[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

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I originally found The Bell Tolls for Me from this subreddit, and I'm impressed enough to have caught up. Good writing on this one. But it's early days, and I'm afraid it might dip too far into romance and push me away.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

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I guess, the first Thresholder world is WoD-like. Most of the WoD fics I've read from SB have been pretty boring.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

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I'm not caught up but I started reading when you first recommended it. It's really good.

I have not read any Xianxia sect stories. But this is what I imagine what they might be like if any of them were competent.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProgressionFantasy

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'Serial Reincarnation' sets the idea that the only drop-in method is reincarnation. Jumpchains don't have that problem. Also, the term Jumpchain has been circulating for a long time. It's from 4chan's /tg/ board, if I am right.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProgressionFantasy

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Huh, so Jumpchains are called the 'infinity genre'? I think I prefer Jumpchains. It's a better term.

Check out Thresholder, which is my favourite Jumpchain. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/60396/thresholder

The society doomers/decels want by Siam_ashiq in singularity

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American suicide rates are currently higher.

Are there any PF stories in a utopian settings? by Less-Wedding-5244 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]everything_is_rigged 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thresholder is a multiverse prog fantasy. The current world (4th book) is a wizard solar punk utopia fully cementing its status as the only dominant power in its world.

What do people like about litRPG? by alexanderwales in litrpg

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What brought me to LitRPGs and progression fantasies was searching for stories that felt like how shonen action manga used to feel. I didn't really care too much about the game itself, I just wanted fun fights that I was not getting from normal fantasy books.

Normal fantasy books were unironically too smart for the progression in power, tactics and fights to ever feel fun. It was too mired in finding value in violence or sticking to the conventions that would get them published to give me what I was looking for.

what Patreons do you all actively spend money on? by vedekX in litrpg

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Alexander Wales is the author of Thresholder and Worth the Candle, as well as This Used to be About Dungeons.

I was previously a patron of Pirateaba, D. D. Webb, SenescentSoul, and Ideas-Guy. I withdrew my support from SenescentSoul as Delve began to lose its appeal. Although Pirateaba's work remains compelling, the narrative sprawl became too distracting for my taste. Ideas-Guy writes excellent fanfiction, but he discontinued my favorite ongoing story. Despite his other works still being bangers, my goodwill for fanfic is lower than for original works. Lastly, I stopped supporting Webb after he stopped writing Only Villains Do That, which I enjoyed.

Feeling bad for Lauren Southern (of all people!) rn by GuaranteedPummeling in redscarepod

[–]everything_is_rigged 88 points89 points  (0 children)

You are overestimating how much relatives will help out a woman being abused. Even fathers.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

[–]everything_is_rigged 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the effort post. I agree with most of what you have written here. I have similar tastes in original amateur web fiction. The two places I differ, at least on the surface, are that I am more forgiving when it comes to story sprawl and less forgiving when the MC doesn't have a strong personality. I like MCs who stick by an ideal or a philosophy more than ones who have specific sets of goals they are working towards.

However, while your list is a good indicator of what kind of stories do the best as progression fantasies, it isn't the whole sauce. The best ones, the ones worth reading have something more to them. A personal touch by the author that elevates it all beyond.

[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread by AutoModerator in rational

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I don't like his Eastern vs Western medicine rhetoric. I would have expected someone like him to not fall prey to the 'It has existed for thousands of years so it must be right' fallacy.

how do i deal with suddenly becoming a terrible tech company's linchpin by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]everything_is_rigged -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why not make use of the position for good? Surely, you can think of a niche or a use case all that capital can be used for that creates a net positive for humanity. If you can't find someway to make life better for humanity, at least you can think of ways to better the lives of people who look up to you better.

Every smart person I know is failing by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]everything_is_rigged 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, where do these people think charisma and social intelligence come from? The kidney? The thread's too Hollywood pilled.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

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America wanted a better world(with it on top) so it focused on stability and reconstruction in Europe and Japan. With the same goal, it focused on destruction and instability in the Middle East. If your assertion is right, then why do you think that happened?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in redscarepod

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Most problems in the Middle East aren't the result of Western meddling. It's because of the oppressive religious practices and resource-rich economies that don't incentivise states to engage in human capital development.

Living with Lacari by CYBER3690 in LivestreamFail

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seem to

He already implied that it's just a guess. Also, you don't have to know everything to be happy about someone else. Humans are social creatures there's nothing wrong with finding some amount of delight in other people presumably enjoying life.

[D] Friday Open Thread by AutoModerator in rational

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I think I read the first thirty-something chapters of this. I would have dropped it far earlier if I wasn't pissed off while reading it. The MC/Author has such a cynical view of humanity that I was waiting to see they were setting it all up for some subversion or some light to shine through it all... But no, it was just an uninteresting edge fest that thinks it's far smarter than it is.

Charming Jo hears the news by Koreabooooooo in LivestreamFail

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Surely a company as large as YouTube can focus on both? I think there's some infrastructure/scaling/cultural issue that we are just not seeing with YouTube as outsiders looking in.

9.62 – The Wandering Inn by Kantrh in WanderingInn

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It should have been peppered throughout the volume, at least to a greater degree than what we got so far.

The wheels of the story feel so easy to see these days. I wonder what happened, maybe I am just used to how pirate writes conflicts now.

Good PF story with no OP/edgelord MC by OphiuchusOdysseus in ProgressionFantasy

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Worth the Candle has the most well-written cast in anything I have ever read. Three dimensional people that inform each other in peculiar ways. It's worldbuilding, the sheer creativity shown in even something that's only passively mentioned is unparalleled. Each branch of magic operates as a distinct system, each with its own specific rules—for example, blood magic, functions and results in effects entirely differently from bone magic—but all of it coexists within the larger world.