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@Parabola True. Also, a lot of them tend to be just stupidly wish-fulfillment strong. They have no real vulnerabilities and there are no real challenges, just things dressed up to look like challenges so you can feel smug as the MC blows them away. But Myne has serious problems and major difficulties; it's not clear she'll survive very long, much less be able to put out a book. And while she has enough knowledge that in theory she could clean up financially, her sickness is not just a looming problem but a financial drain she's in a race to keep up with. All that and we're starting to see the introduction of realistic obstacles to an outsider coming in with new ideas and gaining from it--the established powers will want to reap the benefits and control her.
There's some really good stuff here.
@mahtan That reminds me of a joke. A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician are sitting in a bar looking out the window. They see two people go into the house across the street. Then later on, four people come out. The physicist says no big deal, just a measurement issue--we're still within a margin of error of +/- 2. The biologist says, they must have reproduced while they were in there. And the mathematicians says "Huh, if two more people go in, it will be empty."
There's some really good stuff here.
@mahtan That reminds me of a joke. A physicist, a biologist and a mathematician are sitting in a bar looking out the window. They see two people go into the house across the street. Then later on, four people come out. The physicist says no big deal, just a measurement issue--we're still within a margin of error of +/- 2. The biologist says, they must have reproduced while they were in there. And the mathematicians says "Huh, if two more people go in, it will be empty."
