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    Was my dialogue bad?

    OK, I've tried my best at being the worst. If you're really doing it for shit and giggles, you're good at it, man. I almost had it out for you for using female unironically to talk about a woman.
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    Was my dialogue bad?

    That's a challenge... What are default eyes? Why is it important that everyone is an adult? Are the fangs organic grown? Why do the woman eyes have lips? Wait, are you a native English speaker? Those errors, and a few other, look like you almost succeeded at translating from another language...
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    Isn't paladin just warlock with a sharp stick?

    From my understanding of DnD : - Clerics are devoted to an actual god, be it good or evil, and supposed to be a part of the larger organized religion of that god. They pray the god for magic powers and receive them after. - Unless they're not and are either stealing powers from the gods or...
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    Writing How important is character arc to you?

    For me, it all depends on the style of the story. If it's a one-shot story, even a long one, or some slice of life, I don't expect much character development. Sure, it's almost always welcome when it happens, but the appeal of the story is elsewhere, including in a reassuring sense of...
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    My tips on writing about comedy as a tool for a story

    To expand on my previous comment, my personal theory about humor is that it's a defense mechanism against absurdity. Any joke has a rupture of something, be it character, reader expectations, words or logic. And that's fundamentally wrong to our monkey-brain, who wants order and predictability...
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    My tips on writing about comedy as a tool for a story

    The tips are indeed useful for situational humor and building up in-character jokes. That's unfortunately not most of what makes me laugh when reading. I laugh, sometimes out loud, at a whimsical turn of phrase, a subversion of the expectations not of the characters, but of the way things are...
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    Write awesome killing intent moments

    OK, I'm going to try to play it straight. Lost in his own thoughts, Mark was walking home. It wasn't really late, barely past midnight. If he had lived in a big city, the streets would have been bustling with people going on and about with their lives. Here, he was the last soul still awake...
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    Writing Prompt Finish The Story: The Perfect Disguise

    OK, so you need to not only crash the party, but do so while not being recognized by the girl holding the party, with whom you have a history. And you should be able to enjoy the party. I suppose it's not a costume party, as that would be trivial, anything with a mask works. If you don't want to...
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    Help me think cuz I am lazy and incompetent electric boogaloo

    OK, I'm going to come in from another angle. I'm a tabletop roleplayer, and a GM, and curious. That means I have seen my fair share of RPG systems. Most RPGs have primary stats, but what's interesting is that the primary stats change according to what kind of story you and your players want to...
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    Help me think cuz I am lazy and incompetent

    Space is Big. Like really really really fucking huge big. So maybe the cultivators, mages and sci-fi guys haven't found each other's place yet. Or maybe the mages and cultivators are aware that the moment they start having a technological breakthrough, they'll get a space fleet at their doors...
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    Help me think cuz I am lazy and incompetent

    I think you're up to something that could be really cool. If you're focusing on the super society, and you're making it a proxy war between the three other factions, you can do that and answer the ultimate question of any super story. Where do superpowers come from? Well, their powers are...
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    Help me think cuz I am lazy and incompetent

    Fantasy heavy dealers could also be actual dragons or demons/angels, or even gods (though from what you say, gods are more of a cultivator thing). I'm not really familiar with cultivation stories, but at the highest level of power, aren't western mages and eastern cultivators kind of the same...
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