self_made_human
C'est la vie
I'm a transhumanist doctor. In a better world, I wouldn't need to add that as a qualifier to plain old "doctor". It would be taken as granted for someone in the profession of saving lives.
At any rate, I intend to live forever or die trying. See you at Heat Death!
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self_made_human
C'est la vie
5d ago
Hmm? Can't say I noticed that myself. I would assume any such instances are written from the perspective of an observer who can't precisely count the values.
If you can tell me a chapter number, I can look it up.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
6d ago
Right. Xianxia novels vary widely in terms of quality. It's not uncommon for them to be thousands of chapters long.
There are, in fact, instances where a novel can start off slow for dozens or even hundreds of chapters, and get better. That's often the case when the protagonist has to start from scratch and scrabble to establish the powers and connections required to do much of anything.
How do you know if a novel is good? The rating systems on the popular sites are fucked, and it's certainly a pain to read a ton of one before realizing it doesn't get better.
Hence communities like /r/MartialMemes, where readers ask each other for recs or reviews. They also love to RP as actual Cultivators, which is why they're addressing someone as a "junior".
The joke here is that some naive newbie has asked a more experienced reader about a novel. The latter promises that it gets better, and even if the first few hundred (!) chapters are dross, stick at it and the payoff will be worth it in the end. Unfortunately, he hasn't even read the story in question and has been making shit up.
Fortunately for @sun_the_second, I have in fact read Reverend Insanity (and am currently re-reading it again), a popular novel that has occasionally faced (unfair, IMO) accusations of having a slow start. He began reading it on my recommendation, and hopefully he's enjoying it so far. If he isn't, I promise it gets super peak at chapter 42069, can't give up on it before then.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
6d ago
Eventually, we won't/can't. Thankfully, the people who are lazy enough to try and pass off AI generated content as their own seem lazy enough to not bother with fancy prompting or editing.
As far as I'm aware, it's an unsolvable problem, but it hasn't caused an apocalypse yet.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
6d ago
I join Discord servers with a specific purpose in mind, not to hang out.
An Arma unit? I'll join to have buddies to play with.
AI related? So I can keep up with the news and shoot the shit.
self_made_human
C'est la vie
6d ago
@sun_the_second you've been tricked, mwahaha
Well you brought receipts. It still never jumped out to me haha. It might be translation issues, otherwise no clue.
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