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How so? It never once affected me and I consider myself a consumer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't really get that sentiment. You buy a game -> You download the game -> You press the icon on the desktop/start menu/wherever -> you play the game.
What does it matter what store the game was bought on? The buying experience is a typical store experience on each platform. On my fiber connection the download speeds between epic and steam are both maxing out, and both synchronize saves across my PC and Ally. What else is there that makes one store so much better than the other, other than fanboyism and nostalgia?
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format | |---------|------------------------------------------------------|--------|-----------------------|---------------| | Oct 30 | Another World Survival | 6 | Hanashi Media | 🖥️ | | Oct 30 | Record of Wortenia War | 21 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 31 | A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans | 1 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 31 | As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World | 3 | Kodansha | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 31 | I Guess This Dragon Who Lost Her Egg to Disaster Is My Mom Now | 1 | Cross Infinite World | 🖥️ | | Oct 31 | Making Jam in the Woods: My Relaxing Life Starts in Another World | 1 | Cross Infinite World | 🖥️ | | Oct 31 | Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling | 5 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Oct 31 | Third Loop: The Nameless Princess and the Cruel Emperor | 1 | Cross Infinite World | 🖥️ | | Nov 02 | Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear | 16 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ | | Nov 02 | The Troubles of Miss Nicola the Exorcist | 2 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [October 23. - October 29.]
What light novel(s) have you read this week, and what do you think about it? [October 16. - October 22.]
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Formats | | ------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ----------------------- | ----------- | | Oct 23 | In Another World With My Smartphone | 28 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 24 | Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest | 13 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Oct 24 | Combatants Will Be Dispatched! | 7 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 24 | Date A Live | 10 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 24 | Days with My Stepsister | 1 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 24 | Free Life Fantasy Online: Immortal Princess | 4 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Oct 24 | I Kept Pressing the 100-Million-Year Button and Came Out on Top | 6 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 24 | Only I Know the Ghoul Saved the World | 1 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 24 | Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire | 1 | Yen Press | 📖 | | Oct 24 | Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- | 23 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 24 | The Ephemeral Scenes of Setsuna’s Journey | 2 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 24 | The Holy Grail of Eris | 4 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 25 | My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer | 10 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 25 | Only the Villainous Lord Wields the Power to Level Up | 3 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 25 | The Invincible Little Lady | 4 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 26 | Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Body Swap in the Maiden Court | 5 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ | | Oct 27 | Seventh | 5 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 27 | Stuck in a Time Loop: When All Else Fails, Be a Villainess | 2 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 27 | The Game Master Has Logged In to Another World | 4 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format | |-------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|--------|--------------------------|---------| | Oct 16 | Death’s Daughter and the Ebony Blade | 6 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 16 | Now I’m a Demon Lord! Happily Ever After with Monster Girls in My Dungeon | 6 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 16 | VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream | 6 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 17 | Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian | 4 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 17 | Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells | 8 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Oct 17 | High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World! | 9 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 17 | If the Villainess and Villain Met and Fell in Love | 1 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 17 | Monster Girl Doctor | 10 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Oct 17 | Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation | 24 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Oct 17 | My Happy Marriage | 5 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 17 | Sasaki and Peeps | 5 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 17 | The Dawn of the Witch | 4 | Kodansha | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 17 | The Lawyer in Shizukuishi Sleeps with a Wolf | 1 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 19 | A Tale of the Secret Saint | 5 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ | | Oct 19 | When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace | 8 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 20 | Fiancée No More: The Forsaken Lady, the Prince, and Their Make-Believe Love | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 20 | Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke | 4 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 20 | I Surrendered My Sword for a New Life as a Mage | 4 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
Post what light novels you have read this past week [October 9. - October 15]
Post what light novels you have read this past week (October 2. - October 8)
| Date | Title | Volume(s) | Publisher | Format | |--------|--------------------------------------------|-----------|---------------|---------| | Oct 09 | Ascendance of a Bookworm: Fanbook | 3 | J-Novel Club | 📖 | | Oct 09 | Knight’s & Magic | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 09 | Min-Maxing My TRPG Build in Another World | 7 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 09 | Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles | 19-20 | J-Novel Club | 📖 | | Oct 09 | The Apothecary Diaries | 9 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 09 | The Unwanted Undead Adventurer | 10 | J-Novel Club | 📖 | | Oct 09 | Young Lady Albert Is Courting Disaster | 3 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 10 | Infinite Dendrogram | 20 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 10 | The Sorcerer’s Receptionist | 4 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 12 | By the Grace of the Gods | 13 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 12 | The Mythical Hero’s Otherworld Chronicles | 5 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 13 | Full Metal Panic! Short Stories | 8 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
I dont even make it to the second episode. Most unlikeable character this season so far.
At this point "Hayo Miyazaki's last movie" just becomes a marketing blurb.
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format | |--------|---------------------------------------------------------------|--------|------------------------|----------| | Oct 02 | Taking My Reincarnation One Step at a Time: No One Told Me There Would Be Monsters! | 2 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 03 | Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 | 6 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Oct 03 | The Deer King | 1 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Oct 04 | 8th Loop for the Win! With Seven Lives’ Worth of XP and the Third Princess’s Appraisal Skill, My Behemoth and I Are Unstoppable! | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 05 | Reincarnated as a Dragon Hatchling | 5 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ | | Oct 05 | Tearmoon Empire | 10 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Oct 06 | Rebuild World | 3.1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
Post what light novels you have read this past week (September 25. - October 1.)
New source. It should be (hopefully) more accurate now than past weeks.
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format | |-------|------------------------------------------------------------|--------|-------------------------|------------| | Sep 25 | A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life | 7 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Sep 25 | Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers | 9 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Sep 25 | The Retired Demon of the Maxed-Out Village | 1 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Sep 26 | Defeating the Demon Lord’s a Cinch (If You’ve Got a Ringer) | 5 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Sep 26 | Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut | 6 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Sep 26 | Maiden of the Needle | 2 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Sep 26 | Raven of the Inner Palace | 3 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 📖 | | Sep 26 | The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten | 5.5 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Sep 26 | The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend | 4 | Yen Press | 🖥️📖 | | Sep 27 | Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill | 14 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Sep 28 | Accidentally in Love: The Witch, the Knight, and the Love Potion Slipup | 2 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Sep 28 | An Introvert’s Hookup Hiccups: This Gyaru Is Head Over Heels for Me! | 4 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Sep 28 | Raven of the Inner Palace | 4 | Seven Seas Entertainment | 🖥️ | | Sep 29 | Fluffy Paradise | 1 | Cross Infinite World | 🖥️ | | Sep 29 | Monster Tamer | 15 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ | | Sep 29 | Surviving in Another World as a Villainess Fox Girl! | 2 | Cross Infinite World | 🖥️ | | Sep 29 | The Do-Over Damsel Conquers the Dragon Emperor | 3 | Cross Infinite World | 🖥️ | | Sep 29 | The Drab Princess, the Black Cat, and the Satisfying Break-up | 3 | Cross Infinite World | 🖥️ | | Sep 29 | You Like Me, Not My Daughter?! | 2 | J-Novel Club | 🖥️ |
Post what light novels you have read this past week (September 18. - 24.)
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.
To me, FSR2 always looks like shit. I use it when playing on my SD or Ally and the results always look horrible.
I wouldn’t mind 8 episodes less of Haruhi.
The trust is gone and Unity will never be able to gain it back. The damage is done.
I also wonder if this is just playing out as planned by Unity. Try to push out a change that will piss people off by adding a more egregious change and then say "we hear you" and roll back to the change they wanted to push initially.
Post what you have read this past week (September 11. - 17.)
If the release calendar is correct then it looks like there's a whole bunch of releases from Yen this week. And would you guess it, it looks like there's finally a new release of Death March. When I looked it up before posting the MIA post there was no news about it on the official website. Let's knock on wood that this calendar is correct. But looking at Hell Mode for example showing as vol2. it looks like there is something funky here.
If anyone knows of a working release calendar it would be greatly appreciated.
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format | |------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------|--------|-------------|------------------| | September 18 | Fake Saint of the Year: You Wanted the Perfect Saint? Too Bad! | 2 | J-NOVEL CLUB| Digital | | September 19 | Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs | 10 | Seven Seas | Digital | | September 19 | The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess | 5 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | The Saga of Tanya the Evil | 12 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time | 6 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | The Girl I Saved on the Train Turned Out to Be My Childhood Friend | 4 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady | 9 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | The Deer King | 1 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten | 5.5 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Suppose a Kid from the Last Dungeon Boonies Moved to a Starter Town | 13 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Sugar Apple Fairy Tale | 4 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Reign of the Seven Spellblades | 9 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | My Instant Death Ability Is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! | 2 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Maiden of the Needle | 2 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Magical Girl Raising Project | 16 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | King’s Proposal | 3 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time | 1 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Hell Mode | 2 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Hazure Skill: The Guild Member with a Worthless Skill Is Actually a Legendary Assassin | 6 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Defeating the Demon Lord’s a Cinch (If You’ve Got a Ringer) | 5 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody | 19 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Bofuri: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense | 10 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 19 | Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki’s Conjecture | 2 | Yen Press | Physical & Digital | | September 20 | Ascendance of a Bookworm - Part 5 | 6 | J-NOVEL CLUB| Digital | | September 21 | Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World | 5 | J-NOVEL CLUB| Digital | | September 22 | D-Genesis: Three Years after the Dungeons Appeared | 4 | J-NOVEL CLUB| Digital |
| Date | Title | Volume | Publisher | Format | |------|-------|--------|-----------|--------| | September 11 | I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I’m the Strongest? I’m Not Even an Adventurer Yet! | 3 | J-NOVEL CLUB | Digital | | September 11 | Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I’m Not the Demon Lord | 2 | J-NOVEL CLUB | Digital | | September 11 | Lucia and the Loom: Weaving Her Way to Happiness | 1 | J-NOVEL CLUB | Digital | | September 12 | Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear | 15 | Seven Seas | Digital | | September 15 | A Pale Moon Reverie | 2 | J-NOVEL CLUB | Digital |
Post what you have read this past week (September 04. - 10.)
Does anyone have any info on what happened to Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody and why Yen Press hasn't released a new volume since December?
Depends on the TV. For gaming, it would be essential that it has some form of gaming/low latency mode.
Also, why would you pay extra for a "good" main board? That's literally the one thing where you can go cheap without a problem if you're not investing in the high-end segments of the other components.
As a sidenote: have you looked at something like a SteamDeck for your kid? It's a full fledged PC that you kid can hook up to the TV and if you want to watch something on it the kiddo can still use it with the build in display. the base model is also dirt cheap for what you get.
Post what you have read this past week (August 28. - September 03.)
Lightnovels releasing the next two weeks: (September 4. - September 10.) :
| Release Date | Series Name | Volume # | Publisher | Release Type | |--------------|-------------|----------|---------------|--------------| | September 05 | There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… | 3 | Seven Seas | Digital | | September 05 | The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash | 4 | Seven Seas | Digital | | September 05 | There’s No Freaking Way I’ll be Your Lover! Unless… | 2 | Seven Seas | Digital | | September 08 | Culinary Chronicles of the Court Flower | 11 | J-NOVEL CLUB | Digital |
Same here. The only obvious bug I encountered was that Gale somehow was convinced that he and I spent a night together, which we definitively didn't. I liked Act 3 best though. It felt like all the threads that were set up in the first two acts were coming together for a satisfying /interesting conclusion (stuff like the stolen Gith egg for example). I feel like the 3rd act swims or sinks depending on how many plotlines you've set up in your game until then.
I genuinely felt tears well up in my eyes as we watched the Torment Stag boss fight – that moment cemented the fact that I want to play this game.
I somehow have my problems trusting a reviewer who gets teary-eyed because of watching some gameplay video.
Post what you have read this past week (August 21. - 27.)
Press the left stick during dialogue choices and a little window will tell you what stats are used and if you get any boni on the rolls.
I guess we have to welcome room temperature superconductor into the illustrious circle of Aliens, the Sasquatch and Nessi.
They allegedly are the great minds that managed to create a supposedly impossible holy grail of science, but they are unable to focus a camera for their great demonstration? really?
I have the same problem with !lightnovels@lemmy.ml . In some instances, the last federated post is 2 weeks past and on lemmy.world it's 8 days (https://lemmy.world/c/lightnovels@lemmy.ml)