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  1. CarburetorThompson

    Description questions for everyone

    Action adventure readers are reading for action and adventure. The whole premises of the genre is movement, as such (and especially with the light novel audience) you cannot afford to really go all out on prose. The readers care about what is happening, and what is going to happen, they don’t...
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    The carburetor name comes from when I had to do a private pilot ground school course as part of...

    The carburetor name comes from when I had to do a private pilot ground school course as part of my schooling (despite not planning on flying myself) at the time when I made my SH account, I was studying for a test about the parts of a carburetor and how carburetor icing forms, so that’s the name...
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    For the past few years I’ve volunteered at a historical nonprofit untowered airport. So it was...

    For the past few years I’ve volunteered at a historical nonprofit untowered airport. So it was an unpaid at will position. For my new job I’ll be working for the state government at a large airport
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    Start working on Tuesday. Nervous since it’s my first real job that isn’t a shitty retail peon...

    Start working on Tuesday. Nervous since it’s my first real job that isn’t a shitty retail peon labor job
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    What’s fun when ‘Reincarnated as a Monster’?

    I don't like the genre in general. Either the mc isn't a monster, just a human with extra steps, or the mc is a monster and uses that to justify their moral depravity and actions as they commit taboos that make me question if the character was ever human to begin with. Still I'd take human...
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    How many works had you seen using the measuring unit Yard?

    I think you’re misinterpreting what I mean. I don’t use my own standard of measurement that would just be confusing. If I need to measure something I use comparisons such as saying something ‘is the thickness of two thumbs’ and such
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    How many works had you seen using the measuring unit Yard?

    If I’m writing a fantasy work I try to avoid using any real world standard of measurement. If absolutely necessary, I’ll use only feet or hands, since that has historically been used as a measurement among different cultures. Also seen in things like final fantasy, people use thinly veiled...
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    Which novel/s is/are your hate read?

    Don't usually hate watch things. The one exception that comes to mind is the anime Gun Frontier. That show sucks, is utter dogshit. But a combination of being created by the same guy who made Captain Harlock, and it being one of the few western themed animes made me keep watching to see how...
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    So what tropes that you know that actually happen in the real world. (Edited for clarity)

    Plot armor. Just look at all the failed assassination attempts on people like Hitler and Castro
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    Just thinking about this because someone told me to boycott tcgplayer. And I thought to myself...

    Just thinking about this because someone told me to boycott tcgplayer. And I thought to myself ‘I buy groceries from companies that have committed war crimes’ would I undermine my own morals by giving outrage to a typical union bust that a blind man could’ve seen coming?
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    I feel like boycotting companies will always be an exercise in hypocrisy. Not saying it’s...

    I feel like boycotting companies will always be an exercise in hypocrisy. Not saying it’s ineffective, or you should never do it. But personally I feel for every company one boycotts there will be a dozen others an individual continues to do business with that have committed a myriad of crimes...
  12. CarburetorThompson

    Tfw Chicago gets a pope before a 4,000 yard passing QB

    Tfw Chicago gets a pope before a 4,000 yard passing QB
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    What are your some of the most hated tropes?

    I hate it when the mc shares a body with some malevolent entity that fights them for control. I feel like beyond the typical cliches this troupe is the most predictable and boring one to encounter. Not to mention that having a constant annoyance in the plot that doesn’t leave until the final...
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    How much real-world science from things like biology physics and chemistry should be brought into fantasy worlds?

    As always it depends on the story you are trying to tell. Certain themes lend themselves better to a certain level of anchoring in the real world. Are you writing a ASOIF or a Discworld, something in between or something different altogether. Personally to me it doesn’t very much matter as...
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    Question about quoting products in story scenes...?

    If your server is hosted far enough into eastern Europe you may find that there is no such thing as trademark or copyright
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    What’s your ideal fight scene?

    Personal I feel for a fight to be interesting and tense there needs to be three reversals. A moment when one side unveils a new strength that shifts the balance. Of course this isn’t how to write every fight, sometimes you want one side to totally dominate the other. I just think these fights...
  17. CarburetorThompson

    Favourite manga/manhwa

    Übel Blatt Femboy berserk
  18. CarburetorThompson

    RIP: Catbox

    Like Shrodinger or something idk
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    What got you into reading and what kinds of things have you enjoyed reading before?

    After high school I no longer had a lot of time to waste. I started reading manga because I could read it faster than watching anime or tv. Then when I ran out of manga I liked I naturally transitioned into reading, which I could also consume faster than tv
  20. CarburetorThompson

    Is anyone doing Art Fight this year?

    I don’t know what art fight is. But if it doesn’t exactly coincide with the random bursts of inspiration and motivation I receive then I probably won’t do it.
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