Same reason there are so many internet tough guys I'd imagine ;p
There are some progression fantasy ones with MC who are decent human beings - 'Is Insanity a Racial Trait' was a pretty good recent one that has the added bonus of being finished.
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Same reason there are so many internet tough guys I'd imagine ;p
There are some progression fantasy ones with MC who are decent human beings - 'Is Insanity a Racial Trait' was a pretty good recent one that has the added bonus of being finished.
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Finished the first book of 1% Lifesteal.
I liked it, but I'll admit it was a little boring until the end. Since most of you probably read it on RR, the first book ends with him
so clearly the beginning of the next book will have some shit to go over.
Freddy is fine, I don't hate him or think he's extra retarded or anything, and I'm actually fine with why he was such a loser previously. At least he isn't all, "People are icky!" for everything, he's just poor and never had anyone to rely on, so he kept to himself. Much better than many mc's I've read lately.
Not that I need a ton of action or anything, and the lack of stat screens was refreshing, but yeah, a little boring if I'm being honest. I will definitely continue though, because I can see it picking up once he can actually do shit besides train and continually get shit on by other people. Not exactly the way I would have wanted a first book to go if I were an author, but I'm not so I guess I can stfu
I liked it, but I'll admit it was a little boring until the end. Since most of you probably read it on RR, the first book ends with him
ascending to 2 stars
Freddy is fine, I don't hate him or think he's extra retarded or anything, and I'm actually fine with why he was such a loser previously. At least he isn't all, "People are icky!" for everything, he's just poor and never had anyone to rely on, so he kept to himself. Much better than many mc's I've read lately.
Not that I need a ton of action or anything, and the lack of stat screens was refreshing, but yeah, a little boring if I'm being honest. I will definitely continue though, because I can see it picking up once he can actually do shit besides train and continually get shit on by other people. Not exactly the way I would have wanted a first book to go if I were an author, but I'm not so I guess I can stfu
For those that do patreon don't use the apple app to manage your payments. Apparently using the apple patreon app for payments= you get charged 30% more than if you use patreon's website-that fee is charged by apple, patreon doesnot see that money, nor does the person you are supporting, apple gets that money . nO idea if true but it is making the rounds around the patreon subs I have.
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Ukerric
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It is. Apple requires every payment for apps on iphones/ipads to go through them, and they charge 30% for "safety" (just like the man that comes every month to your store to collect "insurance").
Since Patreon guarantees the amount paid to the creator, they have to charge that extra on iOS devices.
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It really amps up later. Don't worry.Finished the first book of 1% Lifesteal.
I liked it, but I'll admit it was a little boring until the end. Since most of you probably read it on RR, the first book ends with himso clearly the beginning of the next book will have some shit to go over.ascending to 2 stars
Freddy is fine, I don't hate him or think he's extra retarded or anything, and I'm actually fine with why he was such a loser previously. At least he isn't all, "People are icky!" for everything, he's just poor and never had anyone to rely on, so he kept to himself. Much better than many mc's I've read lately.
Not that I need a ton of action or anything, and the lack of stat screens was refreshing, but yeah, a little boring if I'm being honest. I will definitely continue though, because I can see it picking up once he can actually do shit besides train and continually get shit on by other people. Not exactly the way I would have wanted a first book to go if I were an author, but I'm not so I guess I can stfu
The initial draw for me was Freddy just being fucked over repeatedly. Guy can't catch a break, well outside of the initial break.
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It's actually surprising how well that fits - 'nice profitable app you got there, be a shame if it got banned from the app store'.
It'd be half-joking if they hadn't literally done that to Epic for exactly that reason.
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They clearly have agreements with larger companies, or it’s based on the type of app. No way in fuck Amazon pays anywhere near that for their app, but maybe apps classified as shopping don’t pay that. But that is the reason why you can’t actually buy any books or audiobooks from kindle or audible app.
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Been a while since I recommended anything - too much to follow, and lot of things kind of fizzle out, so I like to give it at least a completed book's worth before suggesting.
With those criteria met, I offer up :
Years of Apocalypse
This a time loop story with considerably more going on than is first evident.
I was a little lukewarm toward at it first - the start is kind of Nancy Drew naive college girl investigates mysterious spies at magic school. As it goes along though, it changes quite a bit - it is as much about how the events in the loops change the main character as how she changes things. The points where explaining things to people you care about for the 100th time is just too painful to even try, and what various crimes mean when everything is being reset anyway.
It's also got the typical power progression fantasy factors, and a lot of out-of-the-box approaches to various problems.
I like it a lot.
Comparisons to Mother of Learning are inevitable, and while this is similar, it is not as good - if you haven't read MoL I'd recommend that instead, but is not like this one is a ripoff or anything, just a similar premise.
With those criteria met, I offer up :
Years of Apocalypse
This a time loop story with considerably more going on than is first evident.
I was a little lukewarm toward at it first - the start is kind of Nancy Drew naive college girl investigates mysterious spies at magic school. As it goes along though, it changes quite a bit - it is as much about how the events in the loops change the main character as how she changes things. The points where explaining things to people you care about for the 100th time is just too painful to even try, and what various crimes mean when everything is being reset anyway.
It's also got the typical power progression fantasy factors, and a lot of out-of-the-box approaches to various problems.
I like it a lot.
Comparisons to Mother of Learning are inevitable, and while this is similar, it is not as good - if you haven't read MoL I'd recommend that instead, but is not like this one is a ripoff or anything, just a similar premise.
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Trying to keep an open mind, but by chapter five we already have Muh Racism and lesbians.
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My job requires about 2% of my brainpower so I'm giving it a shot as well. I am a little apprehensive at the undertones I'm smelling, but I'm giving it a chance.
My biggest issue right now is the endless monotony of "I went to this class, took a test that was super hard and stressful, went to the next class and listened to a lecture that was mega boring" ad nauseum. I'm sure we're being set up for the loop, and maybe this shit will become relevant later, but it is booooooring. Hopefully very very soon it skips to, "And classes continued as normal for the next few days/weeks, until blammo! this happened." velk is usually pretty damn good with his recommendations so I'm powering through for a while expecting it to grab me soon.
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It's true. Apple takes 30% of every payment performed with the Apple platform. Regardless of what the purchase is if Apple is handling it, they're talking 30%.
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Yeah, the first loop is definitely the weakest - was why I was lukewarm toward it at first. It picks up significantly after the first time she gets killed.
As for Ritley - it has racism and lesbians in it, but it's not a story about racism or lesbians, nor is it preachy or moralistic. If the amount of that upsets you, there are plenty of other things to read, I am not trying to trick you into anything.
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Oh not saying you are. I’m a good bit in now and the only thing that really still bothers me is that the MC is forming a bisexual harem, which is not my jam for sure. Will have to see how it goes, but otherwise it’s basically reading like a worse overall version of mother of learning
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I only read when doing nothing else at work, so I'm on Chapter 61. It seems that only those first couple of times was there ever any mention of skin color, otherwise it is practically nonexistent. Seems kind of a shame that she (I'm assuming the author is female) probably felt the need to shoehorn it in early, which might drive some people away, when it literally has no impact later on (so far at least). If she just removed those 2 or 3 instances, no one would know or care what skin color anyone in the story has.
The lesbian/bi thing is whatever. It doesn't bother me, but I can recognize that it might (or might not) be pandering to a demographic for more views. Still, at this point anyway none of it has gone beyond kissing, so fuck it, I don't give a shit. Kiss away lesbians! At least it isn't two dudes kissing.
This series is strange for me though. At the beginning I complained that the descriptions were mundane and boring. Possibly on purpose, to exhibit just how humdrum Mirian's day-to-day life was prior to the timeloop, although I'm not sure I want to give the author that much credit. I felt that too much time was spent on boring shit, but at the same time I feel there wasn't any depth to any of it either. I use this example all the time because it is perfection in my eyes, but old Stephen King in The Stand made me care about a little girl on a plane for a chapter, when she is nothing more than a convenient example of how the superflu spread through airports and worldwide. There was detail and importance and meaning, even if none of it actually mattered. In this story, I feel like it is all pretty sterile and lacking in depth, even though most of it matters.
Now I'm to the part where many of the loops are glossed over and just the small differences are highlighted, and truthfully I want it that way because I don't want to slog through the same shit every time. But I also feel like when we get an extended new part, the facts are all there but other than trying to solve a mystery I'm not really that invested. Does that make sense? Like, I'd happily read 20 pages of that little girl's life and thoughts, but I skim over 2 pages of Miriam's feelings because I don't really care, even though a lot of it is important.
I think, although I'm not entirely sure, that it is because a lot of it is telling and not showing. The vast majority of stuff that happens is Mirian telling us about it, not characters showing us it happened. The parts where shit happens is by far the most engaging, but sometimes that doesn't happen for several chapters. I dunno, I like it quite a bit despite this, but I sort of feel like the Royal Road "gotta get another chapter out" is doing it a big disservice too. I see at the beginning she was doing a chapter a day. That doesn't leave a lot of time for delving deep into stuff, because people want immediate results. I've found that's kind of why I'm becoming less and less of a fan of these types of installment stories. No one is going to read your shit if you take several months building up to something good, they want it good right now. Sort of like the tiktok of writing, which isn't a good trend I feel.
Don't get me wrong, I'm liking it enough to continue, but at least to the point I'm at, I feel like it lacks soul.
The lesbian/bi thing is whatever. It doesn't bother me, but I can recognize that it might (or might not) be pandering to a demographic for more views. Still, at this point anyway none of it has gone beyond kissing, so fuck it, I don't give a shit. Kiss away lesbians! At least it isn't two dudes kissing.
This series is strange for me though. At the beginning I complained that the descriptions were mundane and boring. Possibly on purpose, to exhibit just how humdrum Mirian's day-to-day life was prior to the timeloop, although I'm not sure I want to give the author that much credit. I felt that too much time was spent on boring shit, but at the same time I feel there wasn't any depth to any of it either. I use this example all the time because it is perfection in my eyes, but old Stephen King in The Stand made me care about a little girl on a plane for a chapter, when she is nothing more than a convenient example of how the superflu spread through airports and worldwide. There was detail and importance and meaning, even if none of it actually mattered. In this story, I feel like it is all pretty sterile and lacking in depth, even though most of it matters.
Now I'm to the part where many of the loops are glossed over and just the small differences are highlighted, and truthfully I want it that way because I don't want to slog through the same shit every time. But I also feel like when we get an extended new part, the facts are all there but other than trying to solve a mystery I'm not really that invested. Does that make sense? Like, I'd happily read 20 pages of that little girl's life and thoughts, but I skim over 2 pages of Miriam's feelings because I don't really care, even though a lot of it is important.
I think, although I'm not entirely sure, that it is because a lot of it is telling and not showing. The vast majority of stuff that happens is Mirian telling us about it, not characters showing us it happened. The parts where shit happens is by far the most engaging, but sometimes that doesn't happen for several chapters. I dunno, I like it quite a bit despite this, but I sort of feel like the Royal Road "gotta get another chapter out" is doing it a big disservice too. I see at the beginning she was doing a chapter a day. That doesn't leave a lot of time for delving deep into stuff, because people want immediate results. I've found that's kind of why I'm becoming less and less of a fan of these types of installment stories. No one is going to read your shit if you take several months building up to something good, they want it good right now. Sort of like the tiktok of writing, which isn't a good trend I feel.
Don't get me wrong, I'm liking it enough to continue, but at least to the point I'm at, I feel like it lacks soul.
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I like the world building. The Time Loop has happened before. To such an extent that when someone is "blessed" with it they have a whole faith and legal system around dealing with it. Simply that the blessed Prophet is above all law and all must serve them on their holy mission. Which is sensible given the situations in which this blessing appears.
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I caught up on that and the author seems to be a woman. She borderline Mary Sue's the MC. The MC is all about honor and decency and whatever and despite finding other Prophets (with only one being insane) she immediately starts to abuse them and lie about it. Not to the story but lie to herself to justify it.
One of the other Prophets is keen on her doing this so maybe the author is aware of it. But it quickly sours the story nonetheless. Made me not want to read any more of it. I'll check back in 6 months maybe. Why aren't these people working together? Immediately refuses to share explicit knowledge that is beneficial to others because she wants it for herself. Immediately tries to extort another for the location of an item he doesn't know the value of.
I hate that shit.
One of the other Prophets is keen on her doing this so maybe the author is aware of it. But it quickly sours the story nonetheless. Made me not want to read any more of it. I'll check back in 6 months maybe. Why aren't these people working together? Immediately refuses to share explicit knowledge that is beneficial to others because she wants it for herself. Immediately tries to extort another for the location of an item he doesn't know the value of.
I hate that shit.