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Some might protest that making convicts live inside a whale is essentially a death sentence. Those people go in the whale.

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The ideal fantasy plot: A guy gets into 3-5 fights. He loses either the first or second.

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You will of course be watching somebody else play Super Robot Wars. That's how things are done these days.

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And Artifact, but you know. We all know.

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In general, nautical terms suffer from the fact that sailors customarily refuse to line up spelling and pronunciation. "Gunwale" should mean one thing, "gunnel" another, and both should be cool. Well, cool-adjacent; "gunnel" sounds like a low-ranking criminal thug.

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Unfortunately for them, by then we'll have the technology to detect ghosts and subsequently demand fares.

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We won't be able to ask them to rate poets, though. Any intelligent species capable of navigating the well-starred plain will have long since ditched poetry.

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And if they have a thousand distinct terms like terrestrial conveyances do, all the better. Quick, which one's a brougham? That's an easier one, as you can tell because I remembered the name.

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And the upper crust will live outside the main superstructure too so it's harder to visit them, they get better views, and their debauchery is harder to interrupt? Unbelievable. The future really is something.

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Just because something doesn't get much current discussion doesn't mean it can't curse you. This is general life advice.

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Specifically, all intellectual property will be protected for twelve years except for Pac-Man, which is protected in perpuity and the penalty for infringement is exile from the solar system. Twelve years is a highly scientific number which reminds us of clocks, which are ticking as we wait for a space monster.

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As far as I can tell, here are the appropriate occasions to use asyndeton:
Never
I'm open to persuasion.

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Maybe they have such integrity that they refuse to find terrestrial substitutes for ingredients which will be discovered only in the distant future.

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We used to go to game shrines for hints and tips, but now we watch a video. When will this diminution of the sacred end?

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That aside, the future will almost certainly have either trains or the apocalypse. Possibly both.

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Were dozens of dog breeds developed so that dog-specialized shapeshifters could drive up their counts? Yes.

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The conventional method is to have uninvolved characters comment on how exciting the action is, but I'm not sure that does anything but pad. By "action sequence" we here mean "card duel" of course. Have you ever gone back and watched Yu-Gi-Oh? It's amazingly fast-paced till the ratings came in, and then began the age of milking.

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I never thought about this before, but Shadowverse is a terrible name. Then again, if I never thought of it, I suppose it's fine. Economists call that "revealed acceptance."

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Foot enthusiasts, on the other hand, wait for everyone else to have all the feet. They'll never prosper no matter how far technology advances.

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Axes work great though. They don't even have to be empyreal axes or enchanted in any way.