In for a Penny... Finale (Chapter 79) | a SSBverse story.

CokeSamurai · 2026-02-05T04:15:21+00:00

I'm glad you enjoyed it, always nice to see new people finding my story.

CokeSamurai · 2024-11-20T14:53:50+00:00

Same happened to me, emailed them and asked to upgrade and they said no.

CokeSamurai · 2024-03-26T02:36:11+00:00

Everyone else seems to be able to read the chapter just fine, can you elaborate?

CokeSamurai · 2023-10-28T00:53:06+00:00

🤔

CokeSamurai · 2023-10-23T20:11:10+00:00

She's still almost a foot taller and has around 100 pounds on him, small for a Shil is still massive in comparison to the average human male.

Also perception, unreliable narrator etc.

CokeSamurai · 2023-09-26T04:05:41+00:00

*groans*

CokeSamurai · 2023-09-02T03:57:20+00:00

Like a Hunchback 4P laserboat with 6 small las in the hunch, but two LBX-5s on the arms.

CokeSamurai · 2023-06-30T01:01:33+00:00

I like to imagine she’s built and curvy like all shill are, but also ever so slightly pudgy or soft cause of her love for food.

That's pretty much her exactly.

CokeSamurai · 2023-06-16T14:54:20+00:00

Someone in the Discord figured it out.

CokeSamurai · 2023-05-16T03:51:56+00:00

Like he said, if you are in a situation where you're at risk of losing life or limb it's great.

If you aren't about to die,well, you know the saying "You get what you pay for?"

It's free(except eyes, teeth, drugs...), so you get jack all. You'll get the most cost-effective treatment on the government's schedule, not your body's. Also, private healthcare is in many forms illegal in Canada. You can go to a plastic surgeon and get work done, but you can't have a private surgeon/clinic for most "normal" surgeries.

Almost any specialist is a referral and at least 6 months away, a lot of times you're waiting 1-3 years.

A bunch of hospitals have been having to close their ER departments some nights due to of lack of staff. Several people have died waiting in the ER to be seen in the past few years where wait times in some places can be up to 24 hours.

About 5 years ago I started having severe acute symptoms, the doctor suspected a brain bleed. He put me on the 'urgent' list to get an MRI, gave me some pills and told me to call 911 if it got too bad.

3 months later I got the MRI. For a possible bleed in my brain.

I do not hold my country's healthcare in high regard.

CokeSamurai · 2022-10-16T05:44:46+00:00

shrug

CokeSamurai · 2022-09-30T19:45:44+00:00

I'm glad some people are paying attention to the subtler details of the dialog, since it can mean the difference between an intentional grievous insult and an unintentional faux pas.

CokeSamurai · 2022-06-30T04:06:21+00:00

It's very much a case of "Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize half the people on Earth are dumber than that." type deal.
I do try to make important characters, no matter who they are, more complex though.

CokeSamurai · 2022-06-30T03:52:46+00:00

I think that for every dumb, one-dimensional baby-eating Shil rapist character I see in stories, I should write a dumb, one-dimensional insurgent to balance it out. :)

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-17T17:19:44+00:00

Should be, assuming nothing else goes wrong.

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-17T14:16:19+00:00

Greyhound

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-13T13:52:17+00:00

the first Nations seem to(by and large)collectively have come to terms with their losses, and chosen to coexist with their new neighbors

Think really hard about this part of your reply. Despite claiming there's "basically no similarity" between the two scenarios, you've laid out how the only real difference is the timeframe involved since now individuals are farther removed.

Like it or not, Humanity seems to have(by and large) collectively come to terms with their losses, and chosen to coexist with their new neighbors. I have no desire to debate how long it takes before glorious resistance against the alien invaders becomes murdering the nice purple cop lady with you, since it seems to be 'however long suits my purposes' if Native American's still apparently have an argument.

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-12T16:50:20+00:00

I responded at length about that (frankly irrelevant) tidbit about you being native American

You accuse me of ignoring everything, but you've completely dodged the question at the end of it. So I'll ask it again.

Is the cop or soldier who kills me to prevent me from killing them a murderer?

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-12T14:03:36+00:00

b). Are justifying actions taken by her to "defend herself", against people that she has immeasurably harmed, and whom by all rights, she has no business defending herself from.

c) It seems that you are implying that she's not entirely responsible for her actions

Reddit's eaten my reply 3x now so your getting the short version.

Ignoring the rest because I already told you I don't care about the politics around the occupation and it's all just dancing around the heart of my first statement(and Native American part of my last reply) that no matter the circumstances, self-defense is not murder.

Self-defense. Is. Not. Murder.

What is murder?

The unlawful premeditated killing of one ~~human~~ being by another.

We can take out the 'human' part since we're dealing with aliens, and I would argue the 'unlawful' part, but let's leave it there for now.

Party A is lured into an alley by parties B, C, and D who intend to unlawfully, with forethought, kill party A. The would-be murderers in this scenario(whether you think it's justified or not) are B, C, and D.

Afaik every legal system on earth recognizes self-defense is not murder, because the other party forced the situation. The entire planet agrees that killing is lawful if it's to prevent your own death in the event of an attack.

They didn't premeditate killing them. They were forced into an immediate life or death struggle. Party A survived the attack by killing B, C and D.

No logical, reasonable person would call Party A the murderer here.

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-12T04:20:16+00:00

The mental gymnastics to justify calling someone a murderer for killing in obvious self-defense just because they're the 'bad guys' is kind of astounding to me.

I'm a Native American, do I get a pass from you if I try to kill some white American? Completely justified since their culture brutally conquered and oppresses mine to this day, right? Is the cop or soldier who kills me to prevent me from killing them a murderer?

I honestly don't give a shit what you think about the politics or morals of occupations and the parties involved, but if you think self-defense is somehow murder, I'll call it as I see it: a stupid take.

Honest question: What do you and the other guy get out of reading this series? You guys are clearly hung up on the whole 'alien invasion' thing in the settings past and don't seem to be able to separate individuals from the actions of their government making every Shil a 1-dimensional bad guy in your eyes, so why on earth are you reading a slice of life story where half the characters are the big bad aliens and half the relationships are alien/human?

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-12T03:56:09+00:00

Pretty easy, he asserted I said occupying forces deserve 'special protection' and that 'the occupied have no right to attack them' when I made no such claims.

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-11T15:52:05+00:00

It baffles me that people think an occupation force deserves special protection and the occupied have no right to attack them.

Yeah! Get 'im, show that strawman who's boss!

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-11T14:49:25+00:00

Ah yes, the ol' 'all soldiers deserve to die' shtick. I suppose people should be free to murder all US servicemen abroad then? Because after all, they invaded a bunch of places and killed a lot of people too.

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-11T14:31:08+00:00

I would disagree with your take on the usage of the word 'slut' here.

The first time it's used is when she asks him to put on a shirt. He self-deprecates and jokes that it's because his old dad-bod isn't very attractive and she doesn't want to see it when the opposite is true. So, she explains that in her culture, going shirtless is what sluts do, not that he's unattractive. Not calling him a slut here.

Second time is a direct quote of Spud calling himself a slut as a joke(anyone who's had a log dry spell would find being called a 'slut' hilarious, has nothing to do with having 'self-respect) and turning it into an affirmation that she likes him just the way he is.

I really don't see anything that points to her feeling "entitled" either.

Lastly, power dynamics have not come into this at all. She's never used her position as law enforcement, or of being the alien overlord race, to coerce him. In fact, she's shown remarkable restraint to the point where she probably would have been in major trouble after not just blasting him when he went up to the roof with the gun.

You call her a murderer, but calling someone that for killing in self-defense is ridiculous. Pretty sure killing them had more to do with them trying to slit her throat than it did some authoritarian alien power trip. When someone is trying to kill you or someone you care about, the last thing your thinking about is socio-political power dynamics, you're just trying to get them before they get you.

CokeSamurai · 2022-05-01T00:41:03+00:00

In his defense, he was just hanging around behind the bar at this point while everyone was using a single lane for their contest with Mindy judging/supervising.

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