Evelyn_Harty

Men are just as capable of holding onto resentment as women, that quote is just playing off the stereotyping of women as petty/emotional. it's just as weird for a woman to hold a grudge for 100+ years over a small thing like childish competitiveness as it is for a man. In much the same way that holding a grudge for that long over someone more reasonable, like someone killing your parents would be understandable regardless of gender.

it's only polygamy if multiple marriages are involved, and in fact, many harems count as polygamy. In fact, polygamy has historically mostly been similar to the relationship dynamics that harem novels use.polyamory, or another form of ethical non-monogamy is a better term if you're trying to distinguish what's being described from a harem.

this is the second time I've noticed the word bemused being used in a context, where it seems like the author means amused. especially noteworthy here, since bemusement (confusion) doesn't make much sense as a response here.

I'm assuming by full-metal, you mean full-plate, and plate armor is perfectly fine for movement. wearing and using plate armor properly requires training, but rolls, somersaults, and the like are easily achievable. Also, at human levels of strength, a large portion of melee weapons, swords included are only realistically capable of damaging someone in full plate through the visor.While plate does slow you down, it's not nearly to the degree many believe it does, the biggest effect is honestly on endurance, rather than speed. In addition, until/unless her speed exceeds human limitations by a significant margin, the best ways to dodge that make sense against melee weapons don't require large movements. Plus, despite what fantasy stat sheets will make you believe, the most important thing for increasing your speed is increasing your strength. It's just that if you care about speed and control, you need to do so, while maintaining your body's flexibility. this means that a speedster will be effected by plate armor less, the faster they are, and it's easier to make metal aerodynamic than most materials tbh.then again, fantasy leather armor could negate some of the reasons plate and metal brigandine were always best irl. leather armor irl isn't at all superior to cloth armor/gambeson, in addition it's harder to maintain, and more expensive, so there's very few real historical examples of leather armor. Fantasy leather is different though because, well, monster leather.

do spirit types even need to be counted separately from non-mammals? I mean, ignoring the fact that there are probably spirits with non-mammalian forms (like a spider spirit or a dragon spirit or something), aren't spirits their own thing anyway? I mean, there's some racial categories that should naturally still apply, even as a spirit. A humanoid spirit is still a humanoid, but not all humanoids are mammals anyway. A spider spirit is still a spider, an insect spirit an insect, etc. but to be a mammal, a creature must be a warm-blooded vertebrate, whose females secrete milk for their young. None of these seem like they'd apply to spirits, they probably don't have bones or blood (though undead type spirits probably used to), and even if they have young, spirit milk seems... unlikely at best.

nah that person was correct. Venus's crazy surface temps come from a crazy runaway greenhouse gas effect. they aren't nearly as intense in the atmosphere. the comment you're responding to is likely referring to the NASA proposals for floating colonies 50km above the surface of Venus. with a pressure of 100,000 pa, temperatures between 50 & 100 degrees Celsius, and a similar shielding mass to Earth's from the dense upper atmosphere, and a functional magnetosphere, the conditions in this part of Venus's atmosphere are actually the closest to Earth's conditions outside of earth itself in the entire solar system. there are other issues of course, such as extremely acidic rain, and an inability to either collect or synthesize water from local materials, but overall floating venusian colonies are considered just about as feasible as terrestrial martian colonies.

that works fairly well with the abrahamic/monotheistic idea of an all-powerful god. but, we also use the term God to refer to deities from polytheistic religions and mythologies. gods in polytheistic religions are typically far from all-powerful though. Some are even depicted as being fairly weak outside of their given domain. There are even cases of a god being bested by a mortal, not just tricked either, there are a few cases of mortals besting/harming gods in combat in Greek mythology, with both Diomedes, who 100% pure mortal human, and Heracles, who was admittedly a demigod having managed to do so. There's also a legendary Chinese archer, DaYi who is described as having shot down 9 of the ten suns, which as they were divine children of the heavenly mother god could be considered as a case of a mortal killing a god. looking up Houyi if you want to find material on this may be more efficient as the stories of those to have gotten merged a bit over time. while if you were to look up the definition for the word god, the first couple definitions will refer primarily to the abrahamic idea of an all-powerful god, at least one of the other definitions will be something along the lines of "A being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality." As a side note, for that one person who will inevitably say something about how the abrahamic religions are the only major/relevant religions in the modern day. -- There are more than 1.1 Billion followers of Hinduism (a polytheistic religion) in the world today, accounting for more than 1/8th of the global population. of course, some may be of the opinion that these deities should be considered powerful spirits or something, due to this fallibility, but they're still technically considered gods.

I mean, the meaning is significant, but it admittedly doesn't look that great after translation. translating it to Dragon Gate might be a good way of maintaining a similar meaning, while making it look better in english. using a more complete phrase, like 'carp leaps over the dragon gate' could also work, but it'd be a bit long.

to be fair here, if perfection/perfected/half-step exists it is common for it not to be considered a true stage, so as long as one of the major realms (golden core, for example) is actually either the breakthrough point, or a perfected realm, or some other exception, such that it isn't counted, this could come to 9? but realistically, it should either be 12 or 16 depending on if the perfected realms are included.