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I am a big fan of Circle K.
Not so much for anything they sell, though the three dollar hot dog meal is pretty tight, but for the stuff you get free with a purchase. Like the hot dog boats, plastic forks, spoons, and knives, and the crushed red pepper.
The crushed red pepper is vital.
I’ve...
Hey, are you still writing "The Royal Husband", or have you been burnt from it? (As in, the complaints got to be too much, and you no longer want to write it.)
ARWIN
The skeleton mulled the issue over. "Well, you did help me out. And you aren't going to last very long in Heartstone on your own. It's a dangerous place."
Arwin exclaimed, "Don't I know it! Dude, I met a blue screen of death!"
The skeleton sighed. "I suppose I could lend you a hand."...
Very interesting start, but a lot seems to happen in the second chapter with the protagonist seemingly just having knowledge he doesn't demonstrate a mechanism for knowing.
Of course if you're writing a story heavily focused around time fuckery a lot can be excused, but overall things feel kinda...
...as most Imperial prisons in canon or legends given it is actually aimed at rehabilitation without the use drugs and mind control devices. The Pit *dramatic sting plays* is more for appearance's sake so the rest of the Empire doesn't accuse Las of being soft on lawbreakers.
Crossposted on SB...
---Three Days Later---
--Arkona, Central Elyndra Plains--
He arrived in darkness, and in rain.
He walked alone, a dark cloak covering his broad shoulders, his heavy boots knocking against the cobblestone path that led into the city of Arkona.
The guards at the stone watch towers that...
The kids is that flush gang poker people right? Ace and company, and she probably went ballistic when she saw people being trained the same way as she was trained.
Yeah, and biological evolution is based on a slow process of random mutations and there is this theory that humans developed speech and cognition because they started eating some weird, psychedelic shrooms at some point.
Reality is starting to look more and more like a Peter Watts novel and I...
A reminder that LLMs merely predict the next most likely word, using complex math on a subset of prior words, then brute forcing through an absolutely massive amount of memory entry before it finds the right "token" (next word)
Thus, imo, it can be extremely effectively used as a beta and...
Threadmarks: Observations Upon the Hard Choice, and a Narrative Illustration of Numbers
Kill 10 to save 100. Kill 100 to save 10,000. Kill 1,000 to save 100,000.
This, is the framing of the hard choice, a dilemma where someone dies no matter what. In story discussions, it is the argument that is posed whenever the debate arises on the morality of a character’s actions.
And yet...
A place for long, rambling thoughts painted with a veneer of scholastic philosophy and romanticism, because everybody gets them sometimes. Put yours here.
Brevity is not always a merit, and changing minds involve more than screaming back and forth about fallacies. I don’t mind just hearing you...
Part of the shitty part of the Pre-Butlerian Jihad situation, is that most people are dependent on the tech of technocrats
Post-Butlerian Jihad, there are STILL technocrats, they just work with the aristocrats, merchants and religious figures
You need a LOT of centralization to keep a ban...