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It's not necessarily Qi and the immortality bit is fairly conditional, but yeah, more or less. Think MMORPG scaling mechanics as a core plot point without necessarily having an explicit system... with more or less exactly what that means vis a vis the MC (and others) level of power. Gather power units, level up, gather more power units. Cultivate your whatever until you can break mountains and kill gods. _{Probably commit genocide at some point or another, or at least murder lots of people and steal their stuff.}

I read more than is probably healthy (because holy shit the main characters tend to be some variety of scum), mostly because they're one of the few bits of fiction where people fairly regularly bludgeon each other with parts of the landscape. If you ever see me mention punch magic or fooxia, it's probably a reference to this stuff.

I'unno about biggest, but you probably wouldn't see argument from much of anyone that's been paying attention that he's not at least somewhere in the top ten, maybe even top three or so.

I don't necessarily disagree, but building hellavators/containment ditches are enough of a repetitive time consuming pain the arse without making it aesthetically pleasing. It and multi-mod housing* are two of the things I blame no one for just... not... dealing with.

* When you have like twenty or thirty NPCs and don't want to go without chunks of them, you can either build housing or play the game. Not so much both. There's a mod that auto-gens minimalist housing based on number of potential residents and it is a godsend.

The supporty bits of a terrarium can be other materials. No, what that means is you have to backwall the entire jungle with glass if you're going to use some other materials for the boundary markers.

... or be a bit more sane and just do a bit off the side for aesthetic effect. Incidentally, I'm not sure how easy editing a mod is, but if it's not too bad and works in MP there's totally instant hellavator items in mods. One I use regularly has grey brick, torches, and rope, but if you could change that to living mahogany and glass (and probably vine rope! And those shrine torches, probably.) it'd be an incredible time saver.

_{alternatively, just take tedit to the map at some point to make the containment parts :V}

check the wiki page? Can't be arsed to parse it fully. Mostly seem to be piggybacking off someone else's system, and maybe doing some of the funding via better tier services you buy into. F2P cell phone service

Oh, so light novels are actual books text-only books? I thought they were just the manga equivalent of kiosk literature.

Light novels are basically novellas. Probably about the same size as, like, old school pulp fiction stuff. They're generally aimed at younger adults/older teens, but like manga can vary on that front. There's a lot of crossover/interbleed with web novels/web serials, too. Quality wise it's generally stuff easier to get into and whatnot than proper length books, so, yeah, you see a lot of amateurish work.

Personally, I've seen a lot of pretty neat stuff and interesting ideas (plus they're like the only goddamn thing that will touch my apparently fetishistic appreciation of video game UI in writing. Phallic objects out for blue boxes in the middle of your paragraphs, yo'. Metaphorically, I mean.), but the general quality even for the relatively good stuff is... it's pretty shit. Intermittently appealing shit that grows on you like some kind of dung mold, but still pretty shit.

Ok, so who here's going to go to an anti-war protest?

If my grandparents are dead by then, and I'm not physically crippled, and it's in reaching distance, and odds are good going wouldn't ultimately result in me be homeless or dead... maybe. Probably just vote for whoever's pushing hardest against it at the time, so long as they're not running as GOP, honestly. Voting and a bit of (mostly internet) discussion is about all I can manage, most days.