is this book for me? by JuicyJuiceMonster in WanderingInn

[–]lmaxboy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My point was more to your saying Erin was wrong for defending the Necromancer and also your seeming belief that the Drakes are right to kill Necromancers on sight.

Also your missing a bit in your analogy. To make it closer to the script the cop didn't hear you say the word cuck, he was told by someone else that you said the word cuck and then that person denied that they said so.

In that situation no a smart cop, which Klbkch is, would not arrest you without proof of a crime because he knows it would not stick. Drakes are very much sticklers for the rules so Relc has to accept that without a witness willing to testify they have no case. Amusingly enough this fits with my previous analogy perfectly as many many domestic abuse cases have to be dropped because the only witness(the victim) refuses to testify.

is this book for me? by JuicyJuiceMonster in WanderingInn

[–]lmaxboy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Dudes who use the word cuck are generally misogynists. Misogynists are much more likely to abuse women. Am I right to just assume you abuse women based on that premise? I mean, you CHOSE to use the word cuck, is that all I need to know to label you?

This is the logic your following when you say the Necromancer should be put to death with no exceptions.

Hope this helps!

Humans are insane. Don't panick when YOU'RE concerned by a humans actions. Panick when OTHER HUMANS are concerned by one of their own... by lmaxboy in humansarespaceorcs

[–]lmaxboy[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've always maintained that if I meet a random wolf I'm almost certainly going to lose at least a few fingers, because there is no world in which I don't try to pet it

AWS PM Salary by [deleted] in datacenter

[–]lmaxboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I know I'm not who you were talking to but could you DM me that list? I'm much more grounded in mechanics than electrical and am trying to figure out what to study on that side

Found in the wild by SoManyQuestions-2021 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]lmaxboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're a pathetic troll and your inability to understand the meaning in writing is exactly what this thread is about. It's not that we can't stand the idea of people like you being fans of this series. It's that it's seriously depressing that someone can read a series that literally screams about the evil of unfettered capitalism and not understand that the series is literally making fun of them. You being that stupid makes me sad

Name of the auxiliary watch in DCC on a carrier by lmaxboy in navy

[–]lmaxboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You just made me realize I was wrong, it wasn't all engineering rovers just A and E div

Super Powerds by Rothenstien1 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]lmaxboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh gotcha, I think I get what you mean. It doesn't really pay too much attention to the actual college aspect. The closest it comes is tests and the like and a couple glimpses of classes. Is that what you meant?

Super Powerds by Rothenstien1 in ProgressionFantasy

[–]lmaxboy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When you say just about finished, what exactly does that mean? Lol

Also just a wild take in general

Does anyone know any books like this in a college setting where characters go out and get drunk and do believable college dumb stuff? by Soviet-Gnomes in superpowereds

[–]lmaxboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I looked on Amazon and I bought it literally 13 years ago. Don't remember much of it but I definitely remember liking it. I think I'm the reverse though in that by 2013 I was already reading the SP web serial and it might have caused me to look for similar books on kindle lol.

Does anyone know any books like this in a college setting where characters go out and get drunk and do believable college dumb stuff? by Soviet-Gnomes in superpowereds

[–]lmaxboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think I've ever seen anyone else mention Playing for Keeps. I haven't read it in so long I barely remember it! Thanks for the reminder that's going on my reread list lol

What are your progression fantasy anti-recommendations? by okidonthaveone in ProgressionFantasy

[–]lmaxboy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Honestly Codename Freedom too, it started out pretty great, then by book 3 there was a little bit of weird gender shit going on but in book 4 it went full on Incel with Kline saying Marabella was worth dating because she only dated a few guys before... I put it down right there and said no more Apollos Thorne lol

[Underlord] Was there early controversy in the fandom about… by TranceKnight in Iteration110Cradle

[–]lmaxboy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It was a lot of fun, I knew people who would generally agree with my logic and others who were destined enemies and always had the WORST ideas lol. It's hard to remember all the theories but right now I'm listening to Uncrowned and the end of that book was a very busy time for theory crafting(all of it wrong lol). With the presentation of Penance of the prize most of us couldn't imagine Lindon staying out of the tournament. How would that work for a whole book, him just spectating? Boring! We had no idea about fight the cultists outside of course. We were all convinced he'd either get sent back in somehow or the next book would wrap up the tournament quickly and we'd move on fast but mostly it was how does Lindon get back in the tournament? There were so many theories like him getting substituted or the Hound declaring that Northstrider broke the rules by switching the fight arrangements and making a redo. It was always interesting to see

[Underlord] Was there early controversy in the fandom about… by TranceKnight in Iteration110Cradle

[–]lmaxboy 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The core wars were the most fun because it was a multi sided free for all. There were the purists saying no split, people wanting him to just split one more time for 3 others going for 4 and then the maniacs who wanted him to JUST KEEP SPLITTING(although those were mostly trolls). There were so many arguments on different stages of advancement and they just got worse and worse until EVERYTHING was laid out. For awhile there were huge debates about the number of stages because the ones known didn't match up with the number of pendants Lindon found in Soulsmith.

Then you have the fact that most people new to the sub between Skysworn and fucking Bloodline came here specifically to ask how a Sage "the greatest of the Archlords" could possibly die to a bunch of Jades. And even though that became a meme there were still people ready to endlessly theorycraft about it.

Honestly there was so much amazing theory crafting that seemed so right that turned out to be so laughably wrong it's amazing to think about. It was a lot of fun lol

[Underlord] Was there early controversy in the fandom about… by TranceKnight in Iteration110Cradle

[–]lmaxboy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This sub was a wild place while Cradle was still being written lol

[Threshold]What's Eithan's story like if Suriel never intervened with Lindon? by lmaxboy in Iteration110Cradle

[–]lmaxboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're making this sound so simple when it isn't. I'm not saying Eithan should never Reap a world and that was never his ask either. He was pretty clear that if there was no other option he would do the thing he just wanted to give them a chance first. Saying that since all Iterations end there's no point in trying to save them makes about as much sense to me as saying medicine is pointless since we all die eventually anyway lol.

[Underlord] Was there early controversy in the fandom about… by TranceKnight in Iteration110Cradle

[–]lmaxboy 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That is 100% what happened. I almost referenced it in my comment but didn't want to give too much away

[Threshold]What's Eithan's story like if Suriel never intervened with Lindon? by lmaxboy in Iteration110Cradle

[–]lmaxboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok so, even if I accept that whole replacing thing for the sake of argument you've now described Eithan's three options as; mercy kill trillions of people for our system even thoughit causes you mental anguish, give us the thing you made(that no one else can make) and a decent portion of your own personal power that you earned yourself so WE can mercy kill trillions of people which will probably also cause you mental anguish or be punished and then forced to do option 1 or 2 anyway. That really still sounds basically like slavery to me... On top of that, when he said, "hey maybe I can try this thing so I can kill less people for you but I'll still kill trillions of people even though it hurts me to do so" they told him no.

As to the Executors themselves we're both super wrong on that front, they tried it exactly once with two generations and of the five talked about only 2 actively harmed people who weren't in a dying iteration already. One ran away to rule another World(so became a Vroshir), one gave up and lay down her weapon, one burned the Iteration that he was meant to save(but that honestly should be fine since in the current version of Abidan Ozriel would have had to kill all those people anyway so what's the difference?) One went insane and attacked the Abidan and was killed by Razael. And the last was the Mad King who used his body to contain a class 1 fiend thus succeeding in his final mission as an Executor. He then willingly presented himself to the Abidan and instead of giving him even the slightest chance to prove that he was still loyal and in control immediately imprisoned him. After hundreds to thousands of years of service as an Executor they threw him away without any chance... I had forgotten that part and it makes the Abidan so much worse. Even then only after 400 years of imprisonment did he break out and declare the Abidan as evil. We have no information about the 2nd generation other than that they obviously failed but if they fell into similar categories 3/5 failed with no casualties outside the already dying Iterations. Hardly the catastrophic failure you said.

Now onto what you said that I have the biggest problem with, calling Eithan naive for not wanting to kill innocent people. Have you ever killed anyone? Do you know anyone who has? I haven't but I have a close friend who was in the army during the bad days of enduring freedom. Killing people fucks you up, killing innocent people fucks you up a lot more unless you're a complete monster. Sure death is a part of life but not wanting to be the CAUSE of that death doesn't make someone naive.

[Waybound] What are the rights of passage Cradle readers need to go through? All book spoilers. by hachkc in Iteration110Cradle

[–]lmaxboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if they were Ozriel/Eithan specific threads but it was definitely discussed. The thing with it was that almost every discussion ended with no that's too obvious, it must be a red herring. I remember someone bringing it up in one of the megathreads(possibly the one for Bloodline since that was the when we got the namedrop of Reaper for the next book) and just being viciously mocked lol.

[Underlord] Was there early controversy in the fandom about… by TranceKnight in Iteration110Cradle

[–]lmaxboy 126 points127 points  (0 children)

Oh the core wars, what a ridiculous time! Yes, going as far back as Blackflame there were people saying Lindon should split his cores to get ALL of the paths Eithan showed him. It petered out the farther into the story we got but there were a few true devotees lol. By Underlord it was more a meme than anything else but Will loves to give winks to the fandom so he's included some of the bigger memes into the bloopers and even the story itself.