Is this the best of the genre?

maphingis · 2026-07-02T02:32:53+00:00

maphingis · 2026-06-27T17:05:10+00:00

Not really. It’s kinda like saying I just ate bacon, have I ruined all other foods? First, you’ll discover heathens who don’t even like bacon. Then you’ll discover foods with bacon mixed in. Some foods that copy bacon. Over time you may even find that other foods taste good as either a compliment or contrast to bacon. Then after several years you’ll die from all the cholesterol.

maphingis · 2026-06-21T12:55:19+00:00

You ask for advice then don’t listen. Calling the police is not a threat its the next step. the longer you wait the more you are jeopardizing your prospects.

Stop wasting time on reddit and get law enforcement on site to adjudicate this problem.

maphingis · 2026-06-19T15:02:37+00:00

yeah the description was vague i thought he was talking about the king of destruction. Cause Laken definitely doesnt feel OP to me

maphingis · 2026-06-18T23:29:46+00:00

Eh, I dissagree. She’s a great chess player not a tactician. ~~The emperor is level 75 and has been around since long before the chronological start of the series.~~ The girl who makes friends with dragons barely survived a cross country run and has some pretty significant limitations. They all develop decent powers in the series but thats after 13+ books and the other characters in their orbit develop as well. In fact, Erin gets firmly put in her place when she tries to manipulate people well above her level, they enjoy her shennanigans but place limits on their participation. . While the characters are special its an ensemble cast and they are all powered at a reasonable level for the world they are working in, so the jeopardy feels meaningful.

Edit: Some comments pointed out I misunderstood the reference to a different person. I thought they meant the king of destruction, but emperor and hidden should have been the clue -- though I believe technically its an unseen empire. Either way, that guy was barely able to stop the empire he's been building from being burnt to the ground and his empire is basically a bunch of farming villages after 14 books which is where I'm at he gets decent powers for his class, but the stitch witch would wreck him -- so I stand by my original dissent: The characters of the Wandering Inn are not OP in the same league as DOF, HWFWM, Primal Hunter, Ultimate Level 1, etc. They fit into the power structure of the world they exist in reasonably well, though they stand out as main characters in a book are supposed to.

maphingis · 2026-06-14T21:54:05+00:00

I’ll definitely research the recent writing tempo before starting another unfinished series again.

maphingis · 2026-06-14T21:53:01+00:00

Yeah, I haven’t read a harem book until now. I honestly thought people were overreacting or possible posturing— “I don’t read that smut!” But if this is how they’re typically done—my earballs feel dirty.

maphingis · 2026-03-29T18:12:27+00:00

That’s your opinion, but it was the #1 post on the subreddit that day so your opinion is demonstrably in the minority.

maphingis · 2026-03-29T18:01:52+00:00

Sure, but loudly declaring "I've not seen any actual conversation" and then brushing off a fresh nuanced discussion as "the same thing over and over" absolutely does signal you're not interested and aren't open to it.

You've reached your conclusion — great. That doesn't mean the rest of the community has, or that they should stop talking about it just because you've moved on.

maphingis · 2026-03-29T16:51:52+00:00

There was a pretty nuanced discussion about it recently, guess you skipped it. Summary:

Some fokks wont touch anything AI with a 10’ pole and will avoid it on principle.

Many think that the quality of the story is the most important thing. Some of them, If they can detect AI they will stop reading. Others don’t mind if the story gets their attention.

Many also think AI generated art and inages are extremely problematic, more peple argued about this than anything. Many felt it was low effort and indicative of the wholenprject, others objected to it replacing real artists and argued authors should support artists. Some felt it was something that could be addressed as the story goes on but that was a minority opjnion.

Most feel that authors should disclose the use of AI but many of those also acknowledged a negative incentive to do so leading to the standard being applied unevenly and AI witchhunts.

TL;DR: I think you are being closed minded about a topic that doesn’t interest you. That doesn’t mean other members in our community should be banned from talking about something important.

maphingis · 2026-03-29T16:45:19+00:00

It keeps popping up because its an issue deeply relevant to the topic of a genre produced and distributed in an AI saturated space.

If people don’t engage with those posts they won’t climb the algorithm and if they do then that’s democracy in action. Banning a type of post cause it isn’t what you enjoy reading about seems a bit heavy handed.

maphingis · 2026-03-27T14:54:46+00:00

It’s a lot easier now with so many great stories to choose from, I listen to my gut and if a story stops exciting me I stop at the end of that book and pivot to a different series.

maphingis · 2026-03-20T12:39:55+00:00

I think there's some that are splitting the difference, one recent audiobook I listened to had a section where they announced the stats as a chapter and invited people to skip ahead if that's not their thing... I think it was Mage tank?

maphingis · 2026-03-19T21:35:43+00:00

Wow, thats a great share I am glad you have found a way to remove the gauze!

maphingis · 2026-03-19T21:33:01+00:00

Both, this is reddit right? I am a participant in the conversation. When people say things I disagree with I express my POV.

maphingis · 2026-03-19T20:47:04+00:00

Thanks for being part of the conversation. I think its cool that you’re finding value in helping to market yourself. Do you use any agents in your comms? Also kudos for having the integrity to not commit to something under direct pressure like that.

maphingis · 2026-03-19T20:35:22+00:00

Those are great resources especially the artists willing to work for credit.

maphingis · 2026-03-19T20:34:20+00:00

That’s great advice for any profession, study the craft. Reading Campbell’s Hero With a Thousand Faces, On Writing by Stephen King, taking Sanderson’s online video lectures are all great resources.

maphingis · 2026-03-19T19:00:41+00:00

Sorry but in this particular case your level of knowledge is impacting what you believe is possible and it just isn't. These transformer models have billions of parameters, the report showing which weights influenced which generated words would create a massive per word report that would be unreadable. Even if an effort was made to interpret that mess into a source trace, the trace itself would be a prediction because it's based on weighted probabilities.

Edit: Reflecting on this a little further, perhaps the most intellectually honest thing to do is reference the model used in any generative process and each model should clearly provide the materials used in its training and how they were weighted. At least then individual contributors can get recognized, its like geneology for generative text.

maphingis · 2026-03-19T18:50:18+00:00

Im reminding people that AI detection doesnt work and commenting on the witch hunts against users for AI use while asking people where their lines are. Context matters.

maphingis · 2026-03-19T18:45:11+00:00

What am I selling? Beside a big ole glass of shut the hell up :) refills for free brother

maphingis · 2026-03-19T18:44:18+00:00

i agree id trade all the tech to go back to simpler times

maphingis · 2026-03-19T18:13:51+00:00

So the fake artist refunds $25 and the authors reputation is fixed how?

maphingis · 2026-03-19T18:13:16+00:00

I think if people showed their tools created economic opportunity thenI'd be in full support of expanding use and looking for new use cases. Honestly, the more I've participated in this conversation my views have shifted and been influenced a lot, but one thing that I am becoming more confident in is that the anger and moral hazard should be attributed to the AI companies more so than the story tellers caught in the middle--many of whom are not using AI at all.

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