Spyke
CerebralHawks
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Ew, paywall. I'd ask you to use free and open sources, but, you're the mod. Please don't smite me. That being said, I can't see the article because I'm not a paying subscriber — and I'm not willing to disable my security software so they can install files on my machine or whatever they want to do that my security software is stopping them from doing.

Love these books. I'm about 12-13% into the second one (Apple Books gives me a percentage if I ask, and I usually do). I'm also listening to the audiobook, which is fantastic.

While I'm excited for an adaptation, I fear we're looking at another Ender's Game, where the audiobook is the superior adaptation. With Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (bigot, by the way — so yes, I know, if anyone asks) knew they would never make a faithful adaptation of his book, so he endorsed the audiobook as the superior adaptation before ever seeing a film script. The book was made into a movie about 10-15 years ago, and it was pretty good, but they had to age up the kids, like in Game of Thrones, albeit for different reasons. I don't really see a similar problem with a Dungeon Crawler Carl film (or anime as many seem to want), but it's not something that's going to translate well to film (or TV). It really is a game you're riding shotgun on.

I feel like a video game based on Dungeon Crawler World would go over better, being a massively multiplayer online game that is done in seasons. You'd be able to log out, but you'd want to do it in a safe room, and you'd still be subject to being killed (for example, floor collapse).

I'm betting MrBeast is trying to figure out how to do Dungeon Crawler World IRL somewhere. If you don't know, he's a YouTuber. I think he's American. He challenges people to do dumb shit and pays the winners generously. I don't watch him; I think he exploits poor people for entertainment and I'm not with that, but he is quite popular.

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Grainnereply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Sorry for that, I don't see any paywall on my end and I'm not a subscriber. Only a pop-up that I could close.

Peacock has give a series order to the TV adaptation of “Dungeon Crawler Carl,” a New York Times best selling book from Matt Dinniman. Seth MacFarlane‘s Fuzzy Door is behind the series, which comes from the newly renamed Universal Global Television. Variety reported in April that the show had landed at Peacock.

Chris Yost (“The Mandalorian”) is on board as writer and executive producer, while Dinniman is set as a non-writing co-executive producer. MacFarlane will serve as an executive producer, while Fuzzy Door’s Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald are also EPs.

Based on the book series of the same name by Matt Dinniman, the project was originally acquired by Universal International Studios in early 2025, though no network or streamer was attached at that time.

“Surprise! I’m happy to announce that our friends at Peacock have officially greenlit the Dungeon Crawler Carl television series,” Dinniman wrote on social media. “Me, Chris Yost and Seth MacFarlane and his team at Fuzzy Door are all really excited to get to work. In the coming weeks I’ll have more details, and if you’re going to SDCC be sure to catch me and Chris on our DCC panel. In the meantime I wanted to thank you, the fans, for helping make this happen.”

Here’s the logline: “An alien invasion has wiped out most of humanity and any survivors are forced to fight for their lives on a sadistic intergalactic game show. Sounds bad, right? Now try doing it with bare feet and a stuck-up, self-centered, tiara-wearing talking cat as your partner. Welcome to Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, where the apocalypse will be televised … and Coast Guard vet Carl finds himself stuck with his ex-girlfriend’s award-winning show cat, Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk, as they try to survive the end of the world, fighting monsters, aliens, an insane A.I. and even other survivors … all for the sake of good TV. Survival is optional. Entertainment is not.”

“Dungeon Crawler Carl” has sold over 10 million copies. Ace Books and Audible are the publishers behind the series; there have been seven entries in the “Dungeon Crawler Carl” book series to date, with the eighth set to be released on May 12. Dinniman has previously indicated that he plans to release 10 books overall in the series.

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AwesomeLowlanderreply
sh.itjust.works

I'm not gonna spoil the books, but things change massively as you progress through the series. So your recommendations might make sense for the first few books, but not so much later on.

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