Recent content by Sylthix

I take it as I take everything else on the internet, with half a grain of salt

I think you've had one too many drinks Agentt.

No, not really. What allows me enjoy/appreciate stories is boils down to how entertaining it is. The characters might be terrible people with terrible personalities or malicious intent but I might still enjoy seeing how it all goes down. Stories are primarily geared to entertain first and kick...

Evil is very contextual and like the sentiment echoed strongly in this thread, you call it when you see it. The baseline definition of evil to me would be an action that does more bad than good. Murder is a crime, no doubts about that. However if the killing of a man was to save the world, then...

It's a term I'm coining now to describe the moment when you think of a really good sounding scene in your head but forgo any of the build up in practice making what you write sound bad, cringe-y or even downright unbearable to read. It's as if the "author's hand" personally pushed the plot in...

Yeah clown move from me claiming to have objective facts but not entirely unbased claims. I guess we're in a stalemate then considering this has devolved into "you don't have any facts" and "neither do ". On any other day, I would create a data set based on the criteria I've set out on to...

I had to think about this for a good minute. I feel as if you're missing the point. You clearly state that I am bitter due to this and that reason whereas in reality, I'm not bitter about anything and neither is my opinion the only correct one. Please put yours forward telling me why you don't...

I'll reiterate, The message I don't want to put out is "fantasy bad". The point is that stories that are of the fantasy genre that are of lower quality, are becoming more frequent through what seems to me, mindless consumerism of the fantasy tag. I guess this is where our philosophies differ. I...

No I don't consider non-fantasy as quality. I just happened to word what I wanted to say really badly. I am in-fact, an avid fiction lover and I enjoy all things fantasy going from classics such as Harry Potter when I was starting to like reading, progressing towards present day with Japanese...

In hindsight, I didn't really factor in passion into my OP. People do indeed write what they want and it's quality is going to depend on how passionate they are about what they're writing. At first, I was kinda browsing the site and over the months I just saw that really, a majority of the newer...

I guess the general consensus is split between "What did you expect, it's SH" and "People write what they want" with a bit of "Do something instead of complaining" which made me wonder if my OP came off as preachy. The main point of the post wasn't really to point and cry about the camouflaged...

Now, this is a more meta post, but I wanna put forward a discussion towards the quality of the novels people post on this site nowadays. Do any of you authors see a decrease in both diversity and quality of stories? Try scrolling down towards the "Latest updated" section on the home page. 9/10...

At the crux of any genre or story , good characterisation comes first in order for readers to connect with the world. You could have the most thought out RPG system ever but if no one likes your characters, then no one will want to keep reading. However, moving past that whole can of worms, The...

I feel that most classic J-fantasy novel writers (and regular ones) just don't want to include heavy philosophical focus about the existence of possible higher beings. This and how it cuts down time to showcase the main character's personality and world building since reading about a crazy...

You could maybe go for a high skill-class. Something off the top of my head would be "Vitals Hitman". - Attacks on certain parts of the body will stack a "marked" debuff that the user can then choose to redeem ranging from bleeding, blindness, damage vulnerability and instant death. More severe...