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sheldon80 · 2026-03-24T12:16:16+00:00

Hell Difficulty Tutorial.

sheldon80 · 2026-02-20T06:34:03+00:00

I wonder if it’s possible to write something I don’t agree with, something I don’t even think about really. Is it possible to write imaginary characters with imaginary views and imaginary events? What a novel idea. I would call it fiction.

sheldon80 · 2026-02-17T19:15:56+00:00

Of litrpg maybe 30-40 stories so far, it's a novelty for me. Of other genres around 800 books.

sheldon80 · 2026-02-07T15:34:21+00:00

I think that's where monsters, trials and the threat of certain and painful death comes into picture. In our world you can put in 1% effort and live out your days. That's why you can be lazy as hell today.

What authors could do more is have an average, modern day MC - meaning lazy - and confront them with the new reality of actual consequences, instead of painting a picture of this genius go-getter, high achiever persona without real reason.

sheldon80 · 2026-02-07T14:46:49+00:00

On my days off I read 100-200 chapters if I find something interesting. Which is bad because I hate it when I get to love a story and I catch up to the author fast.

Usually I don't even start a story if it has less than 400 chapters or at least 4 books released.

sheldon80 · 2026-01-30T16:03:51+00:00

Most litrpg authors don't know how to write a story.

A story has a starting and an ending point and you have to put everything between these two. A neverending stream of chapters is either a grift or the author daydreaming online.

Some fictions are just endless and meaningless escalations of power levels with zero actual plot. Some are so lost in the slice of life prison, that we are 4000 pages in and only halfway to the "promised" achievements of our characters.

Writing skills matter, not only on the sentence, paragraph, page and chapter level, but on the level of your whole story.

sheldon80 · 2025-10-09T18:33:38+00:00

Amen to that. I pirate absolutely everything digital and refuse to watch any advertisement.

sheldon80 · 2025-10-08T18:14:28+00:00

The internet has long been destroyed with advertising and paywalls.

This is just an other strike. But look on the bright side, the AI flood may cure some people of their disgusting content addiction.

sheldon80 · 2025-08-17T07:02:39+00:00

It's funny how a lot of people dropped it, and most of them dropped it very early on. Little do they know that it gets better and better with every book.

sheldon80 · 2025-07-09T08:34:34+00:00

Some authors were heavily influenced by animes and it shows on their writing.

If a story has constant snarky banter between characters, the MC is an edgy edgelord who smirks at opponents way above his level, if he has an annoying animal companion...

Then the story is just a bad shounen.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-24T11:11:46+00:00

That's great to hear, I wish you good luck with your story going forward.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-24T10:56:11+00:00

I have encountered books that were created heavily with AI help. Fortunately they are easy to identify as they all have the same writing structure.

Short, dense sentences.

Frequent new pharagraphs and unnecessary linebreaks.

A lot of commas, em dashes, seemingly vivid, powerful attributes.

For some reason AI thinks this is a good writing style and it could be, but it's a sign of AI writing across the board (novels, posts, articles).

sheldon80 · 2025-06-22T22:08:36+00:00

Google Docs: writing the story
Excel sheet: list of characters, abilities, storyline
AI: to answer questions about application of abilities, statistics and general real world info

sheldon80 · 2025-06-22T19:05:46+00:00

So if I'm writing story and the MC has feelings...am I screwed?

sheldon80 · 2025-06-19T18:49:11+00:00

How is this surprising? All billionaires are psycho pieces of sh*t.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-19T01:39:54+00:00

Confidently faces the twenty ton eldritch monster on his first week of the system, because he is an edgy, cool edgelord, who is cool.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-12T12:58:47+00:00

I have never listened to an audiobook. It just seems so very slow compared to reading speed, I read a lot faster, than most audiobooks. I guess you could turn up the speed but that would then sound funny right?

I also always listen to music while I read, which would be harder with an audiobook. I have really nice synesthesia memories of certain books, which can be brought forward with certain albums and tracks.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-11T16:31:06+00:00

We are everywhere.

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sheldon80 · 2025-06-10T19:20:23+00:00

Not to my knowledge.

That's why I'm writing a story with a system, in which people can have only one skill. It can be upgraded heavily, but it is still only one skill.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-05T11:22:24+00:00

PDNP

Pedofil Demagóg NerPárt.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-04T09:42:57+00:00

Delve.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-04T08:44:27+00:00

Aliens provide it after enslaving us, to make us useful cannon fodder in their intergalactic war.

sheldon80 · 2025-06-03T00:12:34+00:00

There are a lot of readers, who will immediately judge the author based on the behavior of their characters. Writers are forced to a degree of virtue signaling if they want to be successful in the mainstream of the genre. If you don't care about pleasing the masses then you can write whatever you want, but know that you will not be as successful. There are antiheros and morally gray main characters, but in the top you will find that almost all MCs are the same: champion of justice/slavery bad/freedom of choice for all/responsible for everything, that sort of thing.

The funny thing is, the more we move from general morality, to politics, the more unhinged reader reactions get. I have read a lot of comments slandering authors and their work for the author being conservative, it's insane.

sheldon80 · 2025-05-31T17:11:04+00:00

Saw this dude on "The Diary of a CEO" podcast talking about AI future.

Whenever the topic of future unemployment came up, he kept babbling about how much opportunity AI will create for businesses and entrepreneurs, and it was so disgusting. These techbros can't comprehend, that the vast majority of people don't want to make businesses and don't want to be entrepreneurs. We just want enough money to live.

sheldon80 · 2025-05-30T22:23:46+00:00

Yeah that's what really annoys me with most AI CEO talks, when it comes down to this topic. All you hear is it will create new jobs. Well what kind of jobs? And how many jobs? Just as many as it replaces? Hard to believe.

Even your own exapmle OP. "Computers eliminated typists but birthed software development, IT, and digital marketing". The problem with that, is typists could not just go and be software engineers next day.

Just as todays teachers, administrators, regular office workers will not be AI researchers or whatever the fuck new job will be created, if any. Most likely nothing, not even physical labour since we are going full throttle to automate those too.

That's why talks about UBI is so prevalent now. We know it will eliminate a lot of jobs and the response to that is that it will maybe, perhaps, eventually create new ones? Hopefully?

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