Congrats, you’ve figured out about half the inherent contradiction. That’s barely a passing score.

Racism is also no longer real now that we’ve got an explicitly white nationalist president, this solves the contradiction.

If you’re serious, cause I see you’re a different account and tbh I have no idea where the context is right now: From a postcolonial perspective the concept of moral naturalism, or “objective good,” looks damn close to the cultural superiority that was often used to excuse colonial behavior. The way it managed to contradict so many things at once in the conversation was darkly amusing, and I thought it might bait a response that would show inconsistencies in the views being expressed while also being rude enough to let out some of my current frustration at the proudly self-destructive behavior that’s popped up like mushrooms with Trump’s win. Happened last time that old white man won, too, and soon everyone was whining. How tf did it get worse. Either goldfish memory or a bunch of tadpoles.

You might not have a choice about that soon, all thanks to people like you. Sounds like willing to the second degree to me.

Come here and make me ;)

Insane take ngl

What? What do you mean lol.

Damn, hypocrite much?

I was literally giving you what you want. I could give you what I want, which is equal rights and fair treatment, but that’d be a bit white colonialist.

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Sorry to disappoint but I’m only gonna benefit from official Republican policies, so… thanks? I guess? Was just trying to help you non-wealthy non-crackers.

Bro I’m not saying dems have anyone else to blame, I’m saying you seem way too happy about self harm.

Leave me out of your suicide cult pls

So you recognize the danger you’re putting yourself in by insisting you’d rather have nothing than only a little? That’s what I’m getting out of this frothing mess of a comment.

Oh they are are they? Better let the dude explicitly in favor of Israel’s approach win over the woman who wasn’t mean enough to Israel I guess. And fuck all the other points, we’ve got standards.

Man, idk if I’m mad or amused. You either don’t live in the US and your stance didn’t change anything, or you do and going by your pronouns you’re about to reap all the rewards.

When someone suggests the best solution to a genocide is making it worse, I’m going to call that person names, yeah.

Go back to your box, Russian shill. Election’s over.

Literally just flip a coin to get a better prediction. Randomized decision rule go brrr. Absolute madness. Neyman and Pearson can’t fool me. It’s all lies. Lies!

I’ll make sure to get back to you when I get to S3, then. Gotta admit to being disappointed that Christina just disappeared, but the fact you remember her name suggests she’ll be back. Woo! Before that, to the other points:

Leveling systems are generally terrible writing, agreed, but they can serve as excellent antagonists (something you’ll see attempted often in RoyalRoad entries). I think they’re a trend from Korea that stuck around because they appeal to gamers. I’ve never really looked into the topic, but the first I remember hearing of was called The Gamer and it released in… 2013. Hoo boy. Yeah, I’m almost 30 lol. It wasn’t that long ago, but apparently long enough for nostalgia to set in. At the time it was super popular and spawned literally tens of thousands of spinoffs.

That’s not as many as it sounds like, though. Eastern novels/writing seems to be iterative, with stories slightly mutated over and over in vast quantities until something is new enough and good enough to gain popularity and shift the genre again. There’s less focus on brevity, novelty is central but narrow, and the novelty is often entirely described within the title. Western web fiction is similar in some ways, but much less homogeneous.

I do have an ebook reader. My main suggestion would be, if you’ve got one in mind, looking for problems with it online, like “<ebook name> stopped working” or “froze” or “won’t turn on.” A lot of them break in suspiciously predictable ways and are completely unrepairable. Second suggestion is to get one that isn’t bound to a store, which you can freely upload epubs/pdfs to, preferably via USB cable. Everything else is pretty much subject to your use-case. Small size, backlighting, water/rain resistance and low weight are requirements for me personally.

My reader is a tablet style thing which I can use for work. However that leaves it too large to actually read much on while in bed or on the go, and I’ve ended up mostly using my (very small) phone to read epubs.

Sorry for the wall of text, but hopefully it’s useful to you! As to web fiction: I do still suggest searching. There is no one website, it really is best to spread out. I often use TopWebFiction and RoyalRoad, but so many good stories are hidden in some weird forum or blog somewhere that I usually just look at story request threads for new stuff.

Alright I’m reading Skeleton Soldier. I like it. It is a little silly, a little shallow, but it’s fun and varied and damn if it doesn’t pull off some emotional whiplash. Like when the female knight in the tournament tripped while everybody was booing her? My stomach dropped through the floor.

Yoo, Skeleton Soldier is just time loop LitRPG in manga form. Absolutely cringe and I am absolutely here for it. That used to be one of my favorite genres/tropes to read! Yeah, those types of stories are rarely finished, and usually pretty shallow. Kinda like fast food for reading. I’ll give it the manga a shot. Thank you!

I really wonder wth happened with your school lol. I hated mandatory reading too, but it wasn’t nearly that bad, just tedious.

Sorry to heap more suggestions on to you, but if you’re into stories like skeleton soldier you could take a look at RoyalRoad or similar web novel sites. There’s literally tens of thousands of such stories uploaded for free by the authors. The vast majority of them are bad or worse, but with how many there are there’s more than enough high quality stuff, some of which is novel or experimental in a way one doesn’t find in published work. Just be ready to drop a story if it feels like it’s going nowhere or is not fun to read.