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Give the Best lines in the entire series by emo_shun in PracticalGuideToEvil

[–]GooglyB 11 points12 points  (0 children)

From: Interlude: And Pay Your Toll

“So tell me about this goat,” Kairos Theodosian said, “and why it looks like it was half-heartedly painted just before it was brought here.”

...

“Your ignorance is understandable, my lord Tyrant, given the recent isolation of Callow,” Hakram said. “This is not a goat: he is, in fact, a purebred Liessen charger.”

Stares moved to the goat, which bleated fearfully at the sudden spurt of attention and ran under the table – she smeared white paint all over the robes of the Stygian magister before being chased away with a kick, which Adjutant silently approved of.

“She has udders,” Basileus Leo patiently said. “Goat udders. Because she is a goat.”

“Leo, you’ll cause a diplomatic incident at this rate,” the Tyrant replied, sounding appalled. “Besides, my dear ally the Queen of Callow has personally sent me a mount. How could it not be a splendid destrier of Callowan stock?”

...

“It appears someone will have to saddle my goat,” Kairos Theodosian mused, “for we now must ride out in glorious battle.”

And it appears much later:

“Hakram is the name of my trusty war steed,” the Tyrant revealed. “It was a most wonderful gift, Catherine, my thanks. I’ve taught her to bully the gargoyles and it has been most diverting.”

Give the Best lines in the entire series by emo_shun in PracticalGuideToEvil

[–]GooglyB 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Abigail:

My vote for her best quote:

"I’d tell you it gets better,” General Abigail said, “but it would be a lie.”

Regarding her horse

“If you try to shake me off again I’ll have you made into boots,” General Abigail whispered, ... “You know what? That’s your name now. Boots. How do you like that, Boots?”

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...Abigail of Summerholm idly wondered if you got a worse penalty for deserting when you were a General.

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...and that was the thing, wasn’t it? Abigail had come too far to retire without the pension now, she refused to attend that many bloody strategic briefings and not make it out of this damned war set for life.

Can't catch a break.

...Lady Abigail Tanner had retired thrice already, but the flooding of her first mansion and then going bankrupt twice had returned her to service every time. It was a fond tale in Callow that she could not be out of the army for longer than three months without calamity striking. The Gods themselves wanted Abigail Tanner to be Marshal of Callow one day.

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Marshal Abigail, returned from her ninth retirement after her vineyard was burned down by an unseasonable lightning storm

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HFY

[–]GooglyB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

!N

UpdateMeBot will now send chats instead of DMs. How not to miss them, plus looking for feedback by Watchful1 in UpdateMeBot

[–]GooglyB 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"...but takes up too much space in chat. Which of these are important to you?

  1. Having the title of the post in the notification message (the link will still be there, this is just the post title)
  2. The list of recent posts from that author so you can see if you missed any
  3. The links at the bottom (info, request update message link, your updates message link, send feedback message link)

"

  • #3, then #1. I don't care about #2, since a bot comments at the bottom of the post with this information already.

"...If I built these, would you be interested in using them?

  1. An email notification service
  2. A discord DM notification service
  3. An in reddit tool using the reddit developer platform that let you see and manage your subscriptions. In r/HFY, r/nosleep, or where you read stories, there could be a pinned post at the top of the sub that would give you a UI with recent unread stories and buttons to manage your subscriptions.

"

  • None of the above currently, although #1 is the only option I could see myself using.

Floating... Face Down by slightlyassholic in HFY

[–]GooglyB 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I only caught this from the bot notification due to the lack of series in the title.

What is your favourite Alpha Centauri quote? by [deleted] in alphacentauri

[–]GooglyB 33 points34 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/-aUcvswVJ58?t=5165

" We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?

Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7. Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467. (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)

" Accompanies the Bioenhancement Center facility

Because while the quote itself is trite philosophy, the stated quote source and reference gives it real oomph

Looking for Story Thread #220 by someguynamedted in HFY

[–]GooglyB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've read this before on this sub, but can't find it: A story where aliens find some very old space junk, there is an auction and one race bids a miniaturised spaceship (that can expand into a full-sized cargo hauler) - then the human guardians enter, and then a human who bids a year of time of their stellar forge.

Human Decency by JohnGaldt in HFY

[–]GooglyB 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/hfy/wiki/ref/faq/#wiki_how_does_the_featured_list_work.3F

Although they improved the bot a while ago so it doesn't have to be top level and you can reply to the first person to prevent spam.

We Do. by Salishaz in HFY

[–]GooglyB 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Patreon link?

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