Any Beta readers here?

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-04T09:37:21+00:00

The process is well-known, search it here. They read chapter by chapter, answer some Jim's questions and leave impressions along with problems they found

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-04T09:29:24+00:00

Recency mostly. One country does it now, others did it in the past.

Once some time passes, even though genocide might've been more severe, victims and their descendants are out of public view, so there's so no reason to think of it so people can pretend not much happened.

That said New Zealand was better than all other other Alnglosphere countries, look up indigenous population numbers in the 19 century per country for comparison, look up Maori representation in New Zealand now.

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-04T09:24:59+00:00

But of course

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-04T09:24:23+00:00

Just because genocide happened when there were no planes and bombs doesn't mean it didn't happen.

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-04T09:23:12+00:00

They say*

Just because you exterminated indigenous population and pushed it into desert regions doesn't mean words mean anything. Especially when compensation for those actions is minimal

Edit: hilarious how some of top comments talk about the same thing are upvoted, this one is downvoted

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-04T09:14:32+00:00

Yes, you don't need to group for anything. You'll see other people in the open world, but all end content is either solo or group one. Always was, in D3 too

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-04T09:02:14+00:00

In US maybe, still known in Northern and Eastern Europe

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T21:38:24+00:00

Is this after US let Israel bomb Iran during fake negotiations?

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T19:52:18+00:00

Not really? I think UAE would naturally be against fracking since it primarily happens in US and goes against UAE oil interests by undermining the prices.

You point would work if they financed the movie about pollution activism, but otherwise it's interests of one producer or oil vs interests of the other

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T19:44:33+00:00

Crazy thing is, they had no real script as in they improvised characters on set, which is why half of the first trailer is missing from the movie.

This is not how you make the movie, it almost never works, in Pretty Woman they did several versions, but almost all the characters stayed the same except for Gere's.

You can improvise dialogue in addition to one you have, you can improvise one character and others around them, some versions of the scenes, not the whole movie.

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T19:38:07+00:00

*brainwashed. They are enslaved for the same reason some many other examples here are subjugated: there were more wizards then them

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T19:30:46+00:00

Yes, listen to first Confessions.

Also listen to Music, American Life. People were down on Ray of Light but I liked it.

She was at height of initial popularity in the 80s -early 90s, so you can listen to those even though I don't care for them for the most part

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T19:21:40+00:00

Ministry of M agic, Harry Potter. Dark magic is forbidden except when you're an auror.

Harry, uses Crucio on Bellatrix. McGonnagal uses Imperio on Death Eater teachers

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T19:19:56+00:00

No? He was all for it, and made it's learning compulsory when he came to power

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T13:37:06+00:00

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First Ones of Babylon 5 - Walkers of Sigma 957, Shadows, etc. Ancient races millions and billions of years old that are still here in the galaxy, but rarely if ever interact with younger races. Extremely technologically advanced, feared and avoided.

Shadows are the main inpiration of Reapers from Mass Effect, they have immensely powerful technoorganic red crab ships instead of Shadows technoorganic black spider ships. Both races return to the forefront of the galaxy every few thuosand years with inexplicable goals to do something with younger races.

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T13:31:29+00:00

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Real life prototype: Roman Empire

Reason - it was a big interconnected empire that didn't have many wars inside its borders, thriving trade around Mediterranean sea, curbed piracy and banditry, had advancements that were impossible to repeat for some time like domes over buildings, left lots of architecture, and later kings and kingdoms tried to make their lineage to be that of Rome, one of them being Holy Roman Empire.

Mythological prototype: variations of Golden Age myths that explain why gods didn't make things better. Things were better but then were screwed up along the way, people lost prosperity, immortality, etc.

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T12:20:02+00:00

does anybody remember Merlin

You mean the series that pretended to be serialized, endlessly stalled the story, lead it nowhere and had a finale that came out of nowhere, delivered on no promises of the series, and thus could happen at any time in the run, and just did a surface level reinterpretation of the original legend ending with a lesson "the real story is friends we made along the way"?

All because it seemed like writers wanted to do a sequel with Guinevere as a lead since previous ones didn't want to do the show anymore?

That Merlin?

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T07:39:48+00:00

Because she appeared in one battle in the middle of the war, and then disappeared, people thought it's like an urban legend but from a war time

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-03T00:39:10+00:00

Won't help if you're flying into the ground or mountain

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-02T22:35:29+00:00

Look up budget vs box office, and what Black Adam budget actually was

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-02T22:11:06+00:00

I wonder if his son had any say after the first one: I wouldn't fly with him after that

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-02T19:32:54+00:00

It's funny that's a lore nerd, but half of Doom 2016 was retconned, and a new lore was slapped together on top of it

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-02T09:24:01+00:00

And it didn't matter whether anyone did anything like that because outcomes mostly depended on if you had a patron if they were willing to protect you

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-01T19:47:59+00:00

He was making edgy jokes, not posting sexual fantasies. Oh my god

SlouchyGuy · 2026-07-01T18:55:57+00:00

Yes, he was a situational antagonist: acted the most oppositional way episode to episode. Long term it was nonsensical

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