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Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:07:47 JST Hoss Delgado "In Another World With My Smartphone" seems like the kind of Isekai story you'd come up with if you wrote one with the explicit goal of making it as "accessible" of a self-insert fantasy as possible. The MC doesn't need to be intelligent, clever, strong, driven, have any kind of powers or be special in literally any way whatsoever. They just need to have access to Google in a world where nobody else does. - Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this.
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Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:08:49 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks @Hoss There’s something about how low-stakes and happy it is that’s like…… a psychotic fever dream wrought by a man 6 months into solitary confinement
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Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:10:34 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks @Hoss Also the books later have full on gundams, it’s a weird ass franchise. People posted some of them here once, some of the designs weren’t all that bad.
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Christmas Coon (mebigbrain@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:26:43 JST Christmas Coon @WashedOutGundamPilot @Hoss I've seen several low-stakes reincarnation webcomics that are basically just a guy resetting his life so that he can be the best at a video game. Like these bug people couldn't even think of something more interesting or ambitious to do with such an opportunity, it's kinda really sad. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:27:44 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks @MeBigbrain @Hoss It really says a lot about the state of jap society when that’s their fantasy. They’re so disconnected from humanity they only imagine worlds with the same shackles and opiates they have today.
Probably on the spectrum, too, since the vidya overlay gives an easy way to quantify numbers in everything, so there’s no uncertainty
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Clever_Moniker (clevermoniker@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:45:23 JST Clever_Moniker @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @Hoss the vidya overlay thing always triggers me, i think its part lazy writting and part autism. The real world is really complicated and simplifying it with the vidya overlay puts them and the reader at ease. -
Clever_Moniker (clevermoniker@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 01:45:23 JST Clever_Moniker @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @Hoss I do have to say that i am not a fan of almost all the "other worlds" being basically vidya worlds. It's lazy and limiting. But if people eat that stuff up, they will keep making it. It's easier than imagining new and or more complicated stuff after all... and easier to relate aka good for sales. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
Codeki :njp: (codeki@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:11:37 JST Codeki :njp: @WashedOutGundamPilot @Hoss Yeah. . . that one stops being low stakes when the dimension destroying magic-eating bugs start appearing.
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Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 02:13:08 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks @Codeki @Hoss Been a while since I looked into it, wonder if they have more cool mechs
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🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:01:25 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp: @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @Hoss >It really says a lot about the state of jap society when that’s their fantasy. They’re so disconnected from humanity they only imagine worlds with the same shackles and opiates they have today.
One of my favourite examples of this is the fantasy of getting a scholarship to an elite school. A particularly egregious example of it is currently airing but it's not the first time I've seen it and likely won't be the last.Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:09:49 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks @birdulon @MeBigbrain @Hoss I keep thinking someone will turn this stuff on its head, like they end up on the run when the gov notices a few billion showing up out of nowhere unannounced, laws of mass being broken, etc. Could do some fun things by upending these tropes
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🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:09:50 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp: @Hoss @MeBigbrain @WashedOutGundamPilot Dude gets an infinite money exploit but what's really important is that this school has great graduate outcomes and he might be able to get a job at a good company. Japanese power fantasies sure are special. -
Hoss Delgado (hoss@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:09:52 JST Hoss Delgado >Ousei Academy prioritizes strength of character over academic strengths.
This is some extremely cheesy shit being written by people who are largely lactose intolerant. -
🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:09:52 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp: @Hoss @MeBigbrain @WashedOutGundamPilot Easily the most fantastical concept in this show about finding a portal to a magical JRPG world that converts items to japanese yen and experience points to abs when you return to japan. Some writers have truly incredible imaginations. -
🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:23:01 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp: @WashedOutGundamPilot @MeBigbrain @Hoss There's like a cultural death spiral of new fanfic authors growing up on nothing but fanfic-tier works. Even most of the genre-subversive titles are just aping other ones. It's pretty surreal seeing authors run through standard JRPG mechanics as seen in Video Game Portal Fantasy #19287364 while showing a level of understanding that makes you wonder if they've even played a videogame before or just heard about them from other people who also may not have played any.
Real consequences for imagined scenarios also seem to be as hard for a lot of these authors as hands for AI, they barely think about how things interact, just try to bash examples together from their limited world experiences and other fictional works.Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:25:24 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks @birdulon @MeBigbrain @Hoss Yeah, I’ve brought this up a lot, because it’s like we’ve had 3 generations of authors growing up eating nothing but the once, then twice, then thrice-digested fecal material of better authors
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Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:34:34 JST Anime Wong @birdulon @MeBigbrain @WashedOutGundamPilot @Hoss I'm still upset with 'So I'm a Spider, So What?'. It set up so many interesting plot threads and ideas only so it could use them to subvert isekai tropes. The more I read, the worse it hurt. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
Wolffkran (wolffkran@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 13:51:06 JST Wolffkran @Elliptica @birdulon @MeBigbrain @WashedOutGundamPilot @Hoss Just be happy you didn't read the light novel. It's one of those rare instances where the light novel is worse than the manga and the anime.
I mean like really fucking bad.Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
eisai (eisai@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 00:27:17 JST eisai @WashedOutGundamPilot @birdulon @MeBigbrain @Hoss > Apologies for interrupting your drills
The sense ‘training’ was too tardy to recover in my head, and I’ve read “your drills” as a sort of title, like “your majesty”.
> Apologies for interrupting, your majesty
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🐦ulon :blobshp: (birdulon@shpposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 00:27:17 JST 🐦ulon :blobshp: @eisai @MeBigbrain @WashedOutGundamPilot @Hoss Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this.