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    How to be more confident myself?

    Sigh up to one of them alpha male camps, either the paid version or the free version.
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    Generic betrayal isekai story (full title in first post, too long for here for some reason)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 4

    Chapter 4: Chevauchée/cavalgada It’s a bright and sunny day, the sun casting its rays on a picturesque land vibrant with color and bloom. Gently rolling hills, whose spring grass waved with the wind. Freshly plowed fields with only the tiniest of bud peeking out from the soil. Only the barest...
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    Generic betrayal isekai story (full title in first post, too long for here for some reason)

    "we're leaving at dawn" It's in Russian. I just find it amusing. Just something to keep track of the cheats that the protag has on hand and will be using. It's a deck from the shipment system in AoE3. Figured if I'm gonna crib off some game mechanics it might as well be from one I have some...
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    Generic betrayal isekai story (full title in first post, too long for here for some reason)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 3

    Yes, this is a worthless chapter mainly covering game mechanics that no one actually cares about, as is tradition. ------------------------- Chapter 3: New game plus [nonsense] "And why, would any of us trust an usurper like you?" Lev Reznik, master of the merchant's guild, said to Alex from...
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    News and Headlines...

    It's from a respected mainstream media news outlet. Surely you're not going to insinuating that they might lack in dedication to unbiased and factual reporting of current events?
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    News and Headlines...

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhealthcare-slaying-played-video-game-killer-rcna183550 Among Us caused the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO.
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    Generic betrayal isekai story (full title in first post, too long for here for some reason)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 2

    Chapter 2: Today is a good day [for someone else] to die As far as weather goes, the day couldn't have been better. The sun bright and shiny high up in the sky, with nary a cloud in sight. It's as if the gods themselves have blessed this day to see justice being dispensed. As is tradition...
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    News and Headlines...

    https://automaton-media.com/en/news/visa-japans-ceo-says-disabling-card-payment-for-legal-adult-content-is-necessary-to-protect-the-brand/ Visa continues to pursue moral virtue as usual.
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    Generic betrayal isekai story (full title in first post, too long for here for some reason)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1

    After being reincarnated to another world to fight against the hordes of evil, the generic fantasy human kingdom tried to betray my ass but I betrayed them first, thus causing a coup and civil war! ------------------------ You know the drill, brainrot incoming. I been playing too much AoE3...
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    News and Headlines...

    Alright, which one of you guys are responsible for this? https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/north-korean-soldiers-get-internet-access-in-ukraine-hooked-on-porn-report-6965568
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    I'm taking such a long break from writing that my political views have shifted.

    I'm taking such a long break from writing that my political views have shifted.
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    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    Another thing to consider about a "warrior" society is militarization: specifically that for every resource/labor/time spent on military/martial values is one (or rather a number between 0 to 1 if adjusting for cases of duel use) resource/labor/time not spent on everything else (the rest of the...
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    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    I meant the object of loyalty rather than the intensity of loyalty, which is dependent more on the individuals in question. Though modern military indoctrination do tend to make soldiers more loyal, though what they're loyal to is another matter entirely. (i.e. in the American Civil War a lot...
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    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    It took a while for the modern concept of nationalism (of loyalty to the abstract concept of a nationstate rather than something far more personal such as the local ruler/community. That's when the contrast between warriors and soldiers (as far as the loyalty aspect is concerned) really took off.
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    Warrior/Fighter/Military Culture, Hierarchy & Negotiation

    Rome's civil wars started when the soldiers became more professional, but the root causes has little to do with said professionalism. For the majority of the early Republic Roman soldiers were more of the citizen militia type, and soldiering evolve into lifelong careers as Rome's conquests left...
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