Mysteries have the exact same problem and many of them land on the exact same solution: Make the mystery impossible to reasonably solve before the...
When presented with a finite list of skills, you can reasonably guess which one is going to be selected, especially if some of the options are...
In mysteries, there is a concept called the Fair Play Whodunnit, which is essentially that a good mystery is one the reader could reasonably...
Politely asking for civility from someone who's demonstrated a clear willingness to make whatever absurd, lurid accusations they think will give...
You're still not getting this. I don't care if you're going to back up and pretend you aren't willing to equate between video games and Nazis....
You are drawing a comparison between a video game and the Third Reich. That doesn't demand rebuttal. It is immediately obviously false.
You don't seem to be getting this. Your objections are either the product of a mind too crippled to make even basic connections to reality or else...
No. Your objections are so obviously incoherent and unrelated to the conversation that I am not going to waste time addressing them.
You can make Dostoevsky references, though, so that's pretty cool.
I was emailed that someone had responded to me in this thread. But now it's gone. I'm not sure what happened. Did someone make and then delete a post?
Give in to your anger.
People like to think this, because we all want to believe we live in a world where competence and craft will be rewarded, the LitRPG genre will...
We all know which answer is supposed to be correct, but I'm skeptical whether or not the market agrees. Do people really want to read about a...
Because their audience is people with low self-esteem who want wish fulfillment. Shia LeBeouf's character in Transformers is the same thing. The...
My understanding of the law is that trademarking a clearly generic term like "LitRPG" is supposed to be denied, however there is no legal penalty...
It's also a franchise where you can't fast travel by getting yourself killed. Where, in fact, you spend most of your mundane world time becoming...
If. People already use video games and movies to activate their natural fear response for giggles. That and vague, confusing lore is all that Five...
You really don't seem to be getting this: You can't just assume that would happen. That contradicts everything we know both about human psychology...
I can't tell if the video is serious or making fun of people who think Ready Player One needs a "girl's translation." I was only able to get about...
They could be pushed by an authority figure or a video game, in the sense that one of those two things could plausibly convince a significant...
