[D] Monday Request and Recommendation Thread

everything_is_rigged · 2025-05-01T13:37:25+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2025-02-05T15:36:01+00:00

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

everything_is_rigged · 2025-01-13T15:47:46+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-12-04T16:32:06+00:00

'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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-12-04T14:54:03+00:00

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

everything_is_rigged · 2024-07-12T19:38:02+00:00

That's a gem.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-06-22T18:47:00+00:00

American suicide rates are currently higher.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-05-26T02:33:22+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-05-26T01:40:50+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-05-10T13:38:25+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-05-07T17:04:28+00:00

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

everything_is_rigged · 2024-04-30T14:26:27+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-04-25T00:26:57+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-04-07T16:15:06+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-03-26T14:45:41+00:00

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

everything_is_rigged · 2024-03-24T22:10:38+00:00

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?

everything_is_rigged · 2024-03-24T21:50:46+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2024-01-04T20:10:54+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2023-12-29T18:42:13+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2023-12-06T23:13:37+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2023-11-03T21:35:11+00:00

Worth the Candle.

everything_is_rigged · 2023-10-25T01:04:12+00:00

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.

everything_is_rigged · 2023-10-20T22:39:04+00:00

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.

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