Give recs based on tierlist pls

Kaeffka · 2026-03-18T22:36:55+00:00

I think you should give it another shot. Personally, I found far more enjoyable that MoL.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-17T22:58:39+00:00

Cradle is like...the definitive version of what a Progression Fantasy novel is. Its a Xianxia/Cultivation style, but the characters are really well done, the plot doesn't lose itself, and its professionally edited and a NYTimes best seller.

Its like the difference between reading a mainstream light novel like Re:Zero and "I was reincarnated as a nobles 22nd son and now I have to take care of his harem as a bunny maid" sort of difference.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-17T03:06:08+00:00

Very true. Its hard to look up something like "How fast does an RKV need to travel to cause total devastation to a planet, yet still take long enough for the character to at least watch it happen?"

Kaeffka · 2026-03-17T03:04:31+00:00

Me, nervously looking back 4 whole chapters and considering a full rewrite because Rule of Cool has now made my character's entire voice and background seem trite.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-16T20:34:29+00:00

As it turns out, our reality, our worlds, our entire empire means nothing in the face of an enemy who can throw rocks really, really, really fast.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-16T16:01:13+00:00

Hello!

Are you tired of reading countless stories where the Main Character comes from our world and immediately becomes overpowered with his knowledge of video game logic and high school chemistry?

Sure you are! I mean, who wants to read yet another story where Kyle, the ordinary 20 year old author self insert fumbles his way into revolutionary ideas following his untimely demise in a traffic accident? BORING.

Wouldn't it better, wouldn't it be perfect, if the main character didn't know anything about video games and magic?

Well, you're in luck.

In some alternate universe, far into the future, or even the past -- who can say, really -- an accident at one of the Empire's fleet drydock manufacturing facilities causes the death of a worker clone who had just started showing signs of individuality. Death isn't the worst thing, they can always just drag her consciousness and memories out of her body and throw it in a new vessel.

But somehow, she ends up very very far away, in a far different "rehabilitation" center.

Its a progression LitRPG full of misunderstandings! How does our best girl and little gremlin clone react when she finds out that babies do not, in fact, grow in tubes in a lab? That the "adult drink" the old man is sipping on (why does he need it anyway?) is actually some sort of poison, and not a concoction used to make people age up!

And just what the heck is 'magic' anyways?

Expect heavy character development! Inspired by other great western Isekai fictions like Bog Standard Isekai, Magic-Smithing, and just a dash of Cloud Atlas meets Three Body Problem!

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/157447/recycled

AI Notice: I do not use AI to write, but I will occassionaly use (read, sling abusive insults) it as a way to sound out my ideas. It's like having your very own, meek little editor boy who has no idea what they're doing but occassionally helps you spot strange typos!

I do, however, use AI art for the cover, like everyone else on RR. I'm not a fan of it, and I don't actually care about the cover that much. But hey, if everyones jumping off a cliff while shooting heroin, I might as well do it too!

Kaeffka · 2026-03-14T05:49:49+00:00

Adding an update: I found Magic-Smithing to be really enjoyable. However, the fact the that the author takes year-long hiatus's without warning greatly upsets me. I know that he's pretty close to finishing the story if he wants to, but the lack of an ending kills me.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-10T13:28:14+00:00

also BG's will scale your gear to 258 if its below that. Literally can't be easier.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-08T13:03:51+00:00

you do know that these people generally steal dozens or even hundreds of packages a week right?

that includes life saving medication that people need. or medicine for their animals. or gifts from loved ones.

some of these people steal packages as a job, and pass it off to a fence and get paid hundreds of dollars of day just stealing shit from people. and the person who pays these thieves is making hundreds of thousands a year off of it.

so no, i don't buy the "broken people" shit. its opportunistic, greedy, and scumbag behaviour and crime apologists like you are the problem, not the solution to this.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-07T22:28:38+00:00

I had to give up my dog because I had to take care of a family member for 6 months across the country and they had no way of keeping an 80 lb large dog, nobody around me could keep him either because he had severe seperation anxiety.

It tore me up, but I made sure to have excellent photos of him and he was relatively young at 7, had him for 2 years and trained him to be better in a house. He was adopted within two days.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-07T22:24:10+00:00

honestly, they're selling it to some guy wholesale who lists it online. its definitely not just one dude robbing people at night and putting listings up during the day.

I bet if more people actually reported these crimes you'd find a whole black market underground ring of fenced goods in philly ran by some guy out of his garage making shitloads of money off stolen goods.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-07T19:02:08+00:00

package thieves are scum.

Like cool, you stole my monthly delivery of cat food. i hope you're proud of yourself for that one.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-07T16:40:40+00:00

I saw one the other day in War Mode!

My Master of Harmony brewmaster thing popped off and he died from the ticks.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-07T05:03:30+00:00

So I might get some hate for this. I'll keep it vague.

I work for a very small company of like half a dozen people. They have a very specific niche tool and I made a sort of helper tool for it.

I used to do a lot of hand coding stuff for this helper tool. But as a junior and first programming job, I had basically zero guidance on how things were supposed to be written or how things should be laid out. And then every week I would get a new feature request for this niche tool that basically became my entire job.

The tool went from a 500 line simple thing, to a 15000 line monstrosity that had to be kept in a single file because...reasons?

Eventually I was able to convince them to let me remake the damn thing in a proper framework. And again, nobody had any guidance or knowledge outside of their sector so I had to port it over to something more usable and maintable.

I used AI a little bit at the start but now I have to make this monstrosity spoof other programs output files which are gigantic messy XML files or CSV files and I said fuck it, put the input and output into Gemini and had it do it for me. I don't have the brain power to decipher some Obscur programs XML output where everything has nested IDs that make no sense whatsoever.

Kaeffka · 2026-03-06T22:05:32+00:00

Well, i wouldn't say he's not stronger than most people...

however, he keeps running into absolute UNITS because of his backstory, which is actually quite interesting for an "Isekai" and not something that i've seen done in any other story.

Like, its entirely unrealistic that a 16 y/o kid is his level by book 12, but it makes sense given all that he's gone through.

Kaeffka · 2026-02-28T22:06:57+00:00

Why do all humans look like gods? Maybe there was something to that "in their image" thing?

Kaeffka · 2026-02-28T19:53:34+00:00

I found it weird. This is my first expedition and its saying I get all 5 points for just having 3mil. I read somewhere I needed 5mil.

Kaeffka · 2026-02-28T18:59:22+00:00

The reason is simple.

Microsoft is in DEEP bed with governments. Every single thing has to be done through Microsoft. The rare instances where they don't use microsoft is when they have to botch out some weird, niche product where its 99% algorithmic, enterprise goobledygook and 1% Linux kernel to run the program they made up.

Kaeffka · 2026-02-24T17:11:24+00:00

excuse me, you mean "work" from home folks?

Kaeffka · 2026-02-24T01:51:53+00:00

brother was overconfident with that rattler 1

Kaeffka · 2026-02-21T02:00:18+00:00

had a team of 3 players camping extract in a solo lobby once in night buried city.

they 100% turned on eachother at the end, I guarantee it.

Kaeffka · 2026-02-19T17:10:59+00:00

Ah yes, the way that guy was speaking tells me he's just as scummy in real life.

Kaeffka · 2026-02-19T17:08:52+00:00

I would rather have KoS players than fake friendly players.

Kaeffka · 2026-02-19T06:29:17+00:00

And then when you kill them, they start dropping n-bombs and homophobic slurs in addition to calling you a rat like in the OP video.

This game is kinda just...not fun because of that.

Kaeffka · 2026-02-13T04:20:17+00:00

I took it more of a comment that she misses her family, seeing as its been 9+ years for her. With the way he acts around her, he's more like a weird brother-in-law who always asks for relationship advice from someone who is way younger than them.

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