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.

I mean yeah, but that's also just a common saying, kind of like " a big fish in a small pond", the phrase "it's just a slightly bigger fish" can also apply to other creatures, even mammals and the like.

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.

this isn't really a case of the author wanting to be different though? If anything, it's a case of lazy translation. But, since W (wan) = 10,000, not 1,000 it is somewhat understandable that the translator might not want to deal with changing the numbers as well every time... plus, using the original W (wan) also gives any readers curious to look into the meaning of the W a slightly better idea as to why the original might've chosen a 10,000x bonus.

except, since W stands for wan, which equates to 10,000 the numbers would be in accurate if it was a k. You could call it lazy translating, but it'd also be a pain to have to convert numbers to fit a western abbreviation every time they show up.

First off, for the other comments... I did mention this was a thing that sometimes happens for these works, I was just giving a relative size give better reference for those who might not realize the absurd scale. as for the comment about "our universe" though... it is true that there are planets many times larger than the earth, but there's a limit to the size of terrestrial planets, especially if you want there to be liquid water.. The largest known terrestrial (or rocky) planet is TOI-849b, with 40x Earth's mass, but is only about 3x larger than earth. It's extremely hot and filled with volcanic and geological activity due to it's huge mass -a mass which is larger than even our higher estimates for Jupiter's solid core. It's also an extreme anomaly and the most commonly accepted explanation for its existence is that it's likely the solid core of a former gas giant, whose atmosphere was somehow lost due to it's close proximity to its host star. once a planet is about the mass of 10x that of Earth's it will begin to accumulate gasses in it's atmosphere, leading to the formation of a gas giant, as such unless something really weird happens a terrestrial planet beyond that size won't form. The larger a planet is, ignoring the extreme rarity of supermassive terrestrial planets, the more geologically active it is, so such large planets would be far too hot for liquid water to exist at reasonable pressure levels. If the remark about the sun is referring to other stars that are far larger than it, it's true but not particularly relevant as using the sun as a reference point is meant to point out an absurd scale.. A star should be on a completely different scale than a planet, especially in volume. If that remark was meant to refer to planets, though it's patently false. Any gas giant that's as large as the sun will, itself become another star, and if a terrestrial mass somehow reached that size (something which couldn't happen naturally) it would instant collapse in on itself, briefly creating fusion reactions before it most likely would for a black hole.

The sun has a diameter of less than 900,000 miles, so if this is a measure of distance from opposite sides of the nation this is truly absurd. If it's a measure of overall territory in sq. miles, it's less absurd, but given that the surface area of earth is less than 200 million sq miles, and the total surface area of actual land on earth is less than 60 million. Basically, it's still absurdly large. If these measurements are accurate for the story, this is definitely one of those unrealistically large super planets we sometimes see in these sorts of works, where nations span regions larger than entire planets... and this nation is one of them.

honestly, it's impressive that she's still focused on that when she's lived almost 2x as long in the simulator as she has irl.

Possible, since we have no idea what changes may have happened to the genetics of humanity, especially with who knows how many thousands of years being used as warrior-slaves for the Draxi. Could also have to do with her status as a vessel though... the other vessels we've seen have had pretty radical physiological changes that came with the position. A little extra height would be considered a mild side effect in comparison.

Probably a unilaterally good thing tbh, a drunk Sophie seems like a bad idea.. even if she's gotten a certain level of control over her berserk state I doubt it'd stay that way if she were inebriated.

so, if we go by the wording rather than the implied meaning it only works on species with normal binary sexual characteristics.. And it would work regardless of the intelligence, or form of the creature in question. the latter may be the case, no reason for it not to work on beasts and the like, but the former... is likely inaccurate there's no reason for it not to work on species with either less than or more than 2 distinct sexes.

I do realize this is mostly meant as a joke. However, I'd like to point out that literally everything here that could be considered a 40k reference is a reference to the abrahamic religions. In Judaism, Raziel is an angel known as "the angel of secrets", "the angel of mysteries", and "the keeper of all magic" and, while I can't guarantee it's common, or even an official title, I was able to find a few instances of people referring to him as "the keeper of secrets" . Also unsure how this fits into other abrahamic religions, I don't actually know much about any of them individually. I just know which religious figures are often added into fantasy these days, and some basic info on them. I do realize that "the keeper of secrets" is a greater demon of slaanesh in 40k. It's just good to bear in mind that sometimes something that looks like a reference to a more contemporary work, is actually a shared older reference.. or even just a name or concept that's easy to come up with independently. in this case I'm uncertain whether 40k was referring to Raziel in some way as well.. it seems unlikely, but the chaos entities, and their followers tend to have a lot of religious inspirations... it should also be noted that "keeper of secrets" is a rather easy to come up with title that fits into a religious pantheon quite well.

well, kinda sensitive. It's not likely to have included anything regarding the current rulers, military strength, and strategies of the insectoids. or even useful positional data of important planets in relation to the federation. The techniques and skills are likely quite sensitive, but they all seem to rely on the spider whisper art, which can only be practiced by their family, and aren't widely practiced anymore. So, the main use would be to give info on the combat methods these techniques confer, but the only current cultivators of it are her, her aunt, and possibly her mother. the information on culture and etiquette, isn't not accessible to the earth federation as of now, and it may even have a few things that preferably wouldn't be shared randomly with outsiders, but none of it is likely to be extremely sensitive either.

so, some fun facts, in regard to medieval armies, and their structure. Not really meant as criticism due to how common the trope is, more of a 'did you know that'. While the idea of sending incompetents to the border is used a lot in fantasy it's not actually all that realistic.. usually that'd be one of the better assignments, not the best bc that'd be the royal guard or some equivalent, but one of the better assignments nonetheless. Armies weren't usually very unified outside of wartime. each noble would be allowed a standing military force of a certain size depending on their title, and the location of their territory. Border territories were allowed much larger standing armies than inner territories. In fact, the biggest difference between a count and a marquise is that a marquise ruled over a border county, known as a march. Most nobles, high ranking or otherwise would spend most of their time in their own territory, not near the capitol as you often see in fantasy, so this stereotype is also wrong with nobles. Allowing a noble to rule over a border territory is a sign of trust, and this is why a marquise is a higher rank than a count. If for some reason, a soldier is incompetent, but they feel the need to still give him some sort of command, and they could send him to another territory to work under a different lord; they'd most likely send him to a county, it's both less honorable and less important than a march. So long as you aren't in the standing army for a duke, or monarch being a soldier for an inner territory is considered a worse (but safer) assignment than the border.