FilledWithHope He is totally correct. over 75% of the LNs I have read have forgotten how much money they gave the MC or forgot how to subtract 3million yen from 12 million yen and somhow get 500k yen left. LMAO this kind of stuff happens all the time. I've had it where the author said the MC uped his stats from 12 to 13 (a +1) and then 3 chapters later complain that he is not able to do such and such ability until his stat went up to 13 and then went and used his new stat point from the level he just gained 5 sec ago to level that stat up. Now this MC is short an entire stat point because it took 2 levels to get the same stat point. The authors throw out RANDOM numbers to show "HEY he made big money" and then say they spent some money and now they want the MC to be BROKE so say "Oh man now he is broke after spending 30 yen". They fudge and finesse everything to make a BIG SPLASH while constantly telling us how much money they have at every new thing they pick up in the woods and sell off at the market to show how awesome the MC is. All so that they can ignore it all in the very next chapter. It is almost like Clickbait.

      People really should go look at TV Tropes. There is a whole series of tropes for things writers are bad at. Writers are human and make mistakes. Some make less than others, but all make mistakes.

      CKtalon When majority have shitty math, it is hard to find ones with an acceptable level of math. An example of normal level math would be Forty Millenniums of Cultivation. Nothing impressive, but author atleast doesn't fck up basic elementary level math like so many others. Like seriously, it is so rare to find a wn without basic math mistakes that only those that doesn't have mistakes stay in my mind. Normally bad experiences would be so much more memorable, but when almost everything is a bad experience you start to only remember the rare good encounters...

        Yeah, it can get very confusing... like they traveled to this place for six months, fought with that group for another six months, traveled again for 1 year, then spent 3 months finishing this task. And then at the end of it all it says they've been away for 1.5 years. Huuuh??? Sometimes I wonder if it's the author or the translator/editor who's at fault.

          SorcererCat Not to mention that in some novels the MC teleports 1000 miles because of some skill to demonstrate how fast he is in the fight and then later he has to travel 10 000 miles and it takes him like 2-3 months. I am like WTF happened to his speed?

              FilledWithHope the aurthor would have spent lots of time making the novel and for you to disrespect them is not very nice...you should respect that they have given you something to read instead of picking out little things that doesn't really matter 🙄 think of how the aurthor would feel when they read what you say! And you could of hurt a lot of people feeling by saying "why are Chinese authors so bad at spelling" that is not nice...in actual fact Chinese people are very kind and are good with maths...they take their time to create novels for people and for you to disrespect them...you should apologise and respect people more!!!

                  Vladimir
                  This one is the one nearly every cultivation novels makes. Basically, every single cultivation method with a distance in a "blink of an eye" or "half of a breath" is flawed. What is also funny is when the MC and Arrogant Young Master#1 both have those special arts. Sometimes, both used their arts to their "full potential" but in the end, they managed to stay inside a small square of 50 meters length. Like seriously, what is read is like, roaming thousands of miles, jumping hundreds of meters in the sky, but in reality, they are barely moving at all. Specifically in "Tournament Arc", where the author specifically says that the dueling court is small because of everyone watching the battle.
                  At the same time, it is not necessarily an error in maths in that case. More like, to make the fight more interesting, close whatever adjective you can think of that will make it better. Instead of staying realist, they chose to break a little the reality to offer a better experience to the reader. When it is the stats and money and time of traveling of the MC, I think that's because they failed at remembering the exact number. But for the rest, it can be considered as making the novel more interesting.
                  It's like "increasing my power one fold", I never really understood what it meant. Sometimes, the MC can slaughter in one move the previously invincible enemy, sometimes he just barely beat it.

                    Law of narrative causality applies. Basically anytime anything happens it's done either to highlight the drama of the moment or coolness of the protagonist.

                      FilledWithHope Well that was a mature and measured response. Trying for the black powder fan approach or just being edgy to look cool?

                      Authors put a lot of work into those stories and at the end of the day they make mistakes, but if you're still reading despitd said mistakes then they're not storybreakers.

                      Besides, some of it just reads as being exaggerated to give it a greater impact, like someone telling a fish story.

                          FilledWithHope You aim to do the best you can and try to learn from your mistakes. Authors of all types try to do the same. Doesn't prevent the mistakes from happening. Especially in webnovels which tend to lack an editor on ths original work.

                            My mother and father went to the grocery store 15 miles from our house. Our family is really poor and thus we can't really afford to buy or use a car.

                            The average human can walk about 3 miles an hour... Yet my parent's haven't been home for 17 years. Why is that? They left my little sister and I for this long, and they're still not home. Why?

                            Li Yufei looked at the MATH on the whiteboard with a frown on his face. The author needs to get good at faking math!

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