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The colonel comes out to chastise you for being too silly.

You hyphenate it because it is a phrase being used as a noun.

There are four twelve-year-olds.

Didgets should be used in technical writing and games. Basically when the numbers are more important than any of the words. But nowhere else.

Tropes/archetypes are a tool that lets you reduce exposition. Whenever you invoke a n archetype, you bring in between a paragraph and a page worth of description, which you can add more details to by describing how the situation or character diverges from the trope. The problem that comes from...

21 minutes of chatter is acceptable in a multi hour live-stream you play in the background while you work. Not so much for a news report. Format matters.

Do not counter power with power. That path only leads to the ridiculousness of the lensman arms race. Counter power with consequences. Think about how characters would work around an irresistible force rather than meet it head on.