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Title: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 05, 2014, 04:46:11 pm
The Gamer is a Manwha (Korean Comic) based around the exploits of a Korean Student who one day wakes up with the ability of "The Gamer" that allows him to see everyones attributes, abilities, and level just as if the Real World was like a video game.

I've been following this for a while now because it clearly explains why video game elements exist. Plus it is an excellent read.

It turns out that the world is much stranger than he could ever imagine. Starting with his best friend who has a huge level and a unique title.
http://www.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/1/1 (http://www.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/1/1)
(http://i11.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/48/the-gamer-5087059.jpg)
Title: Re: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on August 05, 2014, 05:36:54 pm
Starting with his best friend who has a huge level and a unique title.


I have a huge level....



In my pants!
Title: Monkey Grip Feat
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 05, 2014, 08:43:34 pm
I have a huge level....



In my pants!

http://dndtools.eu/feats/complete-warrior--61/monkey-grip--1978/ (http://dndtools.eu/feats/complete-warrior--61/monkey-grip--1978/)
Quote
Monkey Grip
You are able to use a larger weapon than other people your size.
Prerequisite
Base attack bonus +1,
Benefit

You can use melee weapons one size category larger than you are with a -2 penalty on the attack roll
Title: Re: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: Kayne on August 05, 2014, 10:24:43 pm
Tiwa I meant to ask

Do you have an android phone?
Title: Nexus One
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 05, 2014, 11:02:18 pm
Tiwa I meant to ask

Do you have an android phone?
Why Yes. Yes I do (http://www.getsome.co.nz/index.php?topic=83114.msg1504600#msg1504600)
Unfortunately it is a Nexus One and I can not run Ingress on it. Or use my MyVu Personal Media Viewer with it
Title: Re: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: Kayne on August 06, 2014, 12:07:15 am
If I might be so bold, and if you already haven't stumbled across it already, go download / purchase Manga Rock

Manga has taken up 10x as much of my life now that I can read manga on the go!

Also I think I may have mentioned this before - but have you read "Girls of the Wild'S"
Title: Bleach Sux
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 06, 2014, 08:55:49 pm
If I might be so bold
You may not

I spend my time reading Naruto (which for some reason is still going) and The Gamer (because there was a two week break with no Naruto).

Oh and making fun of Bleach fans because Bleach has been terrible since the end of the Soul Society arc ten or more years ago.
Title: Naruto Sux
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 07, 2014, 09:30:44 am
Oh and making fun of Bleach fans because Bleach has been terrible since the end of the Soul Society arc ten or more years ago.
And now Naruto just joined the ranks of terribleness

All I have left is this Manwha
Title: Han Jee Han
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 10, 2014, 09:33:13 pm
Han Jee Han - The most broken character ever
Creates Time Chamber
Runs to increase Stamina
Wears weights to increase Strength
All while grinding Mana Shield and Elemental Summoning
Gains Wisdom for just coming up with this idea
(http://i33.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/49/the-gamer-5102325.jpg)
Title: Re: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: pop on August 19, 2014, 09:26:05 pm
hes upset that his future job would be grinding for money...
Title: The Existence Eater
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 19, 2014, 09:40:19 pm
hes upset that his future job would be grinding for money...
I know!!
(http://i13.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/50/the-gamer-5115433.jpg)
(http://i13.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/50/the-gamer-5115435.jpg)
This comic is fantastic. The writer has thought of everything.

I wonder who those dudes chatting on the Internet Forum are and if they will be able to get rid of the other Natural Talent User the "Existence Eater"
Title: The Internet Ruins Everything
Post by: Tiwaking! on August 24, 2014, 08:29:17 pm
Oh that internet, ruining people everywhere
(http://i14.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/51/the-gamer-5136085.jpg)
edit: messed up the link
Title: The Gamer - Grinding Champion
Post by: Tiwaking! on September 01, 2014, 09:21:29 am
He plays Real  Life  the way I play Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
(http://i8.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/52/the-gamer-5159263.jpg)
Although, this is a bit extreme :\
(http://i27.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/52/the-gamer-5159273.jpg)
Title: The Gamer Manwha Market Madness
Post by: Tiwaking! on September 06, 2014, 12:19:40 am
A magical Cellphone Strap and Case?!
(http://i1.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/53/the-gamer-5174451.jpg)
And the creation of an incredibly broken cheesy character
(http://i24.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/53/the-gamer-5174469.jpg)
Title: Re: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: pop on September 07, 2014, 09:29:18 pm
need that mana regen, wtb clarity
(http://www.mmozone.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Path-of-Exile-Clarity.jpg)
Title: The Gamer - Cheat Character
Post by: Tiwaking! on September 21, 2014, 05:47:47 pm
Han Jee-Han is a ridiculous character
(http://i25.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/54/the-gamer-5201001.jpg)
(http://i1.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/54/the-gamer-5201003.jpg)
This guy is absolutely hax. He can endure 77 bullets a minute
(http://i2.mangapanda.com/the-gamer/55/the-gamer-5201061.jpg)
Title: Jumble Mumble Golem
Post by: Tiwaking! on September 26, 2014, 04:14:02 pm
Nooo!! This episodes Manwha ends with the beginning of a fight! Why would you do this Sung San-young?!
(http://z.mhcdn.net/store/manga/13739/056.0/compressed/l023.jpg?v=11411694761)
Title: The Gamer - Gold Farming
Post by: Tiwaking! on November 09, 2014, 04:58:39 pm
hes upset that his future job would be grinding for money...
Man this guy gets some phat lewts. Check it out. They are worth about a million won each!
(http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/13088/062.0/compressed/v006.jpg)
Title: The Gamer - Lazy Artist
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 10, 2015, 09:51:26 am
How the hell did this punk get to level 98 summoning ability? And why has the artist been so lazy? It took him two months for an update! :|
(http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/13088/066.0/compressed/l004.jpg)
edit:Oh yeah, and now he can fly
(http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/13088/066.0/compressed/l026.jpg)
pff. Lame
Title: Re: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: Kayne on January 17, 2015, 06:35:59 pm
I'm waiting for Han Jee-Han to have a 5 way with the loliWitch, FireyRedHead, BlackSoulBetty and let's not forget, Auntie Poong Sae-Young. How often does this manga update, Tiwa?
Title: Korean Manwha
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 17, 2015, 07:43:02 pm
This manwha updates every week, but the translations come out at random times. Han Jee Han doesnt fight enough boss mobs. He wasted an entire release cleaning up trash mobs!
Title: Re: Naruto Sux
Post by: Pyromanik on January 20, 2015, 01:22:02 pm
If I might be so bold
You may not

I spend my time reading Naruto (which for some reason is still going) and The Gamer (because there was a two week break with no Naruto).

Oh and making fun of Bleach fans because Bleach has been terrible since the end of the Soul Society arc ten or more years ago.

10 or so years ago I stopped watching the anime because the amount of fillers eventually built up into their own non character developing arc. It was ridonkulus.
Then after the new year I got bored and started it again. Lucky for me there are nifty folks out there who have made a categorical list of all filler eps.
Some 400 episodes to watch? Suddenly ~200!
Boom, finished Soul Society arc. Now what? I dunno why I even started the new one, there's only 10 eps left and I have no intention at all of reading the manga... if that even is still a thing.

Oh and making fun of Bleach fans because Bleach has been terrible since the end of the Soul Society arc ten or more years ago.
And now Naruto just joined the ranks of terribleness

All I have left is this Manwha

Seems to be the way of all things mangaly.
Most especially when they're decent.

Ruroni Kenshin did the same thing :<
Slowly built up a massive arc out of smaller ones, was epic, then suddenly done... but still going, but still going, but still going... D:

Hmm. Mebbe I'll gaan watch that next like.
Nostalgia, get in me!

*** Turns out they made a live action film just the other year. And I watched it.
And there's a sequel that came out last year (2014).
Still the same stories though.
Title: Naruto - Needs Pruning
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 20, 2015, 04:18:20 pm
Oh and making fun of Bleach fans because Bleach has been terrible since the end of the Soul Society arc ten or more years ago.
And now Naruto just joined the ranks of terribleness

All I have left is this Manwha
Seems to be the way of all things mangaly.
Most especially when they're decent.

Ruroni Kenshin did the same thing :<
Slowly built up a massive arc out of smaller ones, was epic, then suddenly done... but still going, but still going, but still going... D:

Hmm. Mebbe I'll gaan watch that next like.
Nostalgia, get in me!
I quite liked Rurouni Kenshin, but it got too silly. Naruto needs some serious pruning done to a lot of the final manga's. Most of them go nowhere. Some of the characters went nowhere i.e Sai, Sakura. Obito gets to die multiple times and have a terribly ham fisted attempt to persuade the reader that, although he tried murdering a 10 second year old baby, he'd really had a change of heart guys!

I found a channel on YouTube that had the Naruto Anime and tried watching a random episode (Gaara vs 4th Kazekage). It started badly when they had a flashback to Gaara's death NINE YEARS AGO which was also the time when I had stopped watching the Naruto Anime. I doubt if I'll ever watch the rest of Shippuuden. It is mostly filler, flashbacks, and complete garbage
*** Turns out they made a live action film just the other year. And I watched it.
And there's a sequel that came out last year (2014).
Still the same stories though.
Wait, they released the Rurouni Kenshin movie?! I am totally going to watch that! That series was fun, but it got ridiculous in the end. That guy with the "Sword that burns with the fat of all his enemies he killed"? What the hell was that :\
edit:Fixing size
Title: Re: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: Pyromanik on January 23, 2015, 09:01:57 am
Yeah, it did get mad. It's also disappointing that it's the main arc. The guy is stupidly strong to the point where they're pretty much a god amongst warriors, with no weaknesses whatsoever (again a common theme in anime again, Bleach had the same thing with aizen)... and then at the end of it all Kenshin didn't even defeat him, just outlasted him :<

It's kinda an anticlimax. Also makes the hero less heroic in a way. Detracts from the character a bit.

I like a good underdog story.
I don't like it when the underdog slaves away to be better, cumulating in a big final battle in which it's portrayed that all that hard work was for nothing and Mr bad guy is just toying with them still, but then somehow (usually because of some kind of vain characteristic) end up sucumming to their own skills.

That's not a win. That's just narrowly avoiding death, and through no effort on their part either.
It was an f'n long time ago, but iirc it was a similar motif between Naruto v Gaara - although that may have had something to do with deamon fox, so not quite the same thing. IDK.

In any case, I loved Kenshin in the buildup to the Shishio Matako arc. But then it got a bit silly. And then after that it was pretty much just filler until series end (iirc, longer than one would expect).
Title: Just Kill Naruto
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 23, 2015, 09:11:27 am
That's not a win. That's just narrowly avoiding death, and through no effort on their part either.
It was an f'n long time ago, but iirc it was a similar motif between Naruto v Gaara - although that may have had something to do with deamon fox, so not quite the same thing. IDK.
Naruto vs Gaara was a fantastic fight, one of the best of the series. They were both equal in power and once they were both down, Naruto was still going to try and fight.

It even explains why when Temari and Kankuro turn up they did not think "Hey!! It is that blond kid from earlier. He looks pretty beat up. Lets stab him!"

The Naruto series always explains why people just didnt stab Naruto once he went down. Usually it is because there are people around to defend him. It is one of the key themes
Title: Worst Dating Sim Ever
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 23, 2015, 01:12:19 pm
I'm waiting for Han Jee-Han to have a 5 way with the loliWitch, FireyRedHead, BlackSoulBetty and let's not forget, Auntie Poong Sae-Young

What about Shin Sun-il??

DO YOU HATE HOMOS?!
(http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/13088/021.0/compressed/t025.jpg)
How often does this manga update, Tiwa?
Today is Friday 23 January
The last update was Thursday 8 January

The artist is very lazy
Title: Electronics Arts Is Hell!
Post by: Tiwaking! on January 30, 2015, 07:30:33 pm
EA is based in hell! Proof here
(http://z.mfcdn.net/store/manga/13088/072.0/compressed/i022.jpg)
Title: Re: The Gamer Manwha
Post by: Kayne on February 04, 2015, 06:48:12 pm
Edit : old message deleted

It was short. Too short. I'd just gotten used to how bizarre it was and all of a sudden - it's over.

So sad.
Title: The Gamer Chapter 73
Post by: Tiwaking! on February 06, 2015, 08:41:39 pm
Edit : old message deleted

It was short. Too short. I'd just gotten used to how bizarre it was and all of a sudden - it's over.

So sad.
Pfff!

This weeks chapter is only 18 pages long and consists of not a fight. They talk and then people get a little bit owned.

This is worse than a filler and twice as annoying!
Title: The Gamer - End of Arc
Post by: Tiwaking! on May 11, 2015, 12:41:11 am
Amazingly I have lost interest in this Manwha.
I think this review sums up my feelings about it:
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=103618 (https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=103618)
Instant gratification with no plot    
Rating: N/A
by Mizura
April 27th, 2015, 9:46am
The Gamer basically played on instant-gratification, as the protagonist gained one cool ability after another at a ridiculous pace. Once that period of easy gains was up, however, the faults of the series became all too apparent:
A lack of meaningful world building. It's just there so that baddies would show up.
A lack of character building. The characters have no depth and are just there to serve as foil for the main character, and the female characters are especially hilarious in this respect because of how they all conform to harem stereotypes.
A total lack of plot. This one should have been obvious from the start. The only thing driving the series was instant gratification, and the moment it tried to squeeze in a semblance of a plot, it fell flat because of the lack of world and character building. (for example, it's painfully obvious that the protagonist helping one of the girls is just a half-assed excuse for the author to add her to his harem)


Read the start for the instant gratification, then go find something better to read when it starts to feel draggy, because it won't get any better.

... Last updated on April 27th, 2015, 9:48am
With the end of Naruto, there really isnt anything comic related to hold my interest.
(http://a.mhcdn.net/store/manga/13739/086.0/compressed/p020.jpg?v=1431050524)