Recent content by Vaporo

Here's my take on all this: The only good nutritional advice I've ever been given is that all nutritional advice and dietary science is just made up guesswork. I think a lot of people figure out a diet they enjoy but also keeps them in decent shape. Then, they get defensive when some random...

You know, I've seen several variants of "The words don't really matter, they just give the caster something to focus on" at this point. People want the "cool factor" of casting magic with incantations, and there's nothing wrong with that, but at the same time I feel like in a lot of these cases...

I use boring old copper, silver, and gold coins in my setting, but I have some history a behind them. After a massive societal collapse, the world operated under a crude barter system, with farmers trading their failing crops for spare parts and electricity from the few power plants which were...

Speaking as someone with a bit of a technical background, here's my take on this technology: It's terrifying, but it still has quite a long way to go. Neural nets like this can be thought of as extremely abstracted "averaging engines." Essentially, they try to figure out what the "average"...

Perhaps rather than just black, specify something along the lines of "midnight black," or describe them as looking like a silhouette or shadow from a distance. Perhaps avoid limit or avoid the word "skin" when possible since I've noticed that word in particular seems to draw commentary. I think...

Who says that demons have to be evil? Perhaps that is just a stereotype and they're just wildly misunderstood? Any magical creature bound by a contract seems like a good path to take. e.g. a Djinn or something of the like which will vanish back into the aether after its contract is fulfilled...

The problem I always have with runic magic systems that nobody even bothers to explain their origins. What makes these arbitrary lines and shapes so special? Are they a fundamental part of the universe? If so, we should probably see them appear in nature. Are they an ancient dead language? If...

Aaaah. Y'all are thinking about a REALISTIC laser rifle. Yeah, that's a bit different. Although OP called them "laser rifles," they also said that they never run out of power and that their effect is to cause a small explosion wherever they hit, which indicates to me that "laser rifle" is just a...

I would like to contest this point. What is essentially a hand grenade that could explode anywhere behind enemy lines with no warning every three seconds would be a game changer. First of all, OP said that these are specifically laser RIFLES, so I'm assuming that they're fairly accurate long...

Perhaps the carrier has a double-hulled catamaran style design. When the hunters are picked up, they just maneuver into the "bay" between the two hulls. There could be a cable stretched between the hulls for which "tow hooks" on the hunters could be raised to catch it as they sail between...

Spoilers I guess, but Fight Club.

Just mention their dark skin in their character description. Or even just don't mention their skin color at all if it doesn't matter to the story. Some people get so hung up on skin color nowadays, but remember that the overwhelming majority of normal people don't care what color a character's...

Perhaps they spend so much time trying to keep the chaos god at bay that they usually just don't have time to deal with humanity.

The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card has something pretty similar.

Maybe use the phrase "Two sides of the same coin."