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Higher-production works should of course have little chibi pictures of characters as they walk, fight, eat, and so forth.

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If they even put themselves out that much instead of calling him "Big Lord" or some such. You might not even know they're talking about a god if they start up a conversation about it. Ridiculous.

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The captain's job will of course to be handsome and invite people to dinner. It's not like there will be much else to do in space. "Captain, we had to wake you! Something came up!" Nothing will come up.

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If you're wondering what kind of circle of mages would develop such a thing, probably one with access to the internet, to wit, time-travelers. Whether they're traveling forward or backward is beyond me to say.

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People living in space colonies will of course use a little star for the same purpose. Far from being a harbinger of intra-solar war, tensions will be relieved by the existence of these points around which local pride can coalesce harmlessly.

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Similarly, while you could adjust the level or XP by the age of the candidate, why shouldn't age be an advantage? Unless there are age-based stat penalties, which there probably are. That means we have to consider stats etc. as well, making this an impossible calculation. Considering all this, it's no wonder everything in politics comes down to a fight in the end.

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That's 33% over $90, of course. The only way to get people buying non-ebooks is to make them premium items. Each volume must be printed in the author's blood (cloning will be employed for the purpose).

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That isn't an endorsement of anything else that goes on in Star Wars books. This is, though: People would definitely watch and bet on blob-racing if it existed.

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Now in games it's different so long as you still get XP, which is why Dragon Quest XII can stride confidently.

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In the future that feature can expand to allow people to swap your book with a better one, so please look forward to it.

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Also, definitely be working on a children's book.

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"But surely those unreasonable double weapons, which are silly on their own, won't be cool if dual-wielded!" Wrong. They will be four times as cool as a single normal weapon. Coolness math resists all efforts to complicate it.

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As for cubits, well, they sound related to geometry and thus are better ignored. We have to keep things simple and heroic.

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As for the body part, that's flexible too, but ideally it should have or be able to produce a face in order to exclaim, "No! That's impossible!" when everything goes just the way we know it will.

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But then when you try to claim your coupon, you have to answer some questions about the book. The answers are changed regularly for security reasons. This process may sound like a hassle, but do you want people to read more or not? What do you mean, "not particularly?" Well, yeah, I guess, when you put it that way.

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Phoenikes also say "phoenix," but a lot else is different. For instance, they say "pop" and "bubbler."

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A few of those entries will need to be altered in certain settings. For instance, in a far-future interplanetary milieu, the judge may have invented the space piano.

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I thought about having it be a status symbol, but the problem with that is soon people with unquestionably high status would write poorly on purpose to show off. We' be back where we are now within a few generations. Here's another suggestion though: Genetic engineering.

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You can, if you're being needlessly thorough, add in whether he can spell "questionnaire" without looking it up. I admit that I cannot. Hey, there's another question for the list. You see how it is. Pointless questions proliferate while the pointed go unaddressed.

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The state of suffering from excessive dark spew will be called spewganza, and the sufferer will be referred to as a spewganzatic.