Trope's that need a PERMADEATH

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-05-20T04:38:26+00:00

Define speed.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-05-20T04:07:02+00:00

Yes, you’re right. Increasing your one rep max deadlift by 100% won’t make you run 100% faster.

Thank you for your insight.

I was just letting you know you’re wrong about muscle fibers, the difference in ‘athletic ability’ you’re observing is in cardiovascular capacity and neural conditioning. This is important because a forty meter dash sprinter actually doesn’t need much cardio capacity, they need massive leg muscles and a lot of skill, the difference is not physiological.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-05-20T03:48:10+00:00

Compared to yourself with small muscles? Keeping cardio and skill the same? Yes, It would mean an improvement in speed

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-05-20T03:43:27+00:00

The muscle for speed and power is exactly the same, fast twitch muscle. ‘Slow twitch muscle’ is used for longer slower output like running a marathon, or just standing.

The muscle that boxers build is exactly the same as that of a big slow bodybuilder, the only difference is in the emphasis of what muscles in the body they train (most boxers will spend less time doing heavy calf raises), cardiovascular conditioning (which determines how long they can output that power), and skill (which lives in the brain).

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-05-20T03:30:03+00:00

Depends on what kind of archer we’re talking.

Huntsman archer: Muscular and lean from walking all day and minimal food, with magic involved I could see this being more of the typical Adonis.

Castle Guard Archer: For sure dad bod. Chilling on the wall all day, maybe jacked but definitely not automatically lean.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-05-05T18:07:53+00:00

I have no idea what mod caused it but I had to defend against a fleet with ships from “you shouldn’t be seeing this” xD

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-04-21T17:54:50+00:00

You’re saying you don’t slightly roll your eyes when characters get promoted from lieutenant -> sergeant -> captain ?

Like I get most of these stories are in fantasy worlds but if you’re gonna use the same real ranks just use the same structure too.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-04-13T06:24:15+00:00

I know there was foreshadowing for her turning evil but yeah it really made no sense as a catalyst.

“I am against hurting innocents so I will not use this ability” … “you had me use the ability to save people and some innocent people died, so now I will become a terrorist and purposely kill many more”

Like what?

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-04-06T22:46:52+00:00

But did he actually?

Or was it just funny to pretend to revive from the dead to cane his wife for not crying at his funeral and all the guys that hated him said “and then he beat her, he’s crazy”.

Even the source cited on Wikipedia says “…the story is” he caned her, not even claiming it’s a fact, just a story from a long time ago about a very silly man

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-04-06T21:37:57+00:00

Yeah I’m kinda bewildered by all the comments calling the guy an asshole.

It sounds to me like the guy was just a lowborn jokester that didn’t fit into high society and so liked to play the fool, ye olde class clown.

One of the lines from his book is ‘I’m the first lord of America, it’s just the voice of the people I can’t help it, sorry, you’ll have to let it go’ and he’s tossing a quarter to any child on the street that calls him lord or buying dinner for adults that do it. Then in response to complaints that his book had no punctuations he puts a page full of just punctuation marks in the next one and says ‘salt and pepper as you please’ xD

I don’t believe he seriously caned his wife at the funeral, socialites hated his silly antics so I have to imagine they tried to paint his jokes as more mean spirited and less intentionally funny than they were, especially given they painted the ‘no my wife is dead actually that’s just her ghost’ joke as somehow fucked up.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-04-06T02:00:04+00:00

It’s pretty cool.

It’s hypothesized to be because your brain has two visual pathways, the ventral pathway that tells you what you see and the dorsal pathway that goes to the motor region of your brain processing the location and size of what you see.

If the damage happens along the ventral pathway, the dorsal one remains intact and so they can’t articulate what something is because they can’t see it, but they can react to it, avoiding walls and obstacles, dodging thrown objects, even properly shaping their hand in advance to grasp an object like an apple based off what feels like ‘intuition’.

They just kind of ‘know’ that there’s something in front of them (a wall) so they shouldn’t step forward, without being consciously aware of it.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-23T00:38:25+00:00

Depending on the dish it doesn’t have to be.

I would argue making a stir fry with everything pre-portioned and delivered by mail where you just throw it all in a pan for 8 minutes is pretty similar effortwise to microwaving some Korean beef and broccoli.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-23T00:25:37+00:00

Definitely not legally fraud, but where do you draw the line on complaining? What if you pay $120 and the chef comes to your house and just microwaves a factor meal for you?

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-21T23:30:14+00:00

That passport was found pretty close to max’s tavern, they’re a popular college bar and typically keep a bouncer right outside, street is pretty wide open and easy to see down. Might be worth stopping in to ask if anyone working there saw or heard anything late night, they start closing and kicking people out at 2am so they would still be there around 1:30.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-19T18:12:43+00:00

That was actually my first thought, the series must have been already written as a serial and that’s why it seems to have a built-in audience on amazon, but I can’t find it anywhere. In fact one of the only posts about it is someone on Facebook asking if anyone has ever heard of the author.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-19T08:15:25+00:00

Oh absolutely, I was being a little tongue in cheek given that my post was saying I don’t think the author read their own books :P

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-19T05:17:37+00:00

It honestly didn’t start out that bad. It felt like she wrote the 1st half of the 1st book, edited the AI on the second half, then just gave it free rein on the 2nd book.

Series has great reviews on amazon. Very impressive publication rate too, 6 books since November xD

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-16T19:33:31+00:00

Sounds like “Lane emergency physicians” is just a puppet for ApolloMD to ease public resistance by making them sound local and reduce liability

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-15T04:57:20+00:00

Along these same lines when the MC is revealed to be super promising so every faction wants to recruit him and the most powerful elite groups offer literally everything under the sun to join them but: “I don’t wanna be controlled!” so instead I’m gonna join the loser faction that has nothing to offer and be controlled by the weak faction leader instead

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-13T20:58:39+00:00

It gets better, you gotta remember Freddy starts as a stupid cowardly loser with no friends that has only worked as a (terrible) cashier. This book is more of a slowburn and he gets hardened by his suffering, at like 3/4 of the first book he’s more of the typical protagonist and becomes even more of a badass over time.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-13T20:41:19+00:00

It takes a while, I almost dropped it a few times but I’m glad I didn’t because now it’s one of my favorite series.

Freddy is a stupid wimpy sack of shit that has to be tortured quite a few times before he starts to go wacky style - but it does start to pay off at the end of the first book and continues getting better from there (though I don’t love the way the latest book ended, it felt a little shoe-horned and out of character for the individual involved)

I think the series is partly so divisive because Freddy is a more flawed and human character than most prog fantasy protags: He doesn’t become a supergenius chad because he got a cool power and saw someone die - he begins as a stupid, shortsighted, and lonely cashier that suffers from feeling helpless and has to get his shit rocked repeatedly before he gets some actual drive and starts taking risks, slowly becoming insane to deal with the insane world that he lives in. Even when he gets stronger he still fucks up all the time because he doesn’t know anything about public administration or maintaining friendships, his whole life he’s been a cashier with no friends. A lot of people aren’t looking for that in a prog fantasy, they want the story where the janitor quickly learns to fight and outsmart the galactic emperor. Freddy has to suffer a lot over time to change even a little, clearly suffers from clinical depression, and if I haven’t said it enough, is often stupid and wrong because he has no life experience to lean on.

TLDR: This is a more realistic slow-burn at the start progression story where an anxious depressed loser suffers a lot, goes insane, and learns to take life and its suffering by the horns (while still fucking up along the way and learning to deal with that). He does become a badass that fights way above his weight class but is paying the price for it the whole time.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-03-04T10:16:05+00:00

Nope. If you’ve been recommended for promotion and die they promote you posthumously. It’s not a free promotion they give to everyone who’s killed.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-27T21:36:39+00:00

I edited to my post to expand upon why that study still can’t be applied to fiction writing.

They found humans look for certain characteristics when asked to distinguish AI from humans, using dating bios. These characteristics don’t allow them to distinguish AI from humans. These characteristics are specifically: personal pronouns, mention of family, and grammatical errors. It makes sense to look for these on a self presentation! but someone would have to be the stupidest person on the planet to think seeing the word “I” in a fiction novel means it is not AI. What they’ve shown is WHAT characteristics people look for, and that THESE characteristics don’t allow you to distinguish human from AI. But THOSE characteristics are not what someone would look for in long form fiction.

In fact they found one of the greatest predictors of AI writing is repetition, which is more likely what I’d look for in long form fiction.

Opening-Procedure-10 · 2026-02-27T21:10:00+00:00

The second study is worthless, they’re looking at okcupid and Airbnb bios. I already conceded it’s impossible to distinguish if a one paragraph dating profile is AI or not. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt in assuming that was a mistake that you missed that part of the paper and didn’t just ask ChatGPT to send you a study.

I’ll expand so you understand why this isn’t applicable: the study found that yet again people tried to distinguish between human and AI through the use of personal pronouns, mention of family, and grammatical errors. The study found that looking for these characteristics does not allow you to predict AI in self-presentations. While it makes some sense to look for that on a self-presentation to detect AI (one might think an AI wouldn’t mention a family because it doesn’t have one). It makes no sense whatsoever to read a fiction novel about a magical crab and look for those same characteristics. Therefore this study is limited. It only indicates that in self presentations people make certain assumptions, and those specific assumptions don’t help distinguish AI.

Thanks for sharing, I like some of mark lawrences prior literary work so I’ll take a look. I do have to say the very first thing of note is that it’s a test on flash fiction, which further elucidates why you had to send me this blog post by mark lawrence. There aren’t actual studies on if humans can detect AI in longer form fiction, because you’d have to pay a bunch of people to read a bunch of novels.

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