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I mean... yes, I "made it up." It's speculation based on what we do see, about things we don't see. I don't think it's comparable to "the Simurgh did it" though :V
Out of curiosity, what exactly would you envision your preferred writing choices looking like?
Like. Suppose the E88 / the part...
I am conflating them in this context, actually, yes. Here's why.
Kaiser recieves a new recruit. She's mostly an unknown to him. She asserts that she wants to join the E88 because it is the right thing to do. Oh, and she wants some money. But that first bit is important, here-- even if she...
Yes?
I feel like fundamentally there is this expectation-slash-desire that Nazi's aren't people. And that, if they aren't people, there should be nothing to sympathize with, ever, and therefore if you feel any then they are not really Nazi's.
But my point is that not only is that...
To be honest I never understood what all the fuss was about.
As far as I could tell the E88 in the story were clearly bad guys. They bribed, stole, smuggled, assaulted the police, attacked prisons and transports, and engaged in animal cruelty. They had little regard for due process, by which I...
Tell that to children starving in ditches. How much free will do they have?
:V
But also, if time is like a river, the Simurgh is like a dam-- it has no reason to care about each random droplet. The vast majority of human misery is not a deliberate product of any individual persons goals but...
Fair, but he did so in an effect to get her to pay attention-- if she'd responded like a normal human being it would have happened like once and then she'd have taken things seriously. If she couldn't handle a single broken limb, she wouldn't be much use to the Empire anyway.
To be clear...
To be fair, if you were a power-hungry Kaiser, would you assign your young new recruit of unknown temperament to all the nasty sides of the business? Whereas a carefully-curated, self-deprecating group of unserious part time Nazi's who totally only beat up criminals and stuff is the perfect...
It came and then went. When threadmarks were in their infancy, it had more utility. Then I accidentally fried that hard drive (along with the mobo) by trying to power two 1080 Ti's on the same power cable, and the sourcecode was lost. Not that I was maintaining the code...
These days, I just...
"Powers often help solve immediate death threats" (your words) and "tend to help [the user] continue living in the immediate future" (my words) are almost literally the same thing. If you don't think so... sure, whatever.
Also you're gonna have to elaborate on the whole super bug thing. Even...
If the part you liked was the Amy stuff, I am dabbling with something new that will have her front-and-center again, albeit with a more overtly asshole male protagonist than in For the Machine is Immortal. Which unfortunately means less of a classical seduction angle, but eh.
If it was the...
Not at the moment. The whole story sort of veered off from where I originally imagined it. It was originally meant to be an exercise in Tinker fun, but then Amy stole the show. Which would be fine... but it was an SI with foreknowledge, and a romancy character driven plot feels wrong when the SI...
It didn't really help that outside of sex, she was a monstrously powerful glass cannon. She either won at everything or would lose horribly, there was little room for tension.