jaycifer

I'm sure it would be quiet, but I doubt it would be peaceful.

Technically, Cradle and the preceding series to Dakota Krout’s Completionist Chronicles, Divine Dungeon, are in the cultivation genre rather than LitRPG. That said, the two are so closely related that they can often be interchangeable. The biggest differences would be that cultivation uses energy/essence to gain power while litRPGs use experience points to gain levels. I think cultivation books tend to have looser rules(principles maybe?) binding them whereas litRPGs have more rigid video game constraints/rulesets (although the best litRPGs lay out rules early on that allow for a great flexibility in how a player can operate within them).

Speaking on both, I think the a lot of people gravitate towards the power fantasy of the genres which has led to them being oversaturated with a lot of sub-par series. There’s some good gems in there. Cradle is pretty good, I didn’t get super far in the series but I respect it. I do think Dakota Krout writes the best series in Divine Dungeon and Completionist Chronicles, although you do have to accept the puns, and that all of the main protagonists have very transactional personalities. The Life Reset series has an interesting premise and town management. If you want straight video gaming, I think Ascend Online is pretty good at capturing the best parts of the MMORPG grind, or there’s Awaken Online if you need to embrace your inner edge-lord.

Had some of the soundtrack creep up through Spotify, there’s some good jams in there. “Playtime is Over” is one I can run pretty far to.

I thought the album cover looked cool then learned there was a movie. I eventually watched that and by the end it was pretty darn good.

Now there’s a metroidvania in the works. I tried the demo and it has an interesting mix of bike navigation and on-foot fighting. Really tough bosses, but pretty fun!

Imagine you have a big board on your front lawn where people can come to write stuff and respond to others on the board. This board is an instance.

Your neighbor has their own board, which they have “federated” with yours. Messages from your board can show up on their board, and people there can write on those messages same as ones native to that board.

You can federate with them so their stuff shows on your board, or defederate if you don’t like the people there.

Anyone with the ability to make a board can have one federated with other boards to make a really big web of boards, but to a person looking at your lawn’s board it feels like one big one.

Who tells the people instructing the computers how the book keeping should be done if not the book keepers?

I think what they’re getting at is that the land being used to grow that grass and inedible plants could instead be used to grow plants that humans can eat.

I have a print hanging on my bedroom wall! It’s a very interesting picture.

30 seconds for what?

This is not a delay. They are updating the window from "Early 2023-24," which the article states is likely anytime this past year to the end of their fiscal year at the end of March to... "Q4 2023-24" which ends at the end of March. So there's no real change to when it could release by (yet).

It’s the perfect time to quit when they’re making it so easy!

There can be some interesting things. In my campaign setting there is an age requirement of 450 to be on the ruling council of the largest nation, so it’s almost entirely elves with the odd gnome or other long lived race. It’s been interesting thinking of how society would be shaped around such an institution.

Even in most adventures I’ve been in or heard of they usually doesn’t last even a tenth of the 50 years in the meme so the differing life spans don’t really factor in.

To each their own, but I think removing the differing life spans makes the races more flat and indistinct.

Is this in Athens? I read a blog post recently about an older game that went above and beyond to capture the Orient Express in it's prime: https://www.filfre.net/2023/10/the-last-express/