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    Writing Prompt Imagine a setting twenty years in the future.

    We never thought we'd get that far by 2045. We were all persuaded that we were driving toward the wall and accelerating. Fear sells, and the media and social media kept highlighting the worst humanity had to offer. We thought that hate was coming back fast, that we were bound to relive our...
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    Writing Prompt National Kaijus

    I just watched Troll on Netflix. The Troll is BIG. Like Kaiju big. And Norwegian, not a country you'd cite as a kaiju-prone. And that got me thinking. What if a national Kaiju (giant monster) suddenly appeared for every country? Or what if they'd always existed? What would they look like? Would...
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    What is your personality?

    I am cheerful and deliberately straightforward. Some people think they're playing 3d-chess with relationships. I play marbles on the board. Not because I couldn't enter the mindgames, but because they have no interest once you abscond from them: it's way more comfortable and simple. And it...
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    Why is it a bull elephant but a boar polar bear?

    Thanks for the precision! Now I'll use those terms properly (and therefore rarely)!
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    Why is it a bull elephant but a boar polar bear?

    Wait wait wait! You're telling me that if you come across an elephant or a bear in the wild, and are not trying to have them reproduce, you're not supposed to gender them with cow/bull or sow/boar even if it might be relevant for other purposes (like behaviour/threat assesment or just generic...
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    Why is it a bull elephant but a boar polar bear?

    Thanks for the offer! I'm just curious about a lot of random stuff, and that question bugged me tonight... I'm definitely not headed towards zoology or veterinary studies. (no more studies for me, unless they're law refreshers, or maybe professional/law-oriented English!)
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    Why is it a bull elephant but a boar polar bear?

    Hi everyone! Ok, so English has no gendered words (I'm French BTW), that makes it friendly to learn. But then you have animals, who don't always have a distinct name for male and female. So you slap another animal on it to indicate the gender, like a bull elephant or a hen pheasant, right? But...
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    Is there any map making software out there

    Whatever map tool you end up using, I remember a tip from some mapmaking forum about coasts. If you're drawing a whole continent, or even part of one, with a body of water next to it, there's a method for nice coasts. 1) draw the general shape of the landmass, like a blob thingy 2) refine that...
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    What did you learn today?

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    I just want to brag

    I'll bring out the tequila tonight to celebrate!
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    I just want to brag

    Thanks, and thanks for the advice as well! And congrats on your dream job from last year!
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    I took an AI image, put it in anime filter and this is what I got.

    Right hand definitively shows AI vibes, left hand is good! And the image looks cool AF!
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    I just want to brag

    Drat, I'm busted! And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids!
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    I just want to brag

    Hence the "I'm letting the news out here instead of Facebook, Instagram or X". It's not 100% safe, but I have a pseudonym, gave some details but not all of them and count on the general goodwill (and apathy) of people reading me. Please don't bust me out?
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    I just want to brag

    Hi everyone! Here's the thing: I've been working as a temporary replacement for a guy for almost a year and a half. He was off work due to cancer, and he got progressively better. His cancer was beaten last summer, he has been recovering ever since. I realy like my workplace. My bosses are...
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    Why is caviar appealing to rich people?

    Caviar has a strong, immediately identifiable taste. It can be consumed in small portions and retain its culinary interest, so it is suitable for fancy gatherings where you are supposed to eat daintily. Like all "luxury" foods (and all quality foods that aren't luxury*), it is entirely traceable...
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    speak only with song lyrics

    After takin' several readings I'm surprised I feel stupid and contagious Here we are now, entertain us !
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    Am I the only one who thought of this idea?

    Reading the comments, you'd want to make the AI/robot psyche at least a bit unique. While horny or edgy* unemotional MCs are a dime a dozen, and a robot wouldn't particularly add anything interesting, a fully Asimovian AI, bound by the 3 laws (and the fourth, organic law), navigating an Isekai...
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    Crossover fanfic challenge

    C'est sympa comme début d'histoire, mais ça va mettre le zbeul dans ASoIaF (plus que dans HP) ! Je serais plus parti sur Charlie Weasley (c'est bien lui le Weasley spécialiste en dragons ?) qui se retrouve quelque part en Easteros après que... disons Ron, sous l'insistence de Harry, ait activé...
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    Hardcore Mmorpg

    Hey! I don't have ideas, but I do read two series by the same author on RR : the butcher of Gadobhra and Tunnel Rat. The first series is about players who got shitty classes to work in-game for megacorps and then exploit any loophole that they find. You'll find all of it on RR. The second...
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