Things in your work that are clearly non-sensical and inaccurate

Lots honourable people go to war... they just rarely come back from it.

Modern armies are made of girls, obviously—you know what, there's not much in this post that makes sense at all. This is some sort of meta joke, it must be.

Okay, but I think my point stands that having swords when you're technologically advanced enough to have FTL spaceship is probably slightly inconsistent.

Edit: And I'd rather have a more original idea than 'they have personal shields', 'cos every sci-fi with swords does that.

edited 25th Nov '11 6:21:52 PM by AirofMystery

speaking of girls, I've notice that i've used Amazon Brigades a fair bit. I guess that counts

I learned sort ofish recently that no person walks around in a forest barefoot unless they want horrible bleeding and bites and infection and pain. But I had my main character as some guy who hates shoes and never wears them, even when exploring all up in the woods. I don't want to change it -.-

If he's been barefoot all his life, he's probably used to all but the really pointy rocks and twigs. No need to change it.

Well, I'm sure it's possible to walk around forests barefooted without injury. People lived before the invention of shoes, after all.

His feet would just be very calloused, I guess?

WTF, Enemy Mayan, in post #70. Do we really have to use sexism against women in our fantasy as well? I get it enough in real life. Even as a joke or illustration that upsets me. Girl does not equal weakling or coward.

edited 25th Nov '11 8:53:36 PM by NoirGrimoir

melloncollie pretty much stated my opinion of that post.

A little one: I fully understand how impractical scythes are as melee weapons, even in a pseudo-medieval setting. They're short-ranged, have a small cutting edge, and they're hard to use by any standard. But the fact is, they also look really cool. So I'm indulging in a little guilty pleasure and drawing a tribe who fights with one-handed sickles, partly for symbolic and cultural reasons. But mostly because it looks really, really cool.

edited 25th Nov '11 9:55:11 PM by Takwin

A family of moderately close friends all do Does Not Like Shoes to varying degrees. They can attest that it's quite possible to walk around just about anywhere barefoot, as long as it's not actually razor sharp. I tried it for a summer and got to the point where I could do it even on hot asphalt, but forest floors still defeated me.

edited 25th Nov '11 10:39:20 PM by alethiophile

A rollerblade that can turn its front wheel into a circular saw. It can also go up to 90 kph.

Count exactly how many things about this are just WRONG.

edited 19th Dec '11 9:09:36 PM by dRoy

Huh, sounds like Air Gear.

Only mine doesn't run on ludicrously explained technology.

why not say it's war scythe?

I KNOW, RIGHT?

That is the perfect description of that series. I've been saying more or less the same thing for years.

edited 19th Dec '11 9:19:22 PM by NoirGrimoir

I'm not even going to bother giving this rollerblade a bullshit scientific explanation;

A hacker android from future and a blackmailed slyhpid did it. End of story.

edited 19th Dec '11 10:16:38 PM by dRoy

I generally prefer that. Either make you're story realistic or don't even bother. In the first instance, I'll turn my brain on, int he second, I'll turn it off. If you give me some half-assed explanation that doesn't make any sense than I'll mistakenly turn my brain on and start picking at it, which will topple the whole thing. Just have it one way or the other.

edited 19th Dec '11 10:12:20 PM by NoirGrimoir

I like don't actually mind 'it's-sounds-like-it-would work,-but-don't-over-think-it,' stuff myself.

Why does everything have to be totally sensible or silly? why the extremes?

It doesn't have to be total extremes, but nonsensical "explanations" that aren't needed for the plot are the worst of both worlds - the people who care about details will tear them apart, and the people who don't care about details are, well, not going to care about details anyway.

I'm mostly generalizing, I mean, it obviously depends on the work, and it's more of a sliding scale, still close to the ends you're probably alright, but getting in the middle tends to just be annoying for reasons stated by nrjxll. People who pick at details will find it half-assed and annoying, people who don't care about details will probably find it gets in the way of cool stuff happening.

edited 19th Dec '11 10:36:59 PM by NoirGrimoir

Well I guess what Noir was saying about asking the viewer to 'turn their brain on' and then abusing that privilege is a good way to put it.

I just fundamentally don't understand this urge science fiction writers have to create nonsensical technobabble for stuff that's only there for plot purposes anyway. All you're going to do with it is alienate the segment of your readers that actually cares about that kind of thing in the first place.

Would it be all right to have a completely magical object on one hand while having accurately portrayed technologies on the other hand?

edited 19th Dec '11 11:10:31 PM by dRoy

YES. I totally rant about that.

An example?