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  1. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Apparently so. My first reaction was that that's weird all the references I know of have charioteers as violent hooligans at best, poor gutter trash at worst. However after reading about the olympic games, and ancient horsemanship some more it becomes clear - theChariot races were not (unlike...

  2. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Fair enough, but the greek city states were as I noted quite exclusionary in general and very elitist. I'm not talking about the greek patriarchs treating Ume the same as they treated human women, just that they wouldn't treat Ume differently than they treat everyone who isn't them. Also, now...

  3. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Sure, but 1)You don't do that on the first day or in assessments. 2)Lying about statistics is bad, for athletes it's VERY bad. I doubt it. Not any more than they had a section for women or slaves. I agree with about the modern olympics, but given how elitist and exclusionary the greek...

  4. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Remember we're talking about the person who describes coming in second in multiple national competitions as "average" so I really wouldn't trust their definition of "average".

  5. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Two prroblems with this. First, while reducing the weight and thus increasing the distance she'd travel when both feet are off the ground, that is AFAIK a relatively small portion of the running time and thus the increase would be fairly minor overall (and possibly countered by the issues with...

  6. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    My guess? None. She hasn't actually spend much time racing and has spent a lot of time running long distances, it won't even occur to her to sprint because she knows if she does she'll be too tired to run all day... I expect that while she'll lose this race (and possibly pretty badly) she's...

  7. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    That's not actually at all believable. The phonehandset became universal because it worked for everyone and was cheap to make in large quantities. With the horse girls you'd probably get handsets with adjustable length, or possibly the early separate microphone and speaker setup will persist...

  8. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    No. The only time we see a reaction which goes beyond being reminded of a very upsetting and stressful time is when she's an infant (and even those I'm not sure they go past healthy stress response), so even if the story engineered a race being actually stressful for some reason (which as noted...

  9. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    That's basically what I meant. Although I really hope there are no PTSD flashbacks in this story - they don't seem to fit how she's been shown so far.

  10. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Maybe, but... Not because of this. Shirogane taking this seriously would be completely ridiculous and unrealistic. Most of the characters are teenagers/pre-teens with all the seriousness/angest over incredibly minor things that means, for the rest they're professional athletes/trainers so...

  11. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    That's how I read it. In fact, if it wasn't for Tanya's misunderstanding field I'd be complaining that she didn't stop at Because with Shirogane growing up with this it would take Tanya level of a misunderstanding for not to already be aware of what happened to most of her mother's family and...

  12. Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I'd describe that as poor worldbuilding, and those stories also usually have no plot Good question, given the setup the story will involve empire building, but since the MC hasn't shown any interest in either politics or military command (quite the opposite in fact) she could leave that to the...

  13. Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    They don't. Most "good" empire builder stories suffer from either poor characterization, poor worldbuiding, a lack of plot, or all of the above. Your story has great characterization, very good (and interesting) world building and an actual plot which I'd imagine makes writing the story a lot...

  14. On a Pale Horse (Umamusume/Youjo Senki)

    Can someone provide a summary or explanation for the crossover setting? I'm familiar with YJ and Tanya (and good job on giving them a new name for the third life), but this is the first I've heard of the crossover. I've managed to figure it's a setting where there are some bipedal horse-girls...

  15. Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    It makes it possible, yes. Because as I said in my post it's one of the requirements for feudalism to work

  16. Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I really wish at least the basics of formal logic were required in school. "X is required for Y" does NOT mean all cases of X are Y. In other words, no one claimed that slow transport and communication inevitably lead to feudalism.

  17. Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    The point is that it's not actually possible. This means that Terra will never actual trust the Vilani to stick to their deal. In such a case of course they wouldn't agree to the deal, but that's a very different argument than what you were making before.

  18. Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    There is no way anyone could still it covertly - it's a BattleTech Device that requires basically no maintainence to keep working for a century. You can drop it in a pit and fill it with concrete - as long as the data cable is long enough to stick out it won't affect the operation. Anyone...

  19. Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Target to what? Remember we're talking about the Villani inviting the Terrans in order to get the use of the FTL com, the consulate would be protected by the Vilani empire. And? A few dozen stations providing links from the various regional capitals and the imperial capital would be enough to...

  20. Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Not nearly as much as you may thing, or as there used to be. They'd be just as leery if someone with credentials showed up to provide them with the solution. The normal process is approximately like this: 1)Scientists develop a possible solution, test it in their lab and are pretty sure it...
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