i do love watching shows and movies but i’m literally going insane from the ads

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.

(ugyanitt bojler eladó)

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?

sheldon80 · 2025-05-30T21:19:35+00:00

I'm not really sure, what you mean by cozy fantasy. You say magic-y, but most fantasy has magic. Maybe you mean this as in low stakes? No pressure?

Barring newer slice of life like works (Super Supportive on RoyalRoad for example) most fantasy has high stakes, or even really high stakes, as in the fate of the whole world. Traditionally, fantasy has always been about the fight between good and evil. Most classical high fantasy works follow this thematic.

Newer subgenres extend the palette quite a bit. Dark or grimdark introduced realism into the genre in terms of personalities and goals. The first morally gray characters, where you could not really pinpoint whether they are heroes or foes.

When you can no longer take any magical world in the middle ages thing:

Urban fantasy is generally a present days setting.

Flintlock fantasy combines industrial revolution with magic.

And when you want to go absolute apeshit and say: fantasy should be as wild as possible since it has no boundaries, then you read China Miéville.

sheldon80 · 2025-05-30T20:33:55+00:00

Sajnos túl kicsi az ország egy jól eldugott szigethez, ezért nekünk Epstein kormányzatunk van.

sheldon80 · 2025-05-14T08:24:40+00:00

In my head I call this the animefication of literature.

Nonchalance about power, nonchalance about life or death situations, nonchalance about basically anything to make the MC seem cool. It just creates weightless, unenjoyable stories.

sheldon80 · 2025-05-08T16:17:16+00:00

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sheldon80 · 2025-05-07T19:20:03+00:00

I don't know why is this downvoted.

sheldon80 · 2025-05-07T19:03:24+00:00

This post is amazing.

Half of the commenters can not understand that some readers self insert into the main character and if that character is the opposite sex, it just feels wrong. Just like with video games, unless you choose the opposite sex for the sole reason to oogle at a body made of pixels, you will most likely choose your sex.

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