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Dipped my toes into Empire Total War's grand campaign today; I've done the Road to Independence tutorial, the late start United States campaign, and the Warpath campaign, but I've never played the real one. Settled on Prussia, since it looks like an enjoyable challenge. Only two territories...

My superhero setting is Renaissance based, so I've got matchlock muskets and wheellock pistols. They're expensive enough that the Izari City Guard are the only story relevant faction that has firearms in large numbers. Some of the top agents for Izar's various crime families have wheellocks...

Finished the main story of Red Dead Redemption 2 over the weekend, though I'm still working my way through the epilogue. It packs as much emotional punch as the first one did. Easily one of my top five games of all time.

Got back into the Total War series lately. Currently playing a Baktria campaign. Easy enough so far, since most of my Eastern or Nomadic neighbors can't match Baktria's lovely hybrid roster. The only real issue I've had is dynasty wise. My king must be on his sixth wife by now; they keep...

Personality would seem to be the leading contender, regardless of location. Eurasian peoples had a milder alternative to bison and focused their domestication efforts on it. Plains natives didn't have an alternative and not one tribe managed to domesticate the American Bison; since they...

Superhero fiction occupies a weird place in speculative fiction. With my stab at superhero fiction, I consciously took it harder toward the fantasy side (with some post-apocalyptic elements) The setting itself is a secondary world rather than anything in ours. Roughly an early Renaissance...

With the two month wait to reply, it feels like there's an effort to deliberately stir things up, so I'm not going to bother continuing this line of discussion any further. Most of these points have already been addressed anyway.

I'm currently reading through a few different comics, both to help with research for my current project and for personal enjoyment. Batman #50 disappointed me, though that probably had more to do with the hype rather than the content itself. Catwoman #1 sets up what looks to be a promising...

Number of chapters doesn't matter that much. Even within one book, chapters can vary quite a bit in length. I had one chapter hit 7500 words, and another at about 2500. As Dragon said, word count is more helpful here.

An inability to understand the rules of grammar, punctuation, and spelling, perhaps? If people can't read it, it doesn't matter how good the story itself is. Or maybe a lack of imagination? Writing fiction is a fairly multifaceted venture, and all those facets have to come together. Being...

Don't presume to put words in the mouths of people I've talked to. Again, when that characteristic is brought up in fan conversations, it's consistently considered the most grating aspect of Batman OUT OF UNIVERSE. Many who don't like the character consider it a principal reason why. And to...

No, they're saying it's a flaw in and out of universe. Part of why King's run has been so well received is because he's having Batman develop past it and let people in. You're acting like this character trait is the single reason for the high sales, rather than people buying Batman media in...

As I already said, every Batman fan I've ever seen mention the trait in question considers it a flaw, and one of the his biggest ones at that. Are there some that miss the point? Probably, but they're certainly not the majority. Never seen anyone list "choking people" as a reason they liked...

Indeed. I'd agree with Ewolf's definition. It's about agency, flaws, and motives, not just physical prowess.

I'm not sure which Batman media you've been consuming, because the whole "pushing out allies" thing has been very clearly portrayed as a major flaw throughout both Scott Snyder and Tom King's runs. You can find similar sentiments all the way back to Dark Victory and Hush, where it wreaks havoc...