Recent content by Thraben

  1. T

    Mandatory review for rating low.

    Stars are and always will be a terrible system for anything other than objective measures of quality. They simply aren't a system meant to accommodate any degree of nuance or preference, and as such shouldn't even be used in the first place. IMO, all ratings should be posted as reviews, with...
  2. T

    Recommendations LitRPG research suggestions?

    I'm looking for Reqs with particularly creative takes on LitRPG, largely for research purposes. No particular compunctions about content or content warnings, I only care about finding creative and high quality LitRPG content. Even if I've already read an example I'm provided with, that's still...
  3. T

    One sentence ghost stories.

    Carpeted bathroom.
  4. T

    Writing Try this fun creativity exercise!

    I HATE these exercises. It's one of those subtle things you would never notice or think about if you never have explicitly encountered someone like me who's TOLD you, but Aphantasia makes these exercises about as useless as they can possibly get, and teachers (and artists generally) Will deride...
  5. T

    What's the darkest thing you've ever had to Google for a book?

    Average SA rates in various countries, income brackets, etc.
  6. T

    Description questions for everyone

    A: Yes, action wants a visceral and mechanic feel to actions whereas romance wants to emphasize how an action reflects the thoughts and emotions of the character. B: Can you? You already do. By virtue of it being written word in the first place. C: I can, and it isn't hard to do, especially if...
  7. T

    Where would you pick if you could take a month-long vacation in one of these places?

    These are some of the worst vacation destinations possible!
  8. T

    How many of you are robots without realising?

    Despite the notorious unreliability of using the AI to try and detect the AI, the more pressing issue is that this site asks you to pay for something that demonstrably doesn't work.
  9. T

    What are your some of the most hated tropes?

    "Here's my epic cool fantasy world! It's so quirky and different from the protagonist's old world in so many ways!11!!" And it's literally just medieval Europe but with magic and the author somehow hadn't considered how every single person having access to magic would fundamentally change the...
  10. T

    How much real-world science from things like biology physics and chemistry should be brought into fantasy worlds?

    There needs to be consistent biology, physics, chem in fiction, even if it differs heavily from IRL. Anime nonsense is nonsense and I don't want to read it. Hentai logic is nonsense and I don't want to read it. 'He's 250lbs of pure muscle but this 5'4 twink doesn't flinch from his punch' is...
  11. T

    What do you consider as harem?

    Both are wrong. harem is reciprocal BETWEEN ALL PARTICIPANTS. Multiple people who like MC, even reciprocated, are not a harem unless *ALL PARTICIPANTS agree that it is a harem.*
  12. T

    Which power would be the worst for a baby to have?

    Imma go ahead and assume its superstrength relative to being a baby, meaning that one is rather tame. Tele-Kinesis is about thinking, like that's the whole thing, so it literally wouldn't work until the baby is old enough to think properly, and at that point it would learn how to use it like any...
  13. T

    Question re: Gender Bender stories?

    If you don't want to be misunderstood, saying 'I don't want to be misunderstood, here is what I think on X' is a surefire, time tested way of clearing up misunderstandings.
  14. T

    Epic Heroes: Do We Like Them?

    Epic Heroes. Gilgamesh, Achilles, Beowulf, Herakles; the ancient examples. Epic Heroes. The Dragonborn, Aragorn, (Various Star Wars Protagonists); the modern examples. Do you like reading them? Do you like writing them? What is the general opinion on these types of characters and stories in...
Top