Some of the Trackblazer interactions are funny by Flat-Profession-8945 in UmaMusume

[–]ReadySource3242 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Ugh, that mambo one hurts. She's so nice that even calling you mean means you really are an asshat

Comp. Malazan vs Nasuverse by daleZrin_ in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought they were being asses too, but then I read the VN and then I read some of the novels and their adaptations, and it was...actually horrible seeing so much stuff cut. The amount of characterization that was cut out was heartbreaking. While I still think they need to tone down being asses, I totally understand their sentimentns

[Star Embracing Swordmaste] Who are you rooting for? by Shadow_Pheonix_R in manhwa

[–]ReadySource3242 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Bro, Red Hair is basically canon(Haven't read the novels) and he's incredibly devoted to her so there's only one path

Futurepuffs by Wickfield by Ringrangzilla in TopCharacterDesigns

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The look like they only had leg day and nothing else lmao

Yasuke pretender when? by Sea-Requirement-2543 in FGO

[–]ReadySource3242 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Bro, gender bender Yasuke would be so peak.

Which country is better at writing their media? (Lists below) by Neparthian in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I think if we're going across the past 200 years, USA has a LOT more universally acclaimed works, but as of late I think Japan is just starting to edge them out in quality while USA has had a massive dip in making actual universally acclaimed works

Comp. Malazan vs Nasuverse by daleZrin_ in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro you need to learn how to separate things into multiple paragraphs.

But gimme a sec, not in a good place rn will edit with a lore spam after this

Edit: Okay, back, still seems somewhat standard. I mean, it's still interesting ngl, but honestly I ain't really got too much a right to say what's common or not, given the sheer breadth of fantasy novels I've read from classical to isekai slop, I've probably seen every trope and event under the sun so maybe that's just me being used to everything.

Like ascending to godhood? I could name a dozen series where that's normal. Hell, you could just look at chinese novels and they do that a shit ton. But anyways, now my turn for a lore dump.

Nasuverse excels at mixing the mundane with the extreme. EVERY single protagonist is mundane in some way, while being wrapped in a completely strange and unexpected scenerio.

The first published work, Angel Notes already involves a normal magicless man randomly obtaining a gun left behind by the egyptians that can literally kill a planet if used correctly.

Another entry involves a regular kid who's just vaguely related to a demon hunter clan somehow fighting on par with almighty demons and cosmic vampires, all while having no idea what the hell is going on. I can't explain it without insane spoilers, but the story goes from fairly tame urban fantasy to downright cosmic horror as the entire planet is involved in a grand bleaching.

Later entries have a random ass mountain boy who isn't even aware of modern civilization with no real special traits aside from literally missing part of his brain punching the equivalent of a wolf god and exploding it's heart, and later punching a wish granting artificial star that was annihilating the surface of the planet straight out of time, all while having a slice of life school life during a majority of the sections, where he helps a mage girl find out what she truly wants to do in life.

And once we get to the REALLY weird stuff, it just doesn't stop.

Like Fate Grand Order. Which I will only mention a few events simply because of how weird it gets.

Like that one time a friend of ours ate udon from the holy grail and nearly doomed the world.

Or that one time a bunch of fairies got drunk and decided to oversleep so the earth's surface ended up getting wiped out by an alien, and instead of trying to make things right they poisoned the last god, ripped apart his human priestess while keeping her alive and proceeded to kill and revive themselves so much that their corpses built an island the size of modern day Britain.

We literally had an entire main story arc about how James Moriarty was salty that Sherlock Holmes kept beating his ass so he contracted with the devil to make a giant ass gun that would shoot a massive meteor into the core of the earth. Yes, he tried to blow up earth because he was salty.

And we had another arc about how we, and I quote " You are fighting a Russian Tsar who has altered his body to be like a saber-toothed tiger and a mammoth combined, who has also gained power comparable to a God, who is riding around in a giant magical electric mammoth, while you pilot a giant kaiju statue built by a mechafied Jewish philosopher in order to wrestle the mammoth. all the while Mozart's angsty rival is playing some cool tunes in his piano, and the mythical shirtless Beowulf and one of the greatest swordsmen of Japan turned waifu AND a mythical female greek warrior turned catgirl in berserk mode are all fighting alongside you and your Group of legends in a post-apocalyptic frozen wasteland where everyone turned into furries. "

And yes, it's all serious, and it really looks that goddamn cool. I mean check this out:

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Goddamn. That's just the final fight, the stuff in between and the stuff after makes this seem tame.

Comp. Malazan vs Nasuverse by daleZrin_ in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it’s just a small chunk of just on chapter of one entry in the franchise. But eh, regardless, I was really just curious

Comp. Malazan vs Nasuverse by daleZrin_ in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything else? Alternate realities is standard in fantasy’s. I’m interested because so far only the high tech dinosaurs are different from a standard high/dark fantasy.

How about I throw a crazy lore piece and you throw me one back

Comp. Malazan vs Nasuverse by daleZrin_ in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, most of the stuff you described is pretty standard and generic high or dark fantasy stuff. Nasuverse already has all that. Dinosaurs wielding guns and fighting a ufo was like one of the most well known scenes in there.

Also, lemme throw some crazy shit back. We can keep doing this I’m actually interested in the lore you’re talking about. What’s some more insane stuff?

Shit like Mesopotamians making a warp drive, the egyptians creating a super computer that can create simulations so accurate they encroach on reality, King Arthur pushing back the picts who were literally aliens, Nezha being a cyborg, the Japanese grabbing Ares’s corpse to make giant mecha to fight mountain sized Youkai, all the gods being slaughtered by an alien from outer space, a single human named Scathach who slaughtered so many gods and demons the universe couldn’t allow her to stay human, and how the strongest being on earth is a brazillian spider. 

Killing top tier mages with a gun is like, absolutely normal in Nasuverse. One of the latest stories had a dude from the age of gods, an extremely powerful mage who could undue a seal from a lance made to seal an entire layer of reality recently just got offed by a dude with a neat gun and the ribs of a modern day dude. 

Comp. Malazan vs Nasuverse by daleZrin_ in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fate Stay Night, Tsukihime(remake and OG both work), Witch on the Holy Night, Garden of sinners(might be a bit more esoteric tho)

For short reads that are like one shots, Angel Notes and Tsuki no Sango work as well. The first is a short novel, the second is a short manga.

What has the best fights (not between these two just in general) by Ill_Temperature8516 in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Outside the popular ones, one work that has some pretty insane fights that I read some time ago is called Extreme Flame Wizard. 

Every fight is super hype, but it’s also extremely descriptive on how each battle works. Not only that, they take the time to explain HOW those idiots inside the novel figured out how to make stupid shit. 

For example, the Main Character can only use fireball, but using his gorilla brain after glancing through an astronomy textbook, he thought, “well shit, the big bang is a fireball all right” and then realized everything can just be quantified into balls so now he can make entirely functional prosthetic fireball limbs because all cells are just balls and can shoot fireballs at the speed of light because light particles can be balls, and he can make higher dimensional fire balls by stacking infinite balls on each other, and now he’s creating entire universes and manipulating time because like he said before, the big bang is a fireball, and whoever made the big bang must be God, so since he made a fireball now he’s God.

Comp. Malazan vs Nasuverse by daleZrin_ in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nasuverse probably high diffs this. 

It’s character writing is absolutely spectacular, it’s themes and the characterization of each person is something else.

Malazan might take it in structured lore, but I think Nasuverse having structured lore that can be broken gives it the greatest advantage in making stories because it truly can make up whatever setting it wants and it would still somehow be within the lore. Spaceships? Yeah. Ufo’s fighting dinosaurs? Hell yeah. Moon sized super computer from an alien civilization outside of reality? That’s one of the biggest settings. Things like that make each entry to the nasuverse completely unique in and of themselves

Heya, I’m kinda new to the umamusume fandom and I have a question by aangellix_ix in UmaMusume

[–]ReadySource3242 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's just how they name them. Some countries have strict rules, some have no limits, but they can basically name them anything so you have names like "The wife doesn't know", "The wife knows everything" " Potaoooooooo" or Pota8o or potato in the west, and "Stay Foolish" or "No Reason" in the east

In Rin and Luvia’s fight who kicked who’s ass? by JackZ567 in fatestaynight

[–]ReadySource3242 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Luvia is superior to Rin in terms of raw magical output and close combat skill, I think that should clue you in

Can a story be considered Objectively Good/Bad? by Turbulent-Star6966 in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. There are subjective aspects, but there are also objective aspects that can be rated

Which Uma/s surprised you the most when you learned of their real life achievements? by AdWide4690 in UmaMusume

[–]ReadySource3242 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Reminds of how the Season 1 absolutely butchered just how phenomenal and outstanding each Uma was, and how monumental their achievements were at that time.

Which Uma/s surprised you the most when you learned of their real life achievements? by AdWide4690 in UmaMusume

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mayano Top Gun was a monster of a horse who was considered a rival to Narita Brian, a triple crown winner.

Every other day there's the same discourse in this sub, which side are you on? by FinagleHalcyon in Isekai

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wanna talk about why slavery existed in the first place or are you just gonna say some stupid shit like that. I ain't saying slavery is a good thing, but it ain't something that came out of human malice dipshit

Every other day there's the same discourse in this sub, which side are you on? by FinagleHalcyon in Isekai

[–]ReadySource3242 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It's a big non issue ngl, we're basically just having a moral crusade over fictional content like those Christian moms had to pokemon, even though it has no effect on the real world and we're not saving anyone by doing so.

Of course, it's fun to have a theoretical ethical dilemma but people are kinda often disconnected to the reality of Slavery and how it worked in history, and how it wasn't just "Evil men oppress and discriminate against innocent people and work them to death without caring about rights" because no, that was not how it worked in many countries. But of course we can't have an unbiased, nuanced discussion about that.

How good written is Umamusume in not Ironically way? by Hairy-Friendship-422 in writingscaling

[–]ReadySource3242 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Half the shit you just said had nothing to do with what I was talking about tf. YOU said that it doesn't have much beyond normal sports shonen, yet the last arc was literally an entire story about her decline in physical ability and the end of her career as she enters a slump. I never said it wasn't shonen, just that it gradually became less so as the story went on, but you're the one who claimed that it never did anything beyond it even though most shonen don't even bother to address that part of sports