Begin rant:
Authors have a bad habit of trying to impress me with numbers and it's getting annoying.
Meaningless numbers that bring no sense of scale to the story or useful information for that matter.
Did a little math. 1500 KPH comes to 417 mps an average speed for a modern 9mm bullet. Am I supposed to be impressed?
It's like having a character entering a room then describing the rooms width and height when it doesn't pertain to the scene at all.
One example that really gets to me is measuring the MC's reaction time.I don't care that the hero reacted in .01 seconds.
It matters not a jot. All it does is interrupt the narrative and make the reader think your a horrible writer.
It's not even confined to fanfiction writers.
Movies with the ever popular 2 minutes till the bomb,warp core, whatever happens then the scene proceeds to drag on for 7 minutes.
Just stop trying to give me hard numbers unless you know what your doing.
/end rant
Authors have a bad habit of trying to impress me with numbers and it's getting annoying.
Security in and around the base's perimeter has been increased by 150% as a result.
A pair of single handed war axes, they were a jet black In colour and they could both turn into a pair of Sub-machine guns that could dish out, to put it in her own words 'A metric shit-tonne of damage.' Most likely due to the Dust enfused rounds propelling them to speeds of up to 1500 KPH.
It's like having a character entering a room then describing the rooms width and height when it doesn't pertain to the scene at all.
One example that really gets to me is measuring the MC's reaction time.I don't care that the hero reacted in .01 seconds.
It matters not a jot. All it does is interrupt the narrative and make the reader think your a horrible writer.
It's not even confined to fanfiction writers.
Movies with the ever popular 2 minutes till the bomb,warp core, whatever happens then the scene proceeds to drag on for 7 minutes.
Just stop trying to give me hard numbers unless you know what your doing.
/end rant