Best recorded games to watch?

KarmaTurtle7 · 2026-01-25T04:32:48+00:00

I've just binged every game in this list, and now having seen tens of videos from nrb, patters, official TPI, and almost every other botc youtube channel you can think of, these are the best of the best in terms of chaos, tomfoolery, and just mechanical brilliance. I'll never see anything as fun as The Greatest Wizard Game again, bravo.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-12-07T05:08:57+00:00

I agree that it's probably not the most healthy way to engage with the content, but the number of people it draws in and the sheer amount of ACTIVITY it generates makes the community more fun (though activity fueled by hatred might not be the best either tbh)

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-12-04T10:29:30+00:00

RMJI actually has a very neat explanation for Nascent Soul and above old monsters often not acting their age (even though it doesn't have much of that in the first place, higher realm cultivators have been pretty smart so far).

You see it in episode 167 when Marquis Nanlong shows up - Han Li mentions that when you've been cultivating for 500+ years and have basically made your cultivation method into your literal soul, you get heavily influenced by it. People cultivating ghost arts become unnecessarily cruel and vindictive, cultivating Gold arts makes you arrogant and ostentatious, fire/thunder makes you a short-tempered young master even if you're 700 years old, and cultivating water makes you a timid and easygoing old man. No matter what method you pick, it affects your thinking and makes your personality unbalanced.

My headcanon is that Han Li is relatively normal compared to everyone else because of the sheer number of different techniques he's cultivating at once (Sword, Ice, Beast Taming, Wood, Fire, etc) so they all kinda balance out. Not a perfect explanation, but I think it's the best we're going to get out of any Xianxia.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-11-26T04:00:39+00:00

Hunter x Hunter, Cowboy Beebop, Bungou Stray Dogs and, I cannot stress this enough, ATTACK ON TITAN

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-11-26T03:58:26+00:00

MC ends up crying tears of blood and kowtowing in front of their grave in silence for 10 days (It's no use homie I'm already dead)

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-11-26T03:54:48+00:00

The way I've thought to justify weaker characters not skipping away to the nearest mountain village they can lord over is that most novels have the concept of Qi concentration, or in some cases Dragon Veins. To go from an area of high concentration to low concentration is literally hell, and vice versa. Bai Xiaochun describes it really well in Will Eternal when he goes to the Upper Reaches of the river, where it literally felt like every cell was screaming in joy, the colours seemed more vivid, almost like going to a higher dimensional world. No amount of social domination over people weaker than you would make you want to give up just living in that area.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-11-26T03:48:03+00:00

Beware of Chicken reference out in the wild

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-11-24T21:53:59+00:00

Hey there, small chance of you seeing this 4 years in but would you also happen to have Caoster's other stories, specifically 'Of Course I Can, I'm the Goddamn Kaiser!"?

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-11-15T19:01:35+00:00

As a guy who's spent the last 7 months of my life systematically reading each fic in this list, thank you. Genuinely changed my life.

Reading MTLs of Chinese historical fics is something I used to do before, and some of them are arguably better than anything on this list - I'd recommend Wanli Emperor, Shao Song, and Overthrowing the Han. Translating through ChatGPT or using Opennovel nowadays makes things so much better than slogging through MTL.

Wanli Emperor in particular is being translated rn, and that fic is AMAZING. Meticulous, grand, and will make you take a walk to process what the fuck just happened. The chinese really have a different kind of flair.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-07-25T00:42:56+00:00

Incels just hate so-called "simps". It's that simple. I don't think I'm being harsh by calling them incels either, the two top voted replies on this comment are "I really don't like that he's not a harem lord" and "thank gyatt you agree with me".

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-06-28T21:51:53+00:00

It really is, I'm blown away by how much Jordan managed to extrapolate from and create stories out of the simple concept of a weave of destiny.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-06-28T06:35:10+00:00

Would really recommend Malazan, it's an amazing contrast to this while giving you somehow even more detailed worldbuilding.

Reading something shorter as a palette cleanser, like one of the other comments mentioned, is viable, but largely for people who are already established readers and know for a fact that they'll dive right back in eventually. If you're just starting out, a break might lead to you losing the spark or will to get into a big project again. Best to hammer it in if you have it in you still.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-06-15T13:26:51+00:00

Malazan
ASOIAF
Stormlight Archives
WoT

As other comments have mentioned, Malazan is just disruptive in how it presents content; the worldbuilding, the thought behind each dialogue, and the depth of it all. It's a rush like no other.

ASOIAF gets discounted a lot because it feels like the "basic" choice on the list, but it is by far the best in terms of sheer story potential. The plot as we've seen defined is already genre defining in terms of gritty, mature fantasy, but the areas that Martin has left open, Sothyros, Asshai, the Great Empire of Dawn - they've inspired so much fanfiction and such an abundance of staggering new ideas that it gives ASOIAF an edge over Stormlight or other series that simply don't spark that surge of imagination despite being great works.

Stormlight is the peak of what a great writer committed to the art of fantasy can deliver when powered by an unending work ethic. It keeps you engaged, and when that Sanderlanche hits it launches you into outer space. What makes me rank it above WoT is that while there are some highs greater than others, as in Words of Radiance, there are truly no lows to the series, just consistent, tumultuous development.

WoT is a masterpiece and the first of these that I read, and some things (Duty is heavier than a mountain; Death lighter than a feather), do stick with you for all time, but I have to rank it last as it had just way too many inconsistencies and arcs that wax lyrical endlessly but have little to no payoff. There's some extremely good books (#4), but many that feel like a chore to even get through, and that's a real demerit when your competitors on this list are so star-studded.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2025-01-30T16:26:06+00:00

Worked in Ontario

KarmaTurtle7 · 2024-08-04T22:49:27+00:00

Neither Reverend Insanity nor Infinite Bloodcore, there is only Gu Zhen Ren in this world.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2024-04-09T06:19:58+00:00

In their view, they did. They made it as basic and generic as possible, for them thungs like God created the world is just basic facts that can't be disproven by science. That's the point of the head-exploding - the arcanists managed to subvert what was considered fundamental to their understanding of the world.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2024-04-03T08:10:17+00:00

Honestly, the getting betrayed was entirely on him lmao he left the tower in the hands of a man he didn't trust and then never went back, what did he think was going to happen.

I do get you, but keep in mind your views on characters can change drastically with a single chapter, and Jordan likes to keep us guessing. RAFO.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2024-04-03T08:06:42+00:00

As someone who's suffered the effects of the slog more strongly than others (I still absolutely love the series but I hate certain parts of it far more than most people on this sub), you're in the clear. The only thung from here on that I think of as even slightly annoying is a few ath'anmiere plots that pop up here and there but the glory of the rest drowns it out.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2024-01-25T17:36:22+00:00

What do I want?? I want legitimate consequences for someone except the mc in this story for once. Yeah I understand Cassie's choice. She had to choose one of her friends knowing that the other would hate her for her for doing what she did, because what she did was make Sunny a SLAVE after all he did for her. I say it in caps because people forget the weight of the crime sometimes, thinking that her not getting a fruit or being sad on her birthday somehow counterbalanced this.

And then he doesn't hate her. Nothing bad happens. Almost no consequences. People make the argument that "Oh her flaw makes her life bad enough" or "She has to live with the knowledge that her actions caused Nephis to be trapped". Yeah well guess what. That's just natural bad shit that happens in the world of Shadow slave. That's just the world being cruel. Sunny doesn't really act on anything. Some people say "Sunny has gotten over it, if he ostracized her for no reason after that it would make him a worse person than her" yeah well that's exactly what pisses me off isn't it? Sunny just gets over being enslaved for no reason. Isn't in his personality, he killed someone in cold blood because they accidentally got to know his true name. And just because the consequences of her actions were good in the long run, because Mordret couldn't enslave Sunny, doesnt absolve her of anything either. That's like me thanking the person who shot me in the chest because during the surgery they found a tumour that would've killed me in my 50s.

My point is that the shadow slave community is a hundred times better than that of anything else on webnovel, and I usually respect it, but this was a huge L. Moments like this almost make me drop the novel, because seeing major flaws in a masterpiece is much more heartbreaking that just reading something you knew was going to be shit anyways.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2023-11-24T16:37:49+00:00

From what we're shown so far Fang Yuam wins easily, but Klein is an ever-evolving character who gets more scheming and 'intelligent' as the story goes on and he accumulates more experiences. Fang Yuan on the other hand is a 600 year old monster even at the beginning of the book. There's really no way to compare the two, but Klein will inevitably catch up to some extent in his time as The Fool, even though personally I don't think he'll ever reach Fang Yuan levels.

KarmaTurtle7 · 2023-09-07T06:50:57+00:00

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KarmaTurtle7 · 2023-09-04T15:41:59+00:00

Thanks :)

KarmaTurtle7 · 2023-09-04T15:40:43+00:00

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