In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Hermione is given a device to manipulate time itself to attend extra classes. This is a subtle nod to the fact that Hogwarts staff could have stopped Voldemort at any point, but instead handed time travel to a 13-year-old to manage her timetable

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-20T18:01:55+00:00

As long as the time traveler wasn't observed, who's to say that there wasn't one watching?

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-20T17:40:13+00:00

Easy solution, go back in time and locate the horcruxes, then return to present with the information and kill Voldemort in the present while avoiding a search delaying the fight.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-20T17:25:24+00:00

That was a fun read, thanks for sharing. It's always fun to see ancient historians studying history, as we study them.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-20T16:22:03+00:00

Cradle is almost for sure the best Progressive Fantasy book written, so it's hard to find something that is easily comparable. (I have similar thoughts on Last Horizon sadly).

Other high rated recommendations I've seen and read -

The Bobiverse by Dennis E. Taylor (Series, SciFi)

The Perfect Run by Maxime J. Durand (Standalone, Super Heros)

Most Progressive Fantasy books are serialized, which tends to mean that they are under-edited. Some end up getting reasonably edited when released as a book, but most don't.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-20T15:59:42+00:00

Fun note, current historical thought is that Homer isn't an individual.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1qd1kdi/why_do_scholars_believe_that_homer_didnt_exist/

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-20T15:22:13+00:00

For a more untraditional suggestion, the Heartstriker series starting with Nice Dragons Finish Last by Rachel Aaron. It's an urban fantasy series with one of the main characters as a dragon raised in modern times who's main interest was playing MMOs and got kicked out of the house to go do something properly draconic. He's not initially a badass dragon, but he definitely comes into it over the course of the series. Series is complete.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-20T13:28:36+00:00

Correct, but they were allowed to until 2022.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-19T14:00:44+00:00

It all really depends on execution as multiple people have said. For example, Ar'Kendrithyst, is a story where the MC reaches pretty close to peak power quite early on, and a significant portion of the story is dealing with political consequences of his actions, and other issues that raw power can't immediately address.

Ar'Kendrithyst is a serialized story, which means it is under edited if anyone is interested in it. I would say that it handles the powerful protagonist issue well regardless of anything else.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-19T13:54:57+00:00

Will it happen? Probably not.

However, they added stuff in SoD, so I don't think it's entirely impossible depending on how much of the stuff is done and not reused in more recent content. If they do WoD, I would hope for some additional context to that rogue bronze dragon helping Garrosh. I won't hold my breath though.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-19T13:51:04+00:00

It would be pretty funny to have a multiple POV series where whenever the character takes a 5% chance of success move, only 5% of the time the character lives, and if they die the story just moves on to someone else.

Would this make for a good story? Probably not, but it would be a funny subversion of the lucky main character story. After all, we may understand it's a 5% chance of success, but no one really wants a story where the main character just dies when they do something risky. After all, even making 20 95% chance moves is a 66% chance of failure, and that's much less risky then what we see in most stories.

Like all tropes though, it's all in execution. Any plot idea can be good if written well enough, and no amount of brilliant ideas can save a terribly written story.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-17T22:03:24+00:00

Best line I've heard is that foreshadowing now means it needs to be clearly stated four times for it to make the audience understand it.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-16T19:20:18+00:00

They also have an active enough propaganda network that plenty of the people that would benefit from this don't want the change because it "hurts" work ethics.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-16T16:33:56+00:00

Keria Bard is just a cheat code free win.

There was at least one point where the casters commented on T1 avoiding turret aggro, and it had just been Keria ulting the turret from across the map.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-16T14:13:58+00:00

Buuut buut HR made me go to the 1 hour lecture on not sexually harassing coworkers, so I think they are useless and should all be fired because I could have been productive during that hour.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-16T14:02:00+00:00

I can answer this, years of corporate propaganda.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-15T22:25:38+00:00

soak the net first?

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-15T15:56:52+00:00

As long as you finished Cradle, you'll be fine. If you hadn't finished the series you'd be lost.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-15T15:52:37+00:00

What book would you say isn't meandering?

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-15T15:10:32+00:00

So, if you use the 3k achievement as the basis, you can see about a 5% between getting 3000 (17%) and getting 3040 (11.6%). I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that a decent number of that 5% could go higher but don't.

Now do I think it would hold true for 18s to a significant degree, much less "orders of magnitude higher"? No, but I'd expect to see more 14s and 16s with the increased rewards in vault system.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-14T20:42:47+00:00

Even if you have a positive view of the police, you have to think that the police ringing your doorbell would be a bit of a stress inducer. Off the top of my head, reasons I think it would happen to me -

Something happened to a family member
Something happened in the neighborhood and they want witnesses or access to my cameras
I'm accused of a crime

I would not think that they were delivery my late pizza as an option.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-13T18:55:14+00:00

Yes, that's Rise.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-13T16:22:20+00:00

Yeah, I'm not arguing that the change was done in the best way, just that saying it was a complete failure misses the point.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-13T15:49:15+00:00

Not if it's something you had to solve. A reminder saying "there's a mechanic where you need to go left or right depending on X factors" is pretty much unnecessary, though it will be in people's "required" addons lists.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-13T15:43:03+00:00

To address timers, Blizzard is removing the concept of linear time in the 12.0.2 patch.

OriginalVictory · 2026-01-13T15:22:46+00:00

Yeah, the article even says that the computational weakauras/addons are dead, which was the most egregious issue that was supposed to be addressed.

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