What's the appeal of chinese Cultivation games? The amount of time and commitment needed to achieve success is beyond every other genre there is.
What's the appeal of chinese Cultivation games?
What's the appeal of chinese Cultivation games? The amount of time and commitment needed to achieve success is beyond every other genre there is.
>Number goes up
Hao... hao...
we runescape now
>Numbers go up
on steroids
chinks really just made an entire genre of novels that are just /sig/ pol shitposting about self improooooooooooooving. i fricking kneel.
ahahah
>failed at everything
>too stupid to get a college or uni education
>b-but I self improve!
>huh, you looked wrong at me?! I'll kill you whole family, white na-i!
Hmph, this junior I see dares to court death. Come back when you stop smelling like your mother's milk or I'll cuck your father to the point your mother calls me daddy.
Hmpphh! Little frog in a well, how about you call me grandpa and i wont end your whole bloodline.
HMMMMMMMMPPPPPPPHHHHHHH! This great ancestor will exterminate your nine clans before you dare to sneeze. Come at me, I shall show you the dao is an ardous journey, little stepping stone.
HMMPPHHH! The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind. You fool, while you were mouthing of with this grandpa my taiyi immortal master destroyed your whole sect and family and he will soon come here and kill you with 800 blood trigrams of holodomor formation, you will suffer in there for 1 million years and be removed from the 6 paths of reincarnation. You shouldnt have bumped in to me and made me drop my meatbun. You reap what you sow.
Are chinks really this over the top chuuni?
that's what makes them so entertaining
Are you actually asking about shitposting in Ganker? It seems this progenitor needs to teach you a lesson, nine clans extermination! Green hat tribulation!
yes and its cringe kino
They can just be as anime as anime.
you mean shonenshit is pretty much this cultivation nonsense but way more boring and cringe
Weren't they, the one who created proto shonen?
This is fricking amazing. Sauce?
Butterfly and Sword (1993)
me when i grab the titty
Thanks anon.
>i go to store now" or "i do xyz now, do now". They are probably doing a direct translation in their head
That's exactly what's happening. It's also why they confuse articles (the shop, a shop) or drop them entirely from sentences, those don't really exist in Chinese either.
>I already eat cat yesterday no want hungry for more
Is perfectly valid and grammatically sound in Chinese.
Read one where the MC kills a guy, then uses his bloody corpse to spell the character for ‘death’ on the wall, then threatens the crowded room to shut their mouths or he’ll teach them how to spell it too.
sounds like martial peak, but honestly I bet there's at least 3 others that did it.
literally teaching them how to write the character "death"
Chinks (actually everyone east of the Himalayas) have cultures built on autistic posturing. The idea of humility (actual humility rather than servile bootlicking) never took off there like it did in the Christian and Islamic worlds
The Buddhists did TRY to teach them.
*watches this exchange from a nearby window while concealing his aura*
Interesting.
It's just another setting. Chinese high fantasy. Once you're familiar with it you can navigate it like any other type of setting.
Genuinely what the frick is this "cultivation" shit?
It's complicated, but it boils down to "a method for becoming immortal".
Basically, a RPG where you start as a nobody and must ascend to Godhood by using esoteric knowledge and discipline
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I love journeys to apotheosis that sounds ki-
Hm nevermind
It's like the chinese version of battle shonen manga
In China personal growth is done via consuming various substances to expand the chi in your meridians, such as eating milk of the rhinoceros bone marrow or tiger's teeth. With enough meditation and products consoomed you can expand past the nascent stage of cultivation to the nascent golden stages of cultivation to eventually the nascent heavenly stages of cultivation and eventually having the reflexes and resistances to surpass the god's themselves and replace them until eventually some other guy comes across $13,000 to buy enough milk of the rhinoceros bone marrow to start the cycle once again.
So basically it's just chinese traditional bullshit propaganda?
Yes, but with ki-powered street fighter thrown in
so it's chink propaganda you're falling for
Dystopic Imperial hellhole where success is determined by how much milk of the great ape bone one has consumed does not in anyway make me support China or even hate America more in any manner.
it's training you to accept chinese traditional bullshit as some "based cultural awesomeness" instead of the degeneracy that it is
Enough about western comics that can't go beyond capeshit and homosexualry.
agreed, which is why you read BD instead
BD is 90% interracial softcore against historical backdrops at this point.
I'm not touching another French work until they start labeling their media with BLACKED warnings.
Belgian BD doesn't have that
That's akin to saying it's awesome to yell and scream like Goku to get stronger instead of working out, like watching space apes fight is awesome but cringe irl
Anon I'm pretty sure these games don't convince any westerners to meditate until they can fly, chill out
it convinces them that hunting rhinos to extinction to snort their horns as dick pill substitute is a good thing
This is also why they're fine with cheating in games: They simply see it as being part of the cultivation cycle that they can buy something that lets them be visibly better than anyone else.
LMAO
>but it's ok since there are about 3000 chapters to go and all the big dick characters that could kill you with a fart are currently busy
Isn't that the truth. Anyone who could squash the MC flat is always out of the scene by some extremely contrived coincidence. And when the MC apparently manages to become the top-dog, yet another curtain opens revealing a gorillion more ranks, which isn't surprising as chinks will always have trouble keeping track of their population of almost 2 gorillion.
Of course, the MC always manages to find the right person to help him advance and never seems to run into any hurdles on the way even though in real life you'd see people blackmailed into refusing to help you or have a bunch of guys sent to kill you and your loved ones in your sleep on the regular if you got along that far.
Killing MC's entire clan can only happen around three times. After that, he has no worldly connections and can't be stopped.
>when the MC apparently manages to become the top-dog, yet another curtain opens revealing a gorillion more ranks
One reason I'm kind of glad RI will never be finished is we'll never get a new realm past rank 9.
>not killing your loved ones yourself and refining them into a pill or something
Only got yourself to blame if you‘re too soft
You dare ask such questions while merely being in the lurker realm?
This daddy will show you some pointers once he has finished spitting blood at your insolence
This grandpa will teach
a lesson first, he dares to come here while being a puny tourist realm cultivator, even below a lurker cultivator and mortals.2
This senior recommends "A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality", "i Shall Seal The Heavens", "Renegade Immortal", "A Will Eternal" and "Emperor's Domination". The last one requires an invincible dao heart.
>no Top Tier Providence
>This grandpa
>This senior
Webnovels have convinced me China and Korea have no concept of pronouns beyond 'you'.
they also love using him, and that guy, as ways of building of suspense for some fricking reason
This Black person dares to talk to me. Pfff, don't make me laugh.
Anon we have people who without a hint of irony call themselves zir, we dknt have room to talk.
This troony is very offended by your wors, i'm courting death
Apparently in chinese (mandarin or something cant remember, sorry) you can use words without a time. So in english you say
I went to the supermarket
Im going to the supermarket
I will go to the supermarket
There is always a time, from what the videobsaid you can say things without applyin a time, which was very interesting.
one of the most common tells that you are reading something that was originally written in an east asian language is how they state that something will happen in the future
say it is 12, something is happening at 2
in english you of course say something is happening in 2 hours or something will happen in 2 hours
in east asian languages they say something is happening 2 hours later
>you can use words without a time
More accurately, verbs don't have tenses in Chinese. The time the action occurs must be specified in the sentence, there is no equivalent of 'went' in Chinese, it's all just 'go.'
>I went to the store
>I went to the store last week
Both are valid sentences in English. In Chinese it's
>I go to store yesterday
And yesterday HAS to be there. Now you can denote ambiguity in time with this participle: '了' but the verb 'go' (去) itself doesn't change, thank god, there's enough characters to remember as it is without accounting for tense.
Wait is that the stereotypesl of the chinese immigrant is them going "i go to store now" or "i do xyz now, do now". They are probably doing a direct translation in their head. Similar things happen with english speakers in spanish, they cant do object pronouns, so they will day things like "la carro handa muy lajos"
>A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality
Its 2455 fricking chapters, wtf.
Anon, those are webnovels. You can read a few chapters while riding a bus.
Empathy is weakness in this dog-eat-dog world, you won't survive for long if you keep that mindset little junior.
It's all in the dao heart, no need for backing or resources. Stupid junior.
> Empathy is weakness in this dog-eat-dog world, you won't survive for long if you keep that mindset little junior.
Crab bucket mentality
t. cuck trying to drag others to his level
go big or go wear your green hat of shame in the corner
I dropped I shall seal the heavens at some point after like 1000 chapters
esoteric chinese grindan
i base my entire knowledge of the genre on this sseth video:
chink isekai but instead of videogame themed it's kungfu circlejerking
It's a genre of eastern fantasy story that is heavily inspired by Chinese mythology.
Stories like "Journey to the West" are known to have heavily informed the formation of this genre of high fantasy.
Basically it's exactly like the dragons and magic spells of western fantasy, just a version that came from Chinese myth and culture instead of European myth and culture.
"Cultivation" is the cringiest shit in Chinese fiction, believing all true power to come from within and it's just a matter of tapping into it
"How" to tap into it is a different matter altogether. Some say meditation, some even say human sacrifice. The end-result in the same is that humans turn to supermen from simply believing they can and enforcing this will on reality.
IRL every martial arts 'master' was really just good at hiding behind tons of meat while sending thousands of young kids to their death in battle. Only later spreading lies about how they totally killed 400 people unarmed naked in the middle of a rainstorm or how they fought for several weeks with the commander of the enemy army before having to be pulled away before shattering the Earth.
>all true power to come from within and it's just a matter of tapping into it
You've never read any of it. Cultivation is about drug addicts murdering people for to satiate their habit.
I have read lots of it unfortunately. You're describing what real cultivation is like. I'm describing what the romanticized version of it in fiction is. The drug addicted serial killer part comes BEFORE the legends about this awesome martial arts master who became immortal (was actually hopped up on PCP)
Either ways, Cultivation is cringe.
>"Cultivation" is the cringiest shit in Chinese fiction, believing all true power to come from within and it's just a matter of tapping into it
lmao it's actually way more deterministic at times and basically says if you don't have resources or talent you're SOL.
Only a few novels get's all solipsistic about power and it's usually near the end.
>IRL
Who gives a shit. You realismgays are what's ruining fiction and games both.
>it's realistic that the women are uglier than average and prostitute around
>it's realistic that fiction is about drama and not fun adventures that people don't get up to in real life
>it's realistic that realism-homos spend most of their time sucking aids-wieners inbetween pressing Submit on their inane posts
Okay but it's still cringe even in fiction tho
Like picture basing your game's powerlevels around gacha mechanics
>Okay but it's still cringe
>muh cringe as an argument
have a nice day.
alas, the first Americentric cultivation
>reading a parody of chinese online novels in an american style
What a life, the world feels smaller everyday.
It's basically spiritual nofap that turns you into god
Remember wow mists of pandaria yeah that but whole ganre
You sit on a rock and clench your butt cheek for 500 years and get power to surpass gods.
In China and Chinese mythos, personal growth doesn't come from within or from experience or from tenacity. It comes from consumables, typically drugs, pills or leaves.
Also, you're a gambling king.
Because that's your stereotypical chinaman: a gambling degenerate crack addict.
>In China and Chinese mythos, personal growth doesn't come from within or from experience or from tenacity. It comes from consumables, typically drugs, pills or leaves.
Not really. Almost every single cultivation story makes a point of pills having toxicity and alchemy being a "side-thing" even when they use them a lot and a lot of the time they cross later cultivation barriers due to some personal revelation like understanding mortality or their own will. Er Gen does the latter a fair bit.
That said resource-grubbing is in every single story out there.
Give and take. Some have drawbacks that never are relevant, or they're freebies.
ToDaG for instance is just a bunch of crack addicts...
Sit down for a lesson and you'll never have to ask again. You can skip to the 8th post if you just want to read about cultivation.
Is there any youtuber play this ttrpg setting and going in blind?
Seem entertaining to watch as chaos unfold.
that was fricking stupid
Chinks are a race of psychopaths, what the hell
Effects of communism, anon
They're perfectly normal in places like Singapore or Taiwan
Power levels, but way more autistic
Chinks cookie clicker isekai
"My bpl is higher than yours". Just replace DBZ/S terms, with chink ones...
Native isekai, but Chinese.
>Native isekai
A what now? I don't see how you can be native to an isekai. That would just make it your regular sekai.
It's a shitposting meme exclusively used by morons.
Sometimes people use it wrong to describe any fantasy setting but it generally means the standard isekai video game mechanics shlock while just being born in that world normally rather than summoned into it.
chinese variation of capeshit
>always assumed they meant chinese cultivation as a dynasty warriors hack and slash game where you 'cultivate' the heads of chinese people by the thousands.
>it's actually about ascending to godhood.
Huh. I like my interpretation better.
Cultivating and killing thousands of people still go hand in hand.
A musou game really isn't that different.
The Strikeforce/Multiraid games got pretty Xianxia anyways.
that sounds better. I thought Amazing Cultivation Sim was a farm game and thats why I looked into it further
There are games? I just read the web novels.
A few but most of them are really bad.
All I know of is Amazing Cultivation Simulator. What else?
Most of them have names I can't even read and are at best MTL'd RPG maker games that can't even handle the scope of the setting. This stuff really only works well in literature because to program a game to handle all of the asspullery takes remarkably more talent than anyone who would make this kind of game possesses.
>Amazing Cultivation Simulator
one of my favourite games. I went in knowing nothing about cultivation but I like it a lot.
Other game i've been looking at once in awhile is Tales Of Immortal but I haven't pulled the trigger yet. Apparently the devs are making some questionable decisions.
Morrowind is basically a cultivation game
>they don't even butcher them to remove the guts
Boiled rat shit tastes that good?
Every 50 years the Chinese have a cultural revolution led by the intellectuals to delete all previous knowledge, they're probably city slickers that lost it all and found a way to catch rats in a bucket trap as protein for their rice (if they even have that) not knowing the basics of butchery.
To be fair I don't think most of the West at this point could even grow a potato even if they tried and lack the skill to even catch vermin let alone use them as a source of food in an emergency.
Unironically rat and pigeon meat would be easy to cultivate during the postapocalyptical period.
Bare minimum needed to multiply them easily.
chinese people are so lame
>its actually cool to be scrawny and wear a dress!
>scrawny
Chinks don't bulk out like the hulk even when they get strong, something like Bruce Lee is what they're all going for, so they don't put emphasis on size for strength but muscle tone.
bruce lee was a scrawny midget
Bruce Lee could kick your ass unless you're a top MMA fighter, and I'd put money on you not being one. Everyone knows he'd get smashed by a trained fighter in a higher weight class but that's about it.
lol
You're fricking moronic. No matter how big you are your chin is just as vulnerable as anyone. If you aren't a trained fighter then someone who is will whoop your ass no matter what the size difference is. Now a trained fighter bigger than Bruce Lee would likely beat him but not some fat autist shitposting on Ganker
The reason we have separate weight classes is because weight is an overwhelming advantage. Don't underestimate it.
Not enough for a literal lard ball to beat Bruce Lee, or some random tall guy that has never fought at all. A large muscular man with some training? Sure.
>Not enough for a literal lard ball to beat Bruce Lee
Under the right circumstances weight can tip the scales and make any training irrelevant. That's all I'm saying. The same goes with height and reach. With enough of anything you can gain an advantage.
"Under the right circumstances" I could be president of the united states.
If you weigh 600 pounds you're more likely to be able to beat the rotten piss out of anybody than you are to be president. I don't care why you're fighting against this point.
I got nanomachines, son.
Weirdly enough none of the pre-weight class UFC tournaments were won by the biggest guy.
A heavy weight MMA could beat up Bruce Lee.
Pic not rel.
This achievable natty?
Only if you consider using American corn-made junk food to be natural.
>Mr Heart
If you've ever seen him lat spread the dude basically grew wings
probably good tbh
Probably like Pheasant or Quail
surprisingly pigeons and doves are not closely related to other gamebirds at all, so not sure what they would taste like.
Meng Hao walked into the McDonald’s. The cultivator taking his order gave a derisive snort, but Meng Hao did not really care, because he had repressed his aura down to the Single Patty Realm, and a fool would not be able to tell his true level of burger eating.
“Give me… a Happy Meal!”
The cultivator’s face flickered before he finally regained his composure and laughed. “You couldn’t afford a Happy Meal. Get lost! Don’t you see that there are Double Quarter Pounder Realm eaters waiting behind you?”
Meng Hao slapped his bag of holding and threw 80 billion spirit McDonald’s coupons onto the counter, causing an earthquake which demolished half of the restaurant. Everyone dropped their jaws. None could see how this was possible!
“I’ll take that Happy Meal with a side order of fries.“ Meng Hao said. He was as calm as the ocean in a painting of an insanely calm ocean. “And let me see your manager!”
The cashier cultivator coughed up a mouthful of ketchup. He simply could not handle Meng Hao’s killing intent, because he was only at the Quarter Pounder with Cheese realm himself. Even though Meng Hao had suppressed his aura, because he had cultivated the Heavenly Burgin’ Qi, this was enough to kill people a few levels higher if he truly wanted.
It was then that another man with a much more fierce aura stepped forward. “You dare make trouble here?”
“P… Patriarch Hamburglar!”
Patriarch Hamburglar was 99 cents of the way into the Big Mac Realm, plus tax! Meng Hao was pushed back two feet, knocking over a soda machine. Powerade Mountain Berry Blast geysered outward, killing several onlookers.
Of course, Mayor McCheese saw all this happen through the window.
Meng Hao coughed up a mouthful of mustard, snorted, constricted his pupils, and then his expression went calm. He unleashed the aura of 64 patties, condensed down to a 2 patty stack that could fit into his mouth!
Mayor McCheese coughed up a mouthful of cheese. His pupils constricted.
“Is this… Seeking the McRib stage?”
Meng Hao had the gentle air of a scholar, but it wouldn’t stop him from killing several people in a McDonald’s.
“Burger Devouring Scripture! I’m Lovin’ It!”
With the first keyword of the Burger Devouring Scripture, everyone below the early Quarter Pounder With Cheese stage exploded into purple mist. The light of the immense heavenly burger shone down with the contours of a golden arch as 9 illusory burgers floated around Meng Hao’s body, which is probably an important xianxia number that matches the number of lakes in some sacred Chinese province I’ve never heard of. But that was only a fraction of Meng Hao’s power. He waved his arm, bringing forth thirty more cultivation techniques that hadn’t appeared in over 400 chapters!
“Heavenly Tribulation Fries! Eastern Everburning Egg McMuffin! Fruit Smoothie Guillotine! Soul McCafe Mocha Incarnation!”
Meng Hao’s expression was the same as ever as he slapped his bag of holding, and brought out his karmic ketchup packet, Fry Cook Lord medallion, seventeen different wooden time spatulas, a five-coloured resurrection coupon, the silk burger wrapper, various souls of lightning McNuggets that he may or may not still have, and his mask of the legacy of Ronald McDonald. Oh, and the image of a flying Chicken Snack Wrap dragon appeared. Remember that? It was basically his Main Thing at the start of the novel, but quietly faded into irrelevance. Until now!
All of this takes some time to describe, but actually happened in the space of only a few breaths.
“What! Impossible!”
Meng Hao wanted to summon the parrot as well, but it was too overcome with eroticism by the purple fur depicted on a nearby poster of Grimace, and was busy drilling out a glory hole straight through the poster, and the wall it was pinned to, with its strong parrot erection. But it was more than enough. The Hamburglar’s soul flew out and was absorbed into his mask! He screamed as his body was destroyed completely.
Meng Hao brushed off his robe and swept up his spirit coupons and everyone’s bags of holding which probably didn’t have any cool sh*t inside unless I write him into a corner later, and anyways, don’t worry about it for now. He surveyed the rubble that was all that remained of the McDonald’s.
“Guess I’ll be taking that Happy Meal… to go!”
I fricking love this copy pasta. The parrot bit gets me every time.
Shocked Wuxuia isn't more popular since it's just anime power level wank with mysogony cranked up to 11.
>parrot
Venerable Immortal Elders, enlighten this mortal that cannot see Mount Tai with his dog eyes. What is the parrot referencing? I get the rest of it but I assume this is a specific reference to a certain novel
I Shall Seal The Heavens' MC has a rapist parrot for a pet companion. It drills holes into people's asses.
The other anon gave you the name of the novel and explained the parrot, but to clarify, almost everything in this pasta is specifically referencing ISSTH. The legacy mask, silk wrapper, lightning souls, wooden time swords, the name Meng Hao, compressed stages or whatever - all of it is just obviously the same Meng Hao from that novel.
>“Burger Devouring Scripture! I’m Lovin’ It!”
Fricking kek Im dying
Courting death.
Just need to add the protag getting justice for his mother who worked tirelessly to get him a Happy Meal without pickles to improve his cultivation only for her to be unable to complete her goal.
>Meng Hao slapped his bag of holding and threw 80 billion spirit McDonald’s coupons onto the counter, causing an earthquake which demolished half of the restaurant. Everyone dropped their jaws. None could see how this was possible!
Chinkoids truly are devoid of any originality. They just ripped off the isekai genre wholesale and took it to absurd extremes.
Pretty sure that is the reversal
It was difficult for me to get into Nine Star Hegemon Body Art at first, especially with the seemingly plot hole shenanigans in the Secret Juili Realm arc, but this story quickly turned into one of the greats and even now is head and shoulders the best I've ever read. The things I thought were plot holes actually ended up being part of a really cool plot, both mechanically (as a storytelling tool) and as lore. I highly recommend it to anyone that already likes the genre.
>The amount of time and commitment needed to achieve success is beyond every other genre there is.
That is the appeal.
what's the point if they just fast forward 3 or 30 or 300 years and said they did
And somehow the world barely changes in that time
Honestly one of my favorite parts of ISSTH was when Meng Hao meditated at the bottom of the ocean floor for 100 years as the poison sea grew and grew and his friends came by every once in awhile and sighed wistfully before going on with their lives.
The blue sea turned into a mulberry field
chinkslop consumerbros what are some good cultivation novels? The only chinese literature Ive read is journey to the west and lord of the mystery
anything by Mao Ni, I didn't like Joy of Life though
Tales of Herding Gods
Sword Dynasty
forgot to add Kingdom's Bloodline, one of my favourites, not really a cultivation setting though
Out of the couple old chinese literature I've read, Journey to the West has a much different vibe compared to the rest. Maybe it was because of the specific translation I had, but the way it switches from prose to poetry is very masterful. It also was critical of alchemy and taoist theology, which is a major difference from the other chinese fantasy stories I've read.
Idk anon, I love that novel but it's pretty obvious it's buddhist propaganda.
Depends on how you view it. It does shill some specific buddhist sect somewhere near the end, but the pro-discourse was very well worded and the characters are oddly relatable on a very emotionally intimate way. You could very easily adapt it to be islamic or christian by altering some plot points, which is something that quite a lot of passages invoke. And you have to admit that the arc with the deer spirit trying to make adrenochrome by poisoning a king and tempting him to give him children so he can turn them into an elixir to cure him is a pretty redpilling moment.
You probably lack the cultural context for it but most of Journey to the West is just openly shitting on non-Buddhists by calling them weak and stupid.
we thought he was at the first level of the flounder nascent stage of cultivation but in truth he fights more akin to the third stage of the nascent golden ox level of cultivation, the head of the twin viper clan will not be pleased
I like how bugmen are so moronic that they invented a whole genre based on israelitery and misunderstanding parables. Obviously the zen master telling you that you need a white rhinoceros horn (or whatever) is about the journey that such a quest takes you on and how it gives you experience. But the bugs hear that and think, "Wait, that means I'll be super powerful if I just buy a horn!" and "That means I can get rich selling rhino horns."
as i have said many times before the most efficient way to genocide black people would be starting a rumor in China that consuming their flesh will give you their animal vigor and sexual prowess. Within 20 years blacks would be going the way of the rhino as sexually impotent chinks traffic all their children into oblivion.
remind yourself that all across asia, the chinese fulfilled the same roles and niches as the israelites did in europe, however unlike the israelites they could always go home to the most powerful state in asia.
The israelites, the Chinese, and the Igbo in africa all are of the same cloth
any good manhua or however it's written?
Journey to the Heavens and the artist's earlier work
anything by Xia Da
I read some decent yuri by a chinese artist, trying to recall the name.
Try Saintess Has a Showdown which is basically lesbian pokemon cultivation.
how did manhuwas become so popular? my nephew reads only chinkshit pretty much. before that he was reading asiaticshit, and he started with manga originally.
They went with quantity at the cost of quality with genres not seen often in a recent market opening to the rest of the world that knew jack-shit about Asia until Netflix.
chinkshit is a fast food books.
+ there's a lot of them.
also, manga are pure trash compared to chink novels.
manga
>yay, we're cucks! happy cucks!
Even fairy tail is full of cuck BS.
manga
>huh, you called me a cuck? I'll kill you
he has arrived
You got it wrong, it's:
>jap manga: you cucked me? I'll get isekai'd and beat you with the bullshit power of friendship against GOD (barely a nascent soul cultivator)
>chink manga: you cucked me? jokes on (you), this grandpa made you frick a male corpse puppet while I green hat'ed you by impregnating all your clan's women, have this esoteric merit law on your face I mastered last chapter after training like crazy thanks to some fortune I obtained by fricking fairies and goddesses 24/7. Now if you excuse me, I'll become a true immortal next chapter.
>I'll get isekai'd an
I recently read isekai and mc failed to revenge.
Instead he bullied some random women and that's all.
also, I sometimes read jap novels and they all are also cucks.
>MC GF is a prostitute
>whole novel she get constantly banged
>mc got beaten to half death for no reason
Depends. A lot of JP/KR stuff has been bringing in butthole protagonist character types.
Its fast food of comics. I dont think its inherently bad but every chinese person I talk to know its fricking garbage for brain dead people.
>Its fast food of comics
Surely not as bad as modern western comics... surely?
Depends, there's generic garbage done to satisfy everyone's fantasy or dreams of success you won't get in your life or your usual reincarnation generic shit (specially since there's NO quality control). Kinda like isekais in the miserable jap society.
However, the ones that actually try on making stuff are really worth it. Like a Villain Initialization.
With everything there's a lot of bad but there's some good. Its just how much your willing to put up to find something good is the main problem. But with manhua you have to put up with a lot more garbage than usual. I'd say its kinda like western comic but if you like manga you'd probably find it more tolerable.
At least manhua they actually can draw on model, I am 100% convinced AI art is shitty just because western comics they trained on are shitty (Superman or Ironman within the same comic can look like a different man every time, the artists only getting major things like Superman's hair twirl correct every frame), most anime stuff is nearly perfect beyond cloth/hair fusions that Bing AI pretty much solved.
This one believes it's akin to Dragon Ball Z but for different genres, the esteemed author writes as though everything must conclude within two chapters and if sees success continues writing more as if everything must be concluded leaving satisfaction at any point, unlike the Western plot.
I like the martial arts asiaticshit, hate everything with isekai, systems and reincarnating in the past though which cuts out like 90% of them. I don't get how people can enjoy those genres, but it's extremely popular for a reason I guess
It's self insert to feel OP, I feel really bad for the in-universe because essentially their entire history has been boiled down to be some slightly slighted wimpy middle-age office worker or 16-year-old that got hit by a bus's play thing that God himself or some lesser Tsundere Deity of that specific world decided upon because, because they just get bonus stats okay???
KR stuff is nice but I can't stand the CN stuff usually. There are exceptions, but I guess I'm just not one for magic martial arts.
sheer volume and speed
you try to read manga that shits updated monthly or backlogged to hell where translations are multiple months between chapters or dropped. meanwhile koreans everyday updates and chinese is mutlple mtl each day pushing everything else out of the way on the recently added or new release page your pirating that shit on.
Because of this
That's asiaticshit, not chinkshit
>h-goon
Wow
They're cool. Just look at this and tell me you wouldn't want to see what comes next.
I want to see what comes next, what is this?
It's the SNK vs Capcom manhua.
Color and made phone browsing
Reply to this post if you have eyes or you will never recognize Mount Tai.
(you)
>walk pass the pork bun stand
>accidentally hit a guy's shoulder with mine
>look at each other
>his pork buns fell to the ground
>senior tells me I'm courting death
>somehow this incident cost million of innocent lives, countless cultivators and money
They must be pulled up by the roots Anon. By the roots!
honestly the only cultivationshit I can tolerate are the ones with gimmicks or are atleast self aware to some degree. Cultivation played straight is just too fricking boring
Any self aware or with really good gimmicks???
I quite like Library of Heaven’s Path
Man, lots of people courting Death around here today. Is she hot?
This moronic "cultivation" shit is why the Chinese keep eating rhino horn and bat parts and other stupid shit right? like they think its spiritually powerful so they have to eat it regularly to vampire the rhino's life energy because they believe themselves inherently weak
how cringe, slovakian hardman raised on nothing but reprocessed pork butthole sausages will tear any chinaman to shreds with his bare hands without even knowing martial arts no matter how cultivated he is
Mao put the definitive end to foodbinding, but still he kept the moronic Chinese voodoo medicine. How does this shit run so deep for them?
>>This moronic "cultivation" shit is why the Chinese keep eating rhino horn and bat parts and other stupid shit right?
No, that's because of TCM.
It's adjacent in that cultivation's alchemy is usually a more fantastical version of it but that's about it. Most of cultivation is ripping off the Journey to the West's take on daoism (Sun Wukong learning to become immortal from a daoist/buddhist), incorporating a lot of Wuxia tropes from Jin Yong and then upping it a few notches.
Or to be more precise that's the "generic" take on it while most popular authors usually have their own spin on things even if they start around there.
the sociopathy of chinks always leaking into their novels is hilarious to me
>*humble beta noises*
>commits atrocities several chapters later
>rapes several captive elves
>purchases as many beastgirl slaves as his purse will allow
>*more humble beta noises*
difference between isekai protagoninsts in stories written by different authors
Burgers
>Either moralistic or complete hedonists
>Either way does not think of the consequences of his actions
>Acts on a whim to shape the world to his liking
will choose whatever their pet moral issue is, maybe it's briging democracy and liberty, maybe it's making the kingdom have gay marriage or whatever, doesn't matter what exactly it is there is always way
Japanese
>Does not bring scruples with him
>Just goes with the flow
>Introduces Japanese things to make his life more comfortable
will convince himself that buying a catgirl slave is a moral necessity within 3 seconds of getting to isekailand
Chinese
>Completely amoral
>Acts in naked self interest even if it pisses everyone off
>Doesn't even know the meaning of the expression "enlightened self interest
you forgot koreans complete inability to trust others, constant betrayals, and family drama.
then theres the nationalism
koreans write the best romance of the asians tbqh tbh famalam
This is true
I love KR romances. Some JP ones are good, but they need to be slow burners to work best, like Smoking Behind the Department Store with You. CN ones are awful because the male lead is usually a super abusive shithead who hates women, which is fun for action and cultivation shit I guess but damn it's a shit romance lead.
are you reading MoR too? Have you converted to the church of elise?
>KR romances
at least the 1% that aren't cuckfests
Sometimes there are actual charismatic giga chads, and CN novels are where you have to look if that's what you want, because KR and JP won't do that shit.
If you want an actual gigachad you're going to have to read Western fantasy. Chinese protagonists are posturing sociopaths, KR and JP protagonists are beta morons
>>If you want an actual gigachad you're going to have to read Western fantasy.
Yeah, from like the 30s.
What are you smoking. Modern western fantasy is literally written by and for women with very few exceptions.
Don't forget the Russian ones that go on about some guy going back in time to conquer some historical empire or time period. My complete non-understanding is that they're more about clay and military might and subjugation than anything else.
Burger isekai doesn't really exist because it gets superceded by the colonial fantasy. The burger "isekai" is stuff like Avatar or Dances with Wolves - the handsome cowboy everyman goes and integrates with the other culture, learns their ways, and eventually becomes the best of them. It's about being accepted in "the hood" more than anything else, not escapism like the other two.
>burger isekai
"what if i didn't have to feel guilty?"
>japanese isekai
"what if my culture was as meaningful as we're taught?"
>chinese isekai
"what if i was born rich and powerful?"
western brainrot is caused by Christianity without Christ tbh
The ones with Christ are full of similar brainrot, good luck finding one that isn't hostile to natives and doesn't worship rapefugees as their golden calfs.
>It's about being accepted in "the hood" more than anything else
Kek so what's the isekai version of the "he cute" copypasta look like?
>get hit by a truck
>reincarnate into a world of literal magic but similar to medieval Europe
>slay the troll terrorizing the local village
>before I strike the killing blow I shout "BOKU WA.....HERO tbh!"
>everyone cheers
>mayor of the village lights his pipe and grumbles "you're alright, Jappo"
>Hear "he cute" from one of the blonde white 36DD maidens
Hate that shit
Such a lazy way to introduce ally units to the MC's party
>builds reputation on the back of billions of corpses
I love that trope so much. "Actual demon-king" MC are lame as frick. Imagine people referring to the totally human MC as "demon-king" because he is so easily provoked to start a massacre. Now that's what I call based.
This is my favorite chink novel but it will never be completed as the author has disappeared.
It is completed tho? The author is currently writing a new novel.
https://book.qidian.com/info/1003899336/
The author was disappeared and the updates stopped at 1300 a few years ago, even his family was asking what happened to him
That link has the entire novel to chapter 1900.
Sadly the author didn't make it he got married
>System
If a series has this in the title, you automatically know it sucks ass.
It doesn't, it's title is the strongest anti meta, the mc literally feeds people stir fried feces.
There's lots of fun system novels inbetween the trash.
Ganker might like Black Tech Internet Cafe System since it's basically just the author going through one long nostalgia-fest over the fun of internet cafe's and old/new games with some (weak) cultivation stuff sprinkled in. Basically guy gets to introduce a bunch of games to a cultivation world that doesn't have anything like it.
Total guilty pleasure but I love it.
>p-playing Resident Evil knife only?!
>Diablo 2 sperging
>streaming Asscreed
>World of Warcraft's "release"
>a semi-popular chinese TV adaptation of a cultivation webnovel
>the original DOS Sword & Fairy game
The only problem with chink novel in censorship.
Before chinks went full censor it was a better times with better stories based on irl events.
Horrors was also great.
it's one of those things only autists understand, like factorio or dwarf fortress or kenshi
the age old question remains
Douluo Dalu or Star Martial God Technique?
That guy, that mortal of the ninth level, dare trespass upon the heavenly plane? Him that dare shall be punished by this devil!
Alright, you ching chong fricks convinced me. What are the best cultivation games and are they currently on sale on Steam?
"Amazing Cultivation Simulator" is great for Rimworld autists
Is this cultivation shit just the a continuation of ancient taoists memeing people into drinking literal mercury?
fiction presented as fiction
vs
people who couldnt read being tricked by people who could
You're underselling the taoists. They tricked people that could read too. Even emperors.
meh, many emperors were just groomed puppets and others were legitimately deranged
Thank god no one consumed mercury at West.
Mercury was a frequent treatment prescribed for syphilis back in the 16th century
I wonder what was the logic of drinking mercury getting immortality. Shit doesn't make sense. Getting stuck with solid metal in your body is painful, drinking it should be painful as well.
mercury is liquid at room temperature, it's the one metal you can drink
gallium becomes liquid at body temperature so you can put it in your mouth and drink it after it warms up
Something about mercury being one of the prime elements of the universe (according to alchemy) or something.
the logic as I've puzzled together is something like this
>semen retention leads to increased health
>men make sperm and store it in the prostate
>this makes the prostate an alchemical furnace in a symbolic sense
>mercury is like the cum of the earth because it's a liquid metal
>therefore drinking mercury is like drinking super cum
>therefore superpowers
>the cum is stored in the prostate
>mercury super cum
>drinking the fricking cum
I did not expect the Chinese to be that fricking gay
its part of being Chinese, unironcially
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%27er_Shen
me on the left tired of all the haremcuck shit
Hmph, the classic tale of a reckless who buffoon didn't even practice the 10 Rules of the Rock in order to fully absorb the mercury. Of course he would have collapsed under the substance's effects, and I can only hope that his successors will learn the error of his ways and seek out the guidance of a true Master of the Tao in order to fully grasp the gravity of what he has done.
> semen retention leads to increased health
What really?
I don't do nofap, but I purposefully try to only cum once every few weeks. I fap like once or twice a day
Anyway, this honestly leaves me feeling refreshed and energetic. I'm very actionable and direct in this state, even if I'm a bit "on edge"
of course this gets too much and I must release, but there is some truth to it
No. It's ancient broscience based on the idea that you lose your vital force by cooming.
That's not remotely close to the Chinese view of the matter although you did manage to get within striking distance of European Alchemists so hats off to you anon.
Drinking mercury in small amounts actually doesn't harm you; it's too damn heavy so it rushes through your digestive tract too fast to be absorbed in any significant amount. It actually acts as a laxative, pushing the rest out. The real danger is actually right at the beginning from inhaling small amounts when you drink it but that requires build up over time.
Ok so here's the logic behind it.
Chinese Alchemists believed that one could cultivate a "golden core" (a metaphor for a form of supreme physical and spiritual balance) by eating gold. However, most people could not afford to eat gold and so the alchemists decided that it would be more accessible for the average person to simply eat cinnabar (a mineral form of mercury) in combination with other substances and transmute it within the body to create gold to build a golden core
>It's a metal...which is solid...but it's also...a liquid???
>This must be some kind of magic element we better do the most Chinese thing imaginable and EAT IT
Bravo Kojima. Bravo.
>I wonder what was the logic of drinking mercury getting immortality
When people lose all their blood they die, therefore life force is stored in the blood.
Cinnabar is blood red, therefore eating it will give you more life force
Post Chinese idioms like mt tai, swan meat, etc
>Junior You Dare?! The Door of Heaven are open but you refuse to enter, the Door of Hell are closed but you insist on barging in!! You're courting death!!"
>Far away dragons cannot press local snakes
>Chasing a chicken to lose your rice
>Toad wanting to eat swan meat
>Men die for wealth just like birds die for food
>Kicking the iron plate
>Tiger went down to city and got bullied by dogs, dragon swims in shallow water bullied by the shrimps
>Tiger father does not beget a dog son
>Refusing a toast to eat a retreat
>Even a lion uses full force to hunt down a rabbit
>Being lenient to your enemies is being cruel to yourself
>Praying mantis stalks the cicada while unaware of the oriole behind.
>A skinny camel is still larger than a horse
>Trying to kill a chicken with an oxen knife
>Like river water and well water, not mixing with each other
>There are no eternal enemies, only eternal benefits
>If the upper beam isn't straight the lower beam will be crooked
>A worm that lives in the dead leaves and fallen branches will never understand the beauty and greatness of the world, because their field of vision is far too narrow and their life is far too short. They will never be able to live past the winter snows
>Flowers of the greenhouse are not accustomed to withstand the wind and rain.
>Those bitten by a snake would be afraid of ropes for 10 years
>Strongly twisted melon is not sweet
>As the rabbit dies, the fox grieves
>Treasuring a jade ring is also a crime
>A crafty rabbit has three burrows
>Stone of the mountain can be used to attack jade
>Mantis trying to stop a chariot
>Firefly cannot compare to the glow of the moon
>Going for wool and coming back shorn
>Playing a pig to eat a tiger.
>Killing the chickens to warn the monkeys.
>Injected with chicken blood.
>Food can be eaten indiscriminately but words cannot be spoken indiscriminately.
>Winds howl along the highest of peaks.
>Old ginger is spicier than new ginger.
>Has eyes but cannot recognize Mt. Tai
Senior Brother is too kind! Remember this poor Fattie who was always loyal!
Clouds follow dragons, winds follow tigers.
A sparrow cannot understand the aspirations of a swan.
YOU ARE A DRAGON AMONG MEN, I KNEEL
*coughs up a mouthful of blood*
All these Chinese chuuni shit makes me miss thunderbolt fantasy
its the only thing it got me appreciate something that's Chinese nowadays
Preach
If you haven't watched Thunderbolt fantasy yet Ganker go do it
I am not looking forward to the Chinese century.
Bros I love Ancient Chinese culture so much
I wish I was alive back then, I would become a Taoist sage
I guess hero's adventure is kinda on-topic. Been playing it since some guy shilled it on here a few days ago. so far in the one run I've completed:
>Learned a super move as part of the starter dungeon because I had 1 INT and found out that if I didn't, I wouldn't have another supermove til well over half-way through the game
>Recruited a rooster for wienerfighting and as my personal steed
>Bullied an AYM until he gave up and became my sidekick
>Spend 10 days mining to become an expert miner and recruit one of the few decent recruits in the game only to bench him because he's really good at making swords, at least it also boosted my strength
>Helped my master unfrick his meridians by sneaking him into the pond under the all-girl music sect
>Got married without my input because I helped my friend get revenge which also removed a buff from the jade-like beauty I actually intentionally married because we're no longer monogamous
>Continuously get disappointed by most recruits because everyone else sucks at cultivation
In short the balance is weird(INT is a dump stat) and the translation is weirder. Hell I'm not even sure if I need to bond/marry 15 girls in one run to unlock the trait that makes an all-girl party super good or if I can do that across multiple runs. If it's all in one run I'm going to need that shill to guide me because each one of them is a pain to recruit and I've only found like 8 or 9. The worse part is I dunno why I'm dumb enough to give it another run on the hardest difficulty now that I've unlocked things to make it easier.
Sadly this thread isn't about Chinese games, it's people whining about Chinese media like they think it'll get them get boy points (like whining about America does in China.)
>Sadly this thread isn't about Chinese games
name 5 good chinese games
This one
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Volcano Princess
Matchless Kungfu
Wandering Sword
Tale of Immortal
Sword and Fairy 7
>volcano princess over gunfire reborn
I don't like FPS games.
chinese media is so fricking garbage
i thought feng shen ji was ok for a while though but it falls off
also frick genshin
ARE there any good cultivation games?
how the frick am i supposed to even begin with reading this nonsense that's like 80,000,000 words long
Just use Immortal Gu: Days Flow Like water.
Only Amazing Cultivation Simulator.
RI is overrated as shit. Literally the same os every other Cultivator story.
>Literally the same os every other Cultivator story.
ri the is the only one blatant anti authority frick all your shit evil
like ahaha i join a sect but instead of attempting to rank up in authority gain sect prestige frick that shit imma exploit this b***h for resources and frick off. or harem of b***hes frick that i want millions of hairy men enslaved cough working for me. ri is honest nah frick you anything for power instead of frick you anything for power but its ok cause im the mc.
there are parts that are just crap or repetitive or hey this plot used to be really important and the author forgot about it but its above most wn just for having its own unique outlook.
>or harem of b***hes frick that
the bear incident
>"Harry Potter! Did you burn your name in the Sacred Ancestor Flame? Junior, you are courting death!" Supreme Elder Dumbledore said, his serene voice calm like a jade lake even as his killing intent filled the room.
>"Haha, a third-rate talent like you really thinks he can compete in the Three Sect Grand Tournament? Boy, get down on your knees and slap yourself fifty times so our sect can save some face! Five hundred contribution points are deducted from the Roaring Griffin Clan!" Dumbledore's wrathful essence poured out like a wave, cracking the stone floor beneath his feet and disrupting Harry's meridians. Harry was knocked backwards, spitting blood!
My favorite meme in cultivation stories is the whole idea of
>Break every limb and chop off your head and murder your family and prostrate yourself and I might leave you with an intact corpse
like WHAT
OUT BY THE ROOTS
every day I thank this man for ensuring we didn't end up like the chinkoids
Germanics weren't too big on the 'kill everyone in your family' shit even before Christ, you had to pay someone's family money if you killed any of their family members. Wergild they called it. Killing an entire family would mean having to pay a shiton of wergild to the closest relative or the king, or more likely (since you were clearly a psycho, wergild was meant to account for accidents and minor quarrels, not serial killers) getting executed. Mostly hangings, buryings, beheadings, but my favorite of those is the blood eagle.
they were still structured in clans that functioned off an honour cult, so kind of like Muslims today.
Still better than the chinks by a longshot though
This would probably be better than the actual story honestly.
> chink cultivation bullshit is just western fantasy bullshit
More like western fantasy bullshit if you go back a few decades.
Current mainstream western "fantasy" would have gone on about the author's politics, how hard it is to be a white woman in a world where white men still exist, would have plenty of gay token inserts and would be either co-written or ghost-written by a team of white men. (unironically anyone who is on the Nebula board will magically become a writer with a co-writer that will shit out a book overnight when they step down and it will be nominated for multiple awards)
There's only a few self-published authors doing it and only like one book publisher still publishing real fantasy. (DMR books)
I really recommend this novel to all of you. It starts in modern China and then evolves into the "other cultivation world" and all of that, but with a very wide, universal scope. I really like the power-scaling, the characters are also great. I have read all of this authors novel, his others novel are set in modern China and are a bit of martial arts mixed with political chess between the protagonist and literally the rest of the world, this one kinda starts like this but when you become a being that can destroy a start with your blood killing the son of the president of China doesn't bother you: https://www.uukanshu.com/b/12342/
It's in China and untraslated. I used Google Translate and Deepl.
>It's in China and untraslated
Chinese*
>china
china is homosexualsville. I will never get why anyone who works in media will ever want to cater to them while sacrificing artistic freedom which is what you need to make media in the first place
You all know how bad China shills are already.
Just try and imagine the spam situation if the Great Firewall were simply turned off. There'd be no Western Internet left.
What would buddhist cultivation towards immortality be like? Seems like a direct contradiction of buddhism. How about Christian cultivation that isn't completely heretical?
kinda like the cultivation in the Virtuous Sons (a grecoroman xianxia) novel, you cultivate a virtue and your powers are something associated with it, in that case, the Christian virtues
for example, in the story the Roman virtue of Gravitas is associated with weight and gravity manipulation
Christian cultivation is very well documented, it's called Alchemy.
Alchemy is, 9 times out of 10, gnostic bullshit.
You fell for the Victorian meme.
>hermeticism
>christian
Correct.
Unwashed plebeians.
They'll know better some day.
>What would buddhist cultivation towards immortality be like?
There's a lot of novels about it.
Sometimes it's the same as daosim with qi cores.
Sometimes it's about "cultivating virtue" or their "dharma forms".
Usually the tenets of whatever is being practiced are only considered loosely if at all.
>Christian Cultivation
Yeah, I cultivate. Cultivate the Word of God and his eternal Love
>What would buddhist cultivation towards immortality be like
Buddhists see material life as some sort of aberration so seeking any form of strength outside of enlightment would be anathema
>Christian cultivation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinization_(Christian)
>Buddhists see material life as some sort of aberration
There are as many buddhist schools as there are hindu ones and many are straight-up personality cults. Talking definitively about them is ridiculous.
And all of those Buddhist sects share the opinion that achieving Nirvana, essentially killing your soul, is the highest thing you can attain
No, most branches goals are Buddhahood, avoiding torment in Naraka or rebirth into the Pure Land.
The whole nihilist take is some 101 stuff by the same low IQ westerners who hung on the words of hindu gurus.
to be a Buddha you have to achieve Nirvana, anon.
It's nowhere near as clear-cut. They talk about awakening, freeing, buddha-nature etc all sorts of shit for buddhahood.
>essentially killing your soul
there is no "soul" in buddhism, it's one of the most basic tenants
It's also the last thing you actually understand. Saying you believe in the soul is better than pretending that you don't, before you achieve Nirvana.
>Saying you believe in the soul is better than pretending that you don't
that's not buddhism and taking either viewpoint is wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatt%C4%81
>there's no soul bro
>but your karma transfers from life-to-life somehow
Buddhism is genuine nonsense and is essentially sour grapes: the religion
>your karma transfers from life-to-life somehow
Every life is "your" life.
>yes there's this incredibly complex mechanism to determine karma, your place in the afterlife when you die and what you'll be reincarnated as
>"how does this function without any form of immortal soul or demiurge to maintain said system?"
>dunno it just fricking works lol
Muslims might be the most contemptible as a group but Buddhism is definitely the most moronic theologically
That's not buddhism, that's hinduism.
Reading about Buddhist hell(s) makes Christianity look soft.
Hell yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)
karma is the process, it's not a scorecard attached to a soul.
the most famous story with cultivators in it is journey to the west, and the entire point is that the monkey king is nothing but a punk b***h baby compared to the buddha, even after he became like quadruple immortal through cultivation
morons nowadays only cite the rage against the heavens bit not realizing that the entire story is buddhists shitting on taoists for being morons
Now there's a story idea. A Christian knight gets isekaid to a cultivation Chinese world.
he would be wholly unprepared for Oriental autism
>robertooo
He would just die because not genociding entire populations means somebody else is going to genocide your entire population
You guys have no faith in our homie Sir Robert.
I'll do you one better
> isekai shit but one half of the continent is jrpg dnd power system while the other half has their own eastern cultivation power system
> realm-mofos fighting level-mofos
> you can be a heavenly dragon ancestor realm cultivator controlling 10 flying swords while stacking 10 wizard buffs and spamming paladin smites with each sword strike
It's all fun and games until a DQ Hero shows up
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At least he fired it outside of the city.
I fricking love the "X trope vs X trope". Fricking sad that it usually devolves into a "my trope is better than you!!!" With no fricking nuance, sad...Any recomendation on series that doesn't do that? Literally anything would give me the fix I have been wanting for...Years
Have you ever wanted to cast fist at women and children?
I was refering more to genre like "Medieval vs Steampunk". But thanks, nonetheless
It is medieval vs steam punk you have magician fighting robots and drones. The entire gish of it is magic vs technology.
And MC casting his fist.
Thanks
index and railgun suck tbqh famalam
I tried to write "cultivator transmigrates to super hero world", but the world I ended up with was more military dystopia than "super hero."
Then I had "cultivator stumbles into a sealed realm that has western fantasy elements", but it ended up being something that would generate too much social credit.
Yeah...Nationalism really frick this type of stories, and by definition, my autism
What's crazy is that in my experience Korean stories are even worse for the deranged nationalism than Chinese ones are. Make that make sense.
Koreans are a servile race that takes aspects of their benefactor culture and dials it up to 11. So they take the American military chauvinism and makes it extra delusional and insane.
koreans have terminal little dick syndrome on the national scene
>Make that make sense
What's crazy about that? Korea is the Poland of Asia. If they don't constantly push back against both China and Japan with their Korean-ness they're going to get swallowed up by one or the other.
the Polish are not nearly as deranged as the Koreans. They just hate Russians.
Because it's absolutely against the law to write a story in China that is the least bit critical of the CCP's governance. All of their stories have to in essence be propaganda by law. But apparently Koreans do it for free.
they're the chihuahuas of east asia
Nationalism largely isn't an issue unless you're one of those homosexuals who get allergic to people unapologetically choosing their own people over foreigners.
The closest they get to ruining chinese stories is when international stuff becomes a focus and the writer is shit at handling it to the detriment of the stuff he's actually good at writing.
Koreans all seem to have a bad case of either national butthurt or hatred of Korea.
Like there's very little positive nationalism in their stories unlike the JP obsession with japanese food and customs. It's all just "do your best for SK" or "MC kills Korean politicians and creates his own organization because he hates SK".
Nah. I don't care when they choose their culture over foreigner, logical really, but what makes me dislike it, is when it becomes a shitty circlejerk, where the other sides are filled with inconpetent morons. Atleast make the other side be somewhat competent, and have something over the other site, otherwise it is a shitty empowerment fantasy
Yeah, that falls under international and bad at handling it.
I recall The World Online had an arc like that near the end where they treat Thailand or Malaysia or some place around there as being more or less moronic. It really started going downhill the more it focused on the non-chinese but it was also just a few chapters from ending so not a huge deal.
Asians cannot write that kind of story since they don't vibe with Christianity, to say the least.
All I'm hearing is Deus Vult!
If that were true, China wouldn't have to constantly crackdown on underground Chinese Christians.
Wrong, there's a bizarrely large population of Christian Koreans because of the irritating memorial rites of their traditional faith.
>What would buddhist cultivation towards immortality be like?
Probably a lot like Vajrayana. Using tantric methods such as arising as a Yidam to cultivate an illusory body and a clear light mind before merging these together. Emphasis on the chakras, tummo, melting and dripping, and the indestructible drop in the heart chakra
There are ways to do this through all three of the common cultivation paths.
>Qi Refinement
Striving to become one with the highest heavens isn't far off from the Buddhist goal, but in this case, the person isn't trying to replace an existing tyrannical will with their own. They are merely returning an existing heavenly tyrannical will to itself.
>Body Refinement
Create a breathless body, then a bloodless body, then a soulless body, then finally an originless body.
>Soul Refinement
Turn your body into a vessel that accepts souls, then refines them into emptiness.
>My famiry is dead i must become sturong
>Meditates for 501230412034 years
>I ammu now sturong enugh to beat my famirys kirrer
>Kirr famiry kirrer
>Turns out the killer was merely a pawn of a larger faction
>I must turrain for 1234124 yearus
Honest answer though.
numbers and nonsensical mechanics are fun.
I love cultivation novels and games so goddamn much.
Someone post the jrpg vs xianxia protagonist image. Stupid chink web novels are such a guilty pleasure. 9/10 of them are complete shit but they're so shameless that they're fantastic casual reading. I wish they bothered to make any actually good cultivation games. Then again considering most cultivation novels end with homies throwing universes at each other they'd need to keep it more grounded.
what are some good cultivation games with lots of big numbers go up autism?
Warframe
In Amazing Cultivation, I'm on Immortal max rating. How strong should be my physical cultivator before attempting flood dragon?
You're reading the guide anyway, so you'll be fine.
What's your least favorite trope in these novels? For me it's when the MC dies like 14 fricking times and everyone is super surprised that he's not fricking dead every time.
the young master bullshit is fricking hilarious
When every arc isn't started with the MC bullying some random young master I think it's a fun trope.
Some guy did a poll on liked/disliked xianxia tropes and "arrogant young masters" were DEAD NEUTRAL in terms of reception.
Probably because arrogant rich kids is just, a real thing.
That doesn't mean you have to write about them. Also, arrogant young masters are a very specific type of rich kid. MC beats them up, then he goes and tells his sect elder father, who tells the sect patriarch grandfather, who tells the sect ancestor, who brings the old monster out of seclusion, who then sends a heavenly jade slip communication to the immortal realm bloodline progenitor. Then MC kills them all.
Against The Gods was my first cultivation novel but looking back it really was pretty shit.
after reading so much chinkslop all i can say is asiatic novels have a better balance than nip and chinkslop
If Martial god Asura and Emperors Domination ever finish I can finally be dome with this genre forever. I've read all the ones worth reading and then some, I'm only reading these two just to finish and be done.
What chapter is MGA up to now? I stopped reading about 2 years ago after realizing it was never going to end.
How's ED? I've never read any of it.
5700 or so, he only just met his maternal grandfather in the last hundred chapters or so and he's still a "junior". ED is fun but entire series is "all according to keikaku" every single chapter with zero deviation whatsoever because the MC already did everything 1000000 years ago
>5700
Holy shit. I barely even remember the story any more I might start from the beginning. I'm on the last 40 chapters of perfect world anyway. It's total dogshit, by the way. If you haven't read it don't bother.
ED sounds like it might be at least kinda enjoyable from a stupid fun perspective
I really wouldn't recommend reading MGA at all, it's genuinely just terrible and just repeats all the exact same plot beats every hundred chapters or so. I have read perfect world, wasn't a fan, ED is amusing but it falls into the same problems as MGA where every plot beat is the same, to the point that like 4000 chapters in he goes BACK to the beginning area of the story and does everything all over again
so are the actual chink stories any good?
I listened to the first book of 1,000 Li and it was just sort of okay
I mostly like stuff written by white people because chinks are kinda crazy
Er Gen's stuff is genuinely good.
Looked at this guy's stuff and Renegade Immortal seems the most interesting, the protagonist starts out as mediocre and he must recognize that
Anyone read it?
RI is good, definitely worth a read if you're interested in Xianxia stuff
>RI
These fools are everywhere, restrained by emotions and morals, they deserve to be stupidly manipulated by rules. What’s sadder is that when they see others not being restrained, they would jump out and criticise, trying to impart these morals to the people, not allowing others to have more freedom than them. In this process, they would even enjoy this ridiculous moral superiority and bliss.
These people, they had a body full of abilities, and some even had higher cultivation than him, but for what? They are just pawns, merely restrained dogs. What truly stalls a person’s success is not talent, but mindset. Any organisation, once a person is born, would impart their morals and rules, constantly brainwashing. Those that want to surpass humanity’s achievements have to break this restraint on their mindset. Sadly, most people are trapped by this their entire lives, using this to move forward with motivation and even use their chained collar as a symbol of pride.
>Only eternal life, this majestic and unattainable target, could make the journey of his life become more interesting.
>This was the meaning he gave to this life! Pursuing eternal life did not mean he was afraid of death or afraid of failure. He calmly accepted death and failure. Whether eternal life existed or not, there was no evidence to prove it. But even if it did not exist, so what? Fang Yuan enjoyed the process. In the process of pursuing eternal life, he found his meaning and felt that this life was quite interesting. The lowly lust and desires of his body, satisfaction of love and hatred, he was already tired of them.
>Only eternal life was worthy of being his target to pursue.
Eternally the GOAT and most based of all protagonists.
It's my favorite of his stuff but I feel like it has the same problem that a lot of his stories do where things just keep getting bigger and bigger, and each new thing completely overshadows all the old stuff. To the point where its completely ridiculous by the end. Still, large parts are it are pretty entertaining.
My favorite in this genre are "World of Cultivation" because it actually bothers to do some world building about how different a world with magical powers would be. Fancy shops float in the sky as both advertising and because if you're not rich enough to have some way to fly up there you're not the kind of customer they want, that kind of thing. Also its less than a thousand chapters which is short for the genre. Good main character with an actual personality who isn't good at everything and has to work with others instead of just being a one man army.
I enjoyed "A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality" and I'm currently reading "Reverend Insanity" which is so far really good and different but apparently doesn't have a satisfying ending because the author pissed off CCP and man can I see why. The main character in RI seems to have memories of earth purely to shit on modern china and quote ancient chinese poetry, its great.
Renegade is good, like most Er Gen stuff, even if it suffers from not really getting off the ground until around 230 chapters in and some of the later arcs are hit and miss.
Renegade Immortal is his worst novel. Don't listen to the other anons. They're all good if you enjoy the genre but he improved dramatically after RI.
>so are the actual chink stories any good?
Depends.
They're usually very good at worldbuilding and the stories are usually pulpy fun of one kind or another but it might have a weaker part, sometimes you come across a book with great ideas but resort to a lot of cliches in the execution. (there's a lot of trash by sheer virtue of how many of these novels there are though)
For instance Black Tech Internet Cafe system which I mentioned as a guilty pleasure is unusual in that the worldbuilding is fairly weak and more of a vehicle for the game talk. Usually it's the other way around with the world being good but a lot of characters being a bit on the weak side.
But basically if you're the kind of guy who enjoyed western fantasy novels before the homosexuals and women destroyed it then there's going to be something in there for you imo.
Might take a few novels before you find your thing though, even the same style of book works better with some authors than others.
>so are the actual chink stories any good?
parts of them are decent
shit will be like 2000 chapters and 300-500 were actually decent but nah most of its shit or rehashed shit
I hope ACS2 is good
if they get rid of the stupid rimworld aspect, it can only improve
ngl people should start researching their own history and try to come up with something similar to Wuxia but using their own culture.
Alchemists summoning demons through overly elaborate rituals to have jojo battles with each other and being hunted by inquisition witch hunters
I did a shitty research and mine involves letting spirits enter into your body to channel their energy into your soul or do an activity they were called for and risk getting lobotomized or possessed and your soul used to fuel their stay in this Earth and that's just one angle of it, considering I have several other races who brought their own religions and cultures into my country. It is ultimately a boiling pot of clashing ideologies and families using giant animals and other supernatural bullshit among a plethora of small and big Gods and entities
The inherent themes of cultivation shit don't sound all that special. From what I've heard thus far, cultivation is just The Count of Monte Cristo but written by autistic mental ten year olds.
I know some of you are playing Hero's Adventure. Are knives the best weapon for an evil run? They're the only weapon I've seen with an art that increases in damage the more of an butthole you are. I don't even know if it's worth trying an evil run, I still haven't finished my first run.
Probably that or blades. iirc there's a gold skill for blades that gets stronger the lower your 6 virtues are. Thematically the shadier sects are also ones that give out blade or knife manuals and learning the steal skill from nest of swallows does reduce your benevolence every time you steal
Thanks. Speaking of weapons, my current run I've gone with music but my zither feels kinda lackluster thus far and I often find myself just using the lewd old man's fist techniques unless I need to hit in multiple directions. Should I try switching to a flute or lute instead? I'm just visiting dialing city for the first time and I noticed there are manuals for music techniques for sale so I can finally switch away from my zither and branch out but I dunno if it's worth it or if they're all much the same.
You should always be filling your internal/external skill slots. If you have an empty slot you're missing out on stats. So if you're waiting around looking for more zither skills just fill them in the meantime with a different skill. You can also forget them if you need the space.
How shit is the English translation? For context I can live with Amazing Cultivation Simulator just fine.
The translation is awkward but ultimately fine, but you'll need a guide for riddles because the wordplay is lost in translation.
Awkward in some places but perfectly serviceable except for the few times where you run into cultural shit like answering couplets.
Toxicology? There's a few trainers that you can learn from or you know man up and start eating the legendary bugs
Went with fists myself(fists get a purple book from the temple in nameless region) and they were mostly good once I got the purple books but yeah the goddamn old man's techniques are all sorts of strong. Can't say I've tried instruments since I never found anyone that uses it but don't their skills stat check off max MP instead of stats? Might need to stack up on Yang or Yin internal manuals(don't remember which one gives more MP) to get as much MP as possible which I guess doesn't leave a lot of room for external skills.
But where do I learn recipes or skills for poison?
I traded for food recipes after getting friendly with the innkeeper in the starting town but I don’t want to spend resources getting friendly with every npc only to find out they don’t have poison recipes
Does eating bugs teach you recipes? I haven’t tried eating raw meat to see if it would give some recipe
Okay I completely misunderstood and was thinking of the wrong thing. Dunno where you get poisons. IIRC there's a tribe from the region that unlocks mid-way through the game that's all about poisons but I have no idea how to get to that area unless you're following the old man's sect shit. The only other person from that tribe you encounter requires purple sweets to befriend and leaves 3 days after you meet them so I wasn't able to check if they had poison stuff either
Ok thanks
Where can I learn poisons?
those cultivation webcomics are 10 times worse than the wish fulfillment isekai shit and sometimes it's both at the same time
I baffles me how it is so popular, especially when presented in the worst format possible
I can't help but feel that half of you homosexuals are on /isekai/ on Ganker
Ganker is just Ganker but with no wojaks allowed.
Oh yes.../isekai/, the place where there are more furries and chinese man, that actual isekai gays...Kinda weird
Cultivation is just the chinks trying to figure out the powers of VRIL, I have never jerked off in my life, I am 6'5", I am built like a greek god, all because I have never once ejaculated. Heraclitus led me to glory.
What's the appeal of Manhua/Manhwa/Webtoons in general? It's like if you took the worst generic isekai-shit Power Fantasy Mangas and turned it into its own genre with terrible panelling on top.
Why do people like fast food?
cultivation terms should be translated to western terms
chi is "pneuma"
instead of a "dao" divided between "yin" and "yang", cultivators have "virtue" divided between "logos", "ethos" and "pathos"
>the arrogant philosopher takes a break from cultivating virtue to go on a walk
>He feels a man channeling pneuma in the same realm as his own
>He goes to investigate bit finds a decrepit old man laying in a barrel
>"You fool" the philosopher says "your phisosophy is like that of a dog's"
>"A dog you say" the old man said
>And then the old man bit the philosopher
>he had eyes but he could not see an honest man
>the philosopher and cultivator is giving a speech to his students, between naked wrestling bouts
>"you see, the way to understand the path to the peak of olympus is to understand the nature of man"
>"man is a featherless biped, knowing this you can hone your cultivation to ascend up the path"
>a homeless old man, who was secretly a hidden master 3 further steps up the path than the philosopher then pulls out a plucked chicken
>"Behold, a man!"
"You Court Death" becomes "you tempt the fates!"
>young philosopher enters the School of Athens with harem of marble-like beauties
>cultivation terms should be translated to western terms
Americans really need to get over that troon localizing shit.
If you actually believed it was a cool idea you'd use it in your own writing instead of trying to shit up translations.
which virtue is best, among pathos ethos and logos
Arete.
Based sophistchad
Sophistichad sounds like some Greek hero
this is LITERALLY Virtuous Sons
fricking read it is amazing
can't the homosexual took it off royal road when I was half way through it
also the main character was an unlikable c**t
which main character? there are 2 (and they're both baller as frick you dumb b***h)
the AYM MC, the greekoid
the rome guy is cool
idk I basically just finished the prologue I think. Idk whenever they left the MC's home town
then he took it down to publish it
>>"You fool" the philosopher says "your phisosophy is like that of a dog's"
>>"A dog you say" the old man said
>>And then the old man bit the philosopher
lol
true story from the hidden master of the western philosophy canon
"Dao" literally just means "path" idk why the globalhomos keep forcing us to use the chink speak, it's so moronic.
At least my gacha shit got it right.
Because using different words for things differentiates them from the normal and mundane.
Not translating words that aren't strictly name is absolutely cancerous. Westoid localizers need to commit LTG.
Yes and you know which one I'm talking about. They are different words based on context, and both should be translated accordingly.
Stop saying "pho" when you just mean "vietnamese flat rice noodle", stop saying "Cheongsam" when you just mean chinese dress. It all sounds fricking stupid.
Dao means a couple things in Chinese depending on the tone, it does mean "path" but it can also mean "knife" or "sword"
And "Spirit" just means breath, and "Angel" just means messenger, and "Christ" just means anointed one. Keeping a foreign word let's us also keep all of its associated concepts not found in its translation. We've been doing this for as long as we've had language.
Oh right
Also Messiah is just Deliverer/Leader since it's meant to refer the saviour and guide of the israeli tribes
Which for some reason they don't see Jesus as?
No, "messiah" is just hebrew for anointed one as well. "Christ" is greek for the same word.
> harem of marble-like beauties
God damn this made me giggle. Translating all the silly reused phrases over for a western take would be a real laugh.
>marble-like beauties (male)
>marble-like beauties (male)
This made me think of some cultivation novels where the setting has 'cultivation furnaces'. Some are quite literal where they use other cultivators/mortals as alchemy furnaces but most of the time it ends up as a sex thing where you frick them to get powerups. Mostly an evil cultivator thing where they have entire sects built around fricking and raping no matter the genitals
>translation
Its 2023, frick it, just use random chinese words in the english sentence.
>Implying the average slop consumer knows or cares about greek/latin
All you are really doing in rewriting shit to make it less foreign (but not really) which is probably the worst troonylating you can do
God forbid people engaging with asian culture are made to feel like it is slightly asian
Beautiful. Screencapping this post for posterity.
>secret technique: belly rub
>"You Court Death" becomes "you tempt the fates!"
number go up until number can no longer be understood by brain and becomes something that exceeds metaphysical concepts and becomes spiritual sustenance
I haven't read xuanxia (but this thread is pushing me to), but...It looks like half of the stories (or all of them), have their conflict start because chinks are petty homosexuals, and combine pettyness with DBZ bullshit...Yeah
>Ganker explaining what cultivation was
Now it's mostly about gay shit, like full on homosexual gay yaoi.
>Now it's mostly about gay shit, like full on homosexual gay yaoi.
No it's not. Where and how exactly are you looking for new webnovels?
Gay shit isn't even present unless you seek it out since 99% of sites will tag it as gayshit and the comments section are going to be full of "eeew wtf" without a smidgen of irony.
It's only the trash that's being imported and translated in the west that has gay shit in it like Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation.
>gay sex
for me it's mozun just wants to follow the script
It's not hard to explain how cultivation generally works in these stories, or the tropes of the genres in question in general. It is hard to explain how the exact same story and tropes are used ad nauseum by many different Chinese writers and that people still read that garbage. It's so repetitive that the same tropes and story beats are reused in one story multiple times.
You can read half of one story (they're like 2000 chapters for no reason) and you have read tens of thousands of them.
Am I cultivating irl?
>have taken kung fu before
>into TCM and eastern occultism (western too) just fringe /x/ and Ganker shit in general
>Have gone from being borderline homeless to slowly amassing power/skills/wealth
>constantly surprising people with my knowledge and talent because I look counterinuitively unassuming
>have legit fricked people over who deserved it simply through intuition and being patient
>have been accused of being psychic or somehow "altering reality" just with my mere presence
>hate women
>extremely, extremely autistic/obsessive
>people frequently tell me I am asking for it with my behavior
>weird improbable shit just kind of happens
you are clearly a secret descendant of the Auspicious Holy Magnanimous Imperial Dragon Emperor, you should kill everyone who questions your status
Is that chinese cultivation sim MMO still alive or did that die when I stopped paying attention to it?
>english never ever
Why can't we get nice thing?
welp, guess it's time to learn mandarin
she cute giw I had a fairy
Please tell me this is porn
the CGs are on panda
they're pretty good
None moonrune name?
Any even kinda decent cultivation mobile games?
I've liked a Chinese cartoon more than most modern one made by Westerners or Japs.
New season when?
Movie should come FIRST before a new season.
What anime? Is it on nyaa?
Scissor Seven, and yes the episodes are available on Nyaa even S4 which I'm not sure Netflix released or not but S4 is only in Chinese with Engrish subs. I cancelled my Netflix account some years ago.
Why isn't there any Chinese martial arts game? Or hell even anime. Jade Empire is the only one I can think off. Yeah you got Cultivation Simulator or Sifu but, meh.
There are plenty. Just not localized.
>cultivators
I miss him bros
If that's RI it's garbage!
I don't know what ri is but this one is called master of gu iirc
Oh. I don't know that one so, carry on.
This is Bai Xiaochun. He is the most kind and merciful cultivator MC.
>does nothing
weak as frick
He got stopped by one of the patriarchs before things could escalate more, but he was fine to keep going. Also, some faceless mooks did die in this incident.
Unfortunately, the patriarch only granted him three medium value pills as compensation for his efforts.
Lot of grandstanding for mediocre showing. Refrain from posting this shit further
>Get's stopped by a bunch of foundation cultivators
What a loser!
>no turtle shell
>isn't mummy-wrapped in a thousand protective talismans
>pocket isn't bursting with utterly broken pills capable of changing the world in horrific accidental ways
#NotMyWhiteLittlePure
He's staying lowkey. He can't reveal his items like that.
Jade Empire 2 but not made by modern day bioware
Favorite schzio chinese leader from history?
I've got a soft spot for that one lady who spent every waking moment she was around her children playing word and mind games and testing them relentlessly, decided she didn't trust any of them as heirs, and just endlessly fricked with them the rest of her life.
this has been a very enlightening thread; i had no idea this genre even existed
Bai Xiaochun is also a master alchemist.
>tao te ching: chill, harmony, non-action, simple, humble, etc.
>taoism: magic, alchemy, obsession with immortality, etc
Explain?
what's with the bags of holding?
the only cultivation trash i ever read was tower of god, and that was only two chapters
Meng Hao primarily fights by slapping a bag of holding and having useful stuff pop out
>dude learns karma powers just to write IOUs that other cultivators can't wriggle out of
ISSTH is underrated honestly.
His autism is the sky above the sky.
>Regular person sees an ancient temple: Hmm there might be treasure here I should look in the crypts
>Meng Hao sees an ancient temple: I will pull out every floor tile they could be valuable
I read a western written xianxia where the MC, upon realizing that his great grandmother upgraded his spatial ring when he wasn't looking, started storing some mountains in it "just in case I need them later".
In Reverend Insanity every Gu Immortal has an inner world. Most people have some some low key farming or mining operations or whatever. One of Fang Yuan's goals seems to be to steal the entire world and recreate it inside himself.
You can take the chink out of the sweatshop, but you can't take the sweatshop out of the chink(he's using it to passively generate benefits).
>You can take the chink out of the sweatshop, but you can't take the sweatshop out of the chink(he's using it to passively generate benefits).
LEL
>underrated
It‘s like the most popular entry point for xianxia in the west
The classic bag of holding in them are rings.
In some stories they're ultra-rare artifacts and in some they're just commonplace cultivator items. (in some it depends on how much cubic space they can hold)
It's split between item pouches and spatial rings. I don't know if Er Gen's works even have spatial rings.
>jade skinned beauties
What's with these green women everywhere in fantasy china
(Chinese) Jade is white. Only foreigners and cheapskates get the SHIT green kind.
Frick me, this is the first time I'm hearing this and I'm half chinese.
Seriouslly. They have to look like fricking ayy lmaos at higher realms
The jade they're referring to is white. Green jade isn't even real jade, and also doesn't come from China.
The highest grade of jade in china is white
Ironically, though, the highest grade jade in Chinese fantasy is all kinds of weird and impossible colors.
Thousand Myriad Rainbow Heavenly Avarice Gilded Dragon Eye Jade
Yeah, they're talking about mutton fat jade
what are the novels where dudes get genderbent and fricked
What's a novel where dudes get genderbent and fricks other!?
Has Yi Xian been mentioned yet? It's an auto battler with a cultivation theme.
Characters in Chinese novels all seem so psychopathic.
What are some good China games that aren't MTL? I sometimes get the urge to play Liu Kang in an rpg and I can only play Jade Empire so much
I just spent 10 minutes reading an article explaining what a cultivation game is and I still have no idea what it is
Then read the thread, homosexual. There's, like, 20 fricking people explaining it.
Why are all cultivation stories in ancient china and not like in the Industrial Revolution or something? Or hell the Caveman Era. Let's make this interesting!
Cultivators are already depleting the natural resources of their star-sized planets with classical era technology. Any civilization that tries to go industrial would need to suck an entire starfield dry.
that just means you gotta take hold of the resources and means of production and kill any contemporaries, duh.
How long before the next Warlord period happens in China at this rate? These sociopaths can't help themselves.
It's a mistake to judge them by Cultivation fiction as it's their equivalent of capeshit and held in low regard.
There are.
Lord of the Mysteries is cultivation story set in an Industrial not-London with lovecraftian-themeing.
There are a shitton of them set in ancient chinese "caveman" tribal times too.
Hey guys. I'm new to this site. Don't really have much to say about the topic just wanted to say hi.
Steven
England
sup steve, how's your day been
Pretty good. I worked a gig and this girl I met on Bumble came down tonight. Not a great face but insane body. She sent me nudes after we met at Fridays gig and kissed.
How's your day been?
I didn't want to give my personal information away
Thanks man. It seems pretty chill and easy enough to use.
>not putting the name in the name field
fake newbie
Hey Steven, glad to have you here.
It's like isekai on crack. You're mostly in it for the absurd fights with attacks that will never truly be translatable, and underdogs beating ludicrously powerful enemies. It's certainly a fascinating genre.
Are you trying to convert me to Taoism?
I thought they were buddhists
Read the room
I'm not going to read all of this
Western philosophy seems better at a glance.
Would you rather I try converting you to begging?
>Trying to wipe out all the sects in hero's adventure now that I'm max level
>Some of them get neat scenes of trying one last desperation attack or waxing poetically as they die
>Fricking confucian sect leader turns himself into a demon for round 2
I honestly can't say I expected that, and I don't know why this guy gets this and a cripple wheelchair guy on the payroll. I also have no idea where this all came from
Confusing, isn't
Frick, forgot to post my pic.You could say that I was...Confused
Carlos dares?
Oh frick they actually have a slightly different scene and bring in someone else if you bump off the competition before the strongest in the world debate. I have no idea who this man is
Amazing cultivator simulator seems like someone saw thaumcraft and decided to make it times fifty but with rimworld as the base instead of minecraft and I'm kind of down for it
Am I making a mistake
No it's one of the best chinese games.
I couldn't get into it but I also didn't care for Rimworld so ymmv.
Its the natural fantasy extreme of the chink "Anything to get ahead" mindset
Why do chinks love feminine men so much?
they have a history of eunuchs bro
But even the chad protags look like that
Everybody likes them.
They value the bonds between men far more than a love for a woman. Unironically, an actual idiom they have is
>Brothers are like limbs, wives and children are like clothing. Torn clothing can be repaired; how can broken limbs be mended?
New thread or let it rest?
This is fun.
I'd like a new bread but it probably would be pushing it
Ok now combine this with Rome or Europe in the 17th century
>Rome
That's just Virtuous Sons
>Europe 17th
No idea how that would be tbh
>No idea how that would be tbh
I would like to elaborate but a summary would be that there's a shitton of organizations, religions and people to topple while you cultivate the 12 gates of Alchemy and follow the 10 commandments for your virtue, while occult shit and users are chased by inquisitors like
said.
Maybe the twist is that any single move you do might be countered by a network of agents working in all stages of society and you need to make a movement within the peasantry to hide your movements
>become strong enough to completely skip bureaucracy
Disgaea in a nutshell
I need to work more on this, there MUST be a way.
Sounds like non-evil Cultist Simulator.
Beware Of Chicken made me like the "sane man in Xianxia with basic human morals" trope, even if i don't personally agree with the MC in stuff.
My headcanon is that there is something like "Ego Deviation" that most cultivators don't know about and it slowly rots their brain until they become a wild beast in human skin with superpowers.