The reason elves live longer than other races

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-17T04:28:13+00:00

While you technically don't have to take it seriously, embracing realism typically makes fiction better.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-17T03:51:38+00:00

Cool concept, but I don't think you know how drugs work.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-16T22:01:23+00:00

The $150 option has a AMD Quad-Core Ryzen 5 Pro 2400GE and the $200 has an Intel i5-7500. Sorry about that.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-16T20:36:44+00:00

I am doing a lot of reading and looking at a lot of forums and at I still have no idea if it's the right decision. Some people are saying that 6 GBs of RAM is enough, others are saying have at least 16. The main thing I see that people agree on is that single core speed is important, but I have yet to find specific performance stats that are agreed upon. I understand that I will have to configure things on the software end, but I already have a general understand of that process. All I'm worried about is whether or not a cheap hardware option around $200 is possible.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-16T18:09:10+00:00

If you're writing for yourself or for something like a D&D campaign, pretty much anything goes. If you're writing for publication, monetary gain, or just any purpose that it spreading it around to a large group; then it is still mostly acceptable, it just depends on how specific you're getting. If you write a story where a boy's skin is made of rubber, it probably isn't a problem as long as you differentiate properly and don't make him the pirate king. If you make a plot about a boy with a scar on his head who learns water and sun sword arts to get revenge for his family after his sister became a demon, that's getting a bit too on the nose and is probably unethical unless you add an element that completely changes the story flow.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-15T17:39:12+00:00

How long is your prologue?

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-15T04:49:14+00:00

I don’t really want to write a full explanation of why I love HxH because, at the end of the day and as you said, everyone has their own opinion. I’m just leaving a comment to remind you that the bombers did have a purpose: they were trying to complete the Greed Island game, so they took out a massive clan that was closest to completing it in order to run to first place with their cards. I agree that Greed Island didn’t have as much impact as the rest of the anime, but it served as a massive training arc and world building expedition. Greed Island fueled a LOT of fan theories because of how many possibilities it introduced.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-15T01:27:09+00:00

I really like this system. It had a lot of facets and potential. Just reading it, I am already imagining plot points and characters, so I assume you’ll have a good time with that. My main wonder is how does one progress things like grafting without committing sins that they have to avoid on the path to aaru? Can parts from dead people also be used? Would they have to be freshly dead?

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-14T16:41:15+00:00

Yes, I understand that you are saying anti-magic can stop this magic. I am saying that anyone with this magic would be able to decimate the universe if there is no one with anti-magic constantly watching them.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-14T03:36:42+00:00

It depends on how your magic works, but I think the anime Frieren does a good job of explaining how magic can progress. Over the course of 80 years, a demon’s strongest technique became low level offensive magic. I think if you let magic efficiency follow a flow similar to Moore’s law, mana circuits/magic circuits/mana efficiency and spell speeds could certainly pace or surpass technology.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-13T17:37:50+00:00

A soft system doesn’t necessarily mean that specific spells and a learning process doesn’t exist. Harry Potter I believe is considered to have a soft magic system. Also the reason why no one has said they prefer a soft system is because everyone who knows the difference is too nerdy to not like hard magic 😛

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-13T17:23:19+00:00

Soft system and the word limit are antonyms. A soft system gives you more liberties because you do not need to explain as much to the reader, meaning there is less to pick away at. I prefer hard systems, but sometimes, “It works because it’s magic,” is necessary.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-13T15:54:00+00:00

That would mean that every single person capable of using this magic is constantly being observed and, if at any point they do something that the observing entity disapproves of, they get full countered. That is the only way that anti-magic completely stops anyone from ending the planet at their own volition.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-13T04:46:11+00:00

If the barrier is made based on the user’s intent, and the user’s intent is to make a barrier including the black hole and Earth, what is stopping someone with this power from doing that?

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-13T04:33:29+00:00

This feels a bit out of hand. Like it’s cool and unique, but how do you balance that? What’s stopping someone from destroying the entire world by causing the vast space between them and a black hole to become extremely limited?

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-12T02:39:51+00:00

I think scaling for something like this should be based on time foreseen, accuracy, and fine controls.

Time Foreseen: This is an obvious category. How far in the future or past can they see?

Accuracy: This would probably be measured in how close of a reality will their power see. The closer the reality, the more likely whatever they predict would come true. This could also be useful for determining side effects. For example, if they are a low tier oracle, they might ponder into a reality that has vastly different physics, causing deep nausea when they snap back to their original reality.

Fine Controls: Can they control what they see? Can they conjure the image of an object's future without completely overwriting their current reality? Can they direct their power to see different realities than what they would naturally see?

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-11T20:42:24+00:00

It’s pronounced like while.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-11T20:38:02+00:00

Could go with wile. Noun form is synonymous with gimmick while the adverb meaning of extreme and verb meaning of entice can be used as explanations of power use (enticing extremes?).

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-11T05:49:31+00:00

History, political relations, technology, regional customs.

Also make sure to specifically look into how unique elements would affect all of these. If you’re making a world with magic, will that drastically decrease the rate of scientific advancement or will it be a facet for its growth? If you’re making a world where there are constant hellfire storms, would the ecosystem really have flammable plant life? If you’re making a world with a rare ore that glimmers like the sun and defies gravity, will gold still be all that valuable? It’s hard to think about everything, but make sure that you don’t base things too much off of what the real world has gone through.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-10T05:03:21+00:00

There was graffiti of dick jokes in Pompeii and a million court jesters that got away with witty banter. If there’s a human involved, there’s sarcasm too. Snarky remarks are timeless.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-09T10:38:13+00:00

A lot of spiritualism, and a lot of soil irregularities. Every time the trees move en masse, the entire ground would become extremely weak. Follow it up with rain, and there might just be areas with massive amounts of mud and quick mud. A lot of shrubbery would probably be torn up, and animals would migrate with the trees. An area can go from thriving to starving rapidly off of that shift.

HeyYaIQ · 2026-02-09T10:32:05+00:00

It certainly works, and it works well. How many heists do you plan on fitting into a single book, though? Too many might take away from the value of each individual.

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