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Not to mention, Chinese writers who write smut do so as though they don't even know what a girl is and are just copying from the fictional material they've seen other people write. I mean, considering the huge demographic shift in China resulting from the one child policy, that might be...

Well, if your target was ultra-realism, you failed right out of the gate by causing the agility stat to increase a person's speed. The term agility, by it's definition, is the ability to change the direction of your momentum quickly. In other words, it's the ability to reach a full stop and then...

Hmm... interesting way of looking at it. Armed with this clarification in the language, I think I already have put a strong premise in my Key to the Void series without even knowing about this stuff. (Probably a result of just being exposed to good art and trying to imitate it.) The story's...

That's... actually an incredibly interesting point. Ascendance of a Bookworm is just about my hands-down favorite series in terms of the intense levels of micro-level societal world-building it does, and one of the interesting things in that series is just how powerful women are in this society...

What? Matriarchy and Patriarchy? Or Matraliniarity and patriarchy, or patraliniarity and matriarchy? Yes to the second, those mix quite easily. No to the first, they are by definition mutually exclusive. You can have a nation in which some institutions are run by a patriarical system and other...

Yeah, I was going to mention the separation of Matriarchy and Matriliniarity, but I felt it would be too confusing to put it in the title and I wound up running way too long in the OP to make mention of it. So, instead, I just decided to get by with having mentioned them separately in the unique...

This is what biting cats get in my house. Or rather, the human equivalent, which is a hand on the scruff of their neck. It asserts dominance, in the exact same way cats in the wild do. It's actually the most effective way to train them to stop biting... well, to stop biting YOU in particular...

XMOS... Envy... Tim... Sally. Does that count? (Sorry, I just had to.)

Let me start this one with a bit of a personal experience I had reading a manga recently. I read this manga, and it featured a kingdom in which the ruling family is descended from a hero who is a master of the sword. This hero's bloodline, passed down through the royal family, also passes on...

I plan the story arcs for my books pretty well, and also the arc for my story as a whole. However, I actually don't plan individual chapters at all. The closest thing I do to planning on a chapter by chapter basis is trying to figure out how to draw it closer to one story beat or another in...

Was gonna say, yeah, MTF gender-bender is actually the most popular genre. I've checked the traffic drivers for my story before, and every single time, it winds up being my gender-bender tag that pulls the most traffic to my story.

Actually, less than 10% of the tax dollars are on military spending. 80% of tax dollars go to the social security program, and that's only slated to increase in the future. Yeah, I know way too much about way too many things.

While that sounds like a good use if you don't think about it too hard, as soon as you put some actual reasoning to it you realize this is probably the single worst use of that kind of technology imaginable. All the nuke would do is accelerate it, and probably even damage it through melting...

I probably have a similar time zone to Fluffy, but I work night shift, so my place in my sleep schedule is likely closer to yours. On that subject, even though I sleep during the daytime as per a night-shift work schedule, I rarely have much trouble sleeping. EDIT: Oh, and by the way...

Back in the early days of the internet, in the bad old days when dark themes involved white text on a black background, I used to avoid dark themes like the plague because reading white text on black background is horrible on the eyes. Fortunately, people have learned better now, and now the...

No Christmas music list is complete without the Manheim Steamroller on here somewhere. EDIT: Oh, and here's another must-have for any Christmas music list. The Trans-Siberian orchestra rendition of Carol of the Bells.

Oh I certainly hear that one. Just look at the works of Rumiko Takahashi, the undisputed mother of the Harem genre, and how absolutely fantastic her works were. I mean, freaking Ranma 1/2. Everyone knows that series is a legend among anime and manga, and the funny thing is that very few people...

In my case, the changes I made to my re-write version were quite dramatic. Like, a total re-ordering of several major events as well as a few name changes. One of these name changes was actually the name of the series itself. So, it wasn't just an editing for form or presentation. It was...

Same, although I usually get up around 6 or 7 tabs after I've been on for a while. I do close every single one whenever I finish a session online and am going to shut down my computer, that's probably got a lot to do with how I keep the numbers down.

That's still an overview of the series rather than a rules set that will give me any indication as to what the actual vampire lore and power set is like. Ok, I know Blade. I guess that takes a bit of a turn in the lore from the weakening that vampires in the lore had been facing since the...