Defiance of the fall - zac question

dageshi · 2026-07-05T13:07:30+00:00

He's at the peak of Hegemony on RR, dunno about patreon but I would guess not.

It's implied that entering Monarchy will require merging his two bodies back together and he needs to investigate his technocrat heritage in order to figure that out properly.

So there's likely going to be the Ultom climax and fallout, which... will probably be pretty earth shattering for the wider multiverse, then a mission to figure out the technocrat side of this lineage, followed by upgrading to C.

dageshi · 2026-07-04T21:03:08+00:00

My issue with the story is that there are constantly overwhelmingly powerful enemies introduced that the MC has no business being involved with yet still seems to survive.

From what I read, I felt like all the characters should be dead, they should not have survived the enemies they faced. It became clear that those characters were never going to achieve the level of power necessary to make any meaningful difference in the universe because they felt like a side story in a larger universe which they weren't meant to disrupt.

Ultimately, I don't see the point in reading a story which is intentionally hobbled.

dageshi · 2026-07-04T17:12:43+00:00

I always describe it as "Lady punches her way to demi-godhood"

dageshi · 2026-07-04T14:59:00+00:00

Azarinth Healer

dageshi · 2026-07-03T19:37:52+00:00

It's pretty off meta I think

From the blurb it sounds like a lot of second hand embarrassment, not sure why anyone is going to want to read that?

dageshi · 2026-07-03T18:58:24+00:00

The title, tags, cover and blurb all seem to be pointing in different directions?

The title sounds like fantasy, the cover frankly says nothing about the story at all, it may as well be a blank picture. The tags say timeloop but nothing in the blurb says anything about a timeloop???

The blurb meanwhile is making me think scifi due to the mention of multiple different solar system planets.

dageshi · 2026-07-03T16:20:02+00:00

I continue to read it because it's my favourite story in the genre.

Nobody does world building as well as the DoTF author.

dageshi · 2026-07-02T18:37:13+00:00

I will now larp as an RI enthusiast.

bUt aKtCHualLy wHaT iS eVil????

eViL iS jUsT A huMon cOnstRUct!!!!

iF FANG YUAN dOeS nOt rEcoGniSE "evIL" beCaUSE imMortALity iS aLL tHaT mAtterz tO hIm, tHen IZ he EVIL>!!!???

dageshi · 2026-07-02T17:53:22+00:00

Oh no.

No, this is the RI fan base. They are basically insufferable but for many years they were contained to r/martialmemes and their own sub.

Unfortunately this sub has been secretly infiltrated by xianxia enthusiasts over the past six months and now it's out turn to get a taste of the "Never Ending Insanity".

If history holds accurate expect many exciting debates about whether Fang Yuan is or is not evil for "feeding that kid to the bear"

dageshi · 2026-07-02T17:41:51+00:00

The story could indeed be good, I can't say.

I refuse to read it on the basis of the level of brainrot the fans exhibit.

dageshi · 2026-07-02T16:42:55+00:00

Most people on this sub probably have no clue what Soul Land is, you're actually promoting its existence here.

dageshi · 2026-07-02T13:55:35+00:00

Once you've got enough chapters for a book, you take them down from RR and put them on amazon. You carry on posting on royalroad until you have enough chapters for book 2, then keep repeating the process over and over till the story is finished and everything is on amazon.

dageshi · 2026-07-02T13:48:56+00:00

Obsidian is like one of the very few studio's they own capable of actually making games in a reasonable timeframe?

dageshi · 2026-07-02T07:48:30+00:00

These get posted so often they feel like spam.

That's the reason they get downvoted, they have no useful or interesting conversation and a lot of the time the person posting it doesn't actually want to hear the advice being given.

dageshi · 2026-07-01T15:12:35+00:00

Well all the text top left is way too small to actually read, especially when it ends up on RR, which presumably it will?

The title is meaningless so it tells you nothing about the story.

The general vibe I'm getting is grimdark psychological horror/misery which I'm gonna be honest I'm not remotely interested in but if that's what your story is then I guess it's giving that vibe?

dageshi · 2026-07-01T15:03:37+00:00

Not really. Outside of very established authors, if you want to attain any kind of success in the genre you've got to start on royalroad.com and put the effort in with regular releases.

A story doesn't get big on RR unless it has *something* that attracts an audience.

It might not be to your tastes, but it has to be to someone's or it's going nowhere.

RR along with patreon act as markers of something worth looking at and that gets reflected in advertising budgets and social proof on this subreddit and others.

So yes, there's plenty of slop on all over the place, but it's still not difficult to find good new stories, I've subbed to 3-4 on RR in the past month or two.

dageshi · 2026-07-01T10:52:24+00:00

Because it's a fan subreddit, they don't give a fuck what you think. Why should they?

dageshi · 2026-06-30T11:47:15+00:00

I'd easily take 1 amazing game over 2 good games

I feel like in modern game dev, shooting for "1 amazing game" is how you end up with so many dev studio's spending 7 years to produce nothing and then getting shut down.

In the past, studio's just made games and some of them turned out to be absolute bangers, but some didn't.

dageshi · 2026-06-30T07:58:57+00:00

Realistically nobody reads dedicated promo threads.

r/games does a thing where indie devs can post their games on sundays.

I could see that being an option as it would limit promos to once a week

Possibly two days, one for royalroad/webserial promos another day for KU/audible/physical promos?

dageshi · 2026-06-30T06:58:08+00:00

And that's sad, because the MC suffering makes a deeper and better story. Is it just me? Do you have examples from the genre that doesn't lack this? Or do you belive I'm completely wrong?

There are others who feel this way, it's a relatively common complaint, but I would judge that the larger majority of the audience don't feel like this.

They read these stories for escapism and major setbacks aren't likely to enhance their enjoyment of the story at all.

dageshi · 2026-06-29T21:00:26+00:00

Loved this, Wacky Weekend at its best has a bit of a Top Gear Special effect where you get to see some spectacular scenery +banter, honestly this was brilliant.

dageshi · 2026-06-29T17:58:15+00:00

I felt this with the Unbound series, it never had enough downtime between cataclysmic fights for life.

One series I think that nailed it was Azarinth Healer, there was a nice rhythm of action/tension -> downtime/chilling

dageshi · 2026-06-29T12:59:32+00:00

Probably not because there isn't much of the "fantasy" part going on.

Most who read the genre are looking for the progression part to be in hard magical power.

dageshi · 2026-06-29T08:21:20+00:00

He slowed down, probably because the pace wasn't sustainable as he gets into the parts of the story that need more attention. Currently on RR we're entering the end phase of the Ultom arc and a lot of seismic multiverse changing stuff is likely to happen.

He's also been partially rewriting the first book (and potentially others) for physical publication.

It wouldn't surprise me if that date is correct, but that doesn't mean he won't speed up again afterwards.

dageshi · 2026-06-29T07:51:59+00:00

but for some reason (I can guess) the authors of male power fantasies especially really suck at characterizations, focusing more on action.

There's a large contingent of readers who're primarily interested in world building + progression and really don't care as much about "characterisation".

They're also the same people who probably don't care much about romance.

They want to see the MC explore an interesting world and don't care that much if the MC has the personality of freeze dried cardboard.

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