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I'm looking for any and all fair play murder mystery books that have the Challenge part.

I think I've already read everything with a challenge written before 1980

I've read Soji Shimada and Alice's works

I've read Tom Meade (and I couldn't solve any)

I've read Ben Stevenson

I couldn't get into Martin Edwards

I've read a couple of Janice Hallett's books and I think the all her books are the same book. I've read the one with the >!phials !<one about >!ww2 gold!< and summer camp. I didn't bother reading the rest.

I'm looking for any and all fair play murder mystery books that have the Challenge part.

I think I've already read everything with a challenge written before 1980

I've read Soji Shimada and Alice's works

I've read Tom Meade (and I couldn't solve any)

I've read Ben Stevenson

I couldn't get into Martin Edwards

I've read a couple of Janice Hallett's books and I think the all her books are the same book. I've read the one with the >!phials !<one about >!ww2 gold!< and summer camp. I didn't bother reading the rest.

I recently read that someone claimed trial by combat in 19th century England and from what I understood people in the court were surprised that was still around or at least they weren't expecting it.

Now that's two centuries old but it got me wondering if anyone ever witnessed someone use any forgotten stuff successfully in court that made people go "I can't believe that's still in the books."

Hello,

Basically I'm looking for books that go like this:

• protagonist encounters monster
• scary stuff happens while we slowly learn about the monster
• protagonist gets rid of the monster/gets killed/escapes
• basically scooby doo with a real monster

OR

• protagonist has to follow rules
• scary stuff happens when they fail
• we learn the mystery behind the rules
• protagonist gets rid of the monster/gets killed/escapes

AND

I want the mechanism behind the rules or the nature of the monster to be explained by the end of the book.

I do know about the r/ruleshorror sub and have read most of the top stories there.

Please don't recommend stories where the monster is actually a mental illness or an allegory for a dead pet or trauma.

I read Dark Pictures but didn't like the story. I also read King Sorrow and while the idea of a riddle dragon was nice I didn't like that story either.

This is a frequent discussion in my country. People talk about how the 3% cut payment processors take is pretty harmful because it "removes" money from the economy. The argument is the American companies take the money out of local economy whereas if people use cash or use a local processor that 3% (or whatever profit they're making) would remain and circulate locally.

On one hand anyone from a developing country is familiar with "keeping things local" attempts ending in disaster and everyone knows the famous failures of India, Argentina etc. On the other end I can't imagine simple removals from the economy are good for the economy. For example, if a Turkish man loses his salary to a Cyprus online casino I don't think Turkish economy benefits in any way.

So how does keeping things local work? How is the benefit of doing something locally calculated vs. letting a foreign company handle it?

Basically what I want to do is make it so that, for example, as US I want to make it so that China cannot trade with the rest of the world and they have buy from US market but US citizens cannot invest in China.

Hi,

I recently wanted to find something to listen to that'd remind me of MD or HR. However it turns out that I'm unable to search for such music. I'm already familiar with game's soundtrack and when I try searching for something new I either get music related to Cyerpunk the game or some youtube playlists made of demonic industrial sounds (don't know how else to describe it).

Basically I'm looking for stuff that reminded you of the games when you listened.

It isn't uncommon for many novels to skip through the early ranks of cultivation some have the MC going up multiple lower realms at once or have a Qi Condensation MC face off Golden Cores and survive. But I really enjoy the earlier parts of the novels where the MC struggles to go from a minor realm to another.

Like in RI first arc is one that I really like. He counts all his stones and has to cultivate really carefully and diligently to catch up to/stay ahead of random villagers. Even going from rank 2 to 3 is such a great hurdle for him.

All that planning, evil rank up method, Fang Yuan managing finances (beating up little kids) and people reacting to him progressing despite having a C tier aperture is peak content.

Are there any novels that have a similar first arc?

Whenever I hear about Qin meritocracy people mention that citizens had ranks and could get promoted by merit, soldiers could earn ranks by killing enemies and be granted land etc. but do we know the details of the actual system?

For example, how much merit did "killing an enemy" bring? What benefit did each rank bring to citizens? Like if a peasant joined the army and killed 5 guys what reward would he receive on return? What other methods were there for promotion?

I came across this article written by Friedman in 1998 where he compares the free market approach of Hong Kong to UK, Israel and USA.

For a genre called progression fantasy it's surprisingly hard to find a book where the MC starts from the bottom and progresses in a linear way. Of course they do need some advantages so there'll be an explanation as to why they're growing faster than everyone else but I feel that in many stories this is done in a way that trivializes the whole "progression" aspect.

They always meet some god/demon/champion or something or figure out some absurd stuff and power up exponentially. I don't know how many stories I've read where a level 1 MC creates a looney tunes trap to kill a level 40 bear and then gains 25 levels at once.

Today I tried reading Stubborn Grinder and it seemed perfect because the MC was leveling up his cleaning skill so I thought that was how the story would go but then the dude just started to murder guard captains and mages so early in the book that I can only imagine what he'll do in the following entries.

Then I tried Speedrunning the Multiverse and the first skill MC was learning he gained 5 levels at once after which I stopped reading.

Some examples that I can think of:

Reverend Insanity, early on it takes around 150 chapter for the MC to go from rank 1 to 3 and the process is very detailed like how many children he beats up and how much they pay him and how he uses those stones to train despite his low potential etc. It was fun to read through all those calculations.

Mother of Learning, Zorian's magic training through the books had a perfect pacing.

Systemic Lands, the skill system and the grind was good but the plot was basically non existent so I stopped after the MC met the communist Brazilians. Didn't help that MC acted like if Ayn Rand was deprived of oxygen for 7 minutes.

Game at Carousel, pretty good progression/mission reward system.

There was a western cultivation story with a time loop. MC kept dying and after he died he could earn upgrades based on his progress which piqued my interest but then the story turned into alchemy stuff and he started training random people so I stopped. But the initial idea of starting extremely weak and getting small upgrades with each iteration sounded good.

It was the first country I played as. I haven't for some time and want to go back but did anything get added? Or are there any mods that add flavor for South Africa?

Biannual as in every two years so you don't have to recommend very recent stuff only.

Looking for books where I don't have to read 5 pages about why slavery is worse than catapulting goblin children for fun.

Litrpg, Xianxia etc. everything goes (except VR) as long as the protagonist is evil (or just selfish).

What does NOT make a protagonist evil:

• Being rude to Deities
• Talking like a redditor to people in positions of authority
• Killing evil people
• Brutalizing even worse people
• Occasionally saying fuck
• Acting schizoid for 10 pages than mellowing out after making 1 (one) friend
• "He only cares for his friends." but then the friend group is every important person below the age of 30 so they end up getting involved in every single happening across the realm
• "I knew leaving them at the dungeon of death and running away was the smart choice but I decided to go back for them."
• Being stuck in a timeloop and still acting like what happens to other people matters
• Stealing for an evil Corporation
• Fighthing dirty against the evil aristocratic family plaguing the commoners

We've all read stories about orphans fighting corrupt guardsmen but are there any stories about a guardsman brave enough to fight orphans?