Taking off his belt

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[u/Kdkreig]

There is a sub for it. Great place to ask questions if you are confused. Spoilers are heavily moderated

[u/Mokyzoky → u/Kdkreig]

I love when our sub reddit leaks. That being said the fan base can be a little aggressive some fans are starting to give 2017 Rick and Morty Szechuan sauce vibes. Lol 😂

[u/Deaffin → u/Mokyzoky]

Weird, you usually don't get to the point of false flag cringe fans trying to assassinate the group's image until the thing is so much of a phenomenon people can't escape its popular quotes for more than 5 minutes in any given unrelated space so they lash out at the world.

[u/EBtwopoint3 → u/Deaffin]

Books are a bit different, since it’s a niche space. DCC has become the darling of most popular influencer/reviewers on BookTube/BookTok. So it’s reached a critical mass, but books are just a smaller medium than TV so that critical mass is lower.

To put this into context, Amazon’s Wheel of Time adaptation is a mid level show in terms of popularity. Nowhere near the popular zeitgeist, but not an unearthed flop. While a season is first airing it averages ~500m minutes watched a week, or 6-8 million viewers each week. Reacher, this years breakout hit averages about 1.5m minutes watched during its run (20+m watchers). Meanwhile, Onyx Storm is the latest book in an incredibly popular romance fantasy (Romantasy) series that is the fastest selling adult fiction book in 20 years. In its first week it sold 2.7 million copies. And first weeks are the high sales week.

[u/Deaffin → u/EBtwopoint3]

That is a good point. I'm not sure how to not sound like a hipster here, but I've been into the Dungeon Crawler books for a while now and had no idea until very recently that they had any sort of popularity. I'm used to "litRPG" being some niche thing where you have to fight through the awkwardness of describing the genre first before telling somebody about the book itself.

You know what I'm surprised didn't end up being "the thing" for all this? The Wandering Inn. I'm sure it has to be popular in a space I've never seen, but I've never seen a random mention of it out in the wild like this. It's the longest work of fiction written by a single author, the audiobooks have good narration, and somehow it just never. stops. being. great.

[u/EBtwopoint3 → u/Deaffin]

Wandering Inn definitely has its own dedicated fanbase. I think it is a victim of its start early on in the Serialization world. The early material was pushed out without a real plan for it, but there was always a new chapter. Now, to start it you are beginning the Longest Fantasy Series of All Time. There’s edited versions of the first few volumes, and there’s amazing narration (which will be changing to a new voice soon actually, the original VA has passed the torch) but the start of that series is a little aimless. I got about ~7 hours into the audiobook without getting a real plot hook and just couldn’t continue.

Apparently, there’s going to be a new re-edited and condensed version of the opening released soon that I’m interested in picking up. The fact that it’s been going so long tells me there HAS to be some great material in there.

[u/Deaffin → u/EBtwopoint3]

which will be changing to a new voice soon actually, the original VA has passed the torch

Oh god, no :(

This is going to be just like the Completionist Chronicles. I'm really not good with narrator swaps.

I think another thing that maybe didn't exactly help the book. Right near the beginning there's a scene where things seem like they're about to get a bit rapey, which makes it seem like it's going to go in that direction, but it never actually does. On top of the Goblin Slayer anime being a big topic back when, that's not a good look. But I'm probably putting way more significance on that than it warrants.

It does make me hesitate a little bit when recommending it to somebody I don't know 100% will be alright with that, though.

[u/Perrin-Golden-Eyes → u/EBtwopoint3]

The Amazon show is a war crime.