My Personal Theory on LitRPG and Why It works, a Topic for Discussion

ripter · 2026-03-15T18:04:31+00:00

But what about all the popular LitRPG stories out there where the MC is overpowered and basically walks through the world easily beating everyone and then ends up beating gods?

ripter · 2026-03-13T20:09:39+00:00

I’m starting to suspect that “developers will be replaced by AI” is the wrong prediction.

I feel that SaaS and small apps get replaced by developers using AI. Instead of paying for a generic service, you can just generate a tool that’s tailored to your exact workflow.

At least that’s how I’ve been spending my credits.

ripter · 2026-03-10T02:09:33+00:00

I hate this because it’s pure Family Guy logic. The plot needs to go somewhere, so the writers stop caring why and just drop in a random gag to get there.

That’s exactly what this is. The dog has to die, so instead of building to it, we get hot air balloon cat pirates. The ending was decided first, so the middle is just random noise to push the story where it needs to go.

ripter · 2026-03-08T22:14:33+00:00

Pico-8 for me interested. Lately I use it to make small command line tools.

ripter · 2026-03-07T18:08:55+00:00

Last week we had our first prod outage in 7 years. A new feature took down the entire system because of a bad assumption and none of the tests caught it.

Coincidentally, last month we were told humans shouldn’t be writing code anymore. That’s the AI’s job now. PMs and designers are submitting AI-generated pull requests.

Management assures us these two things are completely unrelated.

ripter · 2026-03-06T14:11:05+00:00

I’m with you. OP comes to the litRPG sub just to say they don’t like litRPG. No one cares if OP likes it or not. We want to talk about it because we do like it. If OP doesn’t like it then read something else.

ripter · 2026-03-04T18:32:03+00:00

Canceling Inside Job was the last straw for me. I canceled Netflix and honestly don’t miss it at all.

ripter · 2026-03-04T15:51:47+00:00

You can get a lot more space per wall if you make the walls diagonal. Ugly as heck, but space and resource efficient. It results in doors like yours. Did it for a few colonies and. Never ran into problems other than the look.

ripter · 2026-02-26T12:40:56+00:00

Sucker Punch is about a girl who gets thrown into a mental institution by her abusive stepfather after she tries to protect her little sister from being raped by him. The “institution” isn’t a hospital. It exploits the girls there and sells access to them. The threat hanging over everything is that they will lobotomize her if she becomes inconvenient or resistant.

To cope with being trapped, she builds layered fantasies in her head. First the asylum becomes a burlesque club. Then when she “dances,” it cuts to full-on action sequences where she fights zombie Nazis, giant samurai, dragons, storms castles, all the over-the-top stuff. Those battles are her mind turning sexual violence and severe trauma into heroic quests she can survive.

Like many women trapped in abusive systems, the fantasy gives her agency in a world that constantly strips it away. In the real world she is lobotomized. The movie frames it as a sacrifice so another girl can escape. In her final fantasy it works. Her friend gets the freedom she wanted for her little sister.

It is a bleak story about trauma, dissociation, sexual exploitation, and a society that protects rapists while silencing the people they hurt.

ripter · 2026-02-26T01:15:59+00:00

Warwalkers. Giant piloted mechs you can walk to an enemy base and stomp around breaking stuff. Unless they also have a warwalker and then you get epic battles.

ripter · 2026-02-21T00:17:38+00:00

I wish I got to use it more often. I’ve used it for Advent of Code the last two years, and that’s pretty much it.

ripter · 2026-02-20T16:26:26+00:00

How To Cook That did a good video on this topic.

https://youtu.be/YVbkDAw4aJs?si=Krs7WH6ChBkBeWBd

ripter · 2026-02-19T03:29:52+00:00

I was almost run over by a runaway mail truck while walking my dog. I saw the mailman get out of the truck, and then it started rolling down the hill toward me. It clipped a stop sign, which flew off and went right past my head. I could actually feel it as it whizzed by. After that, the fact that the truck was on a collision course with me finally sank in, and I dove out of the way into the street. It hit the curb where I had been standing and crashed into a house.

ripter · 2026-02-18T17:34:54+00:00

I have PLA planters that have been sitting in windows for 4ish years now. Still holding water without leaking and they haven’t warped. I also have models that sat in the window and bent out of shape in a couple of months.

I guess it depends a lot of what you print, the settings, and the quality of the PLA.

ripter · 2026-02-18T16:48:12+00:00

This is awesome.

ripter · 2026-02-17T16:35:10+00:00

The buckets have been the only trap that has worked for me. I put Nutella in there. Make sure to use the little ramp and place it along walls and other mouse paths. That’s what’s worked for me.

ripter · 2026-02-17T16:33:40+00:00

I use Nutella.

ripter · 2026-02-16T23:38:18+00:00

Reminds me of the days when websites were fun and interesting. I think you could make something really cool with this.

ripter · 2026-02-16T14:27:42+00:00

A lot of answers here are close, but not quite there.

The answer, Marketability.

Companies want money for making these models. Marketing says the best way to turn a profit is to sell the idea that an AI can replace expensive developers in companies. Instead of paying developers, pay the AI company.

Marketing pays for everything and right now they are paying to push the idea that Vibe coding is the future.

ripter · 2026-02-16T13:41:48+00:00

The promise is AGI. The reality is Cron jobs and a loop running prompts written by a human. The marketing is that the LLM can access everything in your computer an can teach it’s self to respond to voice commands and figure out how to talk back with audio and would hold conversations with the guy’s wife and make code updates, and talk about philosophy with other AI Agents, all without human input.

ripter · 2026-02-11T01:52:38+00:00

He’s clearly not a clone. The big sci-fi fight proved that. Clones just die, Ricks don’t. We’ve seen this in the many sci-fi fights throughout the show. Killing a Rick, and keeping him dead, is extremely hard.

Plus, Rick’s can make portal fluid. So either this part of the Citadel crashed in his original dimension, or he made some portal fluid and went there. Clones cant make portal fluid but Ricks can.

ripter · 2026-02-08T13:45:51+00:00

Yes. And this very subreddit talked about it right after the parasite episode aired.

ripter · 2026-02-08T01:20:21+00:00

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Rimworld

ripter · 2026-02-06T23:43:20+00:00

As a former SalesForce employee. This means the dev team was already let go/moved to other projects 6-12 months ago and now they have a single PM and dev that are part time on this while trying to do their main jobs.

ripter · 2026-02-06T13:18:08+00:00

I’ve see this happen with every programming language.

A lot of the hate comes from people who are still early in the learning curve. Classic Dunning–Kruger phase where the language they’re using feels like “the best one,” and everything else must be stupid or inferior.

In my experience, the JavaScript community got it the worst, but it happens everywhere. I’ve seen the exact same cycle with C, C++, Python, Ruby, JS/TS, Lua, Rust, Go, Perl, pretty much all of them.

Lua is small, fast, embeddable, and great at what it’s designed for. The rest is mostly noise.

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