I asked this question yesterday which was marked as too broad. One of the comment from @JBH stated this reason:
"How to build a world" questions are occasionally asked here. If the question is very specific they're left open. If the question is very broad they're closed. I'm afraid there are ...
@FoxElemental "I calculate that if I achieved a radius of approximately 4×10^8km then I would become a black hole" Now that's a life goal: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Fat enough to be considered a black hole!"
What issues would arise from having eaten oneself into a black hole?
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Can I eat myself into a black hole?
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@FoxElemental One question about your elephant: are the eyes immune too? Because eyes are incredibly sensitive to poisons.
Other than that, I have an answer for it, kinda/sorta.
I (may) need to do a little more research on the glands running down into the end of the trunk, but pretty much any liquid forced at high pressure through a slit in a membrane will turn into a mist.
But do you think its ready for main? Doesn't matter whether it's answerable or not--I want it to be able to pass safely through the scorching fires of the netherland of Close Vote Review Queue.
The title says it all: For the Answer Sandbox, there's no list of graduated answers (linked directly to the answers, not the questions.) While the Question Sandbox has a list of graduated answers, the Answer Sandbox answers can only be seen by higher-rep users. So should we post a community wiki ...
Being a couple (or almost a couple) would give a pretty strong reason for her to go with him.
Trying to think of other ones. I was thinking she perhaps was just like him, but you just broke that with her bringing up the sister thing again, showing she doesn't necessarily agree.
Or maybe she didn't agree the first time, but she does now that the phylacteries are gone?
I just brought that up since he was talking about doing this "for the family" while leaving a member of his family to die... seemed like a contradiction. And her response was just calling him out on that.
Though maybe I used the wrong word. If they are close enough in age to both be doing the quest at the same time, it's possible that she's only his step sister... Might be something to fix in edit. That could be part of the resentment. If quarters are already tight, then getting a new sister when the parent remarried might have made things harder, especially if there is some natural personality conflict/rivalry between them.
Yeah, I think I'm going to retcon that in, unless one of the mods wants to just edit it for me
It is an interesting process, not having full control of the story. On one hand it can throw a wrench into future plans, especially if someone has wildly different ideas on where it should go, but on the other hand having someone else helping guide the story can bring out some really neat ideas. Like the whole shadow thing, which I never would have thought of based on my original thoughts.
Personally, I'm going to wait to define it until a situation comes along that makes sense. Try not to paint the story into a corner. Of course if you (or anyone else) already has an idea then that's fine.
Why I'm glad that we never specified if Jarilo was male or female way back when.
Keeps us from having to pull new characters out of nowhere and end up with a "Too Many Cooks" situation.
Right now, I'm trying to consider all the potential reasons so we A) have something to develop 10 chapters down the road, and B) have a plausible reason she went with him.
Why would someone go with someone else? Either they believe in the same idea(s), they are clannish, they are sweethearts, or (error: undefined).
For example, we don't need to decide just now, but considering potential paths will likely make the story more coherent as a whole when we reveal it later.
@Hosch250 Yup. The current story is a result of some people thinking it should be hard science fiction, and others thinking it should be fantasy. The whole thing is an exercise in seat of the pants writing, but a little fore planning could go a long way
Is there any standard comment to leave when someone accepts an answer very very very soon after asking?
Thinking @Secespitus would know :)
@dot You might want to mention in the questionaire that you have lots of experience over on SO. Could make people accept your lower rep score here a bit more (just a fair tip.)
@FoxElemental "I see that you've already accepted an answer. Just as a little tip for the future: it's recommended to wait at least 24 hours before accepting an answer as we have users all around the globe, many of which might not have seen your post. Some of these might be discouraged from interacting with your question if they see that you have already found a solution that works for you. Of course it's completely up to you whether to accept something and if so when and what."
Ever hear of the emperor with the servant named Kilim?
This servant was the official executioner (he had several unofficial ones too, of course). So, whenever he gave someone the death sentence, he would yell "Kilim!"
Now, if I'm understanding correctly, WorldBuilding is basically like "Here's all my work. I'm ready to put it in a story. Please give me a duh-check just in case I missed something"?
And it truly has to be developed enough to be put in a story as-is, even if the story would have major problems because the author overlooked something?
I'd say that you need a framework you are working in and that people are supposed to work in when trying to help you with a specific problem that arises in your specific setup.
"What kind of animal should I have?" is not good. "How do I get a predator that can mask its thermal signature from the front but not the sides?" is better
back in college a english major friend of mine let people know that she was annoyed with some of our poor word choices. i tormented her for the rest of the year by adding er and est at the end of words to emphasise when something was extra emphasised. like "betterest' and occasionally "gooderest"...
Call out to the factory floor: I'm planning on posting this Sandboxed draft w/in 3 days, and would appreciate a little more feedback on the draft before I do so (It's a short read.)
@MikeNichols Huh, strange. How much are those tags used compared to one another?
Stoneage has 8
Middle-ages has 25
Industrial-age has 17
and modern-age has 142
@Mike Ooh, but use the search bar: type in "bronze age" without the quotation marks and look at the number of results
"Time for some enterprising person to go and edit bronze-age onto each of those questions." So . . not me?
Sniff. @Mike I re-tagged a handful of questions, but your instant edit privileges would probably be better for that.
Oh, wow. Whoever was on the review queues on this question was slacking. TONS of new user posts. I left comments on all that I thought worth it pointing towards the help center, tour, meta, Sandbox, etc.
This is not an answer, just a semi-religious (not any religion I know) rant . . .
Same question (so, really slacking on review queues. It had an upvote: assuming someone didn't even read it to see it was a religious rant and just upvoted to get the review done. Whoever did that: REAL SMART.
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