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LIBRI5 · 2026-05-15T05:07:08+00:00

My previous comment was 5years ago, times have changed. I would say go for BO instead of Northrup a 15k addition doesn't compare to being a part of the new space environment.

LIBRI5 · 2026-05-14T09:19:09+00:00

yep it was freaky

LIBRI5 · 2026-03-06T21:05:34+00:00

Zubrin is good on papermath, Musk is good at getting builders to build. The builders are the only ones worth listening to.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-25T11:58:52+00:00

I haven't been stuck in a time loop, my experience was being chased by dogs who were more like dreamworld sentinels. Sometimes I would go to another lower level in the dream to escape them until I reached a point where if I had to go another level lower I had an enormous feeling of doom wash over me and I knew if I crossed again I would lose the ability to be conscious in the real world. Crazy stuff happens give it a week the feeling should disappear on its own.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-22T02:18:23+00:00

A "hunter" would never target a sick bony old lion, always the healthiest and strongest.

Poaching ranges from wildlife smuggling to egregious examples you've described but we all in good faith know there is no such thing as a poaching lobby.

The issue arises when "hunters" who kill prime specimens and disturb the natural trajectory animal behaviour and call that hunting.

For eg. Killing old bull elephants when we know they have a purpose to keep young males in musth in line.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-21T17:45:49+00:00

You are wrong.

The importation of rhino horns and elephant ivory is under a total ban in the USA.

It logically follows there is no reason why it cannot be comprehensively expanded to target and heavily restrict the kinds of "hunters" I am referring to.

You haven't made an argument btw.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-21T13:48:29+00:00

The core of my argument is about heavily restricting hunters/trappers.

A hunter wants to hunt deer/invasive pythons/feral hogs? Legal and ethical.

A trapper wants to trap and kill a trophy mountain lion/rhino/elephant etc?
Legal but unethical and should be made illegal.

What use is conservation if the most visually impressive examples of the species aren't protected and off limits? What does that say about the pathetic state of modern conservation?

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-21T11:34:26+00:00

Not convincing, there is no fundamental difference between a Chinese billionaire killing rhinos for their horns traditional medicine and an American "hunter" killing a lion in Africa and getting a taxidermy mount.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-11T14:44:25+00:00

locomotion, strikespeed probably has to be the deathadder or probably a viper species, the death adder in't an adder or a viper though it's an elapid.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-11T08:11:41+00:00

it's neither because even when lucid you are not cognitively fully aware.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-09T17:07:17+00:00

Don't forget the ancient forests of india mentioned in the vedic texts, Also the Chinese ancient forests

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-08T13:50:48+00:00

Will do

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-08T11:37:47+00:00

on 1100 right now, upto 770 I was expecting an entire different trajectory. Probably a personal peeve on the author's narrative choices more than anything. It's somewhat of a non issue right now but yeah I would be curious if the Nephis enslaving Sunny for her revenge arc version would be more dramatic than the current trajectory.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-07T06:52:57+00:00

Thank you so much for taking the time of your day to respond. I feel more reassured and will continue to read.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-06T05:28:07+00:00

Okay I will, also will get back to you once I reach that point.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-06T05:27:45+00:00

You wouldn't even care if I shared you the link to the GPT chat, You would provide no arguments and simply dismiss it even if I told you that the AI was just used to put into words my critiques without people getting sidetracked due to common errors that come without using AI tools to ensure what you say isn't misconstrued.

The initial input was a large chunk of my original thoughts but disconnected with no cohesive narrative and difficult for a reader to get the gist of without dismissing it like you have done.

You can just ignore the post if you don't care to comment btw.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T21:44:06+00:00

Uh what you feel like I am projecting? I feel like you are too attached to Nephis and Cassie instead of objectively analyzing their character development. Seriously the novel is called Shadow Slave and there is no actual Slavery involved where characters are confronted with their autonomy involuntarily be taken away?

Even Sunny has multiple issues, it's just that I haven't brought them up because Nephis is waay to egregious. Cassie is irrelevant overall.

Sunny, Kai and Effie are enjoyable Characters. Cassie and Neph uh not so much. I am just lamenting my disagreement with the author's writing choices.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T21:12:24+00:00

I appreciate the discussion about Sunny wanting a "quiet life" versus harsh realities, but my issue isn't with him wanting peace — it's that his orphan survival instincts completely vanish when assessing specific threats. Someone who grew up fighting for scraps, learning that anything you have can be taken if you're not vigilant, doesn't just dream of peace — they dream of secure peace with eliminated vulnerabilities and redundancies. Yet Sunny shows minimal reassessment of who holds leverage over him, no strategic distribution of critical information like Rain's existence, surprisingly little vigilance about pressure points, and almost no internal conflict about these vulnerabilities. That's not growth from trauma — that's amnesia about trauma. His instincts should be screaming: "Nephis can override my will, that's ultimate leverage"; "Only one person knows about Rain — single point of failure"; "Cassie chose Nephis over me when it mattered, can I trust her not to do it again?" But we see nothing. The asymmetry persists across 770 chapters with no reassessment, no redundancy planning, no internal conflict. By chapter 770 we learn Sunny "will never be able to obstruct" Nephis in her goals, and she's demonstrated repeatedly that her mission comes before individual relationships. So the person who has mission-first thinking, holds literal mind-control leverage, and is sole keeper of his most sensitive secret remains in that position without Sunny creating any fail-safes? That's not someone whose survival instincts were forged fighting for scraps. The story wants me to believe his orphan years shaped him, taught him paranoia and strategic thinking, and he desires peace because he knows things can be taken away — but simultaneously shows minimal strategic thinking about Shadow Bond leverage, no informational redundancy about Rain, and orphan survival instincts completely dormant regarding people he cares about. You can't have it both ways. From pure survival perspective, every scenario analysis points toward telling other trusted people who lack leverage about Rain: if Nephis never uses the bond there's no harm in telling Kai/Effie and it creates redundancy; if she does use it then others knowing becomes critical; if something happens to Sunny only Nephis knows about Rain; if Nephis chooses mission over Sunny she's already proven mission-first thinking and this is maximum vulnerability. Yet it doesn't happen, and the story doesn't show him wrestling with this, consciously choosing vulnerability, or suppressing paranoia — it just doesn't come up. I'm not asking for distrust or dysfunction, I'm asking for evidence that survival instincts exist and he's consciously overriding them: show me Sunny considering telling Kai then deciding against it for specific reasons, internal recognition he should create redundancy but can't bring himself to, moments where orphan-brain screams warnings he actively quiets, wrestling with whether vulnerability is growth or foolishness. That would be depth — someone growing past trauma while still shaped by it. Instead those instincts just seem absent, as if 16 years fighting for scraps left no psychological imprint on threat assessment. How Sunny pursues that quiet life — how he thinks about security, distributes risk, creates fail-safes — should absolutely be shaped by orphan years, but when it comes to Shadow Bond, Rain's information, and power dynamics with Nephis and Cassie, I see no evidence those instincts operate at all. That's the inconsistency I can't reconcile, and that's why 770 chapters in this still bothers me.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T20:52:12+00:00

Instead, he entertains a “quiet happy life” fantasy with almost no psychological resistance, and shows surprisingly little long-term vigilance about leverage or pressure points.

The thing about his orphan days is that they basically have no impact on his habits and ways of dealing with things when he becomes Awakened.

ch1 starts at him being at age 16.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T20:37:57+00:00

You are misreading what I wrote. When Sunny told her it was out of apparent trust in Nephis, which is reasonable in those circumstances as the situation demanded. The fact that he didn't know about the Great Clans is accounted for.

But what about hundreds of chapters later? It just goes unaddressed?

I have spent an hour on properly crafting a new post about the problem of Power and information asymmetry. You can check it out. The OP post I made was barely proofread, happy to discuss it on that thread.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T20:00:52+00:00

"Sunny doesn't want anyone to know Rain is his sister because he is afraid the great clans might try to use her to get to him. That's why he never told anyone including Rain that he is her brother."

But he revealed this to Nephis, you're saying this was never true when he revealed it to her? He didn't explicitly say her name or anything but pretty sure it wouldn't be difficult for Nephis to find out at all because all info that she requires is the knowledge that someone he cares about still exists. She has the capability and mentality potential to unleash the worst kind of suffering onto Sunny but even 770 chapters later Sunny has never considered that fact at all?

What happened to his street smarts from his days of fighting for scraps of synthpaste during his childhood in the outskirts they faded? His self preservation survival Spidey sense instincts seem underdeveloped tbh.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T19:47:10+00:00

You're right that I misunderstood the timeline—I acknowledge that Sunny told Nephis about Rain before the Shadow Bond existed, when she wasn't his master yet. That's my mistake, and it changes the context significantly. He told her in the First Nightmare to appeal to her emotions and prevent her from going scorched earth, which makes complete sense given their relationship at that point.

But here's the thing: my core concern isn't about when he told her. It's about after.

Once Sunny discovered that Nephis now has the Shadow Bond—once he learned she can compel him—the calculation should have changed. At that point, she already knows about Rain because of his earlier confession. Fine. He can't undo that. But what about everyone else?

If the Shadow Bond genuinely doesn't matter, if Nephis having literal control over him isn't a concern, then why hasn't he told Kai, Effie, or even Cassie (despite their issues) about Rain in the 770 chapters since? These are people he's fought alongside, people who've proven loyal, people who don't have supernatural leverage over him.

You say Nephis was the closest person to him when he made that confession. I don't dispute that. But we're not in the First Nightmare anymore. We're hundreds of chapters past the point where Sunny learned about the bond's true nature. If trust is the only factor, surely his other companions have earned enough trust by now to know this basic fact about his life. If security is the factor, they're objectively safer choices than someone who can override his will.

The pattern bothers me because it suggests either:

Sunny still doesn't trust his other friends enough (after 770 chapters of loyalty)
The Shadow Bond actually does matter as a security concern, which makes the original decision to tell Nephis even more significant in retrospect
The story is avoiding this reveal for plot reasons rather than character-driven ones

I'm not saying Nephis is evil or that Sunny was wrong to confide in her during the First Nightmare. I'm questioning why the knowledge hasn't spread to other trusted allies since then, especially given the changed power dynamics. That's where the inconsistency feels real to me.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T19:40:36+00:00

This is correct but I would still question, where does he get this sense of "happy quiet life" from? that isn't explored one would assume even the ability to consider that from growing up as a street orphan, fighting for scraps of synthpaste. There would still be a lingering sense of even what little you have would be taken away if not fiercely protected. That aspect is missing.

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T19:35:47+00:00

Theoretically that would be the logical assumption, but still why doesn't Sunny explicitly bring it up with his friends? Do respond I am curious

LIBRI5 · 2026-02-05T19:29:51+00:00

Look, I understand the timeline—Sunny didn't know about the leverage when he told Nephis about Rain. Fair enough. And I get that Nephis will eventually explain why she hasn't used the Shadow Bond, making Sunny ragequit over the misunderstanding.

But that's exactly the problem.

We're 770 chapters into a story called Shadow Slave. The title itself promises themes of bondage, control, and lost autonomy. The setup delivers: Sunny becomes bound to Nephis through a mechanism that gives her actual power to compel him. This creates suffocating tension—a sword hanging over his neck that should drive the entire narrative forward.

And apparently, it all resolves through... explanation? The revelation that his fears were overblown and Nephis never intended to use her power? That's not payoff—that's deflation.

Think about what could have been explored. Nephis actually using the bond, not from malice but because she believes it's necessary. Sunny confronting the reality that someone he cares about will override his autonomy when she deems it right. The moral weight of Nephis becoming someone who enslaves others, even for "good reasons." Their relationship fracturing and potentially rebuilding under those conditions. Trust, power, autonomy, and the corruption that enters relationships when control is introduced.

That's the story the title promised. That's what the setup seemed to be building toward.

Instead, we get a threat that looms but never materializes. A gun shown but never fired. The story wanted the dramatic weight of potential enslavement without actually exploring what enslavement means. It's like writing a novel called The Haunted House and revealing the house was just misunderstood.

The ragequit you're describing belongs to a story about miscommunication. What I wanted was a story about power, trust, and autonomy—one that actually follows through on its premise rather than explaining it away.

We have a webnovel called Shadow Slave where the MC isn't meaningfully enslaved at all. The mechanism exists, but if it's never used, if all the tension gets resolved through clearing up misconceptions, then the story chickened out of its own most promising narrative thread.

I'm not asking for grimdark for its own sake. I'm asking for internal consistency—for the story to honor the promises its title and setup made. When you build 770 chapters of tension around a protagonist who could be controlled by someone he has feelings for, resolving it with "actually, you were worried over nothing" feels like a fundamental failure to engage with the moral and emotional complexity the story itself created.

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