What do you guys find ridiculous about cultivation novels?
mng I believe war, control and envy hindered technology advancements for those times. Leonardo Di Vinci formed blueprints of an aeroplane, but various "Holy Wars" ensured those designs weren't implemented. It wasn't until the Wright Brothers came along that the designs of a plane could literally take flight.
As human beings who crave for advancement we also self-sabortage our technological growth by caving to our dark sides (war, mass destruction and so forth).
Well that's my take anyway. :smile_cat:
Yuyumamoru you should try lady cultivator!
the FL/MC is basically just trying to cultivate so that she's safe from other people who want to use her for her constitution. it's not the most slice of life, but she's not all about revenge & the romance hasn't really played a big part yet. I think you'll like it if you haven't read it yet. :)
Veronica8 War is the single most efficient catalyst for advancing technology (tanks, satellite, missiles, firearms, armor, computers - computers and AI were the result of military research, medical - firstaid kits and field dressings, chemical warfare which are in turn converted to fertilizers and daily household products, etc.). Look at World War II and the Great Acceleration. Or World War I and planes and tanks. Or ships and naval warfare.
Funny you said holy wars hindered Di Vinci's attempts to build a plane, but then completely ignored the role World War I and World War II played in advancing flight and airplane technology.
Veronica8 Right before, but they only developed a prototype. It was the military who saw the potential airplanes had for combat, and so they basically accelerated the technological advancement and development of planes far beyond anything the Wright Brothers conceived (lightweight frame, machine gun emplacements, more powerful engines, increased speed and mobility, armor - though obviously they couldn't put too much armor or it'll weigh the plane down, etc.). If I'm not mistaken, commercial passenger planes were actually based off military plane technology, and the improvements the military first made.
hyowhari that they get to meet/get something that will help them for a lifetime. Like they have a respective Senior White to pray on, or just be plain lucky/unFORTUNATE like ShuHang.
Something like a lucky trigger for the character development, which I think is funny. IRL no one is that lucky anyway, we just have to find the right motivation.
Yuyumamoru Try Cultivation Chat Group, easygoing cultivation novel with a lil good luck and bad luck combined, and the comedy
i dont have many comment on this, well its always either bad writing or just the lazy author you decide it
first rule, the worst possible condition ever possible when the mc was born
second rule, theres always sky beyond the sky and mc is just a frog at the bottom of the well dreaming to reach the highest sky
third rule, 10.1/10 luck stat. this is the shitty one. mc find inheritances lying around, 'somehow' strong people help you when mc in a pinch, etc etc
fourth rule, Auction
every generic cultivation novel out there is just a copy paste of one work to another with new name and new settings, you cant deny this
of course theres some good one like ccg but its just that rare
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Pill shit defying heaven!!!! this plot is the most boring shit to me. sadly, many novels abide by this pill shit rules.
pill can be and do almost everything under heaven such as cure diseases, dope cultivation, use as weapons, grow severed limbs and etc.
another is MC is the walking wikipedia (mostly reincarnate plot). dear authors ever heard of butterfly effect theory?
Arrogant bastards, the whole world fills with arrogant people. these bastards view others as insects but become losers eventually.
Auction shit, like someone said, MC either can make money himself to but many things in auction or buy cheap looking shit but the truth is it s godly artifact with heaven defy cheat ability.
Hildegarde Inheritances: When introduced they are talked up as having been created by the 10th reincarnation of Buddha, able to ascend even the most trash of MC's to the Heavens in a single bound. All knowing and all encompassing, they have the solution to every problem the MC could ever face so that they will never have to struggle or think for themselves ever again.
That is until the Author needs to create some tension in the story again. Then all of a sudden the same treasure that was always 10 steps ahead of anything the Protagonist ever faced turns out to only be at the 3rd level of cultivation out of 100, and new EVEN STRONGER treasures are needed in order for the Hero to continue his path against the Heavens. (Which immediately falls into his lap at the start of the next arc. Gotta keep the Plot Armor rolling lest the Writer have to come up with some original ideas!)
SkyScar Pills! How can something created BY the Heavens DEFY the Heavens?!
Using something natural like Ginseng roots to create the unnatural result of defying the Universal Laws never made any sense to me.
It would be like having a video game character able to rewrite his own code and escape the game just because he ate enough 1-up mushrooms!
ThrustThunder Ahem, Mario reference?
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What i find ridiculous about cultivation novels is cultivation novels.
Once you've read one, you've read them all. Why? Because they all follow the same tropes. Yes, there are exceptions, but 95% of them are not exceptions.
Few if any authors of cultivation WNs have sat there and told themselves "Yanno what? I am NOT going to make the MC a useless crippled who eventually finds some worldshaking treasure in his backyard that for some reason no one else has managed to find despite it being in such an obvious place - that suddenly turns him into a not-so-useless MC that everyone will still continue to call a crippled piece of garbage or "Lucky" for half of the 1000+ chapters i plan on writing. And i will not make everyone an asshole so that when the MC insults someones dog, their owners fathers grandfather's great uncle's great elder's great great ancestor's supreme lord father will get angry and suddenly decide to perform genocide on his entire bloodline. (extreme much?) Neither will i make sure to include 1 tsundere female, 1 meek female, 1 sweet female, 1 bitchy antagonistic female, most of which are romantically interested in the MC simply for the MC breathing gods-given air.
Everything about cultivation WNs is ridiculous. Actually, this can be said about most other WNs lol.
Woebegone Excellent question. Just what constitutes reincarnation. It is only recently (relatively speaking) that authors have begun differentiating between reincarnation and transmigration. For the purposes of distinction, my complaint is with transmigration stories. That said, there are still those that use the term "reincarnation" for soul transmigration. I have no clue how old the stories are as I never check thhat when I find them, just that I've seen several over the past few years.
Woebegone Excellent question. Just what constitutes reincarnation. It is only recently (relatively speaking) that authors have begun differentiating between reincarnation and transmigration. For the purposes of distinction, my complaint is with transmigration stories. That said, there are still those that use the term "reincarnation" for soul transmigration. I have no clue how old the stories are as I never check thhat when I find them, just that I've seen several over the past few years.
Regarding on the matter of conveniency in cultivation auctions, I'm afraid to say that it isn't even safe to just go to them. You buy something, You pay, Then someone will steal it. Why buy if you can get the item you want for free? Of course, it's risky but villains in cultivation novels always die right?