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Have a copy somewhere. Keep stumbling on it, reading a few pages, and losing it again, only to have it turn up a few years later to repeat the process. Oddly, about half the time when I do read a few pages, something there is relevant to something going on in my life. Have had people cite...

I was referring to a different company, but I would not be surprised if this was true for one or both of them as well. Especially Activision.

You may not need to. Write the level of description you feel you need for your story. Not everyone can (or should) be, say Robert Jordan in "Key to Time" (honestly, aside from two characters, knew more about how the setting looks, feels, and even smells like by the end of the first book), but...

The gambling industry does this too, though maybe not as obviously. And, perhaps ironically, perhaps not, one of the more successful video game companies was owned for three years by a company that made slot machines and gambling games, and introduced a lot of features during their run that a...

You could always join the Church of the Subgenius and collect slack. Or the First Church of Shatnerology and worship the Toupee...

I don't ignore authors - I just read stand-alone books or ones with very few sequels at present so that I'll be likely to find the rest of the story, regardless of quality. I also used to hit used book stores to find stuff, but there are no longer any nearby, sadly. But I'll read all of it -...

Well, Conrad was a modern engineer who used the wrong door in the wrong pub and wound up trapped in feudal Poland, with only a few years to either get out or find a way to protect everyone from the Mongol hordes... so he needed a strong currency system as part of his scheme. Once the merchants...

And you had things like the Spanish Dubloon that was designed to be broken into eight pieces if change was needed. One of my favorite moments of economics creeping into a novel was in the Conrad Stargaard books by Leo Frantkowski - Conrad tries to introduce a base ten monetary system to feudal...

As the Tarot is traditionally (in one novel, Tim Powers had it being a bit darker - playing poker with a tarot deck and the "right" opponents could re-order reality) a divination tool, it being tied to the future (and even the past) makes sense. The only way I could see making a second person...

From what little I've seen of One Piece (part of two different episodes), that is pretty close to the Bronze Age Marvel/post-Crisis DC era (when writers and artists seemed to be moving freely between the brands and "cross-pollinating" - until a few jumped ship to create "Image")

As someone who has dealt with superheroes for a while - the CONCEPT is inherently silly. People in outfits inspired by circus performers going out and doing or stopping crimes? Pure comedy. Some of the earlier superheroes (Plastic Man, the "Marvel Family"/Shazam, etc.) outright embraced this...

The question I'm surprised nobody has asked: How much does this figure in to your story? If it's just something that comes up in passing, don't sweat the details. If the story is all about economics of scale and scarcity society, then you need to dig in deeper and research theories and...

Mail order trending? Or a mail-order novel?

Nice. I hear one of my stories made Trending once, for about two, maybe three hours. Was only on the top of the second page though and fell off fast.

Plot Armor is only bad when it's boring...

Roughly 200. Not impressive enough to actually count so guessing...

As someone who has never gotten above 44000 on RR, (well... sort of - started HIGHER than that at 439--- but somehow my highest went down from there to its current 49--- level... how the "highest rating" can constantly go down makes little sense but...), very impressive!

Though I disagree on several points (honestly felt the pacing might be too fast, if you can believe it - this is actually an origin story), that is a fair analysis.

I know at least two people who had Champions characters using that name, as well as at least one superhero team called that. It should be a common enough name that you won't get in trouble UNLESS your character shares other traits - same powerset, similar appearance, same origin - as one of the...

Sounds kind of like the Star Trek episode "All Our Yesterdays" (and its two novel sequels, only one of which - Yesterday's Child - I've read). Not sure if they actually transmigrated or were just shunted into the past though; been a while, and I know Spock and McCoy were shunted physically...