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And it shows a LOT of geo-political awareness by the author. I actually learn things about various national politics and things about the shipping industry and logistics and such from reading it.

It is deliberately playing them as unambitious when it comes to getting stronger and the dungeon exploration, they just care about how they can profit off their dungeon research, how they can live an easy life, and how the things they are discovering are probably going to affect the world.

Anyway, my current favorite Lite Novel is one called D-Genesis. It's a JP LN with a strangely Korean style setting in which magic appears on Earth and dungeons start appearing. Only, the protagonist is a researcher and it goes deep into the geo-political angle of how all this stuff is affecting...

The last cultivation-style novel I actually enjoyed was one called Super-Gene, which I mostly enjoyed because it was a sci-fi set cultivation series, which meant there was a modern justice system which pretty much shut down all of the tropes I hate the most out of such webnovels. But, then, it...

Really now? I might have to consider taking another look at murim or cultivation based novels. Those tropes, plus the constant cycle of unjust revenge plot, are the exact things that got me out of CN novels and those inspired by them in the first place.

(Although it's more my opinion that these fantastic gems are examples of those that learned the correct lessons from the past, which is why they are able to employ the techniques so well while also applying the newer techniques that allow them to really hook in the reader and hold their...

My approach toward older Vs. newer material is that I read older material to learn about lore and good world building, and I read newer material to be properly entertained and enjoy what I'm reading. Occasionally, I'll find something that completely blows me away like the 3 I named there, which...

If you compare only the writings that survive said "great filter" and ignore all the items that get filtered out, I'm actually of the opinion that writing is continuously improving over time. There are serious stand-outs like "The Count of Mote Cristo" which was incredibly good while having been...

I find it hilarious you describe it as "pre2020 era writing." That said, I think comparing writing and such by time-period like that, writings that are before a certain date are just writings that have already gone thorough "the great filter." That is, the more time that passes, the more the bad...

My preferred novels are the stuff that's critically good like WORM and Ascendance of a Bookworm. (Ironic those both have "worm" in the title despite being effectively polar opposites in terms of tone,) as well as stuff like Mother of Learning.

Yeah. Well, don't feel insulted that I didn't really give reaction to any of yours. It's just in my personality that I don't do that a whole lot. (So, in a way, any reaction from me at all can be seen as something to be proud of.)

For sexuality though, I'm an asexual aromantic, which has made writing a little interesting as writing romance scenes feels really strange to me. I've wound up just finding excuses to keep my characters as children for unnaturally long periods of time in order to just not include that stuff for...

Same in terms of the melting pot of racial groups. That said, my maternal grandmother was 100% Italian. So, while I'm only 25% Italian, I got raised properly in the heritage. As for my gender, I'm old enough to have been around in the days where we practiced proper internet safety and didn't...

Yeah, there's your problem right there. Toxic people hate getting shown mirrors of their own behaviors. It's like garlic to a vampire. Well, lesson learned. (For both of us.) Those people just be like that. Need to find better ways of dealing with them.