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It's literally socialism, but go off, I guess What, you don't love it when a bunch of criminal sociopaths rob you in six different ways so they can shoot hellfire missiles at children? That's not very patriotic of you!

I'm not sure I was ready for the "Tom Sawyer is technically steampunk" revelation.

based getting-reddit-banned pilled? Either way, you're probably better off.

The great (not so secret) secret of writing is that ideas are all mostly worthless, it's only the execution that really holds any weight. Given this, it's best to evaluate ideas not in terms of "good" or "bad", but rather in terms of how they will affect the execution, and one of the most...

Taxation is definitely theft, and what's worse, it's theft by the most objectively evil people in society. You should only pay taxes for strategic reasons, but if you can get away with not giving your money to psychopaths, you definitely should. Anyway, this is terribly off topic for this...

Have you ever watched "The Twelve Kingdoms" Anime? Based on this, I think you'd really like it. There's also a light novel, but I don't know if it's been translated to English. I've been (very slowly) studying for Japanese almost entirely due to my desire to read the source material for it...

consider making cold brew tea in a big mason jar. Then having tea in the morning is as easy as having a glass of water.

Polygamy. The word you're looking for is polygamy.

If an IRL RPG had the uncapped ability to permanently raise stats, players *would* find a way to exploit it, especially if the downside was as easy to mitigate as a time-locked room. The chief readers of LitRPG's are players of IRL RPG's. They will notice the exploit, and they will wonder why...

I personally dislike any kind of "wish-fulfillment, blank-slate, reader-insert" type characters in stories. I'm already me, I'm not reading something to get more of me, I want to meet new and interesting people, watch them go on adventures, and see them change and grow.

I cast my vote, but technically if you check off too many of those boxes, your story becomes a Sci-Fi story.

Harem in the literal sense refers to the women's area in an Arabic court. Harem in the literary sense refers to one man who's the center of attention of a bunch of people, usually women. For instance, Konosuba is a (largely parody) Harem story, and the MC hates everyone in his harem (except...

Although everyone talking about the decline of reading comprehension is no doubt correct, I think the specific issue you're addressing is a question of audience. Basically, that manga you're reading was presented to a group of man(and woman?)-children who lack the emotional intelligence...

Burger is probably the og fast food as we know it today, but for a more historical perspective you can look into the ancient roman "thermopolium" (here's an article on the subject: https://www.archeotravelers.com/en/2020/05/08/thermopolium-the-fast-food-of-the-ancient-romans/).

Harem exclusively describes a situation where one character is the center of 3+ characters' attention (if there's only 2, then it's a love triangle, or possibly just a group of characters). Because of its Arabic root, it usually means one man and many women, though in general it's meant to be...

You could probably also try software dictation, so you write in your diary, then read it to your computer.

This, and also: https://forum.scribblehub.com/threads/get-your-story-read-how-to-write-a-good-blurb-lessons-with-dr-shoemilk.23397/

Bookmarking this page. This is either great advice, or I'm hopelessly stupid (or both!)

From a realistic perspective, the average is around ten, with the number trending downwards. From a story perspective, the max number of directors is the number which helps you tell the most interesting story, though in general, I'd suggest less is more.

I'd say my judgement starts in ten seconds, but I don't know for certain if I like a song until it's almost done. An interesting, and related, question is how long until I *stop* liking a song, which I would say is anywhere between ten and fifty times hearing it.