u/Nekomachus

I may be misunderstanding what's going on, but from my understanding, [Tattletale] told Vicky that she deserved to be raped for being too mean to Nazis and using Amy to make it right so she wouldn't feel good in her last moments. She later says she bluffed Cradle's shard's clairaudience, but I don't understand what the bluff was and don't know if that was part of it.

That sounds like a stupid complaint, but hear me out.

I'm not complaining about going to a Chinese restaurant and there being Chinese food, more so about going to a Chinese restaurant and there only being egg foo yong, just the one dish. I try to bring up other stuff, but both parties of conversation loop back to furry topics. This is both my fault, but also for trying to fulfill expectations of what should be brought up, and I wonder if that's happening on the other end too.

I'm worried I'm making furry friends instead of friends that are furries, and I worry the same for them. When I bring up programming to programmer friends, it's like trivia that they happen to have elite ball knowledge about.

What was Swansong charged for when she plead guilty?

Was she charged for what the original Boston crime lord and Slaughterhouse Nine member did?

We know that Cauldron made use of Bonesaw's control switch, because Chuckles was there helping on Gold Morning, which means the other remaining S9K were helping, which meant they were subject to the amnesty. Did the clone (and the other clone) do things after the amnesty?

I have been to that city multiple times and would always pass the Taco Bell near the airport ever since it opened. I never travel alone, and don't like being by myself, so it would be a hard sell to waste one of my partners' meals on a trip to a fast food restaurant, except Pollo Campero since that's not here in the US and McCafe because an afternoon coffee doesn't count. I'm not even curious about the entrees, just the idea of the chocodilla which I have always seen plastered on the outside window.

> Gray Boy is the only person who may be able to touch her, but that doesn’t mean Bonesaw can’t give him a few things.

This quote leaves a lot to the imagination, and fortunately we don't have to see it in the story. I'd still like to think about it.

I left a comment somewhere else and that sparked my imagination, but only in a very dull way. What could Riley give Nicholas that he could carry in that wouldn't be an implant which would get reset away? A glove that sets every neuron to "max"?

You get to exist as two bodies, with your perceptions and control going over both bodies. There is only one problem: you don't automatically have the coordination to control two bodies. You have two brains to process information on, but you aren't used to dual-core processing yet. At first, seeing out of four eyes will be very disorienting, even if you leave one body laying in bed doing nothing if you don't close that one's eyes, and even walking two bodies in synchronized steps will take mental effort initially. Learning to control two bodies will be like learning to write with your feet. If either body dies, a new body will spawn next to the remaining one in the condition the remaining one was in. When you become coordinated enough, then you will be able to merge and branch yourself at will instead of automatically. This is uncharted territory, so you don't know how long it will take, but there is a guarantee that you can learn how to do it.

By virtue of living across two quantum-entangled bodies, you cannot be damaged when you are not being seen by anyone but yourself (the pop culture understanding of "observed"). Both eyes and live-feed cameras count for observation. Assuming you sleep by yourself or with someone who sleeps with their eyes closed, you're going to be aging a lot slower. You can skydive with a burlap bag. You can eat all the cheese you like at 3 AM without getting fat unless there is a voyeur peeking through your window. The definition of "damage" is extremely liberal. Positive changes such as putting on muscle can happen. You get this part of the power immediately.

Do you take this power? If you do not, you get a sandwich for your troubles. Barring dietary restrictions, it's a meatball sub with cheese.

I read it a year ago, so pardon my memory, but I just got reminded of it and thought there was something stupid about the game's design in-universe. Not the fact that both cups were poisoned; misdirection is common in puzzles. It's that the Gordian-knot-slice that Wiggin chose by killing the giant was "sociopathic" or whatever word his spying handlers used when discussing it to each other. If that workaround wasn't meant to be a solution that the intended demographic of the game would come up with, and there was a lot more game after that gate, which meant that a solution did exist (unless it was unusually finished cut content?), what was the solution supposed to be?

I've read a few S9 perspective fics, that one altpower, and even a fic from Nicholas' perspective as the single splash of color in his world of gray, but I haven't seen many alternate ways of resolving the canon fight that happened in that trapped alley, nor main characters suffering the fate he gives, nor fics having that as the dark, dark end for the protagonist.

Could any of the hax that shards have access to, for example, create a universal debugger program that predicts when an arbitrary program will terminate?

Supertasks are out of the question, since the whole deal with >!Entities!< is that they don't have the infinite to work with, just the large. I know that precog wouldn't help, because that is just calculations doen rapidly and in real-time, but Phir Se and Epoch (if not Perdition and Gray Boy) are genuine time manipulators; would time travel help?

What other computation problems could be made tractable through shard assistance?

Master (Striker), or Master/Trump (Striker), or plainly a Nine Trump?

If it makes a difference, I'm thinking of summoned minions a la Spree that are zombies-lite that spread through touch.

If Clockblocker, Panacea, Scapegoat, and Teacher stood in a circle and used their two arms and one leg each to touch each other (foot-over-foot to neighbor then Mexican standoff arms), each touching the other three at the same time, who would be able to pass their effects off the fastest?

Clockblocker is trying to freeze the other three to prevent them from doing anything to him.

Panacea is trying to make whatever change is fastest to prevent them from doing anything to her.

Scapegoat having to page through realities manually is probably going to lose the race, but he's trying to bail out whatever is being done to him to the other two.

Teacher is trying to Master them to prevent them from doing anything to him.

Worm is a whole sandbox, and so little of it is touched in fanfic. I hate it when the E88 is used as a shorthand for Nazis— because it should be the larger threat, the Gesellschaft! I want to see an African warlord who isn't Murder Night. I want to see what's going on for citizens in China under those 40 or so Yangban. I want to see a Garama cape do anything.

I don't ever want to see Taylor again. I want that bug squashed and banished to Aleph!

(jk tay tay i <3 u)

Specifically Jamie, Riley, or Ciara, though I'd even go for a Friendbringer fic so long as it doesn't involve Taylor. No Jack fics; I've read all the interesting ones already.

Say someone gets into a fight with an abuser they depend on, or a powerfully connected person, or you just wanted to rough someone up and they outright die (since shards are amoral, I don't want to use all good examples). If stress climaxes not during a fight, but right after, from the fear of retaliation or arrest, how would that shape the ensuing trigger?

I don't know why they are called stewards, but this is a pool.

Sadly there does not seem to be a way to post a poll here, so I will just ask en forma de discusión.

I'm having a major neurodivergence failure at the social interactions in 4.4. What bothered the teacher about Kenzie's all-nighter, and what did Houndstooth say that was so offensive to Ashley?

This is an important real-life question to me, because I make neurotypicals upset easily, and Ashley in that scene reminds me of the way people react to the things I say. "Subnormal human" as she puts it in the next chapter.