Longer means better? Ha! That's what she said!
Ackackackackack *uncle laugh* *chokes* *slaps knee*
On a serious note, the word count is there for you not against you. It's your frieeeeend. Truuuust it.
Video games are fanfics. You usually have multiple routes to approach a problem or multiple story branches. Other media have only one branch. So it leaves people thirsty for some interactivity.
CCP? You're making a mistake in assuming it's a unitary faction. There are power struggles there. It's not many people's wet dream to have one person wield such power. Even in dictatorships.
I don't give a shit about Feng Yuan from reversed insanity.
As for ruthless characters and anti-heroes, I like them just as much as any other character. It all depends on what story they are in.
I learned to think in am and pm a long time ago. Even set my computer clock to it.
No one uses it in my country. But it's not a problem. It wasn't hard at all.
Catholic part? Ah, the part where they censored the 10 commandments because the fragment about not making any graven images was very problematic from a certain point onward?