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The Asian steppe has always been the source of raiders for times immemorial. West, South... North, they went, raiding.

Can't find the clip of the toddler asleep trying to scroll down a (non-existent) screen in his dreams. That's simultaneously funny as hell, and horrifying as hell...

Since the Chinese are going to ban all of the addictive stuff (dailies, etc), I expect great things to come out of that market in the future.

Just got a notification, apparently, there is an extra EPUB for the Kickstarter. Haven't looked at what it is yet.

True. There were a few weirdos at the time, almost all published by Del Rey (I'm looking at you, Jack Chalker)...

Wrong. They're going to AI morph themselves into Alinity. *EDIT* Drat, sniped.

The very idea of Minecraft porn still boggles one's mind. Let alone 3rd most searched...

There are a few proto-LitRPG around that came out in the 20th century. People often call Larry Niven's Dream Park (1981) as the first LitRPG, as it revolves entirely around people playing a LARP in the eponymous park, in a future where augmented reality LARP is a big thing. You often see Joel...

It's quite different. LitRPG is a subset of Progression Fantasy, where the focus is about the pursuit and growth of personal power (or proxy personal power) within a setting. LitRPG achieves this progression through RPG rulesets, whether they work in a game ("old style LitRPG" or "VRMMO"...

"fired in February 1974, accused of being drunk on stage" And that's a firing offense for a rock band?

I am deeply convinced that Twitch did that to make sure the scandal of The Day Before is quickly forgotten!

It's a reminder that, in the age of digital feudal corporations lords, you will own nothing and rent everything.

Ahh, the era of Carta Mundi...

One of the most recent series that's probably very young-friendly is the System School series, but it's probably a bit above 12 (it's high school, not 12s). Dan Sugralinov advertised a series made for his 12-year-old kid called The Crafter. Then, you have the bizarre and fun shit, like All The...

Launched, in orbit, with only a RUD for the first stage.

Although modern historians seem to have debunked the myth of slave armies building the pyramids. It was mostly peasants (like almost all of them) mobilized while the Nile was overflowing, their fields were being fertilized, and they had little else to do. Mind you, that's almost the same thing...

"Assume that you want to accelerate to your maximum speed in one minute"

Lost technologies happen all the time. Consider the best known, concrete. Roman concrete was a marvel. They used it primarily for extensive structure, which survived due to that use of concrete... and the art of making concrete was lost for over 15 centuries until it was reinvented in the 19th...

FTFY

No, I just write for the enjoyment of writing. If a publisher comes calling, I'll jump to Amazon, but it's a shitshow for independent writers, and I'd rather have professionals handle all of that. I'm not doing Patreon, because the way I write is, shall we say, not conductive to serial...

Since I outed myself as a writer in the Writing thread, if you're interested in some slightly exotic, amateur written LitRPG, you've got some mentioned here: The Writing Thread - Post Shit You've Written (And Criticize What's Posted)

At the risk of self-doxxing myself a bit (as I don't use a pseudonym when writing), I've been writing on RR for a while now, all in the LitRPG genre. The Infinite Labyrinth | Royal Road is the fiction that I have complete (four books, 1752 pages estimated by RR. Book 1 is draft 2, all the...

If you're reading book 4, you do have an answer to that. I think it comes mid-book.

I see what you did there.gif (For those who don't remember, Microsoft bought Nokia in 2013, before selling it back in 2016)

I saw bottles of plain water labeled as "fat free". Not sugar free (to prove that's water, not soda), but FAT free.

What's worse is that all of the content is locked behind those story sequences. Until you've done X, you are not allowed to step foot into zone B. Until you've done Y, you can't go into dungeon C. The base game was wide open and allowed you to do whatever, although the incentive for MSQ were...

LitRPG is the perfect popcorn litterature. It even has a... crunchy LitRPG concept!

I'm not paying attention. But this weekend, this was in my (e)mailbox: I can hope the actual book (rather than the ebook) will be there soon.

I also got D3 only because it was made free by getting a one-year of WoW, which I was definitively regularly playing at the time, so it was a free game. Finished the original campaign, shelved it, and never reinstalled in my Bnet install.

With just Elon streaming, they probably got more viewers on X than the entire D4 on Twitch...

And the rights would be trivial, since it's Hasbro.

3 hours later, the numbered edition is already at 4775/7000 maximum... Nice part (with of course a fee): you can get matching numbers!!!

In case you've missed the announce: book 4-5-6 of Cradle will open up on Kickstarter "today" at 12pm Eastern (according the Lesser Wight brother): In theory, you should be able to purchase the kickstarter-only versions of 1-3 if you missed them the last time, but these shouldn't be...

Is it me, or are all these people thinking themselves immortal and going into areas over their levels? One mistake, and you will die, dude. And you will make that one mistake at some point.

Yes. "We know we fucked up. Lessons learned." "So who got fired? Riti? Others?" "Uh.... no one?" "Okay, lessons not learned, brace yourself for a new retroactive change in 4 years." (2019 "We think you should rely on the EULA you agreed to if you do not upgrade" - 2023 "Pray I do not alter the...

Also, funny song:

I'm expecting of course both designated badass women (Lae'zel and Karlach) being played by black actresses, because it has to be done. Gale may stay white as a flaming homo, as is obviously Astarion. Wyll is of course perfect, so no change. Shadowheart will remain as the token white woman. And...

That. So many people think "it doesn't look hard" and start, and then realize that they have no idea what to write past chapter 3. There's also the perennial questions on the RR forums about setting up a patreon, then the person confesses to have just written a blurb (bland and generic, typically).

The important part: That's basically what happened, and like him, in 10 years, he almost sank the company. I also like that, instead of focusing on the business, his primary goal was to inflate the perceived value of it for the IPO. All these big CEOs are like that: the business does not...

That's essentially Unreal Engine's terms, except 4% instead of 5%.