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  A small Potion Loli giveaway (ends on the 11th)
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  Aside from you two, waiting on 3 more responses. Only thing will be if everyone else refuses the membership without dropping out, terrence is getting membership, lol. One last person. Everyone wants the ebook, lol...
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  Isekai
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  @pleco_breeder Conserning what you said at the end of your comment, maybe you should try "So i'm a spider so what", it kind of has what you're looking for and it's great overall. The published versions isn't far enough tho.
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  Top 10 series you can't live without
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  Nichijou Zero Escape Nozaki-kun The Simpsons Kirby That's all. Everything else I could take or leave in this scenario, despite enjoying them. I'm probably forgetting something though...
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  Mystery. Have it ever piqued your curiosity?
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  @bloodygaikotsu Each medium is quite unique and has its own element, understanding how these elements work and make use of them is signs of a really good author/creator. That is why Kino no Tabi's animation works. They realized what didn't work as a non-book medium. The manga realized as well, if memory serves. When you are dealing with mystery series, the medium changes what you need to deal with. Do you make use of the fact that the audience can't see a clear image to hide the mystery? Do you deal with the fact that the audience CAN see to use tricks of 'sight' and 'optical illusions'? Do you deal with the fact that you have a moving picture potentially with sound? To me, that is why ports often don't work well. They try to port things as is and it doesn't work. Ports really only work when you redesign them. The problem becomes how to redesign them. To me, the best ports are where they take the premise and go, you know what? Either we port this perfectly and lose nothing or if we can't do that, we aren't going to make this a copy of the original source, we are going to, right off the bat, declare that this is an alternate version of the story.
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  Is it possible to (accurately) judge a book by its cover?
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  @drone205 Got a lot of these since I shared Owari last time, let's share other covers
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  LGBTQ+ stories
  • Drone205

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  I thought Citrus was good (anime) I haven’t read a LN w/ “LGBTQ” as a major part of the story. That being said, I like how Pia’s Character (so far?) is being handled in Realist Hero.
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  An appreciation for Kids media
  • Drone205

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  I'll just say that taking in Japanese kids' media (especially the legendary stuff like Doraemon but not limited to that) is great for your pop culture literacy. Also ups for Kitaro. The new show is fabulous (well, the older shows may also be fabulous but I haven't had the privilege of seeing them).
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  Original Characters (OCs)
  • Drone205

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  I had a similar issue on balancing over powered abilities with on race I wanted to create. The core concept was that they could manipulate perception, essentially having the ability to change how anyone in their range perceives the world. Not quite mind control, but perhaps a bit worse since the person is still otherwise of sound mind. Plus it's not just one person, but a whole population. I balanced it out using social structures, both from within and without. I wanted to think on how things might evolve, especially since their powers also work on each other. From within, the race is deeply religious, with three religions that dictate how, when, and to what degree they use their abilities. One religion, worshiping truth and called seekers, all agree on a single interpretation of reality. Their abilities might alter perception, but never to a significant degree. The second, worshiping illusion and called weavers, tend to view the world from a personal lens, but they strongly respect others' perceptions as their own, and restrict any ability usage. The third worships both deities and finds a balance between them, but isn't particularly a focus in the narrative. From without, things center around the fact that this entire race came from another world. The other races in the world are all terrified of them. So they walled the entire race in (literally) after a brief war, and established a police unit that babysat them whenever they left, using magic to make them immune to their abilities (but that has other side-effects). They also require them to be visibly marked in public. They're not particularly well tolerated so they rarely leave their designated land. I've mostly stopped working on this stuff, but it amuses me to see so much of what I thought up come up in other stories. When I first though this story up (which is entirely several layers of isekai), I had never heard of the concept, and thought it rare. Clearly not so much any more! Plus I was floored reading Goblin Slayer and encountering the little side chapters with Illusion and Truth, because it was so similar to what I had thought up.
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  New Year's Resolutions (2019 Edition)
  • stardf29

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  My goal will be to read less than 500 books this year, lol. (I'm running out of books to read anyways, lol). Also finish at least one of my remakes this year and explore a new engine. @gocav said in New Year's Resolutions (2019 Edition): @kevin-s I used to work for a vending company and would drink at least three 20 oz bottles of coke a day. The hardest part when I quit was the first few weeks. A lot of people don’t realize that caffeine is a drug and the withdrawal headaches I had at that time were horrendous. That was probably about ten years ago and I drink coke again, but only a 12 oz can in one day so nothing like I used to. As far as resolutions, the main thing for me is to lose wait. The medication I’m on right now is a strong depressant and leaves me sleepy all the time. I’m hoping to get it changed when I see a different doctor in a couple of weeks and will have more energy to burn. I used to drink like 20 jolts a meal. Due to my absurd resistance to medicine and poison, it was basically flavored fizzy water (with lots of acidity) for me. I ended up quitting completely just fine due to the same resistance, but I know a lot of people who drink maybe 1 or 2 a day and have difficulty quitting. Caffeine is in tea, coffee, many sodas, etc. There are plenty of issues with soda that don't have anything to do with caffeine though. (I do drink some caffeine these days, but mostly green tea).
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  Problem with modern stories and how we consume them
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  @sinnoaria said in Problem with modern stories and how we consume them: Basically, my idea is that everyone was given the freedom of choice. And by that logic you are free to physically stop someone from say committing murder as you used as an example. Everyone exercising their freedom well rob some freedom from others, even if it is just a tiny amount. So just do whatever you believe is right. Everyone is the protagonist in their pen story with many antagonists; this means everyone alive is both a protagonist their own story and an antagonist in another person's story.
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  Awesome genericness
  • Drone205

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  My pick would be Star wars, it's really generic and as a story it's not really good but i grew up with it and the univers is great. Star war 8 and Solo are trash tho. In LN i can't really find one, trully generic story tend to be okay at best but most of the time just boring or even annoying. In manga DB and Naruto seem like good pick, cause while they're now really generic it's mostly because they've been so important for their genre.
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  Story ideas and discussion.
  isekai light novel discussion story ideas retail • • Oathkeeper95

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  There was a story I have had in my head for nearly my whole life. Ever since I was like 3 I had a story idea that was basically an Isekai. A guy who on his sleep is in a fantasy world with knights, magic, and dragons; while he sleeps in the fantasy world he is in the "real world." I put real world I quotes because the real world was basically a sci-fi world like our own but the main difference was everyone had a chip Implant that served as a TV, computer, and telephone in one where you can have an imaginary screen pop up in front of you and play Mario or metroid or something. Well basically the real world was like Accel world and the fantasy world was like any other fantasy world. Edit: I have added way more over the years.
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  Novel recommendations (Non-Light Novel)
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  This bunch will enjoy Wen Spencer esp the Tinker series Pratchett is phenomenal Jim Butcher (though I recommend starting the Dresden Files on book 3) Lois McMaster Bujold
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  What makes licensing LNs so hard compared to Manga / Anime?
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  @raitoiro Exactly my point. I was making the point that the fact that the story is a bit ecchi isn't the reason it isn't getting licenced... There are many other reasons, but the genre isn't the reason.
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  Crunchyroll Pass
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  57LTQADN8FP exp Jan 29, 2019 DPXLATTGK7K exp Feb 28, 2019 VPEDZDDWM3W exp Mar 30, 2019
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  Conventions!
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  Someone needs to get me this merch from Comiket (nah, don't need it, but it looks fun). https://twitter.com/lizhi3/status/1078933833586593792?s=20
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  Root of Fandon: Star Trek
  • Drone205

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  @pleco_breeder I mean obviously you are going to have tropes regardless of Star Trek. The Worf Effect and Redshirts would still have been tropes without Star Trek, but it is because of Star Trek that we recognize and classified these tropes. Star Trek popularized so many things related to Fandoms.
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  Let's discuss Fandom
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  The reality is there are no "original works". There are occasional "original ideas", but then they become entwined in parts of a story that's already been told. All stories are a mixture of components which have already been used somewhere else. It's how those components are used which makes the story interesting, or not. This is what bugs me about the idea of "tropes". Yes, they're generalizations about what happens in the story. However, the same thing happens with EVERY literary work regardless of format (movie, tv, audio, text, etc...). If these weren't repeated components, the idea of a hero/protagonist would've worn out LOOOOONG before the bible ever used the idea. As mentioned, there are "original ideas", but nowhere near enough to create a successful literary work on premise alone. As corny as it sounds, I would probably go so far to say that the most original idea I've read in recent history would be the use of "slip" in Smartphone. Pretty much everything else recent has been done in some form of media. If not somewhere else, I'm pretty sure the Simpsons already did it.
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  What hooks you in a story?
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  I just realized something, I did not neccesarily say what hooks me, just what I prefer in general. Though I guess if the first few minutes exude that sense of britishness then that would hook me. Really the small minor details are what hooks me he most. To name an example Llenn from GGO being a fan of a certain person's music or in say Log Horizon that food has no taste or the players respawn or the main characters are LV 90. There are so many series I love that have small details like why those Giant frogs need to be killed and that also they are they are used for food too. If a story does not have those kind of small details it does not neccesarily mean I will quit but it is more likely, my time is precious and I want tot spend it on good stories so I have no problems dropping a show in like half an episode or even a minute if it is that bad. Edit: boy that last bit makes me look a bit pretentious and digibro-like.
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  Sense of Value
  • Drone205

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  For a manga, it needs good art. If the art is trash, it's not worth 2 pennies. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but there's been a few stinkers I regretted getting based on the art, and didn't continue them. For games, I try to wait until they're sub 30 or 20. LN, it doesn't really matter. Maybe if it were 13 bucks or something digitally, I'd hesitate though.