The comic segment of Marvel has actually been doing poorly for a long time. The movies are doing great, but people have been speculating about the...
As they say, nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution. I think a lot of things in media distribution that are now regarded as stopgap...
Aside from the stories writers are interested in telling, I now feel like the biggest impacts on fiction will come from the side-effects that are...
Now that's something I can believe. Big simple evils with a face, that can be overcome by stabbing it with a sword would be very appealing in...
In that regard we will see huge regional differences. Here in Germany we have a very strong welfare system that provides high job security and...
Personally, I think right now epidemiologists are collecting tons of data that never were available to them with our modern statistical methods...
The Black Death is really on a completely different scale, literally by orders of magnitude. A recent worst case projection if everything goes...
I don't see a zombie comeback. We're still at the tail end of the last zombie hype. And more importantly, zombies aren't really about disease....
The main question that religions would have to answer is how the common people are getting convinced that getting sacrificed is good for them....
Or wait and hope someone forgets to lock the gate. That's actually how a couple of sieges are reported to have ended.
I know that at least for woodcutting axes, there are literally dozens of different types. And woodworkers can tell you exactly which ones are best...
The best way to get past a wall is always to use the gate. Get some people over the palisade and open the gate for the rest of the attackers....
The setting is only the stage for a plot to play out on. You can have great stories with very little worldbuilding or a lot, but no amount of...
I want to get an overall impression of the look and style of the scene. Details are not really important, unless they are important to how the...
All of Japanese history except under the Tokugawa really. Up to the 10th century, straight narrow swords were also quite common in Japan. I just...
I want to be creative and I am too lazy to practice drawing. Also, the kind of fantasy books I want to read have not been written for 40 years or...
The correct option to get light stabs would actually be a spear. Much more reach and better handling. A super light katana with no cutting edge...
It almost looks like a pretty ordinary saber to me. Except that the entire cutting edge has been removed, leaving only a very small piercing tip...
Huge technological differences between regions are not exactly unusual in history. When the industrial revolution started in Europe, many parts of...
Since iron is often attributed to have anti-magic properties, I used iron chains as my method of choice to detain a wizard. That neutralizes their...
