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Showdown 3.5
I awoke to the sound of a heart monitor, surrounded by crinkly sheets; both were telltale signs I'd made it to a hospital. Whether this was Brockton Bay's hospital or some other nearby hospital because Lung burned ours down, I didn't know, but it was a hospital nonetheless.
The...
Honestly I find a lot of the complaints about AI art funny because you're seeing unfiltered cognition.
But TLDR:Resist primal urge (Fuck around, and you will find out.), otherwise you're good.
You mean other than universities pushing it to the point of having entire classes that cannot be passed without getting 100% grammarly scores on each assignment? It’s genuinely useful for formal writing, or at least it was back in the 2016-2020 era when I was in Uni.
My suggestion? Ignore all of the things you could be doing in X4 and instead focus on a getting familiar with the universe you find yourself in. X4 is a very large game with a lot of depth and it's very easy to bounce off of it trying to take all of that in. Instead, fly around, do small time...
Character development ahoy with another chapter of the Peak Sonic SI story! :D
Rob demonstrates why he's the good local hedgehog, John learns something about his draconic self's own quirks, and the orichalcum got extracted from the door thanks to John's draconic self's dragon breath.
Quite...
You probably need to check a few authors' Snippet and Miscellaneous Story threads. Some authors can pump out quality stuff in those, and they're painful to search for.
I recently found two fics I'd been trying to track down thanks to Reddit. The first was thanks to the r/OnePieceFanfic sub...
Omake: Credit Woes on Minda-2
POV: (Petty) Adit Lord Oltal of the Tibalt Dictate, Minda-2, Post Imperial Annexation
"So our mines are worthless?"
Oltal frowned at the report he recieved. He was glad he held this meeting in his private chambers rather than his court. It allowed him to express...
To add on:
Go about 1.5 years back, and the em dash was a sign of real writing. It's useful in many different situations - adding details to a sentence, interrupting sentences, placing actions in between dialogue. All the complicated stuff that makes writing fun and engaging. Best of all...
Ruby Haze
Chapter 39: Forgery in Fire
When I first reached Mobius, my eyes were permanently changed from gray to magenta. I was permanently touched -- changed -- by the Phantom Ruby. After I further tapped the Ruby’s flow with Mania Mode, my body became more mutated. Clawed and fanged...
I'm perfectly fine with a writer taking some liberties with the source material in order to tell an interesting story. If canon is so sacrosanct then why are we reading fanfiction?
Great to read more from this story. I like seeing this story have good heart to heart moments between characters...
It was a damned lich! A super-powered undead magic user. And judging from the array of wealth and items, the huge room, the massive crown, and the spellbooks, he was probably crazy strong, more than enough to murder my idiotic ass. What the hell had I been thinking? This was D&D 101: cursed...
Three more arrows came at the human in quick succession.
One clipped his forehead, and he cried out with annoyance, "Argh! Fuckin' mobs!" He hunched under his buckler and wiped blood away on his arm, backing up faster. He put his foot down behind him — and the heel dipped down without warning...