Elbowsnapper

Author of Reroll, Contention, Systematic Soul Sorting, Seeker's Precept and more.

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@morallawwithin HPMOR is Enders Game if the aliens were Voldemort and Ender Wiggin was Harry Potter. It's always interesting to read about a character twisted away from empathy by the ruthlessness of necessity.

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You can read the Reroll trilogy here: https://t.co/LZCpJhIWv7

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The strongest hero in the world is dead. Millions have been killed. Setalite City burns. The architect of the slaughter goes entirely unnoticed by the world. And then Loren Parker wakes up in his bed, two days before the explosion, alive, unharmed and whole. Reroll.

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The biggest mistake in Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad is something that everyone seems to have missed entirely. Page 577. Line number 840. Directly after Achilles sets out the prizes for the archery.

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@RBlack134 @Geniasis @Promiseishim I'll repeat the question since you avoided answering it directly, exactly as I predicted.

What is more likely between option A and option B?

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@gyphoe @Promiseishim Empathy is great in moderation, but not while the fate of the world is on the line. Drop him off outside the city and then get back to work. The Deep can think about what he's done on the walk back to headquarters.

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@JaredHanes3 @Promiseishim This is the optimal strategy for sure. There is no reason to waste precious minutes trying to convert, or contend with a random mob while everyone else is fighting for their lives against the boss monster. Drop him off, and get back to work.

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@BuntyHunterJayP @Promiseishim Asked and answered. https://t.co/GjGRtCrcFL

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@Geniasis @Promiseishim I didn't say he becomes 'stronger' in the water. I'm saying he becomes far more dangerous. The Deep controls sealife, can swim fast, and breath under water. On land he can't use any of those powers effectively. Bringing him to an ocean arena raises his threat level significantly.

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@RBlack134 @Geniasis @Promiseishim Is the probability of knocking Starlight into the ocean while fighting on the beach greater, or smaller than the probability of it happening in the middle of a city? If you can't answer this directly, i would be very concerned that you're allowed to navigate the imternet unaided.

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@BuntyHunterJayP @Promiseishim The best answer I've seen so far. Though this is beyond reckless of Starlight, considering there are much higher things at stake occuring. A more sensible strategy would be to throw The Deep somewhere outside the city, then fly back and help contain Homelander.

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@Ghoul_X23 @Promiseishim The Doylist answer is almost certainly this. How does The Deep travel from the white house to the ocean, in time for an ironic death? Have Starlight carry him there. The Watsonian answer of how Starlight, the character could justify such a stupid strategy is immersion breaking.

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@chrisperguidi @Promiseishim That doesn't make sense. Starlight was shown trying to convince him to switch sides and grow as a person. Humiliating him can't be an initial motivating factor to take him to the ocean, though he was certainly humiliated at the end.

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@Geniasis @Promiseishim I didn't say he becomes 'stronger' in the water. I'm saying he becomes far more dangerous. The Deep controls sealife, can swim fast, and breath under water. On land he can't use any of those powers effectively. Bringing him to an ocean arena raises his threat level significantly.

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Vanity is an alternative route. They could have had Homelander become disgusted by the loss of his 'divinity' and subsequently his identity as a 'superior' being to the 'lesser' humanity. Have him go insane and attempt to permanently disfigure himself, ruining his own face, or appearance in order to distance his current, fallen, human self from the godlike self-image he held before.

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@RealEmirHan The comments on this post are so dramatic. Everyone was keen to sit through the dozens of people getting slaughtered, violently, and in droves, but its the flirty joke at the very end that you just can't stomache?

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@trueliberal1848 I'd settle for a passion-filled "I have come!" so long as it's immediately followed by half a dozen sweat-droplet emojis.

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@aussiExau Hey buddy. Reroll: Falling is the first book of a three part series that follows Loren dealing with the conspiracy. All three are complete, so if this one catches your interest feel free to check them out.

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The strongest hero in the world is dead. Millions have been killed. Setalite City burns. The architect of the slaughter goes entirely unnoticed by the world. And then Loren Parker wakes up in his bed, two days before the explosion, alive, unharmed and whole. Reroll.

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@allTheYud @US_Macauley @AndyMasley Maybe there were options that appeared less terrible to the sensibilities of the average Dune citizen. The discarded options are being filtered through the lens of what Paul and Leto personally find tolerable or intolerable after all. Not that it gets us any closer to an answer.

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@SarathChandraK_ @ick_real You've unlocked a new title 'The Wordcrafter.'