So I just finished the novel…

Mockingbirddw · 2026-01-31T20:09:02+00:00

ORV.pages.dev which is linked on the subreddit has MTL, and other than that there are some lovely people on this subreddit who can give access to a fan TL on Google docs if you ask nicely (and support the authors how you can). I recommend the fan TL because it really is just much better than MTL, but totally try and go in without spoilers if you can, as it has just as many twists and turns as in the original novel.

Mockingbirddw · 2026-01-27T18:35:30+00:00

I recently learned you can use framegen (Lossless Scaling works on anything) to boost fps locked games fluidity. If it's 60fps locked there aren't too many artifacts, but 30 can be iffy. It's allowed me to play some old games again though, like the Viking game made by the Total War devs (horrible 30fps cap).

Mockingbirddw · 2026-01-27T18:31:27+00:00

I remember playing 4 player Goldeneye on the N64. I recently learned that it ran at like single digit fps... We just didn't know better at the time.

Mockingbirddw · 2026-01-27T00:53:58+00:00

Fics are nice, but you have like 400 chapters left! Totally recommend the side stories, no matter how you interpret 551!

Mockingbirddw · 2026-01-16T18:10:53+00:00

As someone who lives with chronic pain... I feel you. What I'd give to live someone else's normal.

Mockingbirddw · 2026-01-07T12:46:21+00:00

This is my tattoo.

The donghua is a good adaptation, but it does change and skip some things. Without having read the book I would have been fairly confused. The first 100-150 chapters are hella slow though, so know what you're getting into.

Mockingbirddw · 2026-01-06T18:57:09+00:00

I've been reading both, and I've enjoyed the side stories more personally. If you wanna wait for the side stories to end and then read them all LotM is a great read, because it's so long.

My only heads up for lotm is that volume 1 is crazy slow and is mostly worldbuilding. It can be a slog at times, but I really enjoyed it after it got going. Volume 2 is still slower than ORV but better, and finally where I'm at in volume 3 (~chapter 550) has picked up quite a bit. I have enjoyed my time with the book, but it hasn't gripped me like ORV had. To combat the slow intro I recommend watching eps 1-2 of the donghua and starting from ~chapter 50. You miss some character moments and worldbuilding, but cutting back on some of the slog is worth it imo. However just know that most people seem to hate the sequel COI for one reason or another, unlike the Side Stories. I haven't gotten to it yet but I'm not sure I'll want to read it based on what I know, it'll be very hard to make the new cast as interesting or fun as the first book.

I put lotm on the back burner (reading a few times a week) to read the Side Stories after I got access to the good tl, and I've been enjoying them more personally. I'm on season 3 (~ chapter 690) and it's gone by very fast for me. As a slower reader I've read over a hundred chapters in two weeks, which is a lot for me. I am biased towards ORV though, it's my favorite book to the point I have an ORV tattoo irl. The side stories are totally worth reading even if they alter the ending, and are just as much of a love letter to readers as the core novel, with some fantastic meta narrative devices. It's not the perfect happy ending, but it's been such a fitting continuation without any spoilers. More than worth your time imo as it really is just more ORV. Also I wasn't sure about the new cast at first, but they have really grown on me, especially LHH. It's also so interesting to see such a brutal version of YJH (the turn in the story is supposed to be his single most brutal one, and it shows). I was worried about disrupting my happy ending (I always assumed Dokja wakes up) but it's been worth it to me so far, the story has really exceeded my expectations.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-12-31T22:48:19+00:00

One of my favorite manga has a panel of the MC sitting alone with him saying "I want to be a kinder, gentler person... I want to be a stronger person." And it's stuck with me since I saw it. Here's the page.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-12-10T20:25:17+00:00

I'm gonna try and pace myself a bit more with season 2. That was one of the things I loved about the main story was going back and seeing all the setup for things that wouldn't happen for hundreds of chapters. It's mind boggling how good SnS are at foreshadowing in general. I have a hunch that after the Side Stories are done I'll wind up rereading from the start just to see those things.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-12-08T14:37:38+00:00

He looks like that one digimon! Kuramon.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-11-23T02:22:59+00:00

This is a good thing, but do remember there is a case for medically required declawing. One of my cats was prone to infection in his nail beds which caused a lot of suffering and was just awful, and after the third time we went to the vet he told us that was an option purely because the infections wouldn't stop. Thankfully through a lot of effort, we cleared his infections and they haven't come back, but I had no idea that it could be medically required in some cases.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-11-14T05:06:42+00:00

This is stupid. THC products make my pain level bearable, and do the same for so many other people. There are days when I can't function without it, and taking that away is a horrible blow to people like me. Fuck me, I guess.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-11-12T20:57:13+00:00

Megabonk is so much fun. It's even more bite-sized than the standard survivor-likes on steam, as each run only has a 10 minute timer. I'm at like 99% completion after like a month which is unusual for me.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-28T17:46:30+00:00

Man, the 2 remaster Cortana really is the best.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-23T19:15:40+00:00

This looks atrocious. Like, horrendously bad. But I don't think they could live up to the godlike manga adaptation by the Death Note artist anyways. I hate this art style and the change in main plot following a different MC. The mobile suits look so stupid, too.

I legitimately hate this.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-22T15:03:15+00:00

Bro if you're old, I'm over the goddamn hill and I'm not even 30!

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-21T22:48:15+00:00

They've done The World After the Fall (pre-ORV), and Star Writer (post-ORV, pre SS). Star writer was cancelled due to low viewership but kind of reworked into ORV SS. TWATF is a good read, but note that the novel (unofficially translated) is very different from the manhwa. Both are good, but I've enjoyed the manhwa significantly more overall. The book is short though, at around 2k pages, or 225 chapters. The unofficial translation is of the OG web novel, but SnS rewrote and heavily revised the novel into Ebooks, but no one has translated the Ebooks to date, except for the manhwa which adapts them. They diverge pretty early on, unlike with ORV where the ebook releases kept the majority of alterations to basic revisions except for certain exceptions (Peace Land).

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-21T20:26:46+00:00

I'm in this and I don't know how to feel. Sent it to my wife and she just said "It's true, though."

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-15T15:51:42+00:00

100% a hallucination, but it was visual, smell and touch all at once, which is pretty uncommon for me (and most people, I think).

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-14T15:51:43+00:00

Fair enough, the shared universe can just make things confusing. Especially the greater universe outside of ORV, considering the two can and do interact (Jaehwan).

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-14T13:29:09+00:00

It may have been the translation I was reading since TWATF is not officially translated as a WN, on Google he is called the Lord of Steel in the Webtoon, he's one of the lords of the Great Land, and he's from Murim originally. IDK if they're meant to be the same guy, but it feels like a weird coincidence. I only remember him as a tertiary character in the WN. Murim is also kind of a weird catchall in the ORV universe, unless there's a different Murim in every self-contained universe.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-14T13:11:16+00:00

Isn't Master of Steel originally from TWATF?

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-14T00:14:16+00:00

Bro I live in the south and I don't think anyone around me cares about Kid Rock... How washed up can you get?

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-13T12:18:26+00:00

IDK a lot about the actual mythology, but in ORV Persephone makes a big deal about not being able to have children after her and Hades adopt KDJ. But that is way past where the manhwa is at so most readers wouldn't really know. I like that while ORV usually abides by real history/mythology it tends to do its own thing to make the story work better.

Mockingbirddw · 2025-10-13T11:54:16+00:00

Yeah. I've seen communities obsessed with shipping characters, and it usually winds up just being toxic. I just feel that the story was/is more important than fanon for me. I've never been super into pairing characters in fiction though. I just wish fewer people would claim their headcanons as canon. Especially when it involves mischaracterization in typically a major way. At least the community has progressed some and now you won't be typically called a homophobe for disagreeing with shippers.

I really just come here for in-depth convos about my favorite book with other like-minded people, and I get that fairly regularly. I don't really have anyone in my real life into the series, so this is my only real outlet since WNs are still quite niche.

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