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by RyanM
Fri Apr 28, 2017 10:18 am
Forum: Avery Rome
Topic: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Replies: 16
Views: 15789

Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...

I would assume there are networks of people that would acquire books via KU, goto end and then return the book just so they can all claim higher sales. Such a scam would be easy to detect. One could hope that Amazon would have dire consequences for people acting in such a manner.
by RyanM
Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:07 am
Forum: Avery Rome
Topic: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...
Replies: 16
Views: 15789

Re: Dragon Queen: Avery Rome Book Three Live...

It wouldn't be difficult to write an algorithm to detect for scammers. I can think of two ways: 1) Keep track of when a user starts and completes a book. A median pages/hour can be derived, if a person is outside a standard deviation (on the fast side), then it's probably safe to not count it. 2) Ke...
by RyanM
Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:51 am
Forum: Lopez Time
Topic: Troy Lopez
Replies: 21
Views: 19250

Re: Troy Lopez

He needs a partner. But a true human? Another non-human? Something that has always irked me about the urban fantasy/paranormal genre is how rarely regular people interact with the supernatural in a positive, non-romantic manner.
by RyanM
Mon Dec 19, 2016 5:03 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What to read while waiting for the next P.S. Power book
Replies: 605
Views: 726818

Re: What to read while waiting for the next P.S. Power book

I wouldn't go out of your way to read the latest Kurtherian Gambit (Justice is Calling). It isn't all that great. The characters are flat and have significant personality changes in the matter of days. The world is poorly explained. The villain is cartoonish and his motivations are poorly explained....
by RyanM
Wed Oct 26, 2016 10:54 am
Forum: Character Descriptions
Topic: Height Comparisons [SPOILERS]
Replies: 53
Views: 44404

Re: Height Comparisons [SPOILERS]

They just can't see them as equals and find it hard to take orders from them. It was worse than that, the nobles were beginning to view commoners as less than human. There are thought experiments that have shown that when people are put in positions of power, they quickly (and somewhat disturbingly...
by RyanM
Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:51 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What to read while waiting for the next P.S. Power book
Replies: 605
Views: 726818

Re: What to read while waiting for the next P.S. Power book

I've thought about consolidating it all to a single table, but then I find something that sounds less like work to do.
by RyanM
Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:16 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: What to read while waiting for the next P.S. Power book
Replies: 605
Views: 726818

Re: What to read while waiting for the next P.S. Power book

I loved the first book of Elliott Kay's series, and I started the second and it didn't take long for me to abandon it - as soon as I heard the main character was letting the girls go for other guys, and it was becoming open relationships I knew it wasn't for me. That said, the man really knows how ...
by RyanM
Thu Sep 08, 2016 1:39 pm
Forum: Alternate Places
Topic: Math problem
Replies: 9
Views: 11817

Re: Math problem

I got a little under 95 thousand years too.

17 months = 578 days = 13872 hours
.06 seconds = 0.000016667 hours

0.000016667/13872 = 1/X, X=832153569 hours = 34673065.4 days = 94994.7 years
by RyanM
Tue Sep 06, 2016 3:44 pm
Forum: Tony Winters
Topic: Tony Winters as Mary Sue...
Replies: 27
Views: 62664

Re: Tony Winters as Mary Sue...

A Mary Sue is a character with several traits: 1) Their backstory doesn't fully support displayed skills or abilities. 2) They almost always succeed and even when they fail, it's no big deal. 3) They rarely make a mistake. 4) They're rarely physically or emotionally hurt. 5) They rarely show any per...
by RyanM
Wed Jul 20, 2016 10:09 am
Forum: World of The Infected
Topic: AudioBooks
Replies: 17
Views: 40545

Re: AudioBooks

Audiobooks are very expensive to produce, so unless he's guaranteed to a at least break even or willing to take a loss, I don't see it happening.

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