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Yeah, I don't actually know how the original is made/distributed. Could be free, could be paid... it doesn't really matter so far as infringement goes, though, unless the actual author has given permission or is using a permissive license of some sort. Free online often doesn't mean free anywhere online, with whatever modifications whoever pleases to make. Can easily violate copyright law distributing or modifying a free work, heh, for all that the folks making them are usually too poor or too ideologically inclined towards sharing et al to really do anything about it.

... honestly, I usually don't really check with translated work, I just refrain from linking directly. If you assume it's infringement there's not going to be a problem even if it isn't

E: But yeah, web serials and LNs and whatnot tend to kinda' be the Dwarf Fortress of modern literature so far as metaphorical development cycles go, particularly if they get popular enough donations and/or ad funds can support the author fully or in part (and that's assuming they don't end up outright published and sold via normal distribution routes). Some end, some just keep going until the author dies or somethin'.

This it? Nine hundred and fifteen chapters, three hundred and twenty seven of them translated. The amount of work that has gone into this crazy garbage is just staggering.

Not sure whether it's a violation of forum ToS or not to link to that (translations like that are usually examples of blatant copyright infringement ), but yeah, that's it. One of the amusing things is while the translation is further along than most, the work itself is apparently not particularly unusual vis a vis length for its sort of literature :V

It's becoming increasingly tempting to learn to read chinese (and japanese, and korean, ahahaha) just to have open access to the whole run of the stuff.

Hey man, refuge in audacity. Or hiding in plain sight? Something along those lines. It's entirely too early to brain well on less'en four hours of sleep.

Still, you could make the argument it's basic sun tzu-y stuff. When attacking, appear to defend. When bribing, appear to be paying long agreed on reparations. That would assume a lot more competence than I'm particularly willing to give to the folks involved, though, personally...

And in the continuing adventures of paper crane man, he has now set himself on fire, ate a self-combustion plant to catch himself more on fire, jumped into a lake and hung out at the bottom for a while, still on fire, then climbed out, walked home clothed in nothing but a rain cloud, and had the size of his dick laughed at by a giant goose.

Ho yez, dot's th'good stuff. This is the gift that is apparently going to keep on giving. Shame I really need to go to sleep now...

... paper crane man is now paying a head devil that appears to be squatting in his soul to basically chop up his brain with a magic kung-fu laser sword. And, like. Cash. He's paying the head devil with the local currency.*

This. This is why I read translated stuff. You just don't really get this shit from english native literature. You get other sorts of pleasing absurdity but not this sort of pleasing absurdity.

* Being fair, as near as I can tell the local currency is what amounts to the rough equivalent of varying strengths of mana potion, but... still.

I guess. Some. Not nearly as much as folks appear to be trying to make it, but sure, the timing could have been better on that front. Not sure by how much, but better.

secretly arranged a plane delivery of $400 million in cash

announced in January as part of the Iran nuclear deal.

... what.

Has the definition of secret changed on me at some point? Do you need two years forewarning and goddamn trumpets for it to no longer apply or somethin'?