@mirage_gsm Grammar exists to serve the purpose of whatever situation language is being used at any given time. For a fictional prose work whose main purpose is to entertain, the purpose of grammar is to protect and enhance the enjoyability of reading the prose. Some of the grammar rules that might be used for, say, an official academic report whose main purpose is to convey information in a professional manner, might not be appropriate for a prose novel, and if the writer/translator/editor decides that the most enjoyable way to read a given passage is to break the grammar rules a bit, then that is their judgment. Obviously it's a judgment with room to argue to the contrary, but it's not a matter of "we must stick to the strictest of grammar rules for every official publication or else we might as well descend into total grammar anarchy".

J-Novel Club panels at Otakuthon 2019: The Art of Translation Friday August 16th, 2019, 11:45-13:15 EDT (UTC-4) Description: It seems like more and more of Japanese anime, manga, and light novels is getting translated every day! But what makes for a "good" translation? What are the pitfalls to watchout for? Come hear veteran translator Samuel Pinansky and friends give their thoughts and answer all you questions. Language: English Panelists: Samuel Pinansky, Aimee Zink Rating: 13+ J-Novel Club Industry Panel Sunday August 18th, 2019, 14:30-15:45 EDT (UTC-4) Description: Come and hear all the latest news and announcements from your place for light novels, J-Novel Club! We'll have plenty of time for questions and maybe a few prizes to give out! Language: English Panelists: Samuel Pinansky, Aimee Zink Rating: 13+

@rahul-balaggan “manga adaptation of #1” was Potion Loli manga. Animeta was “Ironically no anime adaptation.”

KyoAni president says they lost all of their materials in the blaze. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-07-19/kyoto-animation-president-states-in-interview-that-all-materials-computers-were-destroyed-in-fire/.149142 Also the perpetrator has confessed to being motivated by his belief that KyoAni stole his work.

@blueshift I don't really like the glaring light of tablets and I'm therefore trying to switch to a reading tablet. I also reqlly like the papery like screen reading tablets offer. Thank you for your answer anyhow.

@_08 said in (Unofficial) Android/Win10 Rokujouma Reader. 40% faster crashes for the same price.: Android's theme is explicitly set to dark Yay, that fixed my stupid phone's bug

Yeah I hate looking for lns to read on YP sites. Only way I find them really is if I know they licensed the series or on my recommendation list I get from googlebooks .

@raitoiro Sorry about that. The 12 elements in there are based on the online cardgame at elementsthegame.com (it's free to play and easy to register) We're actually having a heated debate right now as to how the elements should be divided (paired up). You can read more of it here if you want: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/literary-arts/gravity-and-entropy-don't-pair-up/ Death element in that game is actually something like slow acting poisons, so the story counterpart of that would be the kind of magic assasins find useful. For the Demon Lord, I imagine him as something completely non human and uses hell-spawn magic that can't be learned by anyone. It contains darkness and death, but is also mixed with things only the Demon Lord can comprehend. (I actually took the evil element from another online game, DragonFable). However, being darkness and death, the Demon Lord's magic also has some weakness to Light. Hero was not able to land any of his ultimate killing blows (that would've killed Demon Lord then and there), so when presented with the opportunity, he settled for the next best thing by casting a very powerful Light spell which takes advantage of Demon Lord having Death and Darkness element. Even though Hero was not able to finish the Demon Lord for good, dividing his magic into tiny little pieces is more than enough to say it's a victory. But the thing is, attacking usually leaves you open to attack yourself, so Demon Lord, as a last ditch attempt, attacks Hero with everything he's got. He employs a similarly powerful curse that restricts the Hero from using full 100% of his powers (possibly ever again). Now his legendary strength is divided into 6 parts, and worse, each 1/6th is now a sentient being that can think for itself. Not only do these 6 waifus hate each other (insert sexist joke here), they kind of think "I'm the strongest element there is, and everyone else is just a scrub. That's why I was the Hero's favorite." That's why, instead of taking the usual direction of an adventure novel (the waifus journey to destroy all 10,000 Demon Lord remnants), the female lead first has to convince the others to join her cause, and the only way this could ever be resolved is by brute force. So the focus of the story would be female lead challenging the other waifus in battle to prove her strength, one by one enumeration style, like the girls in Busou Shoujo or the Generation of Miracles in Kuroko's Basketball. Maybe sometimes she wins, maybe one time she loses, maybe she works together with another waifu to bring down the top waifu, who knows. They all have their own motivations and desires, and just tolerate each other at best. The character development would come from them coming to terms with each other. Maybe they can even recreate the Hero one time when they all work together, (and if they're too fixated on arguing, maybe a second Demon Lord emerges from combined scraps)

@jon-mitchell said in A small Potion Loli giveaway (ends on the 10th): Ok I’m interested. How do I enter? And thanks for promoting! Should be open now. Follow the link in the first post and it should have instructions on how to enter. I'll add different methods to win if my health improves.

@_08 said in Premium Membership: how many credits are needed for an ebook: @shiny said in Premium Membership: how many credits are needed for an ebook: The novel is not out for pre-order yet so I don't know if it will cost 1 or 2 premium credits. It's been availiable for three weeks at least. Same price as other novels. Thanks for the information. I guess that's an indication that we will probably not see books cost more that a credit any time soon.

Congratulations, JNC. (Also, looked at that list... are you telling me JNC never actually licensed 'My Little Ponii Can Read Kanji!'? Scandalous :P)

@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.

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...

@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.

@drone205 Got a lot of these since I shared Owari last time, let's share other covers

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.

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).

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.

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).

@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.