You've ended up making a good sales pitch for your book. No offense, though, but I'm feeling pretty burnt by the isekai/litrpg genres due to how abused they are in anime/manga. You at least are taking it more seriously and give a purpose for the isekai - that's hopeful to me.
You could probably make a promotional thread sometime, I think we're allowed to make those for self-promotion.
While I don't speak to as many creators as I'd like, I think you're the first I've seen share this insight about one of the driving forces of fantasy. I developed the insight in pursuit of working on tabletop game design (exploration is a big driving force in men that gets neglected in modern times). I try to share it with others, but they don't seem to appreciate the gravity of it.
Things like fighting will always be an allure to the masses. Modern people are afraid of it so they dare not try it themselves. I should perhaps ask a soldier/mercenary how they feel about it in fiction... But anyway this specific logic I've applied for tremendous insight into many things.
My creator friends cater directly to one or more classes of degenerate, despite avoiding the blue pill themselves, so I try to engage them with group psychoanalysis concerning what the vermin truly desire and how it's visible in even the sloppiest of their trends.
Too many people thought that handholding-as-a-fetish was a meme, not seeing that it was a genuine symptom of desire from people starved of human connection.
I agree about high fantasy usually not being high from a different angle: metaphors. Most stories that utilize firearms don't bother to make the firearms represent anything, and unfortunately it is a ditto for magic. A proper high fantasy to me at least puts a little metaphor artistry in so when you have the big dudes in an epic wizard duel it has a meaning deeper than flashing lights and funny sounds. I hear about books that make such efforts often enough, but I wish I could see it in games more. I would be taken aback if I saw such an effort put towards firearms, I simply don't expect it and I imagine it would be harder to pull off.
Senko is a good example. Man, what a fantasy. Coming home after a long day of soul-crushing modern work to find someone is there for you, cares about you, strives to improve your life and mend your heart, etc. Very direct, even skips the standard isekai because it really would suffice most men to continue their bleak daily lives for just a few hours of warmth and honest affection. I hear the japs have a more negative view of male/female relations than us, and it clicks for me when I think about some of their popular stories.
Perhaps ironically, the tech could provide some small salvation even though I feel the appeal of luddite life more every year. AIs and machinery could make commodified waifus. I think it would be a motivator strong enough to get a lot of girls to shape up and make efforts, though at worst it might need some form of civil war like a fanfiction written by our Impossible1. Not much else to look forward to in tech, I don't think we'll be getting flying cars or teleporters.
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You've ended up making a good sales pitch for your book. No offense, though, but I'm feeling pretty burnt by the isekai/litrpg genres due to how abused they are in anime/manga. You at least are taking it more seriously and give a purpose for the isekai - that's hopeful to me.
You could probably make a promotional thread sometime, I think we're allowed to make those for self-promotion.
While I don't speak to as many creators as I'd like, I think you're the first I've seen share this insight about one of the driving forces of fantasy. I developed the insight in pursuit of working on tabletop game design (exploration is a big driving force in men that gets neglected in modern times). I try to share it with others, but they don't seem to appreciate the gravity of it.
Things like fighting will always be an allure to the masses. Modern people are afraid of it so they dare not try it themselves. I should perhaps ask a soldier/mercenary how they feel about it in fiction... But anyway this specific logic I've applied for tremendous insight into many things.
My creator friends cater directly to one or more classes of degenerate, despite avoiding the blue pill themselves, so I try to engage them with group psychoanalysis concerning what the vermin truly desire and how it's visible in even the sloppiest of their trends.
Too many people thought that handholding-as-a-fetish was a meme, not seeing that it was a genuine symptom of desire from people starved of human connection.
I agree about high fantasy usually not being high from a different angle: metaphors. Most stories that utilize firearms don't bother to make the firearms represent anything, and unfortunately it is a ditto for magic. A proper high fantasy to me at least puts a little metaphor artistry in so when you have the big dudes in an epic wizard duel it has a meaning deeper than flashing lights and funny sounds. I hear about books that make such efforts often enough, but I wish I could see it in games more. I would be taken aback if I saw such an effort put towards firearms, I simply don't expect it and I imagine it would be harder to pull off.
Senko is a good example. Man, what a fantasy. Coming home after a long day of soul-crushing modern work to find someone is there for you, cares about you, strives to improve your life and mend your heart, etc. Very direct, even skips the standard isekai because it really would suffice most men to continue their bleak daily lives for just a few hours of warmth and honest affection. I hear the japs have a more negative view of male/female relations than us, and it clicks for me when I think about some of their popular stories.
Perhaps ironically, the tech could provide some small salvation even though I feel the appeal of luddite life more every year. AIs and machinery could make commodified waifus. I think it would be a motivator strong enough to get a lot of girls to shape up and make efforts, though at worst it might need some form of civil war like a fanfiction written by our Impossible1. Not much else to look forward to in tech, I don't think we'll be getting flying cars or teleporters.