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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2621 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 28, 2025

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Very good post. I hope you've shared it on the subreddit.

While I'm more of a Xianxia than Wuxia guy, I get the appeal. It's honestly impressive how much effort went into the game, and even the great deal of jank is the charming kind. I am not sure if I'm going to ever play it, but I'm glad it exists.

Speechcraft as a form of medical treatment? Well...

Dr. Yuan is absolutely spitting facts. If he has an AI bot, we need to put that thing in charge of the NHS.

And why not have a fucking comment section with quests? Good, devs with balls. I know that Amazing Cultivation Sim has a full on in-game forum. Fuck Western devs and their pussy ass takes on it, when they deign to allow it. They can try finger but hole. The Chinese will eventually eat their lunch.

I don't have a Reddit account, you can steal this post if you want. Thanks for reminding me to check the sub.

Dr. Yuan is absolutely spitting facts. If he has an AI bot, we need to put that thing in charge of the NHS.

I'm not yet very experienced with the system but beware what you wish for, junior; my mention of social credit downthread was not a joke. The Silver Needle demands you take payment for healing, and the main measure of a healer in this game is literal likes, which you can force from your patients on success.

You can imagine the dynamic it creates; right now the healers to patients ratio is so fucked that finding bounties to get your weekly quota and avoid -15 SOCIAL CREDIT is nearly impossible even if you spam refresh, any help request in chat is answered and taken before the message finishes loading for you (literally, the notice appears already without the button to actually go heal), and in online mode you get literally swarmed by offers if you show up to Evercare Clinic with so much as a measly sprain since your medical record disease status is public, healers see an obvious HEAL ME icon over your head, and healing a sprain is exactly equal to healing Spiritcore Collapse III in terms of likes received.

And this is just the start of training; as I've seen so far, advancing to Divine Healer rank and beyond involves literal public elections for limited seats in the board inner circle. Truly art imitates life.

Consider if being a slave to networking and Facebook likes would be better than your current arrangement. (If unironically yes, my condolences.)

Good, devs with balls. Fuck Western devs and their pussy ass takes on it, when they deign to allow it. They can try finger but hole.

Sadly these devs are too based for this cursed land, and already had to roll back some things; AIUI in the first few days you were able to post custom images in chat as sort of 'stickers' for everyone to see, with predictable applications. Can't have shit in the jianghu.

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