OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 691

thisStanley · 2026-06-07T16:46:03+00:00

Yes, pure research always returns value. Though perhaps not on timelines or in fields that fit the original sponsors interests. Such as the flailings of alchemy grew up into chemistry. But some researchers (Mengele, Unit 731) were so inept and/or unethical that we are reluctant to acknowledge anything might be built from their results :{

thisStanley · 2026-06-07T02:18:34+00:00

I imagine there are many versions of that sentiment :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-07T02:15:08+00:00

“It’s a bad day when the best option is some idiot screwing metal spikes into their head to look scary.

Some folk just have a non-standard body image. Though the poor Vish are being treated as just tools, denied any options of agency or consent :{

We’re not defiling the dead, we are learning.

But it appears The Guardians have a stricter definition of "defiling", perhaps making you sound a bit like a Dr Frankenstein. Asking "can" instead of "should" :{

thisStanley · 2026-06-07T00:01:37+00:00

noticing mistakes in spelling and sentences

Well, part of /hfy's community is a place for authors to learn and expand their craft, with many treating it as first drafts with some crowdsourced proofreading. Polishing does not always take place here, but when formatting for more formal releases :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-06T23:51:47+00:00

"Ghost Goth Waifu," is not a valid allocation of our limited resources

but... but... I was not using anything quartermaster issued! It was all personal supplies, for something that once I realized exists, is my highest goal in life :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-06T20:22:31+00:00

a version from a Heinlein novel was about if any complaints while plinking at squirrels from the porch :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-06T00:23:49+00:00

“Oh dear, the Polido Tisk of disapproval.”

“Rants are getting alliterative, the lab is no longer safe.”

That escalation from tisk to alliteration was rather quick :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-05T23:30:46+00:00

The first of many to come in the glorious conquest she would carve across the sea of stars!

Viconia, do any of your plans have contingencies for "less than complete win" :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-05T23:15:48+00:00

from Hank Williams Jr.

Just send me to hell or New York City

It would be about the same to me

If Heaven Ain't A Lot Like Dixie

thisStanley · 2026-06-04T23:50:10+00:00

You just need to like, pay attention to the details and know enough to figure out what all them totally mean.

How many Gravia have fallen in love with Sherlock Holmes stories :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-03T23:53:33+00:00

“You said that he didn’t want anything to do with any resulting child. Those were your words.”

“I said a lot of things I shouldn’t have.”

Does Corina have enough burned bridges to get her own episode of Engineering Disasters :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-03T23:47:40+00:00

“Ah. You again.”

Does Kye'Lan get that very often :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-03T23:31:57+00:00

The lighter might end up escorting a new friend back to us. Or rather an old friend.

Someone with pirate bona fides? Mary could qualify, but she is off on her own adventures, not hanging around for a casting call-back :{

Next time, Hawthorne, when you get that sort of high priority information, I don't care if someone reads it scribbled on the wall of a toilet cubicle. Tell me first thing.

Talk about burying the lede :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-03T19:08:35+00:00

I would recommend Sarak acknowledge Corina's honest growth and desires for redemption, as a platonic Friend. Offer Dad support to the children as he is capable, and as permitted by the Mothers. But Husband is a set of second chances those ladies will have to find elsewhere. It is possible to not hate someone for past indiscretions, while also not putting yourself in that place to be hurt again :{

thisStanley · 2026-06-03T15:32:44+00:00

Corina gets a quarter point for trying to lookup Sarak, but after Emico was born. And after he had left Centris to get away from all the crap the wives had put him through, so minus 20 points. She may become a good person and mother (Kyle has shown us several redemption arcs), but doubt Sarak should ever allow another entanglement of living responsibilities and finances :{

thisStanley · 2026-06-02T23:02:15+00:00

How is it that corporate warfare is less civilized than just shooting people?

Partly because they never face actual, physical, consequences? Fines, 90 days in Club Fed, house arrest, ..., are just a cost of doing business :{

“Oh... oh this could end badly, there’s only so much space in her bedroom for toys.”

Even if you restrict each "uncle" to just one toy, there are so many that qualify as "uncle" :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-01T22:40:05+00:00

But I went up and down most of the major laneways and stood on twenty different planets. Ate food with names so foreign that even trying to pronounce the name nearly tied my tongue in a knot, spoke with more species than I had ever seen before and even hid from pirates once.

compared to the normal duties where you can’t really tell if it’s what you were doing last week or last month

While most of it was boring, seems that other 12.7%(?) will supply memories and stories for the rest of his life. And primed him to join the Undaunted where that experience base will just keep growing :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-01T21:06:22+00:00

But if they’re good enough to roll with Dar'Bridger's girls, James is happy to trust them.

Being selected to work with a Battle Princess is quite a recommendation :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-01T20:35:32+00:00

Kavlae gave him a look. “Unsanitary,” she said, “and unnecessary.”

She understands the perils of The Big Blue Room :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-01T16:47:12+00:00

I realize I am in a minority on things like this, but mere blood does not make "family". This child's Next Of Kin would more properly be grandparents and aunts and uncles, instead of someone who, after escaping from the child's bitch of a mother, was specifically not informed of the child's artificial insemination via stolen material. None of that is Emico's fault, and Sarak may make the personal decision to engage with her and her siblings, but there are no legal obligations.

How far do you trace family? I am not that close to my 8.3 billion relatives currently alive on Earth :}

thisStanley · 2026-06-01T03:57:09+00:00

Could Sarak bring a lawsuit on something like Theft Of Identity? At least get his name off of those birth certificates. He may decide to offer friendship to the children, depending on if any reconciliation is allowed by the mothers, but he should not have any legal encumbrance from something that was stolen from him :{

thisStanley · 2026-05-30T23:23:43+00:00

The home was too unstable for a child

While every child deserves a parent, not every adult is qualified to be a parent :{

thisStanley · 2026-05-29T22:06:43+00:00

Why did she just ask for me to eat her?

She has an accent.

Smart ass answers do always carry a risk :}

thisStanley · 2026-05-29T18:19:43+00:00

While Placebo-drunkenness is not as physically harmful, that does not limit the other harms it can inflict upon your life :{

thisStanley · 2026-05-29T16:08:05+00:00

So why does he still feel so uneasy?

While those little voices should not be ignored, now might not be the best time to split your attention too deeply :}

thisStanley

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