Ultimatedaywriter

I used it that way, but I’m talking about when scenes like this exist in a show, movie, or book/story intended to be serious. They might not all be that bad, but it takes a lot of work to make a “predictive” character that is believable. Because the author knows exactly what is going to happen (or rather can make anything happen) the predictions usually get too specific.

In a comedy, this is hilarious and good fun. However, if you are trying to write a gritty action story, this is just bad. Realistic predictions in combat need to be more general to work.

Things like predicting an overall strategy is entirely possible. Predicting what door someone will enter a building through (provided that there are a limited number) is also possible. Knowing exactly where/when someone is attacking is not. Sometimes these scenes are really cringey when a MC claims to have predicted things like:

  • exactly where someone is going to shoot

  • exactly where a blade will strike them before starting a fight (often to put hidden armor only in that one spot)

  • the exact words someone is going to say before they say them

  • the exact minute and second that an enemy is going to do some particular thing

  • the exact steps, route, or attacks an enemy is going to use with 100% accuracy

  • every detail of a “secret” plan

I’ve seen this type of thing a surprising amount recently. The hero gets stabbed, but doesn’t die because he taped a coin in the spot that the knife hit. He then stands up and says, “Ha, I knew you would stab me there!” I’m all for a character that uses is brain, but there is a limit to what someone can predict or guess…

    shadowdrake27 I know man that can be terrible but I think if someone knew what they were doing they could make that hilarious. That's what I was saying. When writing less is more.

    Something that ruins a novel for me is when a male leading story OR a female leading story, says romance and the whole thing is what I'd call... elevated romance there are no warnings for some stories, and I can't stand the "Perfect Body + Dumb Female" attributes that seemingly all "I Fell In Love With The CEO" novels have. To me, it's just saying, "Hey, I know that a lot of women are reading this, but hey! I don't care! Let's make an abusive CEO and a dumb anime girl and throw those two together in the cauldron and call it a day!" And then when someone has a problem with it, they add that irritating author's note saying, * "This is my novel, and if you don't like it, you can go f**k yourself" like....it gets old. Stop glorifying rape. It's not that hard.

    I've been seeing a lot of post with sexual assault that I agree with so I won't add more to that because it has already been said. One thing that turns me off is when the male lead of a story is weak and bullied and then becomes over powered by some gif then to add onto it the MC is naïve or or extremely cold hearted without reason. Also lack of description.

    ShoeInk

    Disagree with the last person, it makes no sense at all lol. How does that make you "no better" than the person who started it?

      Misguided_Rooster I'm of the opinion that maturity involves a certain degree of "thickus skinnus", meaning that if someone says something rude or untrue about you (slander aside, I mean small-time stuff like name-calling. Slander, depending on context, can involve legal battles, and I'm not talking about that), you shouldn't escalate the situation further. Doing otherwise indicates an extreme lack of judgment and development as a person, maturity-wise, which, if you weren't already aware, the person causing the conflict in the first place did not possess.

      If the person attacking you has enough time on their hands to insult you, well, they weren't really worth it anyway, were they? That's the sort of mature thinking I'm talking about, which sets apart the hypothetical people in this conflict from the more mature individuals who would simply walk away from such a confrontation, ignoring or at most attempting to de-escalate.

      Hence, why there's really no difference.

      It's just good life advice in general, but I think my point was pretty self-evident.

        shadowdrake27 I probably didn't explain fully (yes, you're right on how you interpreted the first half of my point), but what I'm trying to get across is that I understand where these people are coming from, whether it's an exception to the saying or not. It's just that I don't recommend fighting for honor just to wind up saying or doing something worse than the initiator did.

          ShoeInk I mean, if someone is spreading rumors about you in school or the office to damage your reputation, it can be pretty bad. You can't just ignore it. Imagine being called up to the principal's office just because someone spread a rumor that you've been selling your body to older men for allowances, or being passed over for promotion because your boss hears your colleague calling you incompetent and you don't refute it. Or rivals telling your lover that you are a playboy who cheats often, or lying to your best friend that you're a traitor. Yeah, you could claim that if your lover or best friend knows you well enough, they wouldn't trust rumors, but come on, that's impractical. Sometimes people need assurance, not silence, because it might seem like you're admitting it.

          Just because you stand up and tell the truth, refuting the malicious rumors that people spread about you, doesn't mean you are as bad as them.

            Tomoyuki I already accounted for that. Slander is entirely different. As I said, I meant small-time things that really don't matter, such as what SlaveOfTheLord was talking about with someone calling you a donkey. This wasn't about slander, rumors, or anything like that.

            There are exceptions to every rule, as shadowdrake27 mentioned.

              ShoeInk

              I see, yeah fighting a pointless fight is not usually smart. You are correct that there is a maturity aspect that is relevant as well. Although I thought that was pretty uhh… obvious. Anyway, this point would still fit into the saying because it wouldn’t make the mature person angry. They would brush it off and thus not be a donkey.

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