LotusDragon

John Denver with some muppets

Quick note: In the app on phone, comms - Spider, Fora, etc are bolded this chapter, they were NOT in ch 2

Martial Scholar -> Martial Science High School I find this terrible translation to be deeply funny and I think the story would be better for it. (They’re all competing to go to High School👍)

Now you sent me down a google rabbit hole learning about things called Silkpunk, and Spicepunk

loose-fitting harem pants … ? ?? - Not that sort of book so far (Anyone know what this is, or what the translation is suppose to mean)

So you didn’t consider is 500k reward with 3million in taxes 😉

🤦 really? California City, a city of about 15k ~2 hrs from anything. Now the expectations of supermodels and luxury handbags makes no sense. Fantasy or Sci-fi allows for interesting cultural mashups/veneers. Magical realism shouldn’t lose my suspension of disbelief on the realism.

So it’s mostly the little things that make this subpar to terrible. California is a state not a city, and it’s really big with lots of differences across it. If you mean the L.A./Hollywood area as a caricature fine, BUT it does not rain there. The whole point of the area is it has no weather. Cops in the U. S. can get away with lots of stuff, but making a person transfer money out of electronic banking, nope. The setting makes the story less believable not more. It’s like saying all Midwest farming is rice paddies. Unless it’s addressed why culture mashing is happening, it’s just makes the story ungrounded.

This is not the name or direct ability of the rat in the chapter Sigh

The true measure of cultivation!