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    Everyone from QQ wake up as their Avatar, what's the first thing we do in real life?

    Oh dear, we are living in the Previous Era, sometime before the first outbreaks.
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    DIETING! (Updates posted on Sunday morning.)

    Joke. Indicator for mealtime is when you start regurgitating acid. (Trivia: pure particle-free acid is coloured like dark beer.) Personal method is to simply equate each and every single meal, snack, and drink into working man-hours, calculating estimated weekly profit to monthly expenses...
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    favorite quotes or quotes you created yourself

    "I am an arrow. I have one singular purpose on this earth and can return to neither the bow nor the quiver once I take flight. And should I miss, all of my life up until now will have been nothing but a pointless waste. Don't miss."
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    Red flags in a fic: firts impressions

    Snarky McCoolBoy protagonists. Snippy protagonists can have their place, do not begrudge people for grumbling about general events/environs if not overdone, but CH1 consists of egregious jeering at canon characters or canon premises in some sort of puffed-up flexing ritual - seriously question...
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    Days Gone By: A Memoir of the Gallian Front

    Unlikely. Gallian High Command has a vested interest in Squad 422 staying in place, and preferably dying in the line of duty. Having them desert would trigger a manhunt from the regular forces since a few of them have sensitive evidence that the brass wants buried.
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    Days Gone By: A Memoir of the Gallian Front

    Wonder if the Lion's unit will ever cross paths with Squad 422, their uses pretty much coincide. Albeit the Nameless function pretty much as a penal battalion that simply refuses to die and mutated themselves into the world's first spec-ops unit as a result, while Finch has more cohesive training.
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    Well Done or Medium Well steak? (aka first post to be able to edit full account details)

    Medium well, well-done (often by garbage cooks) tends to be more charcoal than meat. Preferably medium to medium-rare, but again garbage chefs and the fast-cheap-good food triangle.
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    Days Gone By: A Memoir of the Gallian Front

    Silencers, likely. Will be truly unique if silencers/suppressors show up this early in the WW2-equivalent. Unfortunately IR cameras are still far off for even primitive NVGs. Did Finch just invent a barebones Kill House? If not, might be a good idea for CQB training later.
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    Sort of. I find removal of account/profile personalisation helps enforce a detached/objective...

    Sort of. I find removal of account/profile personalisation helps enforce a detached/objective mindset when posting online, useful with my control issues. Not perfect and does fail from time to time, but works to achieve some measure of separation. You can likely tell that nothing in this...
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    Story made by Artificial Intelligence aka (mathematical models)

    Opinion. AI-assisted/beta'ed with oversight and correction? Acceptable, as much a tool as spellcheck, word autocomplete and thesaurus. Wholesale chunks of AI-generated content with/without author-defined key points linking the generated content? Heavily disapprove. Majority of full-AI generated...
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    SI/isekai authors: In Medias Res

    Agreed. Further observation, recommend beginning said story with companions/acquaintainces to prevent "lost in their own head" issues, either "offscreen" befriended or immediately encountered within Chapter 1/2, thus soft-enforcing the MC to interact with local surroundings at temporary expense...
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    Crawling through the sand

    Ouch. Ves'sere was more important to Inawsam than she herself would admit. Apparently appeasing crawlerfolk is pretty important in Chamistaya, to point where an incompetent/bigoted harbourmaster can be written off entirely rather than offend a crawler's Voice? Seems like crawlers occupy a...
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    Crawling through the sand

    So, Middle Ages-esque generational nutrition deficit resulting in notable physique differences? As in nobility and chivalry were genuinely larger than the peasanthood? Fun. Elaboration on Inawsam does redeem her somewhat, though addition of a bit of her visibly rolling with the loss of Ves'sere...
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    Crawling through the sand

    Oh dear. Was the Draves gang ambushing Ves'sere an attack of opportunity, or did Inawsam lead them right to him? If so, lost a fair amount of sympathy for her. And just when Ves'sere was about to take her on as an apprentice too. Nice to see the cultural divide between the crawlerfolk and the...
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    Crawling through the sand

    Wonderful. Strong tones of John Carter here, mixed with Dune mysticism. Assuming Crawlers are semi-autonomous botships? Very interesting how Sycieb and presumably other crawler-servants venerate their machines, to point of explicitly declining claim of ownership/captaincy of their machines...
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