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  • DarkD
    DarkD3d
    Replied to AlphaHost

    There's a difference between saying "Sir, just procedure, but I need to ask who you are and why you're down here. " and "Looking for trouble." It's easier to understand if we use an extreme comparison. Imagine a kid came into a candy store and the clerk pulled out a shotgun, pointed it at the kid and said, "what are you doing here?" There's no reason to escalate.

    "Looking for trouble." Uncle security murmured and looked down at the video on his phone.
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    Plague Doctor
    Horror · Wallee The Robot
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  • DarkD
    DarkD3d
    Posted

    It wasn't what I hoped this would be. I was imagining this was going to be another "Hard Enough" style fiction where the protagonist already had their team at full strength. That isn't what this is. It's another 11 year old going on a journey, only this one is running a farm and occasionally goes out on his flying pokemon to do journey like things. It comes off as confused. It wants to be both a farming fiction and a journey fiction, but does neither well. Farming fictions usually require detailed knowledge of actual farming and the slow build-up of farming resources. Often you can draw people's interest by showing how easy it is to create streams of revenue with just some small piece of land. Eventually building a farming empire. Journey fictions require either an adventure into the unknown or the meticulous training of cool pokemon. Unfortunately, the author doesn't have detailed knowledge of farming, it's mainly just made-up pokemon stuff. The farming aspect kills whatever adventure the story has and the training is pretty skimmed over. It's not bad, but I was hoping for a reclusive master pokemon trainer that high level pokemon trainers kept bumping into and challenging.

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    Pokemon: I'm a Farmer
    Anime & Comics · RockyRoad891
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  • DarkD
    DarkD4d
    Commented

    Doing this would bother me as he'd just been told she's busy. I would at least make an attempt to just leave a thank you letter then inquire about the grave location through the other officers. Although I suppose girls are more social than men, so she may appreciate the interaction.

    "Officer Jenny helped me a lot before, so I came here specifically to thank her and inquire about something. Can you pass on a message for me? Tell Officer Jenny that Rex from Fallabor Town has come to visit!"
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    Pokemon: I'm a Farmer
    Anime & Comics · RockyRoad891
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  • DarkD
    DarkD4d
    Commented

    The moment this scene started, I knew it was being used as an excuse to evolve taillow.

    Rex, seeing this scene, knew that Tailow was currently evolving.
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    Pokemon: I'm a Farmer
    Anime & Comics · RockyRoad891
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  • DarkD
    DarkD4d
    Commented

    I always find this ranger-like forest knowledge strange. This isn't a kid with some massive education nor has he had time in a library to learn everything about the wilderness. I'd rather the protagonist just say, "I came across some hurt pokemon. No idea what happened."

    When Rex found them, Bellsprout was seriously injured, most likely from protecting Oddish. In the forest, Pokémon all had territorial consciousness. Bellsprout, flying around freely, would easily become a target for attacks.
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    Pokemon: I'm a Farmer
    Anime & Comics · RockyRoad891
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  • DarkD
    DarkD4d
    Commented

    Maybe. I know China has a massive litter problem, but the more nature happy a civilization is, the more sparse the bottle pollution is. I live in Canada and I could walk the entire length of some of our beaches without finding any bottles. I could only imagine that the pokemon world would be more extreme in cleaning up. After all, even the plants and fish can help you with that.

    Anywhere humans lived, there wouldn't be a shortage of garbage. Although the world of pokemon was vast and sparsely populated, Rex's location wasn't far from human towns, so there was no shortage of garbage.
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    Pokemon: I'm a Farmer
    Anime & Comics · RockyRoad891
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  • DarkD
    DarkD1mth
    Replied to TransnTransn

    Professional my ass. Machine translated with a heavy cleanup afterwards. Maybe you have native speakers checking after the fact, but as someone who's read a lot of machine translations, I know what they look like. Like I said, definitely heavily cleaned up, but still.

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    Release That Witch
    Fantasy · Er Mu
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  • DarkD
    DarkD1mth
    Commented

    So you are machine translating.. "Sequela" is a term only used by a machine. It means "consequences". There was another time I remembered seeing the descriptor repeat itself which is another red flag. something like "it was scary and scary"

    Guelz gave a nod of satisfaction. Ever since his daughter had awakened as a Divine Lady, she increasingly enjoyed fighting, while her strength and ability consistently improved. From the Mojins' perspective, there was nothing wrong with these. However, as she grew older, the abilities gifted to her by the Three Gods were beginning to show signs of sequela. At first, Lorgar looked just like a regular person, except that she would transform into a large desert wolf when she used her abilities. After many fights, she mastered the technique of transforming a single limb, and thus had an assured means of controlling the God's Stone of Retaliation. As the effective range of the God's Stone was only two to three steps, she was able to bestialize her arm by keeping a distance away from the stone. The force which her arm could then exert was too great for any normal person to resist.
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    Release That Witch
    Fantasy · Er Mu
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  • DarkD
    DarkD1mth
    Commented

    Good job. I always hate those sissies that refuse to introduce real weapons to the world. Tools are meant to be used. Even if the tool was swords, two dictators would still order his knights to fight until the other was wiped out. So what's the difference.

    With his own hands, he had unveiled the curtains to a firearms war.
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    Release That Witch
    Fantasy · Er Mu
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  • DarkD
    DarkD3mth
    Posted

    This series is a giant Meh for me. It's fun for a hundred chapters, then you start to notice that the author is making things up as he goes along. You start to notice that the world has long since had it's most impressive secrets revealed and they weren't anything special. My ultimate verdict is, read it until you stop enjoying it. This was an average author having an amazing idea. I would actually give him 3.8 overall, but the overall score is an element of factors I can't give the author a lot of credit for. The writing quality is a ridiculously broad category that I can attribute about a hundred factors to. So for the purposes of my sanity, I'm just gonna treat it like grammar. The grammar was fine. Nothing really stood out as either great or terrible to me. Stability of update... This is webnovel, there are no novels on this site with less than 5 star update stability. Story development was disappointing.. I loved the idea behind the fiction and they never really made me wanna drop the fiction with some terrible plot twist, but the author is clearly making it up as he goes along. Ideas he had in early chapters are overwritten and forgotten in later chapters. In fact, everything revealed about the protagonists back story doesn't make a lot of sense. It's like the author wanted to throw in ideas, but didn't care about fitting them into the existing plot. Character design. Meh. The author tries a bit with the protagonist Leo, but even that is a rather shallow depiction of the legendary Florida culture. The rest of the characters are generic and are never really given the chance to become meaningful characters. The world background is like a jumbalaya of various ideas the author liked thrown into a pot without much care. I'd say the world background is a combination of cultivation, sci-fi and litRPG. I have no idea how that combination is supposed to work, but just turn your brain off and see how long you last.

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    Florida Man's General Store in Cultivation World
    Fantasy · DamnPlotArmor
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  • DarkD
    DarkD3mth
    Commented

    So yea, this is a massive plot hole if people can be awakened like this. Why hasn't anyone tried this before? I mean other awakened during other nightmare scenarios MUST HAVE asked how they did it in their time? Even if the person in question asks, "well how did you yourself awaken", they could simply make up some lie like, "I don't know, it just happened one day. I was just fighting some monsters and then, bam, awakening." In fact, there's lots of aspects of this that need to be explained. Other issues I figured out myself, like even if someone awakened to super strength, they probably never took it even a single step further because even taking that first step is monumentally hard. Maybe awakened in our world are people like Bruce Lee or Hercules? Just some one-in-a-billion legendary warrior.

    "...It is to absorb soul essence that has already Awakened. Through killing those who have already Awakened, and plundering their soul shards." 
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    Shadow Slave
    Fantasy · Guiltythree
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  • DarkD
    DarkD3mth
    Commented

    You are telling me he just explained that the protagonist had devised viable ways to eat and drink, but instead, he's just going to wait another night hungry? Sure aiming for the other rock makes sense, but do it on a full stomach at least...

    With that, he closed his eyes and concentrated his perception on the moving shadow.
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    Shadow Slave
    Fantasy · Guiltythree
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  • DarkD
    DarkD4mth
    Commented

    Yea, the one you swore you'd kill for having the nerve to offer you water....

    Dumbfounded, he slowly turned his head and looked to his left. Standing there with a valorous expression was the handsome young soldier who had once offered him water. He looked calm and collected, if a little grim. There was not a speck of dirt or blood on his leather armor.
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    Shadow Slave
    Fantasy · Guiltythree
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  • DarkD
    DarkD4mth
    Commented

    What does this even mean? Let's say for example that you had to pick one out of 100 people. 99 of them are useless, but one of them has the key to you escaping. If someone with the "Fated" attribute was in this situation and he chose someone would that mean: Option A: Absolutely nothing because weather you choose option 1 or option 85, in reality, they're all unlikely to be chosen. So the fated option doesn't even have to do anything. Option B: Find people with unique qualifiers to them and make them more likely to be chosen. Weather that's the person with the key or a person with a REALLY interesting story to tell, your power has no real way of discerning. Option C: Read the protagonists mind, find out what he wants to happen, and make him more likely to find what he's looking for.

    Sunny quickly recognized the first attribute, [Fated], as the main culprit of his predicament. At first glance, it seemed to indicate that he was destined for a certain fate — to die miserably and vanish without a trace, for example. But after reading the description, he realized that being fated actually just meant that improbable things had a higher chance of occurring when he was around.
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    Shadow Slave
    Fantasy · Guiltythree
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  • DarkD
    DarkD5mth
    Posted

    Starts out good, but quickly falls off a cliff. The translator has already admitted he's doing edited MTL and it shows. All kinds of typos make it in. Updates are whatever. Could use a slowdown if anything. Work on quality a bit more. Story starts out a 4, but as the author develops more gimmicks he slowly turns this into a pure action novel that seems to almost entirely drop the gimmick that made it interesting in the first place. Characters are meh. Nothing good, nothing bad. I think there's only been one character that wasn't designed with a generic personality. ie, generic future harem member. Generic male side character. World background... It's okayish. There are some story elements I found interesting. Nothing amazing. The criticism I write below does not affect the score of the novel. First of all, I hate that paid chapters are restricted to the cell phone. I hate reading things on my cell phone. I would happily buy a flip phone again if I didn't need the smart phone for my work. The power curve is completely broken in this series. The author is obsessed with dumping power-ups on the protagonist rather than developing what he has. It quickly turns into a swamp of random abilities no one cares about. Id rate this as a read it until you get bored novel. It's fun until it's not. And by then you don't really care anymore.

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    A Necromancer Who Just Wants to Plant Trees
    Games · The Key In 10 Years
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  • DarkD
    DarkD5mth
    Commented

    Thank god it's at least japanese names. Chinese names just suck...2-3 letters per name is not enough to make it memorable.

    A boy named Shimizu Yuga kept appearing in his dreams.
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    I Am The Owner Of A Pokémon Day Care In The Pokémon World
    Anime & Comics · bearnard_bear97
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  • DarkD
    DarkD5mth
    Posted

    It's a read it until you get bored type of gimmick novel. I found that I enjoyed the start, then around chapter 70, the author decided to develop a really stupid romance for 20 chapters. After that, the author continued developing weird non-pokemon related plot lines. IE game development that steels ideas from the normal world. I've always found this idea to be horrible. Making a great game is more than just a good idea. I doubt you could just go to another world, release minecraft and expect money. Nor could you push out minecraft in a couple months. Developing the game takes years. Knowing the planning would knock off a couple months. While I didn't mind the start of the novel, I'm still confused about what the hell happened there. Is the protagonist a transmigrator or did the world around him change everything he once knew into a pokemon variant? I think it's the ladder, but not once does the protagonist actually compare what the people and places around him used to be. He has a bunch of friends from before the transition and are they unchanged from it? Then there's the money aspect. It's a core reason why the protagonist doesn't want to be a trainer. Pokemon cost a fortune and he doesn't have any money. All these trainers around him keep casually saying various items are "pretty cheap, they only cost 3 million." and the protagonist says you could by a house for 60 grand. But the author never clarifies how other people can become trainers if they're all so damned rich. There's clearly a lot of trainers, so why can everyone else afford it?

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    I Really Don't Want To Be A Trainer
    Anime & Comics · ShazeSensei
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  • DarkD
    DarkD5mth
    Replied to Gortox

    It's true, but weather you enjoy it or not depends on the person. I found I enjoyed it quite a bit as I could still suspend my disbelief. There are kinda sorta ways for this plot to work. For example, local cultures could make learning strategy and tactics from established sources frowned upon. And yes, even something like that doesn't really work if you think about it. At the end of the day, its a matter of weather you can enjoy it or not.

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    I Really Don't Want To Be A Trainer
    Anime & Comics · ShazeSensei
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  • DarkD
    DarkD5mth
    Commented

    Do we really need a cheat? Can't we just stop with the gimmick of a pro pokemon gamer transmigrating over and destroying real pokemon trainers with high level Earth tactics?

    "I just said, how can transmigrator not bring a cheat."
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    I Really Don't Want To Be A Trainer
    Anime & Comics · ShazeSensei
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  • DarkD
    DarkD7mth
    Commented

    I love the genre, but I hate the explanation for how people get sent over to other worlds. They never make the slightest bit of logical sense. "oh, you had bad luck? My bad, go to another world with your memories intact" or some other similar nonsense. No, I'm sorry, but there's no alteration to that idea that makes it good. I much prefer the an idea like "people disappear all the time. Today there was a one-in-a-trillion tear in space for exactly one second that happened to swallow the protagonist and send him to the pokemon world" Done. It's possible, it has no logical gaps. And it's not going to leech its way into the rest of the storyline as the protagonist tries to somehow explore the nonsense vomitted out in the prologue.

    God "Ah I almost forgot to inform you as the planet which you are going to reincarnate is 100 times bigger than your previous planet so 1 year in your new world will be 10 years in your previous world and the elements in your new world is so rich that people tend to live a very long life and grow slowly, that's why you don't see ash become old"
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    Journey Towards Greatness
    Anime & Comics · Evil_God_ZARAKH
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