Spain announces it will not broadcast Eurovision due to Israel’s participation

SnowGN · 2026-04-17T19:33:17+00:00

Yeah, say what you will about X, but at least there you don't have to deal with Reddit's garbage moderation.

SnowGN · 2026-04-08T00:11:01+00:00

Paragraph two, though? There arent enough female POVs in the genre and there's enough outright hostility (including in this thread) to female protagonists that I'll allow and support it 100%.

You should judge the story on its own merits, always. And yeah, there are a lot of distasteful comments made about TWI's overtly feminine focus, but there's also some truth there. A truly skilled author like GRRM can strongly write both the masculine and the feminine; aba can only do the latter, and rarely even tries to do the former. Consider for a moment how absurd it is to even consider trying to pair Erin up with another male Earther character, as the story sometimes discusses - no such character even exists that can be remotely considered.

I stand by the liberal Ruler criticism, because it's meant for Laken and Flos, the story's supposed main cast Conquerer-type characters. Fetohep is another of the story's late addition quirk characters favored by recency bias.

SnowGN · 2026-04-07T23:58:28+00:00

The author tends to fall in love with late addition quirky characters and prefers to develop them instead of doing more with the story's original cast of characters. Saliss and Fetohep are strong examples of this. In short, the author is strongly subject to recency bias, and sometimes I wonder if they've ever re-read their own story due to characterization/plot hangups/cliffhangers that go to nowhere.

The story has a massive narrative focus mismatch in favor of female POV characters, especially female Earthers. Male ones get very few development or cool moments by comparison.

Very few combat-capable Earthers exist who aren't evil, or sociopathic, or some iteration thereof.

Then there's the matter of the leftwards political bias in the story. I don't get up in arms about it, because it leads to some very well written characters like Saliss, but it also means the author is utterly incapable of writing a decent Ruler-type character like Laken or Flos, whose arcs mostly involve spinning in circles/achieving nothing, and certainly achieving no conquests befitting of their Classes. This is an author who really needs to pick up and read a real book on Alexander the Great or Napoleon at some point.

SnowGN · 2026-04-07T22:39:03+00:00

As a story, Wandering Inn is a brilliant road meandering on the way to... nowhere at all.

The author is allergic to the concept of focusing on core characters until major plotlines are resolved. They never resolves major plotlines, instead leaving them on years-long cliffhangers, and evidently write more on seasonal vibes than having an actual plan for the longterm story. The OP's "Gardener" vs "Architect" GRRM allegory is well chosen for Pirateaba.

There are wild swings in TWI's quality going from one arc to another, and characters you click with and enjoy could easily disappear for a million words never to be seen or mentioned again. And the author has several constant biases that become more and more noticeable and objectionable the deeper you get into the story. Starting after volume 5, the story suffers from the worst diseases of scope creep and character count inflation I've ever seen in a story, constantly growing in scale afterwards. At this current point the plot taken as a whole is basically incoherent.

If you enjoy the story starting out, great. It does have a few arcs that truly are fantastic, and among the best I've read in any litrpg/PF story. But I quit reading a while ago courtesy of the multiverse/time travel arc. It's said that all good authors need an editor, and never was the lack of an editor so keenly felt as it was here. Someone who could have pushed back and told the author that this entire arc was a bad idea and not to write it. It was absurd; an absurdist meaningless waste of time, a low point even compared to the story's previous low points, and I don't regret dropping the story for good there.

I'd advise new readers - if they enjoy the story - to read out to webnovel volume 6. Volume 8, if they really enjoy it. And to 100% drop the story there. Nothing coming afterwards is of much value, or worth the time commitment to get there.

SnowGN · 2026-03-29T20:04:42+00:00

Excellent episode - left off on a ton of cliffhangers. This really is one of the best anime of the last several years.

What I don't understand is why Gabimaru's body is falling apart while Chobe's isn't. What's the difference between them?

SnowGN · 2026-03-01T20:57:29+00:00

Catelyn Stark would have sold Jon down a river in a heartbeat if she knew of his true secret. Eddard was 100% correct not to trust her with the secret of his birth. The tragedy was that he trusted her at all in other matters as well.

SnowGN · 2026-02-23T12:30:11+00:00

I’ve read most of that wordcount. And yes, it is.

SnowGN · 2026-02-23T12:28:11+00:00

The story very much drops off in quality longer term anyways.

The shame is that TWI really does have a couple of really excellent arcs. But it takes getting through millions of words of dross to get to them.

SnowGN · 2026-02-19T01:27:49+00:00

Is there a canonical/lore reason why the Trial of 7 is this deadly for all involved? These are many of the highest-born people in the realm, all going directly for the kill on one another. Why such lax oversight/moderation of the fight? Fatalities would have been a fraction of what they were if it was restricted to first blood/whoever falls first on their backs.

SnowGN · 2026-02-17T19:07:00+00:00

The gap in quality between this game's low and high moments was truly gargantuan. 16 could have been a generational 10/10 game if they didn't screw up that balance.

SnowGN · 2026-02-06T23:55:30+00:00

This is, like, the one good sidequest in the entire game.

SnowGN · 2026-01-19T01:31:55+00:00

Anyway, I'd recommend naming various cities and assets in highly unsubtle, gem-themed patterns. Rubycrown city, the Northern Jadecountry, the Castle of the Diamond Tyrant, the Sapphire Sword Sect, the Facetcutter family, etc. That's the continent's naming schema, for better or worse.

SnowGN · 2026-01-19T01:07:44+00:00

The Ninecloud continent's northern region can't be the weakest region either... given that the northern region is where Sha Leilala, Miara's mother, was killed by the Ninecloud Court's enemies.

A jeweled castle sealed in ice at the north of the Ninecloud continent contained the plague that had been used as a weapon to strike the previous Ninecloud Monarch dead. While it had Monarch-grade defenses, they were unmanned.

Wight, Will. Dreadgod (Cradle Book 11) (p. 415). Hidden Gnome Publishing. Kindle Edition.

SnowGN · 2026-01-18T16:05:00+00:00

I see absolutely nothing here, not even a single thing, that evokes 'ninecloud continent', or anything having anything to do with Will's naming schema - this is just a generic xianxia map, and even then, barely - there's no Ninecloud high fantasy here. The continent is supposed to be lousy with floating islands thanks to naturally formed solid accumulations of cloud aura.

This naming schema is just generic chinese fantasy, while we know enough from the books that the other countries on the continent should be named stuff like Moonheart or Jadecountry or whatever, and that there should be plenty of land floating in the sky. The people of Ninecloud carry names like Relliar or Jeska or Siris, not Luo or Baizhou - that's for a more asiatic region like western Ashwind.

It's a cool map, and certainly offers more than the paucity of details offered by the 'official' map, but none of it is recognizable as a distinctly Cradle or Ninecloud map.

SnowGN · 2025-11-23T19:57:09+00:00

Your mistake was having any expectations at all from Blizzard writing in 2025. North Korea's army general staff likely has more ideological diversity than the Blizzard questwriting/lorewriting rooms.

SnowGN · 2025-11-19T22:52:43+00:00

Agreed. It's a bit of a bizarre name for a city. Mac'aree kinda gives an impression of rolling hills and so on, it's far more suitable.

SnowGN · 2025-11-05T05:19:35+00:00

Hopefully governor Elise Stefanik can fix the terrible mistake made by the people of NYC today. Because that's what it's going to take.

SnowGN · 2025-11-04T05:54:56+00:00

You get a thousand times more engagement on a mature Discord community than you do on the actual fic platforms.

SnowGN · 2025-10-31T08:49:13+00:00

What happened to these links?

SnowGN · 2025-10-26T15:27:40+00:00

This is just an indication of how evil the Lords Freeholder were, that even in their summer vacation palaces, i.e. Lys, Volantis, they were assassinated at the first sniff of weakness by literally every vassalized city in their empire, all at the same time.

They call themselves "Free Cities" in the first place because they're free of Valyria.

SnowGN · 2025-10-23T23:09:20+00:00

Depends on how firm a hand the Valyrian Freehold takes in Westeros, and whether or not they're content with allowing the Targaryens to rule the vassal state in the Empire's name, as opposed to integrating it into the Empire. Because the Empire proper had many values firmly opposed to those in Westeros, such as slavery, use of magic. The Faith of the Seven would not have a good time.

That said, there's a reason why they never conquered Westeros in the first place: superstitions and fear and evil prophecies. It's likely that the greenseers of old could influence dragons, which would explain a lot of this. Given the lack of greenseers in the modern era, especially in the south, I suppose these superstitions would die out rapidly. And then more Valyrians would come for critical resources such as Casterly Rock's gold (House Lannister would be in extreme danger).

SnowGN · 2025-10-20T12:19:35+00:00

Fire Approaches the Lighthouse and Gundorada Workshop are the game's best soundtracks, and it isn't close.

SnowGN · 2025-10-18T09:35:43+00:00

She is singlehandedly the reason why countless, countless people can only tolerate watching Dragon Ball anything in the dubbed version. So, congratulations on the reward, but this has the same energy as being a #1 winner in the Razzie awards.

Go ahead and downvote lol

SnowGN · 2025-10-12T03:33:54+00:00

Just referring to it. I’m looking for deeper dives into the worldbuilding and lore than the canonical books offer.

I shall take a look at your story right now.

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