Dungeon Crawler Carl!

DCC Webtoon Some the art has really been knocking it out of the park.

I'm midway through book 6, so no spoilers beyond that please.

I've been trying to game out, in my mind, how this series can end. For the most part, each book has been one floor. The first book was the first two floors. Another book covers two floors in a different way. The dungeon is said to have 18 floors, and Dinniman has said the series will end with the 10th book.

So, setting aside my predictions (because predictions reference spoilers, even without declaring them), a couple things have become apparent to me the more I think about them.

Firstly, Carl is said to be a Coast Guard veteran, and a lot of military guys identify themselves and each other by rank and last name. We don't know either, which is super weird given his background. They've never been mentioned once.

Second, nobody seems to have a smartphone or watch or anything like that. I just came across a scene where Carl guesses at the date. Smart watches might only last hours (or days?), but some regular watches have 10 year batteries. The date should be a known quantity. Also, someone with a phone could just switch it off, and only turn it on when they need something, even if it's just to look at their photos.

My theory on these anachronisms is that these details would just get in the way of keeping the story moving forward at the pace it is, since it never really slows down. But, it still makes me curious why they aren't mentioned.

I'm probably missing some. Anyone else catch anything that seems to be missing?

I'd suggest sticking with actual Canadians, for the fun of it. Say, someone you'd love to see or someone you'd rather not?

Cross posted from a television community.

But this is great, glad to read Hayes is getting the recognition he deserves, he's half the reason the audiobook is so good. (Diniman may have something to do with it too, I guess.)

I'm visiting family in Missouri, so when I saw this in the grocery store, I knew I had to try it for my special boy Pony. Well, it may be from where cowboys come from, but this is awful. Like carbonated cough syrup...

[Verse 1]
I’ve heard there was a surface floor Where people lived before the war But you don't really care for background, do ya? The ceiling dropped, the buildings fell We stepped into this neon hell The AI logs a broken Hallelujah

[Chorus]
Hallelujah, Hallelujah Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Artist’s website: https://chriscarlsonart.com/

(Very much not my oc, but goddamnit Chris Carlson)

I've heard about these books for about 6 months to a year, but I thought they'd be silly (they are and I'm here for it) and not for me (flat out wrong). But the hype built up and I was real curious, so I picked up the first book as an audiobook. I have less time to read text than I do to listen (commute), so I went with the audiobook. Plus, I've heard nothing but good things about Jeff Hays' narration.

From the first chapter I'm pretty much committed to finishing the series. They got me. I love a good narrator. I've listened to Wil Wheaton (e.g. Ready Player One and Two), LeVar Burton (Aftermath, which is his book — he was the host of Reading Rainbow and he was Geordi LaForge on Star Trek: The Next Generation and its four films), Stephen King (The Wind Through the Keyhole was one of his he narrated; there were others), Cherami Leigh (Cyberpunk 2077: No_Coincidence; she also voices the player character in the video game; and the Sword Art Online audiobooks, in which case she voices the female lead), and others... If Jeff Hays isn't the best of the lot, he's definitely top five. I'm looking forward to the rest of the first book and the next seven (though, at the rate Dinniman writes, he may have book 9 out by the time I get there — anyone know how long he's planning on running the series?).

Anyway, if I can tell you where I'm at without spoilers, they just survived the encounter after their second neighbourhood boss (the one they didn't fight directly and Donut revealed something about the boss room after Carl did what he did). Oh, the app says I am 38% of the way in.

But the best part? I've been dangling awesome audiobooks in front of my wife for years now. Over a decade, really. She won't do it. I figure if we both listen, the value of the book doubles since it's being enjoyed by two people. But she's not into reading so much... Used to be. Not so much these days. But I played a few samples and read some excerpts of mob descriptions (we started with Bad Llama, and went into some I haven't encountered yet in my reading) and now she wants in as well. So when I'm done with the first one, she'll pick it up while I listen to the second one.

One day, I'll do something besides golden age Simpsons references but today is not that day...

Remember to tag spoilers etc if we're gonna talk about those boxes and how they got 'em etc!

That is all. Thank you.

I'm having to relisten to book 5, was on chapter 62, because there's mention of Carl forming a corporation and I cannot for the life of me remember that happening... Anyone able to either point me to the chapter it happens or give me a brief rundown of how it happened?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45083109

Not sure if this is allowed here, but I really enjoy this series and I’m thrilled to see it’s getting a TV adaptation. I’ve always thought it seems like the perfect book to adapt, given, well you know, the whole intergalactic TV setup.

The live-action “Dungeon Crawler Carl” TV series is now officially in development at Peacock, Variety has learned.

As previously reported, Chris Yost will write and executive produce the series, with Seth MacFarlane set to executive produce under his Fuzzy Door banner. Dinniman is also an EP, as is Fuzzy Door’s Erica Huggins. Rachel Hargreaves-Heald will serve as executive in charge of production for Fuzzy Door.

Dinnman also addressed fans who were concerned about the prospect of a live-action series versus an animated one, given the fantasy nature of the books. But Dinnman expressed his confidence in MacFarlane’s ability to bring the books to life.

“[We’re] not going to do it if it’s gonna look like absolute shit,” he said. “And they will do CGI testing on Princess Donut and stuff like that. And that’s all I can say, I think. It’s all gonna hinge on what it looks like. But Fuzzy Door, specifically, if you watch ‘Ted’ or ‘The Orville,’ you’ll see that they know what they’re doing when it comes to this.”

I know the real thing comes out in just a month, but the only-partially-edited version is available at the patreon $5 tier and, going into what I suspected would be a three-day-abed bout of illness I caved and donated just to get access to it early.

I'm down to discuss either the book itself or the way book seven left off.

Occasionally I look up Dungeon Crawler Carl characters on the Fandom wiki and I've noticed recently that there are a lot more pictures that seem to be created using genAI.

That's not too surprising to me, but it is surprising that pictures I remember from before seem to be missing. Does anyone know why? It could be a memory issue but I thought I'd ask and see if anyone else noticed it too.

A lot of these newer genAI pictures seem to be used as primary pictures now too. I don't like them as much so I don't love that, but it's not too surprising with the enthusiasm for genAI. I'm just mentioning it here incase its related somehow and the mention reminds someone of something