One of the most facepalm-worthy moments while i was playing to test out some things was losing an Outer Disciple to level 4 heatstroke.

He was outside. Mining.

I mean, what did he expect me to do, cool a mountain?

On a completely unrelated note, happy birthday to me!
...well, happy day-after-birthday, but close enough.

Well then, belated happy birthday to you.

A day too late or 355 days too early, take your pick :P

Sorry for being absent the last little bit, been under the weather so the energy for posting in games has not been at an all-time high, lol.

Haha no worries. I wouldn't have even noticed it if you didn't mention! But for real, you're not missing anything and you should put your recovery over this.

Then again, when I have a cold or the flu my favorite thing to do is play vidya cause otherwise I'll have to be sleeping all day, which is hard for someone who already struggles with sleep in many ways!

Ah yes, been playing Berserk myself.

You know... The other Wushu :P

So, i know we agreed to slow it down a bit, but uhm...


Enjoying the break, Dao? :P

I mean, I DO understand it.
Since Wrath of the Righteous came out I might or might not have spent a rather unhealthy time on that game myself after all <.<

Been picking up Three Houses myself lately, after coming across my notes on class pathing in a distant folder, thought lost to time.

I mean, it's not a great game, but i enjoy the tactical system of Fire Emblem games so it's all good.

It's good enough that I enjoyed it, but then again I have a bad case of 'Now I must see ALL the interactions' when I play the new Fire Emblem games.
I'll have to finish the DLC maps sooner or later.

I started toying around with Dark Deity for that Fire Emblem feel too, but put it on hold until the frenzy of patches finishes.

Black Eagles for life.

DM hasn't logged in for almost a month.

Either something came up, or he's dropped this game. Might be possible to stalk him to find out (especially since he linked his dev blog or whatever), but I don't really want to do that.

IMO, smth probably came up on his end, since I'd honestly consider it pretty likely for him to have otherwise checked in on these new posts, or even to have simply just misclicked onto the main game page once or twice.

As for me, I'm still interested in playing, but I'm not sure if I will want to stay invested in a game that moves so slowly (or has long hiatuses) indefinitely.

I don't mind long breaks too much myself, but yes, I'm against off-rpol stalking too. I do confess the main point of occasional OOC posting was to see if wild DMs could be lured, but apparently that plan failed.
But hey, it still distracted me with chatter about vidya in dull work moments, so yay.

Same here really.

I'm no stranger to resurrecting games, though i suspect something happened since in both games, their last post was the 29th and the last visit the 30th. The only way to answer that question is to wait for their eventual return though.

Until then, sure, let's discuss vidya :P

By the way, I'm normally against participating in resurrected games since I lose interest by the time they get back up and running, but I've still not seen something else like this and my character's personality is still fresh on my mind, so I'm with y'all in the GM Return Waiting Room.



Not a wuxia-genre game, but I've been having an absolute blast playing Guild Wars 2 lately.

If anyone is familiar with the game, LMK.

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Edit: Also, just watched 'Daily Life of the Immortal King' which I'm pretty sure qualifies as a cultivation show. I liked it a lot, but I'm confused about how there is apparently two episode 10s (not even sure WHICH one I watched ... ) and also the story was apparently drastically changed from the source material, which makes me not want to start reading if it's a different story.

Also, the timeline is still a bit messy in my head, and the pacing was more than a little rushed. However the graphics, soundtrack, comedy, power system and plot were all majorly awesome so I can deal with this until I can dig up some goddamn answers, lol!
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I do have Guild Wars 2 somewhere, but it's been ages since i last played and i doubt i'd have much time on my hands, unfortunately. RPoL is great because it's perfectly suited for my frequent but often unconnected online times :/

Been trying to track down some english subbed episodes of The Demonic King Chases His Wife (which is kind of full-on Cultivation themed, but i've not seen enough to form an opinion of it yet). Also, Cinderella Chef is surprisingly good, though not Cultivation based.

RPoL would be pretty good for my online times too, if games stopped dying back to back to each other. I didn't expect both of my vaguely-cultivation-themed-games to collapse at the same time, but c'est la vie.

I'm THEORETICALLY familiar with GW2, but I never got into it. My secret, guilty mmo-based pleasure is Ragnarok Online - even if I've been clean for several years. Apart from that I toyed around with SWtOR and FFIVX. I really wanted to like Age of Wulin/Wushu, but could never get into it.

Non-mmorpg related, I've been tempted to pick up Path of Wuxia again. It's still early access, but the fantranslation is serviceable and the game is not bad. Or maybe I just have a weakness for raising sims.

Television-wise, I recently finished watching a series about an immortal with strong mind-control powers...but I don't think Lucifer qualifies for Wuxia ;D

Well, Lucifer IS themed around self-improvement, in a way...

Kidding aside, the series started out nice, but eventually devolved from "We fight crime and Lucifer finds a way to get over his Issue of the Month during the investigation" to "Here's the Issue of the Month and here's the relevant case". Sure, it's always had a big "THEY FIGHT CRIME" trope, but the crimefighting part kind of ended up shifting to the background, which is a shame. They also ended up getting caught less into actual crimes being committed, now it's more like "Okay, here's a crime scene". They've been running out of ideas for a while now.

On a Lucifer-related note, have you ever read the Sandman comic, from Neil Gaiman? The idea for Lucifer came from that comic, so it can be seen as a prequel of sorts. It's also a pretty good book :P

I have several pretty fancy hardcover Sandman graphic novels, but I don't think I own the whole collection. In general, I love just about anything Neil Gaiman.

I remember watching Lucifer maybe 2-3 years ago? I don't know if they ever came out with a new season, but if not I'm caught up with it.

Really liked it. Pretty good cast of characters, and plots with decent emotional hooks. By far my favorite part was the setting. Really enjoyed the adaptation of biblical mythology.

Looking back, I do agree the show got repetitive with some of it's crime-themed elements. I feel like each of the biblical mythology arcs was fresh, but I don't remember it well enough to say if the pacing of them was good or not. I remember a couple arcs may have dragged on.

Haven't read the source material yet, and probably won't get into it, but I've also heard it's excellent, as is most the works in it's universe. Don't read a lot of comic books anymore, since I found that I don't really enjoy them all that much.

Most of what I've been into lately is actually south korean manhwa and web novels. None of them are full-cultivation themed, but a lot of them have some of that flavor. I was also watching a load of anime until this hobby took over instead.

Discussion of my rookie (?) numbers

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I was a bit shocked to realize that in the last year and a half or so, I've watched ~605 hours of anime and read ~485 hours of manhwa/web novels. It's a whole lot when you add it up, but honestly it feels like it should be a lot higher when compared to how much time I felt that I spend on it in a day.

I wish there was a way to check how many hours I have logged into GW2. I feel like I've been playing an average of 4-5 hours every day since I downloaded it 2 1/2 months ago...

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As for recommendations, here is some that I consider at least an "S" on a scale of "F" to "A":

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Top Manhwa: SSS-Class Suicide Hunter, Second Coming of Gluttony (Web Novel ver. since the adaptation is really weak), FFF Class Trashero (Web Novel ver. since the manhwa is incomplete), Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint

Honorable Mention Manhwa: The Beginning After the End, Dimensional Mercenary, Nano Machine (most cultivation themed)

Action/Adventure Anime: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Light Novel ver. but the anime is still great), Overlord (Light Novel ver. but the anime is still great), Dr. Stone (if you are a science nerd), Demon Slayer [Kimetsu no Yaiba]

Character-driven Anime: Code Geass (doubt anyone who watches anime hasn't seen this), Parasyte the Maxim, To Your Eternity, Re:Zero

Comedy Anime: Kaguya-sama: Love is War, No Game No Life, KonoSuba, Misfit of Demon King Academy, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Cautious Hero

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I agree with most of those, Dr. Stone i couldn't quite get into due to how ridiculously genius-class the MC is. Him stating they were petrified for 3.700 years and that he counted the seconds for all that time to the point of being certain what season it was was a major red flag, and i stopped watching when muscle-boy woke up and One-Punched an adult lion with his bare hands.

Have you watched Log Horizon, by the way? I'm seeing some Isekais with game-related settings in that list.

I definitely liked the first season of Log Horizon, and am planning to eventually get around to the second one!

Well, Season 4 is scheduled for next year, so you'd be nice and on track :P

Woo Log Horizon, I enjoyed it - but I think animation took a nosedive in season 3 or something? Can't be sure, it's been a fairly long while since I watched it.

Monthly vidya news: I played around a bit with Tale of Immortal and I have mixed feelings about it: I WANT to support games that get official english releases, but they left half of the latest patch in Chinese. I like the setting, I like the artstyle but I'm not a huge fan of the bullet-hell-adjacent combat. Worth checking out.

On a completely unrelated note, the GM for the other Wuxia game I'm in said he's willing to take more players if anyone is interested - it started as a solo game, so it might end up structured similarly to this one, and the pacing is only marginally better - I'm talking a post per month. Still, if anyone is desperate I've been authorized to shoot invites.

Well, i'd be willing to check it out, if there's room. I'll be away most of tomorrow though, mother's birthday :)

And yeah, for Log Horizon there was six years between Seasons 2 and 3, whereas 1 and 2 were made in consecutive years. That's a large gap, so it makes sense for them to have trouble placing the demographic as the people loving the first few seasons are now a different demographic than they used to be. And while the same studio (and for a large part, same animators) was working on it, people's drawing styles evolve over time as well. It is inevitable, in a way.