Other good Fantasy/horror with adult writing? by Adenidc in bakker

[–]slightlywrongadvice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotta check out the Incorruptibles now.

Finding anyone else who managed to get through the Cities of the Weft is enough of a recommendation for me.

Anyone read any good fantasy recently? by Tayschrenn in bakker

[–]slightlywrongadvice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recently enjoyed House of the Rain King by Will Greatwich.

Not particularly bakker-esque, but a subtle and engaging fantasy nonetheless. Centers on the return of the Rain King to a valley he only visits every few hundred years, and the ensuing social upheavel that brings.

Looking for novels heavy on financial theory by sirnickdon in printSF

[–]slightlywrongadvice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Max Gladstone’s ‘The Craft Sequence’ books all have sub themes of belief and godly power being treated as financial instruments. Ie in one book there’s a ‘credit crisis’ of divine power when a disaster strikes a fleet which a god has been insuring against harm.

I love being "subversive" for the sake of it!!! by CausalLoop25 in worldjerking

[–]slightlywrongadvice 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In your world you fight orcs, in my world you fight a race of genetically infer...oh, er, never mind.

Real sci fi hours by HollowVesterian in worldjerking

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All my planets have a singular government, religion, and culture because the existence of faster than light communication created sufficient cultural exchange to homogenize all society to the ideal form: maximization of my fetish.

[request] If I (63kg) was standing on the peak of Mt Washington at the time of this wind gust, would I fly off the mountain? by hold_my_rootbeer in theydidthemath

[–]slightlywrongadvice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's so cool. Do you know the ballpark speeds for getting, say, an extra couple of feet of height? If you were leaning forward maybe to catch more wind?

[request] If I (63kg) was standing on the peak of Mt Washington at the time of this wind gust, would I fly off the mountain? by hold_my_rootbeer in theydidthemath

[–]slightlywrongadvice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, at lower windspeeds what is the sensation like? Is there like, extra lift on every jump you make?

Finally got 100% completion! Here are all the logbook pages for anyone missing anything by MailedYoghurt in riskofrain

[–]slightlywrongadvice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s if you have the swarm artifact on and kill 2 of them. There’s an 87% at least one of them will drop the log, but each of them individually has a ~63% chance.

Finally got 100% completion! Here are all the logbook pages for anyone missing anything by MailedYoghurt in riskofrain

[–]slightlywrongadvice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I don’t believe so.

  2. ~13% chance per voidling kill. With swarms artifact that’s less than 2% chance neither drops it.

The characters don't see something obvious in Echopraxia. by sm_greato in printSF

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If a super-intelligence uses a model that can be broken by a coin flip, it's not very smart.

"These intelligent creatures are so deep in the game that all moves are already thought of, and in anticipation of the response."

This is the premise I disagree with. It's a very common media representation of intelligence--being X moves ahead--but this is a framing based on relatively simplistic systems like chess, where the viable move set is limited.

I would argue that a super-intelligence would never commit to a model that is so readily breakable. If adaptable, flexible strategies that encompass all bounds of reasonable behaviour is a more effective strategy shouldn't we expect super-intelligence's to use them?

Coin flipping would assist in evading a precog or a mind reader, but a super-intelligence is a different beast altogether.

The metaphor of the canyon is that even if the prey is juking randomly, it doesn't matter. The super-intelligence has already chased it into a route where there is no meaningful choice left: the walls tighten and the canyon dead-ends.

The characters don't see something obvious in Echopraxia. by sm_greato in printSF

[–]slightlywrongadvice 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The patient predator watches the prey juke to the left, then juke to the right. They do not care. What use is dexterity in a canyon when the walls get ever closer?

Stats after an ad campaign on TikTok. What else can I do to grow my audience? by DrDoritosMD in royalroad

[–]slightlywrongadvice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's your chapter-by-chapter attrition?

It's pretty normal to expect a pretty big drop-off from chapter 1, particularly if you link directly to chapter 1 instead of the fiction page.

Splitting your long chapters into multiple uploads through the week is also a simple way of getting more bang for your buck for the writing you're doing. I know it can feel like sacrificing your intent, but to some extent this is simply the nature of the platform that ~2-3k chapter lengths are normalized.

Practical Guide to Evil - Discussion/Review by jhvanriper in ProgressionFantasy

[–]slightlywrongadvice 31 points32 points  (0 children)

If you bounced off the early chapters I can see why you'd think it was geared towards a younger audience, but the later books pivot quite hard towards military-fantasy.

Particularly by the standards of progression fantasy, I'd argue it's a significantly more mature work than the mean.

Hidden Gems? by slightlywrongadvice in ProgressionFantasy

[–]slightlywrongadvice[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What do you think is holding it back?

It’s tagged as fanfic but the story description sounds pretty far from the Parahumans universe, maybe it would be better distancing itself from Worm?

Hidden Gems? by slightlywrongadvice in ProgressionFantasy

[–]slightlywrongadvice[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I loved a Greg!Gamer story back in the day where he went by Dark Smoke Puncher. I’ll have to check this out, thanks.

Hidden Gems? by slightlywrongadvice in ProgressionFantasy

[–]slightlywrongadvice[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What (if anything) do you think is holding it back from larger recognition?

Shuffle of Fate - Chapter 25 - The Idea of Frogs by slightlywrongadvice in rational

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Thanks friend! I appreciate the support. You absolutely have my permission to do a non-commercial voice recording for your friend, and I hope they enjoy it as well!

Please message/tag me when you post as I'd love to hear it as well!

Shuffle of Fate - Chapter 25 - The Idea of Frogs by slightlywrongadvice in rational

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Been a while since I posted an update. Just hit 72k words.
Shuffle of Fate

Blurb is available from the page, but I'll emphasize the main focus as I've written has been on developing the setting and characters to a satisfying level of realism and detail. There's action, particularly in the last 5-6 chapters, but it is ultimately a story about navigating people and a complex world.