All authors who use systems in their stories are creatively bankrupt.

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[CarburetorThompson]

was gonna try and come up with a funny comment, but I got nothing. Systems are super dull generic and always break my immersion

 

[RepresentingWrath]

was gonna try and come up with a funny comment, but I got nothing. Systems are super dull generic and always break my immersion

I will preted like you managed to come up with a funny comment. CarburetorThompson, you are hilarious.

 

[NotaNuffian]

To me, it is just a fast way of saying "yeah, ima give plot armor in form of system to my MC."

And me being used to it, I just shrugged and see if it fancies me.

Most of the times it does, but once the plot lose me, I will drop the work and leech off another... as soon as I find it.

 

[beast_regards]

The use of the System in stories is an indication of deep trauma caused by the repeated interaction with the Royal Road.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

The use of the System in stories is an indication of deep trauma caused by the repeated interaction with the Royal Road.

Language!

 

[l8rose]

Hrmm... I'm torn. I kinda like some of the stories with systems. Especially if the systems are giving bonkers quests to their host. But for the most part, they're just weird ways of doing the same thing that's already around.

I mean... Seeing people's skills can just be telepathy. Having access to a system's store can just be having a space (much creepier too if it's got a merchant). Having a voice telling you to do things could be schizophrenia. You know, so many similar things.

 

[Paul__Michaels]

For me. Systems are just a lazy way for the MC to know what is happening in the world they just entered. Why learn about the world or unfold the story that you are going through when you can have a status window pop up and give you the plot?

Systems have their place, but too many new authors use them as a crutch to cut corners in their world-building. It's definitely something preteen and teens prefer to read, so it's easy to target them into a weak story if a system comfortably gives them all the information they want.

I'm sure I would have eaten that shyt up if I was a teen again.

 

[beast_regards]

Systems have their place, but too many new authors use them as a crutch to cut corners in their world-building. It's definitely something preteen and teens prefer to read, so it's easy to target them into a weak story if a system comfortably gives them all the information they want.

Why bother with the world-building if any autistic teenager with more accounts than common sense could give you 0.5 star ratings?

 

[Empress_Omnii]

I actually love stories with systems available to everyone, not just the protagonist. Especially when the world building showcases how the system changes society.

 

[Bartun]

I use a system. This is my system. ?

 

[Nym]

I actually love stories with systems available to everyone, not just the protagonist. Especially when the world building showcases how the system changes society.

Yeah I dislike when only the protag has them but I like when everyone has them

 

[Tempokai]

System trope is a shortcut. Shortcuts save time in building a scaffolding of ethos and logos. But as with any shortcuts, sometimes when doing a shortcut actually doesn't shorten the emotional connection between the author and the reader. That's when the system turns from a ordinary trope to the creatively bankrupt one, as the author doesn't realize the weight of this trope and actually hurts the story. So, yes, the system trope is creatively bankrupt when author uses it as a crutch for building ethos and logos, which burnt out reader rejects as the authorial intent, making the author fumble his persuasion.

 

[RedMuffin]

@SailusGebel:
Activate Skill "All authors who use systems in their stories are creatively bankrupt"!

The System:

 

[Deleted member 76176]

Try saying something that you didn't repeat nth time.

 

[Comatoast]

I've only ever seen one system story, That being omniscient reader on webtoon.

Wouldn't it be funny if there was a story where the system is essentially a character in the story who gives the quests, Very ridiculous ones at that, then you find out that you were basically isekai'ed into a cosmic comedy show where they watch "funny mortal do stupid mortal things."

The whole story revolves around the mortal man escaping his fantasy prison which makes every cosmic force watching even more interested so the "host" or system let's him try and try, Only to begin getting scared as he gets closer and closer to escaping.

The host is caught in a dilemma now as he wants the guy to keep escaping but needs to keep him under his thumb to keep his ratings sky high.

 

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[RepresentingDesire]

I could say the same thing I always say but "Execution creates the quality of tropes" is enough

 

[beast_regards]

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[l8rose]

I use a system. This is my system. ?


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