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Step one: Ask someone to go.

There's not really a step two. You just keep trying step one until it works.

If you want something more finicky than that, consider that this is the small random question thread, not the massive publishing industry that exists to part folks trying to answer that question from their money

Alright, fair enough. Xianxia/wuxia are basically Chinese Fantasy Novels, and in a lot of cases the stories will assume that the reader is familiar enough with the cultural background to understand why they're doing things the way they do. That makes sense.

It's probably easier to think of them as Martial Arts/Punch Magic Fantasy rather than chinese specifically, at this point -- the genre's spread out a bit, and while a lot of it still originates from china and leans heavily on its cultural trappings, a fair bit doesn't, too. There's also lots of Chinese fantasy works that are nothing like xianxia or wuxia, heh.

So far as recommendations go, in no particular order the ones I've RRS'd from Royal Road trawls are
Molting the Mortal Coil
Beware of Chicken
The Path of Ascension (Sorta'; it's a litrpg running off a xianxia engine)
Cultivation Anomaly
Fighting to be Kind in a Cultivation World
Breaker of Horizons
Long Fang - Cultivator vs System (Again sorta', it's a xianxia critter transposed into a litrpg setting)

Other stuff I can remember... I liked 40 Millenniums of Cultivation, though it has its problems, especially later on. If the name isn't hint enough, it's basically someone doing a Warhammer 40k inspired sci-fi xianxia deal.

Haven't gotten around to reading through it again (last time I did, it wasn't finished being translated into english), and it's a subtly different genre (xuanhuan instead of xianxia, so basically folklore-y fantasy instead of punch magic, this one with a mystery tilt), but what I had read of Lord of the Mysteries was super solid.

Think I remember liking World of Cultivation quite a lot... title's kinda' generic, so you'd know it by the zombie face.

Pretty sure lots of folks would recommend Library of Heaven's Path, though from what I remember it's another one of those "Starts pretty interesting, gets less so as it goes" deals.

I'd second Desolate Era, heh.

There's... well, bunches more, many I'm forgetting. Some good, plenty kinda' bad. If you ever see someone starting to talk about pulling up roots, you'd probably be best served just ditching it before the genocide starts... if you're not really into people throwing geographic features at each other, a lot of the trappings common to punch magic fantasy are goddamn odious, heh.

If you want legit access to english ones, Royal Road has a pile, and big bonus there over the more traditional sources is many of them tend to be, well... shorter. Which can be nice for testing the waters, so to speak. One thing about xianxia/wuxia fiction is it's not uncommon for them to go long, like holy shit long. That lord of the mysteries mentioned clocks in at 1400 chapters on completion, coming up on something like 2.7 million words. 40M isn't even done and it's up to 2700 (it's something like 10 million words, and I didn't accidentally add a 0).

We had/have threads for SS13, uh. Somewhere in other games or play with your buddies, I think? Pretty sure. Try searching over there or browsing back until one shows up.

I mean, to humans and probably should be, sure. Unprocessed cow shit is pretty good for plants, too, but most places probably got laws somewhere or another saying that you can't legally feed it to people under most circumstances

Pretty sure killing buyers would affect financial quarters

I mean, you'd think that, but plenty of joints have strong financials even as their horseshit is getting people killed by the plague, nevermind all the other sorts of less immediately rememberable examples of murderous corporate malfeasance getting financially rewarded.

The unfortunate reality is that that just isn't necessarily true

Quote from: Frumple on August 21, 2021, 06:11:58 pm

Florida hasn't been doing so hot since the plague started. At this point I don't think it's conceivable that changes unless something final happens to our governership and legislature

Still smack dab in the middle of the country for deaths per 100k. How is Florida average!?

By dint of the US's general response, last year in particular, being fucking terrible. Twenty something geographical regions being relatively worse off is just an idle indictment of the nation's pandemic response

... props to that stat graph for just casually adding two states to the country, though. Maybe someday soon-ish it'll actually become reality...

Eh, racist isn't really the right word, as the connection between race as humans generally use the term and phenotype expression is pretty damn tenuous at the end of the day. Not really sure what the closest term from general parlance would be, though...

... tortiseshells aren't untrustworthy, anyway, just the existence of their testicles.

Looks at least like it's only likely to be a cat 1, maybe cat 2. If that holds steady it probably shouldn't be that bad... lower category hurricanes tend to be relatively mild, especially if you're not in the immediate storm surge area or flood zone. 3 and up is where it starts getting extra nasty, maybe gtfo the way territory.