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Not really, I just don't read stories like that.

Yes.

"unique advantage that noone else has

He needs the cheat because he also has several disadvantages, and the cheat doesn't make up for these disadvantages.

Poor Spiritual Roots
- He has low spiritual power and cultivates slowly. Due to having low spirit power, he can't learn any high level spells

Weak Body
- He has an extremely frail body, he can't practice body cultivation or engage in any sort of physical combat

For a large portion of the novel, the MC doesn't engage any any fights because he is so weak in direct combat, he just stands in the background guiding and directing others, while assisting with low level spells, or by slowly building up large attacks. (He is basically crowd control)

Kind, mouthy, witty, poor background, hates evil. Unlike most main characters in this genre, Mo Hua is a bit of a chatterbox, and he loves to gossip. He often "realistically" talks himself out of situations and conflicts, rather than using force.

I put realistically in quotations because it's only realistic when compared to other stories, this still is a fantasy novel.

He is also manipulative, the degree to this is how much of a grudge he has against you. He only forms grudges toward people that wish him harm...or owes him Spirit Stones.

If he has a grudge with you, he can be extremely petty.

I'm currently reading a book series that I suspect may be AI writing, but the author has a long history, so I'm not sure. The one thing that makes me think it may not be AI, is the Author has been publishing since 2019.

A couple things that has me raising my eyebrows
- The morals of the characters are really simplistic, like the person writing it learned how humans should behave from watching Dhar Mann videos, the MC also lectures just like a Dhar Mann character. (Maybe the author is a fan of Dhar Mann ?)
- MC is a young person who recently discovered he is a powerful mage, the king in this story already 100% knows he is a powerful mage. Yet, there is a scene in the story where he does a minor service for the king, then the king refuses to pay him because the kings personal mage claims they didn't do anything, and they are probably lying about being mages. 🤨 This is not something a human writer would have forgotten, because they just had a scene in the same book where the king was talking about the magical things this character has done.
- The release time of these books are 3-4 months apart, and the author does seem to be a RR/web author with a huge amount of already written work. (They are simple and short books, so maybe the author just writes fast)

To be able to tell, you have to become familiar with AI writing, which means you actually have to use it, or read example works from people who are transparent about their use of AI, and even that may not help.

Catch 22.

If they are using chatgpt, it's kind of obvious, because chatgpt has the habit of writing things in list, claude on the other hand doesn't have this issue.

AI writing is constantly evolving and getting better with new model releases.
Another issue is the quality of AI writing with vary depending on how much effort the prompter is putting in.

The biggest tell to me is how characters are written, and if the book seems "censored". AI struggles with writing "morally grey" characters, if a character is written as doing something improper, the AI will constantly try to correct this behavior, or insert proper punishments and set backs for the character.

AI will also avoid writing out any scenes that are seen as too violent. (censored)

I got Halloween 1 & II because those are usually $25-28

They are ~$22 on Amazon right now, the prices have slowly been going down, so it would be more worth it to buy there if you don't want to pick up a third movie.

You just have to be careful about what movies you select on Gruv, because some on this list are at or below $20 on Amazon right now.

Like The Last Voyage of the Demeter.

Same thing for the Shout blu-ray 3 for 33, a lot of titles on the list usually sell for $17+ and almost never come down, but you have to be careful which ones you select because some can be purchased for less than $10 individually.

Like Day of The Dead, that's under 10 bucks in store at walmart and on Amazon.

Not that finicky. When I'm concerned about a disc, I just put it in and watch it. If it's not my first time watching a movie, I don't need a perfect set up to watch, so lot of times I just put the disc in and let it play while I'm multitasking if I just want to see if it works. I know some will just FF through it, but I prefer to watch. Out of 87 4ks I've watched, there has only been one that couldn't be resolved by cleaning so far.

Are you suggesting that people with 4k TVs should be buying regular blew-ray's and a regular blu-ray player, and then when they finally upgrade their sound system, they should buy all these disc all over again in 4k?

If I had to ask myself "Why I'm bothering", that would be the reason, there is no point in me buying all my disc all over again just because I upgraded a sound system.

Whenever I get one of these I chant "home of the big booty burgers" like Sinbad from Good Burger

It will probably end up in one of those post about an amazing goodwill / thrift store haul someone pulled.

True, but they still end up giving you lower prices than what they normally sell for.

AVP and Resurrection.

Try cleaning it with a cotton swap, and 90% rubbing alcohol, followed by a dry microfiber cloth. My disc sometimes come smudges/specks that wont come off with micro cloth only.

No exploration, and later in the series, the story goes sort off off the rails from climbing the tower. A lot of focus will be directed toward huge battles.

Sleepy Hollow is one of the best looking 4ks I've watched.

Cotton gloves

I was able to watch Waterworld on an Xbox One S

People on kick/twitch etc streaming movies when they're not supposed to be. It's not right, but I would have never bought these movies if I didn't see some random person streaming it. In fact, it's what got me back into watching movies, the past several years I've been mainly reading books.

I was watching The 100 TV series on DVD.

Because just like RR, it depends on what Books you read. I could specifically suggest someone read IETs novels, and they wouldn't encounter any of that.

Probably biased and inaccurate because it's my fav but, Sleepy Hollow.

Should I just give up hope of Dawn of the Dead 4k ever dropping in price. The steelbook frequently drops to be slightly above the plastic, but that plastic case price doesn't budge. Aside from dropping $4 this past December.

Walmart has some deals as well, I got the Men in Black Collection for $30 https://www.walmart.com/ip/New-Men-In-Black-Collection-I-II-III-3-Pack-4K-Digital/654884814