Meanwhile in #neworleans
Reminds me of Wrath of Kahn.
Bad guys who are bad just because. No motivation or scars to explain it. Also their endless supply of henchmen. It’s much more interesting to have a character who is so obsessed with a cause that he’s lost his morality and his followers have as well. Ahab in Moby Dick and his modern descendants like Kahn in Star Trek.
These guys have been doing it a long time! Much respect.
My grandfather and his father built this church in 1900.
In a typical hero’s journey, the hero is the least morally ambiguous, which, in some ways, makes them the least interesting. We’re more drawn in by the hard decisions she must make than by the decisions themselves. We more or less know the decision she’ll make, but we empathize with the raw emotion involved in that decision. Will she leave home? Of course, or there won’t be much of a story. But we know how hard that is to leave what you’ve known and face the unknown.
The characters around the hero are much less predictable. They could leave the journey, betray the hero, turn to evil, be revealed as something other than what we thought they were, etc.
The hero is fresh and new as opposed to supporting characters who have deep rich backstories that we know very little about. The supporting characters often have already made their hero/villain journey. I think it’s why the more backstory we learn on supporting characters, especially villains, the less interesting they become.
As a writer, I think it’s best to know a lot about your supporting characters but only show the reader the very tip of the iceberg. I find it helpful to write deep backgrounds and stories for the characters and just keep it with my notes and read over it from time to time but never share it with the reader. Leak things here and there, but for the most part, let the characters show the reader who they are and what motivates them.
With the hero, on the other hand, you’re pretty much laying it all out there. Doesn’t mean they can’t have mystery in their past, they should, but we’re going to learn a lot more about this person than any other character.
Tony Soprano and Walter White are both heroes we rooted for until we realized what we were rooting for as they grew more depraved. I tend to remember fiction where there are no heroes or villains per se but empathetic characters with motivations that drive them down a path of moral dilemmas that test my morality as well.
If bitcoin depends on a certain political candidate or party then it’s not what we thought it was.
What is this X you speak of? Is that like a shitty version of Nostr?
Who is this person?
What you are seeing are the effects of currency debasement caused by government over spending, deficit spending, and money supply expansion. Their profits appear higher because the money is worth less. Anything measured in dollars will appear higher because it takes more dollars to buy the same amount of goods and services no matter if you are an individual or a business. If you want to be angry about something be angry about this. This is the disease. Inflation is the symptom.
I provided you a link. You can the profit margins have remained level and actually are declining.