DharkStare

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[–] DharkStare 13 points 8 months ago (17 children)

Out of curiosity, what do you use to transfer files between computers?

[–] DharkStare 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Also, IIRC the few times he was in command, he wasn't any good at it.

[–] DharkStare 2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Do you have any recommendations for a specific brand?

[–] DharkStare 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly what happened at my office. The moldy coffee pot stayed there for about a year before someone threw the whole thing away.

[–] DharkStare 8 points 9 months ago

I love the idea of karma police. It definitely sounds like the plot for an interesting movie.

[–] DharkStare 8 points 9 months ago

Quest 64 really brings me back. I haven't thought about that game in a long time.

[–] DharkStare 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just to clarify. Insider trading is illegal but it is not illegal for politicians in Congress to use the information they obtain from their jobs (such as through classified meetings) to engage in stock market trades.

[–] DharkStare 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When I think about what I would do if I suddenly found myself transported to another world, the last thing I would be doing is looking for a job as a mercenary. As stupid as a lot of the plot is, I really like Striving for a Luxury Liner simply because the MC recognizes that he's not cut out to be an adventurer and becomes a merchant instead.

The only isekai I've read that properly utilized the isekai genre was Release that Witch since the MC's "cheat" is his knowledge of mechanical engineering. He kicks off his own little industrial revolution to defend his territory.

[–] DharkStare 41 points 9 months ago (3 children)

My main critique of the genre is how lazy it's done. There's nothing wrong with having the MC reincarnated, transported, or made overpowered. One Punch Man has a massively overpowered MC but it's still really good. The problem is that they're all low effort cookie cutter stories that are just checking items off a list.

They're also fairly unrealistic. "Gasp...is this that isekai thing I've been reading about? I guess I'll go join the Adventurer Guild and get a super dangerous job killing monsters despite the fact that I've never been in a dangerous situation before."

There's no way all these random people will just calmly accept finding themselves in another world with no freaking out or depression setting in first.

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