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I mean, I'm fine with characters growing stronger as they go through experiences and as the stakes escalate. Just don't do weak to strong for the sake of doing weak to strong. Power development in great stories is used in moderation to enhance the story/character development, not as a...

Someone turning from male to futa is probably gender bender. If someone is born a futa and stays that way, that's probably not gender bender, at least by itself. Female to futa is only gender bender if futa is treated as a separate gender. Just because a girl has a dick doesn't mean they're not...

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...

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.

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.

People aren't losers. They just wish that they were.

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...

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.

The less redeemable someone is, the more interested I am in their redemption. At least as long as it's in character.

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.

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...

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.

I just took everything as a metaphor and applied my suspension of disbelief.

I personally prefer stories with futanari where the MC themselves isn't the futanari.

Being cautious is trying to avoid unnecessary danger while being pragmatic is being "smarter" than everyone else.

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.

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...

I'm in the I like futa but generally dislike gender bender camp. Anyways, yeah, I would not consider a story yuri if all or most of the smut involves futa. I totally get treating futa x female and female x female as different things. Not sure how I feel about genderbending the protagonist to a...

Yeah, “monster” protagonists tend to fall into the same pitfalls where the author takes a “cliche” “good versus evil” plot and put the protagonist into the role of the evil side, but don’t actually make them evil or even morally fallible, but the author still wants to make good guys fight them...

I'd recommend go look at the review with the most likes, then look at the review with the most likes that is 3 or below stars. If the complaints in the low star review make sense to you and remind you of other fics you think are shit then consider skipping the story or at least lowering your...