One in a hundred novels...or less often, the author is good and uses these things in the beginning to make it easier to show character development. But that is for those rare books that show progressive character development. I also don't like whiny characters so much that rereading the beginning chapters of novels I know get better and better is hard for me. Overgeared is one such book where I can't handle rereading the first 25 chapters. LOL.

Our mundane Universe is so complicated at the molecular level that the shape of molecules determines if they are helpful or harmful. Exactly the same ingredients with different molecular shapes can have very different effects. If this complexity was extrapolated to Alchemy in a cultivation world? That would be a Nightmare level difficulty world for Alchemists. Add the real world complication that different people with different genes need differently shaped molecules to perfectly meet their medical needs and you start to realize why computing ideal medicines that don't trigger negative reactions, like building resistance, takes more Supercomputing power than tracking the star positions and movement of every star in our galaxy.

I'd be suspicious of the usefulness of my past life memories and gaming/light novel meta knowledge. In the theory if IDIC, for some of the Infinite Universes it will be helpful. For other's it will be like having the false feeling of understanding things that leads you to your doom. I'd want to try to test my Common Sense multiple ways before trusting it.

Well, if the leveling scheme is like I think it is, then wouldn't the exp to get to 45 from 40 be twice the exp to get from 1 to 40?

There are no controls to do so.

So, no party displays to rat other people's secrets out, like class and level?

Oh dear. It isn't a bound item that he can't lose.

IDK, but the + doesn't necessarily mean 'just over'. It could indicate a programming code system display counter stop to prevent formatting issues where the system just doesn't display anything over that no matter how much there is.

Why does this feel like Hello & Goodbye!

What hand is she holding her torch in then?

Sounds like you're reading something closer to the old Irish/British legends that make fairies seem insectoid.

My dystopian view: What if the quest was coded bad and could only be completed with basic materials for the normal grade alchemist job because the higher quality job isn't implemented yet and he can only get the high quality drops due to his luck?

Accurate definitions of mystical things are inherently impossible. The natives won't know the difference between slaying and banishing. All they'll know is that, with the usual exceptions, the souls never come back.

Everything depends on the character of either their HR person or the upper management. And most lower level employees will end up rolling the dice on this variable when they go. If you happen to be in a firm with people who are all trying to do the right thing, but having human failures your answer won't have any bad consequences. If you happen to be in a firm with people who are actively scheming to make money by violating laws and having gang connections, you're going to get into big trouble if you put anything in writing.

Hah. You say simple, then describe the difficult reality. Critical Difficulty +3 to not get extra-fired after going to the media and embarrassing them into doing the right thing. Just ask all those Boeing Engineer whistleblowers that are now dead.

You may be right in most cases. But the big house I experienced was horribly old and not so convenient. It did not have bathrooms attached to the suites or close enough to the kitchen area to allow easy bathroom breaks for the people working there. No plumbing at all went above the first floor. All polished hardwood antique glitter, no efficiency. I would never design a house like that. And it wouldn't technically be legal either as none of the doors in the 'servant' area met handicapped access building codes. They were far too narrow.

If we had around 7 hundred million this would be 10%. Add another zero. Since we have around 7 billion this would be near 1%.

Often the one ' means he's thinking this, not saying it.

Not if you don't use the stairs and just jump down the well...

She seems like the Crazy Empress or some Royal close to her, so she probably has a lifetime of experience 'negotiating from a position of power'. Our MC doesn't, so she rightly negotiates more like a caveman with the biggest stick in the room. I think it fits.