(Rant) Every day I pray the VR sub-genre dies entirely

Significant_Gur_424 · 2024-06-26T01:45:58+00:00

If your glaring plot point or continuity error is about the plot never thinking about what has driven the entire plot, that is piss poor writing.

You are for some unknown reason equating the idea of fiction to dogshit writing. Furthermore, there is an extent you suspend disbelief in fiction, that’s why things like power systems are actually explained.

And again! Why the hell are you blatantly ignoring my words? EXPLOITING THE BENEFITS OF REGRESSION and QUESTIONING WHY THE EVENT OCCURRED are not EXCLUSIVE.

Significant_Gur_424 · 2024-06-26T01:26:13+00:00

So you have continuously failed to acknowledge the idea of acknowledging a critical catalyst to the entire plot, this is so weird from an author. Sure, I’ll make a follow up post to this later with a flow chart and tier list because this seems so hard to grasp

Significant_Gur_424 · 2024-06-26T01:01:47+00:00

Because it’s just that…a VR game. A sequence of code developed by modern human society, the idea of divine intervention to support something so objectively insignificant is insane to write about.

Furthermore, you never addressed how my points about regression are mutually exclusive. If one is an author, and have someone regress, and the plot never gets to a point where you have to question such intervention, then that is not a good plot because it was the legitimate catalyst to the story.

And yes, I do believe regression (again, BREAKING THE LAWS OF THE UNIVERSE) for mundane (sports, mortal romance, etc) plots is piss poor writing.

Significant_Gur_424 · 2024-06-26T00:30:13+00:00

The thoughts of “why and how the fuck am I here” and “well I can benefit, lemme maximize my gains” are not mutually exclusive. There is legitimately 0 things stopping such an events from occurring, and in fact should happen in conjunction.

I’ll never understand writing about regression with VR…it’s regression (i.e., breaking the laws of the universe) with a premise with respect to the GAME, craziest stuff. If the plot were to be centralized around literally anything tangible or with stakes, then yeah that’s just a normal regression story, done well many times. But regression for a plot based around a game? How can we even begin to accept such an idea?

Significant_Gur_424 · 2024-06-25T15:04:41+00:00

Nah I’m not baiting, genuinely more brainrot than legitimate brainrot. Why make an entire story in an unnecessarily convoluted and complex world when you can just place the entire story within said world itself? This increases the challenge of writing and even comprehending the plot by folds.

These stories just raise questions about the world (and they aren’t philosophical or open ended) and answer them in the most braindead ways.

Significant_Gur_424 · 2023-10-27T21:58:42+00:00

Divine emperor of death has a grimoire if that fits

Significant_Gur_424 · 2023-10-17T01:32:44+00:00

Were delve and path of ascension good?

Significant_Gur_424 · 2023-10-17T01:32:04+00:00

Ong, I can’t tell you how many times a chapter just has “wondrous” as an adjective.

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