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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hello, after just 3 days it's clear to me that the ani . social instance is a better fit for this community, and I'm migrating this community there.

So, if you aren't already head over to the new place at https:// ani . social/c/lightnovels (without the spaces, because admins).

To everyone who can't or won't migrate: I'm sorry. I put 8 months of my time into this community on the lemmy.ml instance, so I'm leaving with a heavy heart, but looking at the engagement here after 8 months and over at ani. social after 3 days, it paints a clear picture. It looks more like a diary of my reading habits here than a place for active discussions.

That being said, I hope to see everyone at the new instance!

 
Date Title Volume Publisher Format
2024-02-12 The Oblivious Saint Can't Contain Her Power: Forget My Sister! Turns Out I Was the Real Saint All Along! 1 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-13 The Dawn of the Witch 5 Kodansha πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-02-13 The Death Mage 4 One Peace Books πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-02-14 I'm Giving the Disgraced Noble Lady I Rescued a Crash Course in Naughtiness 3 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-15 Magic Stone Gourmet: Eating Magical Power Made Me The Strongest 4 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-15 My Pet is a Saintess 1 Hanashi Media πŸ–₯️
2024-02-15 Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling 6 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ–₯️
2024-02-16 BLADE & BASTARD: Return of The Hrathnir 3 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
 

Hey everyone. What seems to have been established itself as the main anime related instance, ani.social, has been defederated from Lemmy.ml.

I am wondering if it would be better to move this community over there so I will copy my posts in ani.social for a while as well and then see where more engagement is happening. Since I create the posts by hand (I can’t program a bot) I don’t want to have this a permanent solution, but I’ll give it at least a few months or until it’s clear where the greener pastures are.

So basically:

  1. There is a new LightNovel community on ani.social now
  2. You can all vote where the permanent home should be by using whichever you like better.
 
Date Title Volume Publisher Format
2024-02-05 The Invincible Little Lady 5 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-06 Berserk of Gluttony 8 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
2024-02-06 Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentōshō 4 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
2024-02-07 RVing My Way into Exile with My Beloved Cat: This Villainess Is Trippin' 1 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-07 Seventh 6 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-07 The Exiled Noble Rises as the Holy King: Befriending Fluffy Beasts and a Holy Maiden with My Ultimate Cheat Skill! 1 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-08 DUNGEON DIVE: Aim for the Deepest Level 6 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-08 Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear 17 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ–₯️
2024-02-08 Loner Life in Another World 8 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ–₯️
2024-02-08 Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! 6 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-09 Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden 1 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-09 Sword Saint Adel's Second Chance 1 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
 
Date Title Volume Publisher Formats
2024-01-29 The Fruit of Evolution 8 Hanashi Media πŸ–₯️
2024-01-30 Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana 3 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-30 Hell Mode 3 Yen Press πŸ“–
2024-01-30 I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time 2 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-30 Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut 7 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
2024-01-30 Looks Are All You Need 2 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-30 She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man 9 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
2024-01-30 The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten 6 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-30 The Dark Guildmaster's Smile Would Fit Best 1 Hanashi Media πŸ–₯️
2024-01-31 Fluffy Paradise 3 Cross Infinite World πŸ–₯️
2024-01-31 Invaders of the Rokujouma!? 43 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-01-31 Making Jam in the Woods: My Relaxing Life Starts in Another World 2 Cross Infinite World πŸ–₯️
2024-01-31 My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! 12 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-01-31 The Abandoned Heiress Gets Rich with Alchemy and Scores an Enemy General! 2 Cross Infinite World πŸ–₯️
2024-02-01 Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World 8 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-01 Modern Villainess: It's Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash 4 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ–₯️
2024-02-01 Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation 26 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ–₯️
2024-02-02 Fake It to Break It! I Faked Amnesia to Break Off My Engagement and Now He's All Lovey-Dovey?! 2 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-02-02 You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! 4 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
 

Post what light novels you have read this past week and what you think about them.

 
Date Title Volume Publisher Format
2024-01-22 I Surrendered My Sword for a New Life as a Mage 5 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-01-23 Banished from the Hero's Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside 10 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-23 Hazure Skill: The Guild Member with a Worthless Skill Is Actually a Legendary Assassin 7 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-23 I'm the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! 6 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
2024-01-23 Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? 18 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-23 Kunon the Sorcerer Can See 2 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-23 My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! 3 Yen Press πŸ“–
2024-01-23 Reign of the Seven Spellblades 10 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-23 Sentenced to Be a Hero 2 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-23 The Haunted Bookstore – Gateway to a Parallel Universe 7 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
2024-01-23 The Irregular at Magic High School 21 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-23 The Princess of Convenient Plot Devices 4 Yen Press πŸ–₯οΈπŸ“–
2024-01-24 Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World 6 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-01-24 I Shall Survive Using Potions! 9 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-01-24 My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer 11 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-01-25 Back to the Battlefield: The Veteran Heroes Return to the Fray! 3 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
2024-01-25 Reincarnated as a Sword 14 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ–₯️
2024-01-26 D-Genesis 5 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
 

Again, post is early since I won't have internet next week. Ignore until Monday.

 
Date Title Volume Publisher Format
Jan 15 Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade 7 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
Jan 15 Hell Mode 7 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
Jan 15 Holmes of Kyoto 16 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
Jan 16 Let This Grieving Soul Retire 3 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
Jan 16 Modern Dungeon Capture Starting with Broken Skills 1 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
Jan 16 The Case Files of Jeweler Richard 6 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
Jan 16 Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Body Swap in the Maiden Court 6 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ“–
Jan 17 Only the Villainous Lord Wields the Power to Level Up 4 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
Jan 17 Reincarnated Mage with Inferior Eyes: Breezing through the Future as an Oppressed Ex-Hero 5 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
Jan 18 Bibliophile Princess 7 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
Jan 18 The Apothecary Diaries 10 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
Jan 18 Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs 11 Seven Seas Entertainment πŸ–₯️
Jan 19 Rebuild World 3.2 J-Novel Club πŸ–₯️
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

From the sidebar:

Anime is hand-drawn and computer animation originating from Japan.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

How so? It never once affected me and I consider myself a consumer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see, yeah that's the second argument against epic that I've read so far that I would call valid. I never thought about them just doing a google and closing doors.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Marginally worse UI/UX (could be improved a bit by now, I haven’t used it for over a year)

Marginally. It does not deserve all the hate.

Way harsher build in DRM

Doesn't this just affect pirates? I don't really care as long as it doesn't mean that performance is sacrificed.

No proper offline mode. Its an opt-in feature you better have enabled while your connection worked and even then you have to reconnect every other day

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Steam also needs to phone home when you want to switch to offline mode?

No controller support. I start the Epic launcher over Steam so Epic games get the Steam controller support

What are you going on about here? Every single title I played from the EGS I could play with controller just fine (I don't do K+M so I play everything with controller and I never had a problem games just auto-recognizing both my bog standard xbox controller as well as whatever is build into the ROG Ally. Also the 8bitdo fighting stick works out of the box).

No mod support

First real argument against EGS I've read so far. But doesn't mods just replace files in the file system anyway? What would you need a storefront support for?

No forums and communities (I know a lot of people don’t need these, but still a missing feature for others)

Yeah, they aren't for me either, but I can see that there are people who would see this as something positive to have. But then again, isn't everything running in discord today anyway?

no community reviews, you better belive what the paid critics tell you

I trust those reviews a lot more than fickle gamers who review bomb games because some dev said something that goes against their beliefs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What does Epic offer other than doing the same things Steam does but less well and in a different app?

I'm not going to count, but by my best guess I have now 100+ games on EGS that I haven't paid a penny for. For me that's a rather large incentive to have the EGS client installed on my PCs. And once I have both installed anyway, I don't see any difference between buying on Steam vs. Epic. I just use whatever is cheaper at the moment.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They have a cart like any other storefront. I'm not sure if this was something they had from day one, but at least it's not something new to the store at this point. But even if there weren't a cart, how realistic is the scenario for the typical user that they go and buy 10 games all at once? Sounds to me like some fictional scenario to heap unwarranted hate on the epic store.

I mean I get it if someone says "I don't really mind either way, but if I had to choose I'd rather buy on Steam because it's slightly more convenient". But the EGS gets so much hate everywhere and my question is what the problem is with the store that would warrant that much hate? I really don't understand where that much vitriol is coming from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I dont even make it to the second episode. Most unlikeable character this season so far.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

At this point "Hayo Miyazaki's last movie" just becomes a marketing blurb.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now you're talking about the quality of a game. That's a completely different discussion. I obviously take a good, short game over a long, bad game as well. But given that the quality is equal in all aspects, I would always take the longer game over the shorter one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Baldur’s Gate 3 would be just as fulfilling of an RPG at half the length

I could take courses on rhetoric for the rest of my life and still wouldn't be able to disagree more with that statement. If anything the game could need an act or two more.

Honestly, whenever I see someone complaining about a long game I wonder why they are in such a rush to finish it. What's the problem with a 500 hour game? Just take your time. No need to finish it whenever you're done with it, even if it's only years later. But I guess gamers today just need their next dopamine fix and can't be bothered anymore to invest some time into a game. After all the next overhyped game is just a week or so away and it absolutely needs to be played right at release! Best make every game like a 2 minute tiktok so gamers can consume at an even higher rate!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, I wish people would get off their high horse about it. It's easily one of the best non-human isekai novels and the anime adaptation was decent enough to not warrant all those "how high were they hur durr" and "peak anime oink oink" comments.

What I am surprised though is that a second season would most likely bring us past what is written in the source material.

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