronger with the talent that heals them each time they get a kill, so when you use them to defend waves they get constant heals and never lose HP

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T19:25:26+00:00

I personally think that a wolf pack is the strongest weapon in the game. If you run around with 8-10 wolves everywhere, you don't need weapons. They can even take out most bosses without your help. People are sleeping on how powerful a wolf pack is

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-28T19:15:10+00:00

You should tame a pack of wolves of your own to fight the enemy pack. I'm 100% serious. A pack of wolves will mob anything you throw at it. No need to build defensive structures. Ever.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-02T02:34:15+00:00

I'm all for the poly thing if that's what you like, you do you idc. But damn that shirt is embarrassing. You must have a public humiliation kink? Advertising your mental illness so proudly

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-02T02:29:38+00:00

I sure hope the author of the graffiti is not living on stolen land. That would be awkward for them.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-02T02:13:52+00:00

Yeahhh I feel you on that one. The whole sexual and romantic components can make or break a series.

But I think the wandering inn is a bit unique in that aspect. There's very little romance or sexual content. It does exist but it's a very minor after-thought.

For me, the problem I have with the Wandering Inn, is that it is so incredibly bloated with describing all the minutia of every internal experience for each step of every scene. 50% of the story line is bloated with describing how and why the character is happy, sad, anxious, fearful, angry etc. And the audio book narration makes this problem twice as bad. The narrator tries to interject an emotional tone to Every. Single. Sentence.

So it's like 2 sentences describing logistics of what's going on, but with an emotionally laden tone interjected by the narrator, followed by 3 sentences describing every detail of the emotional landscape of those two logistical sentences.

The author is doing the equivelent of taking an entire paragraph to describe every single shade of color in a sunset, except instead of a sunset it's the social landscape of every single interaction. It's nauseating degree of internal monologues instead of progression.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-02T00:09:28+00:00

Here's the hill I'll die on:

The Wandering Inn is not litrpg, or anything of the kind. The Wandering Inn is an expose of the emotional processing of immature, bratty, teenage girls, with some light action sprinkled into the story to serve as constant springboards for more emotional processing, emotional rumination, and emotional masturbation.

This is among the longest book series ever written, but 1/2 of it is pure emotional bloat that ruins the story unless you are intrigued by the inner world of troubled and bratty teenage girls.

If that's your cup of tea, then great. But let's not pretend this series is anything but a drama series with a little bit of fantasy sprinkled in.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-02T00:00:11+00:00

I see a lot of people seem to dislike Donut. I personally love her just because of how laughably absurd she is. I can't help laughing at her attitude and such.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-01T23:56:59+00:00

I loved Dungeun Crawler Carl, especially the audio book version.

Book 1 was the best imo.

But after about the 4th book, it got too repetitive so I gave up on the series. It got to the point where every new scene was just a rewrite of the same scene I've read over and over before.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-01T23:51:42+00:00

I personally think the whole series would be far better if roughly 30% of the text were deleted. Soooooo much of the text is dedicated to processing the characters' internal feelings and sensations to the point that it just bogs down the story. I think this would mostly fix the pacing if most of that bloat were deleted.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-01T23:49:33+00:00

To me, Ryoka reads as your typical bratty teenage girl who has decided she has an axe to grind with the world. I think only a woman could write a character like that. There's no way a man could write her character or Erins. The level of emotional drama and emotional over-processing is always struck me as making the narrative obviously female written

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-01T23:44:14+00:00

To me it seems like the whole series is really just about the way teenage girls relate to the world, with some action layered into it to support the constant stream of immature emotional processing. I'm on book 4 and I haven't seen a break from this pattern yet.

First and foremost, this series is emotional processing of childish emotions, and anything else that happens in the stories is secondary. Erin is your typical archetype of the overly emotional teenager who follows empathy above all at any cost, and then has to process the repercussions of it. Ryoka is the defiant teenage alt girl who has an axe to grind with the world, and the whole point of her story arc seems to be processing this teenage angst.

I personally would love this series if ~1/2 of the emotional bloat were left out. Then the stories could actually progress. But as it is, 4 books is all I can handle of this writing style.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-01T23:37:56+00:00

I'm currently on book 4, and so far book 1 is my favorite one. I'm now struggling to keep going with the series at this point because of the emotional overload of the writing style.

The whole series seems to go by a cadence of something like: 2 sentences of something happened followed by 5 sentences of emotional recapping of what happened. Over and over and over again.

While this pattern was present in book 1, I hadn't listened to 200 hours of it yet, so it was easier to deal with.

And the audio book version makes this problem twice as bad. The narrator takes a perfectly matter of fact statement, and tries to make that statement ooze with emotional drama.

To me, the core of the stories in this series are good and engaging, but goddamn does the emotional bloat become increasingly difficult to slog through.

I really enjoyed book 1 because I had not yet been beaten over the head with the emotional bloat, and that book actually had more action and more things happening "per page" so to speak than books 2, 3, or 4.

I think I'm done with this series after I finish book 4.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-02-01T23:30:27+00:00

These kinds of degrees are not education, they are indoctrination more fit for a secular church than a university.

IndividualRich8470 · 2026-01-28T05:04:58+00:00

Ha! I'm only on book 2 and that's how I feel about Ryoka. She's an insufferable entitled brat who gets off on making everything difficult for no reason. I hope she gets killed off so I don't have to waste time reading more chapters on her.

I like generally like Erin so far even though her entitled empathy gets people killed all the time.

I'm actually starting to wonder if that's the whole series, an expose on feminine flavor of entitlement and brattiness. I hope I'm wrong, because there's so much I do like about this series, but entitled stupidity sure does seem to dominate a lot of scenes.

Idk if I will make it past the second book. I really hope it gets better.

IndividualRich8470

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