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Going to war with the R.O.B.
There was a video released today by the Based Camp podcast, which illuminated things a bit more for me. Apparently what I had described in my first post is a very popular trope in women's fantasy romance novels, where the protagonist is pre-destined to mate with some supernatural top Chad and... -
Story Power Ideas
When it comes to jumping between fictional worlds, I would lean into the fictional aspect of it. Such a power would never make any sense when framed in real world terms, but it works as something that takes place entirely within a shared mindspace that the man-of-culture protagonist shares with... -
Going to war with the R.O.B.
Indeed, the player's previous life ended before the story starts. So she's like someone being called out of retirement to do a specific thing. But in such a situation, you'd want to know why you're meant to do that thing. My stance towards the weaver would be: You may be a god, and you owe me... -
Going to war with the R.O.B.
You'll find out later that the body you reincarnated into is not even yours, the weaver just altered your memories to make you think it is. Really it's some sacrifice victim they selectively bred for this purpose, or something like that. The details are a little fuzzy. The point is, you learn... -
Going to war with the R.O.B.
I don't have influence over the scenario, so all of that is moot. Plus, such a karma tracker would only amount to a debug variable telling you what the game developer thinks is right and wrong. This is more of a thought experiment about what a normal person without debug powers might do in that... -
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Going to war with the R.O.B.
Nah, it's got nothing to do with Castlevania. If it was, there would be a lot more whipping and axe-throwing. And holy water burning everyone. No, it's just one of those weird tumblr-style stories I encountered on itch.io when I was bored. Written by women for women, but sometimes I like to peek... -
[Star Wars] how much fault lies in Master Yoda?
At this point you guys are doing the same thing that was called out above, which is arguing about plot holes and hypotheticals. So I don't think that's going to go anywhere. All we have as evidence is what was shown in the movies, which isn't much to go on. Lucas was probably trying to retell... -
[Star Wars] how much fault lies in Master Yoda?
I hadn't actually read this code before. Seeing it for the first time, it sounds kind of Buddhist (which wouldn't surprise me, given where Lucas drew his inspiration from). I would expect this to be the code used by a bunch of monks training martial arts in some mountain temple and trying to... -
[Star Wars] how much fault lies in Master Yoda?
I'm coming into this fairly ignorant of SW lore, but it struck me to read someone say that Yoda was grand master for so long. I remember the old saying that science advances one funeral at a time. If you get someone at the top who can live 800 years, then that means no new ideas for 800 years... -
Going to war with the R.O.B.
I was playing an otome game on itch.io yesterday, and when I reached the end of content it left me awake in bed for a couple hours after trying to puzzle out the right strategy I would want to take if the story continued and I had complete freedom of choice. The Random Omnipotent Being in the... -
favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself
The Dostoevsky quote is fake, but I like it anyways. I don't mind simply calling it an "Old Internet Proverb". -
Shitpost??? Should I make a super fat isekai mc?
If he had been ripped earlier, it makes it a bit easier to return to that state later, but he'd still have to work at it. The main issue is that when a person starves, all unnecessary tissue gets consumed first, which includes both fat and muscle (and then ultimately the brain and internal... -
Shitpost??? Should I make a super fat isekai mc?
There would have to be at least some food, or he would be dead after 3 weeks; or if not dead, he would look like an Auschwitz survivor. But something like this could happen if there was still some food, just not enough to sustain his weight, or if all the food was in a raw form and he had no... -
If you were paid $1,000,000 in exchange for being able to only play 5 different video games for the rest of your life, which ones would you pick?
These days I don't think I even play more than 5 different games at a time... One thing I would have to ask, is whether these games would continue to get updates as the developers work on them, and if games that are no longer available would be brought back by such an arrangement. I would pick... -
favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself
That actually sounds a lot like the gnostic heresy, which was popular in the late 1st century AD. They believed that the world was created by an imperfect demiurge, and the project of humanity was to return the world to perfection. As a utopian philosophy, it ran into the usual problem that not... -
Should I abandon my ideals?
To be fair, nihilism is an ideal. It's just not one with much of a future. Considering this thread was originally started in 2023, I was going to just leave it to return to the dustbin of page 2 and beyond, but then this video came up in my youtube suggestions, which is closely related to the... -
Should I abandon my ideals?
~Ideals, ideals, ideals... which are good, which are bad?~ ~Ideals, ideals, ideals... the internet will make you sad~ My advice, use a combination of the scientific method and reductio ad absurdum. Try to imagine each ideal taken to its most extreme conclusion, and see if that terrifies you or... -
SI/isekai authors: In Medias Res
I don't know isekai all that well. I had to google what ROB and SI stood for. But I did actually write an isekai story one time (or at least I started to). I opened it up with the main character telling his story under hypnosis, in lieu of what would have been a voiceover narrative if it had... -
I see monsters sometimes.
Two things I see going on here: 1. It's common for the imagination to insert things into dark spaces where there is uncertainty about what's there (it's not common for it to be as extreme as you described, but the concept doesn't surprise me). This would have evolved as a heuristic when we...