@LeavesCat I guess the most disappointing part is that there are characters with a lot of potential in this LN but the author wants Martina to be the only one with some kind of agency or thinking capacity. So it all falls flat and tends to get repetitive.
Even if I don't start reading LN i will check the forums on and off. I will decide later if I want to binge all pre-pubs at once.

@Cryten Yeah, it seemed pretty unlikely that she was faking it based on what we'd already seen, but it definitely seems out of the question now.

I'd say that it's very much an open question how Edith is going to stand any chance of being safe though. You would think that she'd be another case where Liliane's interference would prevent a death from the game's version of events, but it doesn't sound like there's actually anywhere safe for Edith to be - especially with how naive she is.

She's clearly not going to marry Riley (at least not without polygamy entering the picture, and I don't recall anyone acting like that's an option in this world), so she'll need some other way to escape her fate. There's probably a decent chance that Liliane or one of the allies that she saved will be the linchpin in saving Edith from being assassinated on the trip, but it sounds like she needs a more permanent solution.

I guess that Souta's suspicions about Apocalypse Nova being created by a Player would explain why the party is so off course from the game. Once again, one of the Players screwed with things (likely for their own benefit) - probably also without considering how it was going to risk disaster by steering events away from what happens in the game.

At this point, you kind of have to wonder if Souta, Risa, and Arthur have any chance of keeping things close enough to the events of the game to be able to actually use their knowledge to prevent the major bad events from the game from happening. Presumably, they'll manage it somehow, since it's usually the case that the good guys win in the end and prevent the really bad stuff from happening, but it sure sounds like they're going to have to do a lot of winging it to succeed (like they're doing now).

When men went to war, they buried their hearts first.

Alas, some never remember where they buried their hearts and are broken forever.

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@nappingcub yeah, there was a big gap between v9p1 and v9p2. Thankfully v9p3 is already on the schedule for November in Japan, so it seems like part of the hold up was that there was a lot to write and they decided not to cut a lot of it.

Being a special field, Leah apparently wasn't sure the devs were going to let her keep it in the first place, so of course she won't object to allowing it to be subject to normal rules.

Also, while she normally allows players to explore just enough to gain an exp profit, she's not done looting the place, so they're going to have to deal with very hostile security until she's satisfied. I wonder if she'll give some kind of sign that shows "citadel's open for business, come on in!"

@Travis-Butler well sure, if you want to look at it rationally. But you know that is probably going through both girls minds for a half second before they are both just happy no one was hurt.

To my understanding, v7 was delayed indefinitely due to the illustrator's (who is also the mangaka) health problems, so the fact that the author is putting out volumes for other series like After-School Dungeon Diver: Level Grinding in Another World doesn't mean much.

https://gcnovels.jp/blog/316

I'm glad Misha is getting on the road again. I'm curious how her relationship with this secret village will affect the future. It seems that the kingdom that those kids escaped from could be involved since it comes up multiple times. Maybe the kids travel from Misha's home to this village since it's closer to their original home. Although what they can do about that seems far into the future at this stage.

@Outinthegardener
Unknown to Lilia, she has many times fought a mama bear.

@kuali said in Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! Vol. 3 Discussion!:

So to be clear, what I think happened in this part is that she started with a server does everything (even graphical rendering) approach, and shifted to the server sends updates, each Smart Frame renders the results itself model once she lost most of the servers. (I don't think she could have gone fully peer-to-peer, since she still needed to stream the rest of the performance from the remaining server. And each frame having to transmit to each of its peers would have had some 'interesting' effects on network performance. But it's hard to tell with this series.)

If that's what happened, then I agree with you that the first approach was very stupid. Even if the server did the composition there was no need to do the entire rendering and stream a video - just send the composed state to the frames that take care of rendering it.
With 40k people in a small area is already difficult to get a good network, no need to fill up the bandwidth for no reason.
But at the end we're trying to make technical sense of something the author just wrote as a whim because it looked cool.

@kuali said in Fired? But I Maintain All the Software! Vol. 3 Discussion!:

I've no idea how good Erlang would be for something this graphics heavy, but, maybe? That said, regular Android apps (and VR games, as of the last time I used my Quest 2) generally can't update while they're running.

Nope, but a new app can be installed and the controller/server could tell the devices to run app Y instead of app X. It all depends on how you design the platform.
It's actually a good design for smart frames for events, you register them with a controller for an event and the controller tells them what to run, dynamically, without the need of flashing a new firmware every time. Then you reuse for other things.

@Valanduin I thought it ended at 11, super happy I'll get more mecha gremlin chaos.

I'm betting that witnessing that exchange between Mitia and the black suit guy made Felix fall in love with her for real now.

If you are at hibernation levels of oxygen then your brain, muscles, and senses will not be working as well as they should.

@karasutengu either is going to end soon or the author will add a thousand more mysteries in the next volumes as usual.

@Valanduin said in Water Magician Arc 2 Vol. 1 Discussion:

@heimdal7 said in Water Magician Arc 2 Vol. 1 Discussion:

It is hilarious that everyone is more invested in Sera a support character than they are the mc or any other character in the story.

Well I guess we at least know where she is and doing. It does sound that even being the representative of the elves marriage is not problematic as long as she is first wife (and only.). It is feeling like the author is trying to write her out of the story and has little to no plans of her being in this volume.

I don't think the text implied that she has to be the only wife, just that both Sera and Faith hold high enough status that anything less than first wife would be scandalous at best. I didn't think bringing in more than one bride would be beneficial to this story, but the text doesn't say it can't happen.

That went right over your head.