Recent content by Vaporo

Yes, I know bronze is superior to copper. I'm not lumping them together, I'm asking their individual performance. I'm not too worried about period accuracy. The premise that I'm pursuing is that my main character's region is extremely iron-poor, so they've had to make do with copper and...

I've got some: Exactly how well do copper and bronze swords and armor hold up when pitted against steel? What differences should a copper or bronze sword have from a steel sword to maximize its potential? In general, how would one go about using a copper or bronze sword differently from a steel...

Oh, really? Well, that's news to me, then. Just further highlights the advantages of having a centrifuge on your space ship.

As part of my world building, there is a powerful weapon called "Barskular." To most people, it appears to be an unremarkable sledgehammer. I had actually originally added it as a kind of joke with myself. In middle school, I had make a video for class that involved a joke with a sledgehammer. I...

Well, what kind of spaceship are we talking about? What will it be doing and how long will it be in space? What level of technology and money will be going into it? Will there be a habitable centrifuge on board? Asking how many hydroponic crops it takes to survive is a pretty complicated...

I second cave paintings. I'm sure that they could find some kind of dye in the middle of a jungle. Or, if they're really looking for permanence, carve directly into the stone. They may try to carve into a cliff-face if they can't find any caves, but that would get eroded away after a few...

Well, not much of a music person, so I don't really have a theme song for for my writing itself, but I think I have one that embodies how I feel when I'm trying to write:

Since people seem to be responding, I suppose I'll join in as well. My longest running character is, Ekla, queen of Antisa. It would have been my former main character, Agder, but lately it's been looking more and more like I've accidentally written him out of my story in favor of a different...

Couldn't resist.

To me, the problem is that these characters are so often just a token character so that the writers can tell everyone that they're not sexist. Or, worse, they're just pandering to a female audience. Bad writing affects both men and women characters. Plus, I don't know how many game covers I see...

The Gryphons don't have much civilization on their own? Perhaps they've learned to live alongside humans because they've come to enjoy civilization. How long ago was this human-Gryphon war? Long enough that many modern humans and Gryphons are willing to forgive and forget? Maybe there is a range...

Well, there's no downside to using the allergy remedy. You say she was stung and swollen all over? If she had an allergy, I'd expect that it would have a very quick (and probably deadly) effect in such an extreme case.

Could you explain this one to me? How does increasing speed increase gamma radiation damage? Does the blue shift on incoming rays just make them much more dangerous than I think, or is there something else going on? Also, I really think that this thread should be in "Research."

One definition of evil I've heard is "doing whatever you want with no regard for anyone else." Maybe it could work if there was some kind of powerful demon overlord keeping everything in line, but otherwise I don't know how a society like this could function. Otherwise, I could never see it...

Well, a story about fusion-powered generation ship traversing the blackness of space tends to attract readers who know about those things.