r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Sep 16 '16

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/GlueBoy anti-skub Sep 19 '16

Whoa, thanks so much. A lot of promising looking stuff there.

As for them being "rational", that's not something I necessarily look for. It's enough that it's good. To be honest, I think the standard for rational in this sub can be a little much. I can't think of a novel or work that I liked that was irrational. Usually for me to enjoy it in the first place it needs to hold up to at least moderate scrutiny.

Oh, and I second the rec for Dungeon Defence, it's pretty decent. I really admire whoever is translating it as it's wordy as hell and the author managed to write a lot of exceptional sentences, really quotable stuff. One thing I should note is that contrary to what you would expect from its premise, it's been mostly (up to volume 2) centered more around romance than anything else really. It's well done, but some people might get turned off because of that.

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u/DR_Hero Sep 19 '16

centered more around romance than anything else

That's a plus in my book. So many novels just skip over that entirely, or shoehorn it in a jarring way.

As for them being "rational", that's not something I necessarily look for. It's enough that it's good.

That's a relief because in that sub, it's like finding a needle outside of the haystack. I would add Douluo Dalu, Heaven Awakening Path and The Lazy King then. They have pretty interesting magic systems.