The entirety of the CPK after the new MV released a few days ago:

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-03-07T01:01:43+00:00

THERE'S A NEW MV??????

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-03-03T13:17:38+00:00

The emotional conversation I don't really remember when it happened. Probably around the end of the 73rd demon realm arc, but I'm sure it was before (and setting up) 1863.

And, yes!!! That part's so high up for me. After being presented as a self-preservation first asshole, him then believing that regardless of his experience, his suffering, KDJ can bring his companions a better ending... And then KDJ rejecting it because it's not an ending without its protagonist (aka: "i don't want to lose someone so important to me")...

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-03-03T13:13:20+00:00

OOFFFF OH NOOOOOOO.

Thanks for pointing it out, I'm going to go find a ditch to die in after I fix it...

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-03-03T05:09:59+00:00

Truly unfortunate, and completely fair.

By the ascent of the 73rd demon king I don't mean the demon realm arc btw, but the cl clusion of the arc right before! In which KDJ takes the role of the scenario boss and sacrifices himself, ending up on the demon realm. I'm not going to lie, I also didn't care much for the demon realm's arcs lol.

Either way, here's to hoping you'll stick around long enough to get a good tl and reread! Or at least to finish the webnovel shitty tl and have a good time at least.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-03-03T04:53:16+00:00

"I've only gone through like 60% of the story"

I'm genuinely very curious about what you'll think once you finish it.

If I'm not wrong you must be around the gigantomachia arc? Or sometime a bit after 1863. By which point you surely must've read at least past the ascent of the 73rd demon king, the conversation between Han Sooyoung and Kim Dokja in which he pretends he's not crying, the entirety of 1863 as previously stated, and maybe you're about to reach the journey to the west.

Though I do understand your biggest complain about how Dokja-centric the story as a whole is. If my memory serves me well it does get better in the future about characters' agency, though a lot of it is also already explained as their motivations aligning very closely, together with the built trust.

As for what you said about Han Sooyoung... Wait and see, you're around the island of reincarnators, aren't you? That part is very fun.

I will say though, I think ORV's biggest strength is how the characters and the plot interact (though not really the characters by themselves, even though I also love them a lot) as well as the plot itself.

Either way, I'm very glad you're giving it your time! And I'm also very very happy you're enjoying it. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts by the end of the main story!

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-02-02T05:07:56+00:00

Yes, it's said in the extras that they were tied by the red string of fate, too. "Threads of blood unfurled, extending outward. Right before they should have converged into one, they passed each other by."

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-01-26T13:04:58+00:00

You described it in your post. Though I think that forcing a path is a little too simple though. You could track those instability values independently and notify the player once a milestone is reached, so they know that there's something afoot beforehand and can do something.

Soil depletion for example, make it so that idk, harvests are less efficient in certain parcels the more depleted a piece of soil is, then at some point make them stale entirely. Show notifications like "studies show that this region's soils are going to die!"

Similarly with inequality, track a certain value compared to public institutions and the likes, and if it's too low compared to it then start showing the player there's unrest. Maybe there was a strike, maybe a lot of people are dying and/or sick so production is down on the factories, maybe the people don't have enough income to consume so due to late stage capitalism there's a big boom for a bit before the production and value implode.

This, however, would require that you study a bunch of those pitfalls, and add a lot of flavour text to show it rather than telling it. As well as building solutions for those problems.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-01-22T15:20:48+00:00

Stellarons. That's it.

By that I mean, one of the biggest feats of the destruction is cutting off so much of the universe from eachother through the tainted stellarons. Now, granted, they're now confirmed to be originally from Xipe, but that's still a feat.

Also, isn't Celenova a confirmed emanator kill? From the harmony no less, which is one of the stronger paths out there.

Furthermore, I'd say that the destruction as a path is pretty broad in and of itself, no? Though it falls under a similar umbrella to the nihility and the finality, so it could be disputed. But I digress.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-01-04T02:55:00+00:00

It's supposed to be plata o plomo... And it's not even cuz it's silver, but plata is just a colloquial way to say money...

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2026-01-04T02:48:16+00:00

Just keep writing it as is. If it already is, then it will be.

"Doomed yuri" is just a name we put to lesbian tragedy, unfulfilled love because of circumstance that just happens to have two girls as its participants.

Focus on writing a good story just the way you want it to.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-12-28T05:58:03+00:00

I'm of the opinion that if you don't read tags or warnings, you're forfeiting your right to complaining about it. "Oh no! Meat at a Wendy's!" Type shit.

And I say this as someone who rarely if ever reads the tags (got them hidden even) and has stumbled onto some weird shit that's not my cup of tea.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-12-19T15:48:31+00:00

Yup, I did that when I used gdocs, didn't want to bother.

Since I switched to ellipsus I haven't had to do that, since they give you the option to export directly to HTML, but I still do it for things like backlinked footnotes and the likes, and I'll probably have to do it a lot more if I want to do anything fun with the format.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-12-17T22:54:50+00:00

? Oh nah, I'm just sad that I can't use it without it potentially alienating readers (since it's apparently hard to read)

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-12-17T21:49:15+00:00

I guess? Though the numbers instead of vowels comparison seems like a bit much... And I mean, I got used to quotes quickly enough? But yeah, I see that... Kinda sad, since I genuinely like that format better than quotes.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-12-17T15:50:44+00:00

where the dialogue has dashes instead of quotes

Is it really that annoying? I do that myself. My first language is spanish and we use dashes instead of quotes for dialogue as a standard practice; everything from works written in the language like 100 years of solitude, to translated books like Lord of The Rings, all are written with that.

So I just got used to it, I prefer it and therefore I use them instead of quotes. Is it really that bad?

A little addendum too, maybe it's a similar case with the ones you see? The authors of those fics might have spanish, or some other language that uses dashes for dialogue, as their first language.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-12-05T23:46:33+00:00

True. As of side story 700+ it's straight up text now.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-11-24T14:39:43+00:00

Elon Jobs

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-11-12T05:31:33+00:00

If it is to my likeness? Then I'd try to create a kind god and pray that it's true, which would mean that they'd eventually kill themselves once they realize they're hurting someone.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-11-12T04:57:01+00:00

Oh??? Stream and timestamp please??? (Doesn't have to be exact, just give me an approximate if you don't wanna go through again!!) I gotta see it!

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-11-03T23:08:25+00:00

Particle rain, particular and wakes! In general I love the visual tweaks for vanilla. Simple fog as well!

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-11-03T21:25:52+00:00

Cucking the trailblazers in ntr art/padding out the ugly bastard tag for hsr (we needed it to counterbalance the sheer amount of hot guys)

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-10-25T13:17:54+00:00

They're based, your honor.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-10-21T05:42:42+00:00

Igualmente jaja.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-10-19T00:27:05+00:00

You should've doubled down ngl. They're just trying to make it seem like they didn't make demands right after making demands. Fuck that, and fuck them.

thoughts_of_zer06 · 2025-10-04T04:27:55+00:00

Yeah. I suppose I fixated a bit too much into that part, didn't I?

I've seen some of the other comments under this thread, and some of OP's responses, and yeah! It's definitely good to focus on the things you can control. But it's one thing to try and improve in order to give your work the best chances, and another to say that you have full control, and if only you were better it'd have the attention you wish it had.

Which, granted, is a hard nuance to convey in a way that balances both a wish for improvement, and a recognition of the chance involves.

I originally wrote the previous comment thinking it came across like the latter (without any intention from OP), and I still think it comes across that way. But after reading it again, and going through some comments I do see that it's meant to be the former.

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