Recent content by Queshire

Hah.... it's been so hard to find time to watch anime these days. I tend to read manga instead, though even that runs into the time crunch. Frieren is good even if most of the people talking about it have the media literacy of a salmon.

My primary concern is a matter of practicality more than anything else. It's hard enough to break into creative industries as is without having to compete with AI. Even in just fan circles AI assisted work bloats the number you have to compete with.

I doubt you'll find much support for AI in a writing forum.

Hrm. I'd go with, "the color drained from their face" or something like that. If someone is already familiar with the trope they get it, but also makes sense for those not familiar with the trope.

Hrm. Honestly I'd probably say Grand Theft Auto. The meaninglessness would get to them.

I don't know. A 'lack of imagination' strikes me as an accurate enough description for those people that'd rather bitch about a work based only on a trailer rather than, ya know, give it a shot on its own merits.

How political am I allowed to get with this conversation? 0.o

On the one hand word choice does inevitably affect tone. A magic school's cafeteria gives off a different vibe than a magic school's great hall even if, functionally they're the exact same thing. On the other hand you're still writing for modern day people even if your story does not take place...

I haven't read any Wuxia, but I've read several Xanxia stories. Much, muuuuuuuuch higher levels of magic in those than Wuxia.

Personally I would just avoid the whole thing by having the culture in question wait until 17 or 18 or whatever instead of marrying people young.

Someone in the setting can always find out what level they are through the system. Finding out the level of someone else is a slightly more complicated affair. Items to scan someone's level are fairly common, but without that characters are left with more of a vague sense of how dense someone's...

One of the base functions of the system that the System Builders civilization built was to aid in the use of magic both directly and serving as a tutor. With the technological aesthetic of the System Builders that manifests as almost a video game style form of magic complete with classes...

Well, you might not be able to make a computer, but don't underestimate what you can achieve with just access to the sort of twenty year old textbooks you can find in a college library.

Well, objectively speaking it certainly works for a story. The relation between Atariel and the Creator could be clearly. At first it seemed like they were supposed to be the same thing, but later looks like they're seperate beings. Subjectively it's very Christian-y.

Ten commandments? Nope. For the most part there's just the standard formal and informal cultural norms. (Plus stuff that I just don't want to write about as an author.) Individual or groups of gods might communicate commandments to their followers, but that's just something the gods themselves...