Recent content by judojimmy

Maybe go the Don Quixote route and have the mc wandering in imagined happiness having chivalrous discussions with internet trolls.

Texas which is nearly its' own reality.

Communism and socialism are dangerous because it brings together two groups that should never be brought together the dangerously naive and the blood thirsty power mongers. In the US we are largely safe because the two groups do not collude together often here. The first group spends their...

I don't mind pointing out any errors I might find but as long as I can understand what is going on I don't care that much. The whole point of language is to communicate not be grammatically correct. It is just another excuse to look down on others.

I like reading the odd grammar in translated or non-primary language novels. I actually like them better when they are not professionally edited and have amusing turns of phrases and word placement. I know a lot of people complain about it but I find it fascinating and amusing. The tropes can...

The whole point of starting with 2 and adding one is to make sure the resulting number is odd because all primes are odd except for 2. Otherwise like your example 3*5+1=16 which is even.

I think you are being too dramatic about it. If you want to be entertained read entertaining stories. If you want betterment read something else. The only thing lost by reading entertaining stories is the opportunity to do something else and it isn't like most of us were or are going to save...

Have you tried the Shadow Sun Survival series? It has some of the same vibes. While I am a couple books behind right now Montana is pretty awesome.

It will likely still be safer and cheaper to keep a piece of local real estate sustainable than risking a colony in a completely hostile environment. You could likely put a self sustaining location in the ocean cheaper and safer than anywhere off planet for example. If currency ever fails the...

It depends if you care what the trolls will think. If you do make up a random name and use them anyway. Otherwise, let the tears collect in a cup and sacrifice them to said god.

The problem is the definition of villain and the ideal of villainy are not close to the same. Often one person's villain is another's hero. That being said for a literary villain I think selfishness is the most common ingredient. While audacity determines the level of villainy as the further...

Does this count the boat load of stories where the author talks up the MC's abilities for example their fighting skills and or has them training through the story but every time they actually fight they are terrible and need miracles to save them from a wet paper bag?

There are two types of people, those that want to discuss a topic and those that would rather find ways to put down the person they are talking to.