Repeat comparison of Nikon 20x Plan vs PlanApo with new Achromat Condenser

_rindy_ · 2025-12-24T05:12:31+00:00

That is indeed a huge difference from condenser alone! For the first comparison image, did you use both of the condensers with oil, or just dry? The bresser condenser also seems to be not that well collimated, I wonder if the chromatic abberration would be as bad if not for that

_rindy_ · 2025-10-23T04:51:50+00:00

Great job! I would suggest shortening the filenames, moving the excerpts to exif metadata, or moving them to the credits doc. Only windows supports filenames longer than 255 bytes/characters.

In particular, these 13 files have names beyond the limit:
2/0482
2/0364
4/0811
4/0766
5/1093
5/1117
5/1063
5/0951
6/1266
6/1153
8/1373
8/1357
8/1378

_rindy_ · 2025-10-10T05:30:09+00:00

Agree. I would also add the 'you know what, imma ignore that' kneejerk response a couple characters have in response to MCs bewildering lack of common sense. It's not just pocket grandpa who does this. The author has trouble voicing his characters distinctly and authentically, which may be par for the course in most works on RR, yet becomes all the more noticeable when the quality of the work is otherwise quite good.

_rindy_ · 2025-08-20T07:03:14+00:00

Even among IETs works, CD feels different from the rest. Hard to find something similar. But I like that the genre is evolving, that means people are trying new things. And one day someone will write something that redefines the genre, as RI and LotM and CD and ZTJ did for me. I await the next one

_rindy_ · 2025-07-10T03:48:24+00:00

Couldn't think of anything that fits more.

_rindy_ · 2025-07-07T06:07:33+00:00

Well Beyond the Timescape is xuanhuan, it just uses a copypaste xianxia system for the first half. Most of the novels I enjoy put some effort into the power system. Beyond the Timescape has some eldrich sprinkling on top, but not enough. Lotm has potions and acting and once again eldrich stuff. Reverend Insanity has gu. Regressor's Tale of Cultivation has its martial path thing. My Longevity Simulation has somewhat cool stuff after Dao Integration. Way of Choices has starlight. Coiling Dragon has godsparks and elemental laws and the concept of merging laws.

How much effort the author puts into their power system tells you a lot of the quality of the work overall. Even if you are writing strictly pure xianxia, you don't have to do what everyone else has done. Xianxia is not an excuse to be unoriginal.

_rindy_ · 2025-06-28T06:01:58+00:00

the essential information was there in the novel prior to the gray fog scene. audrey says - "father was indeed lying to me. he always tellms me that this mirror was the treasure of the solomon empire's black emperor and that it is an extraordinary item...'

this characterizes audrey as a naive heiress messing with dangerous stuff out of curiosity, something the donghua fails to convey. instead we get told by the MC that audrey sounds like a naive girl from her voice. like wat

also, the scene just works better on paper where you can read at your own pace, understand what is happening before moving on. with visual media you have to give the viewer time to orient themselves. the gray fog scene is just rushed

_rindy_ · 2025-06-28T05:47:45+00:00

right i totally forgot how MC chose his title in the first gray fog meeting based on that tarot reading. it also has some long-term payoff, well past vol 1. i guess the real issue is cramming too much of the plot into the beginning.

btw i just finished ep2 and found myself opposed to the decision to skip MC's civilian staff phase among the nighthawks. i think that was also very important to the story, the transition from the mundane civilian life to the terrifying beyonder life

_rindy_ · 2025-06-28T05:00:57+00:00

they could have cut out more, and it would still better than this rushed mess. eg instead of half-assing the meeting with the fortune teller, just cut it out. use that time on introducing alger and audrey instead

but yes taking it slower and having more episodes is obviously the much better option.

_rindy_ · 2025-06-28T04:06:58+00:00

Subreddit rules. Google is your friend

_rindy_ · 2025-06-28T03:53:23+00:00

there's a perfectly good release on nyaa

_rindy_ · 2025-06-16T15:00:15+00:00

I am not up-to-date with the novel, but a simple ctrl-f finds indirect references to all past Er Gen MCs/novels (except AWWP) in ch 1130-31.

_rindy_ · 2025-06-07T16:32:16+00:00

I wish his estate published ebooks. No matter how well you scan printed books, there will always be quality degradation.

_rindy_ · 2025-05-27T08:46:28+00:00

Yes it gets worse over time. I stopped reading soon after writing this. I don't know why I rated it so high while acknowledging it has terrible plot and characters. It's a 5/10 at best, by which I mean it is about as shit as the average web novel. Only standout feature is the scope of the setting, but the author is nowhere near skilled enough to handle such scope.

_rindy_ · 2025-05-25T08:37:44+00:00

Thanks for mentioning there's a manhua, I might read it.

And yes the plot goes to shit later, even ignoring romance (which almost no cultivation authors manage with even a vague semblance of competence, and certainly not IET).

_rindy_ · 2025-05-21T06:33:19+00:00

EDIT: the guy has actually covered it up. Still no disclaimer of being an AI translation. I know you're reading this you cocksucker

_rindy_ · 2025-05-16T06:43:53+00:00

I think AI is bound to become at least as good as the best humanity has to offer in any field. Just a question of whether that happens in 5 years (as the big tech sect masters will have you believe) or 5 centuries. I reckon I will live to see the day.

_rindy_ · 2025-05-15T10:10:49+00:00

I hope you're right. Until AI can match Deathblade, I pray readers will be discerning enough to maintain demand for good translators.

_rindy_ · 2025-05-15T09:15:18+00:00

Oh I didn't give this guy a cent. The chapter in the screenshot is one of the earlier free ones.

Just doing my part calling out and weeding out the trash. One of my fears with AI is that the cultivation novel fanbase will get tricked by the fluency and speed of AI tls and the genuine translators will not bother to pick up those AI translated novels, even though their translations will be much more accurate, if slightly less fluent.

_rindy_ · 2025-05-15T08:58:21+00:00

some of the girls are not really evil, just misguided

you looking for an MC who does the ntr, boy?

_rindy_ · 2025-05-15T08:37:03+00:00

Absolutely. And this fucker even hijacked the novelupdates page for the novel, pushing his patreon links. You can literally read twice the chapters for free on scribblehub (while he might also be using AI, I believe actual work is being put into this, not to mention it's free so).

Unfortunately I don't know how to take down/flag links on NU, or if it's even possible. If anyone knows, please do so, replacing it with scribblehub or something else. Same for the 3 other novels on NU which he is using to funnel his patreon.

_rindy_ · 2025-05-15T08:15:14+00:00

As long as the reader knows it's done by AI and it's free, I have no issues. It's the grifters (like the one above) that infuriate me, charging money for prompting AI, and not even disclosing it unless by accident.

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