The Kamil POV did a good job for me of giving the character more depth, and showed he really does like Dier as a person.

@LightningLeaf It sounds like it doesn' it.

Nvm. I thought I was commenting in the Arc 2 section. Weird that pressing the forum link from Arc 2 part 4 lead me here.

I'm a little late to the party and I have mixed feelings.

Very mixed feelings.

Sleeping with a nonverbal severely ptsd vulnerable nonfunctional person under your care isn't helping them. Did she consent at the time? Like, fully 'please do the dirty with me I'm horny' consent? She was nonverbal but could she have communicated in any other way? Or did she feel she had to go along with it because she's in his care and Lydia's mythril buddies said this will help? BECAUSE THAT'S RAPE. The idea that raping someone will help fantasy ptsd (not cause it as is the case in reality) is just so unbelievably fucked up. Yes you can write it off as boinking helps chase away that evil god, but the line between 'events caused by gods' and 'natural events/conditions attributed to gods' isn't clear enough to get away with that imo.

And when she turns out to want to be intimate after all, he breaks up with her. Because the sleeping with her was just 'therapy.'

I really like the mythology and setting. I'm okay with the adventurer's guild acting like a pseudo-mafia when someone tries to fuck with it. I like how dark this series is. And it's the first one I've read that describes how a shield-user fights instead of having them in the background shield bashing (Bofuri doesn't count).

Dubious on the (misuse) of alcohol as a coping mechanism too.

Teetering on the should I drop list but uuuuurgh.

Feeling very lukewarm towards this series in general, but the latest part was very boring. US School culture completely lacking the 'seven mysteries' meme doesn't help (meme in this case being an idea/behavior that spreads through imitation through a culture).

It was a great volume. We saw Sharanla dead (well, at least for a while) and got a great amount of romance development.

What a little jerk this kid is. This being the final volume seems about right for the pacing.

@Kurzaa said in Pens Down, Swords Up Vol. 7 Discussion:

@Leon_97 being "reincarnated", doesn't he also prefer older women and might just be ignoring the teenage girls as either innocent crushes or stupid antics of youth?

He still wants the "heart pounding teen romance" that he missed in his past life because he was studying nonstop, even if he doesn't really want a serious long-term relationship yet.

Fey and Jewel are nobles, and he doesn't want to be tied down by marrying into a noble house, and least not yet.

@karasutengu Or dead. Just as good. I want to see his reaction when an undisguised Sora walks into the throne room. Don't care how many court mages he has in the wings, they won't be enough. Then again, with Geed's appearance, the line comes to mind: Your Majesty, you've soiled your robes.

Bizarre week.

I very rarely drop series, yet this is the second multi-volume series I've dropped this week because of an author's weird plot choices coming across more as personal fantasies and/or desires. Or maybe this was an attempt at fan service by innuendo.

The "doll" in Part 2 seemed unnecessary and tasteless. Maybe the author did something amazing to make the doll the lynchpin to the story, but for me it was the end of a sluggish adventure.

At least I'm finally at a point I do not feel I have to finish reading everything I start--now I just need to trust my instincts and throw in the towel earlier.

@Lex said in Now I'm a Demon Lord! Vol. 17 Discussion!:

I'm still not sure if it's the end or not.

As I saw one person put it recently (in regards to The Faraway Paladin) it's not over until everyone's dead. Life goes on, and there's always another story that could be told.

@arghc I'm expecting the descriptions of the spells to match up with some of her other tales, and them just assuming.

@Hylebos said in Update on Volume 7: The Magician who Rose from Failure:

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

On top of that, even if he is working on The Magician Who Rose From Failure, the fact that he's working on other series means that he's spending less time on The Magician Who Rose From Failure. So, even if/when the issues delaying that series are resolved, it'll likely be coming out more slowly than it would have otherwise. Of course, the fact that he's working on other stuff shows that he's still around, but it really doesn't say anything about us getting more of The Magician Who Rose From Failure.

Either way, it sure would be nice if he started releasing more of this series - and ideally actually focused on it (IMHO, it's his best series). I can appreciate him wanting to support the illustrator and not drop them, but personally, I'd rather just get more of the story, and I really don't care about the illustrations.

"Has Mussel learned self-restraint?" is a very good question, core to his being allowed to return to Lefreya's service.
And Duke Genos is testing this, it would seem.

That was a cute, if corny, ending.

That reveal about Earth-chan and our MC's staggering number if deaths was cool. No wonder she's such an odd ball. She's died more than Subaru from Re-Zero!

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Just kidding...

@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.

Seems like Arata will end up with a full army of wives before he finds the resolve to confess to Reina.

The two scariest characters combined to squash the third scariest. I almost feel bad for Nosfy.