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    Your Opinion on Western/Westernized Cultivation Novels

    As others have pointed out, there's a spectrum of what counts as cultivation, ranging from the whole qi refining->foundation building->golden core->nascent soul->tribulation transcending->et al. with arrays/formations/Chinese heaven/dao/alchemy pills/yin yang, to just there's a power system...
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    What's An Actual Fun Goal For A Game-Type Novel?

    Coming up with creative and spectacular ways to kill npcs. I find it disappointing how so many VRMMO stories aren't even interested in video games.
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    Difference of [LitRPG]'s System & CN Webnovel's System

    Systems are a cheat power, while LitRPGs are an excuse for adding extra numbers to otherwise generic things. It depends on the author to make the story good.
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    Are loser protagonists really relatable?

    People aren't losers. They just wish that they were.
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    rant: OP chara in fiction being motivated by boredom is so ugh

    My problem with boredom as a motivation is that it's just an excuse for the author to be lazy and not have to come up with fleshed out characterization and actual values and motivations. Why do they do what they do? Because why not. And things end up happening just because rather than because of...
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    Harem’s suck

    I don't care about harem. I think if you took a well written story but made it a harem story, while having characters and their interactions stay consistent, it would still be a good story. I see harem as one of those tropes that's more of a symptom.
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    Are all character capable of redemption?

    The less redeemable someone is, the more interested I am in their redemption. At least as long as it's in character.
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    Why Cultivation xianxia MC tends to avoid women like plague ?

    Reading an MC "resist" a woman's "seduction" in Chinese WNs always just makes me cringe. It's some sort of red pill thing where if someone is desired then they're a badass but if someone desires others then they're a weak-willed simp or something.
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    Controversial Opinion: Action/Adventure LitRPGs and System novels inherently handicap themselves in the long run for short term success.

    I think you conflate litRPGs for general progression tropes. And also seem to think that any non-standard power progression is "easy" or a "shortcut" or "simple" when that's more of a case by case thing for both litRPG stories and stories with other kinds of training or progression including...
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    slavery in novels is annoying

    Slavery is bad. I'm not even against the MC owning slaves. Just don't create some elaborate justification for why actually it's a good thing in some circumstances and freeing them is bad.
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    Thanos Logic~ a budding theory from an MCU fan

    I just took everything as a metaphor and applied my suspension of disbelief.
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    Futanari Laying Anthro Dragons

    I personally prefer stories with futanari where the MC themselves isn't the futanari.
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    Pragmatic protagonist vs cautious protagonist

    Being cautious is trying to avoid unnecessary danger while being pragmatic is being "smarter" than everyone else.
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    Ratings with stars on Scribblehub

    If it's shit, 0.5. If it's meh, 3. If I read a bunch without dropping, at least a 4. If it is compelling and well written and interesting, 5.
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    [for readers] what you consider a red flag when you're looking for a new story to read?

    One thing for me is when the summary explicitly says there isn't a harem or OP protagonist or whatever. Seems to me like the author is too focused on tropes or subverting them instead of whether the story is actually good, and if it was important to the story it would have been clear from the...
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