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Actually, as Arioch himself said, they can and do police thoughts... The text you are quoting does not contain the conclusions you are drawing from it. To say the nedatan as described there police thoughts is like saying that the census or a polling agency does. Arioch does address the idea more di...

Freedom of personal speech doesn't automatically imply a free press as we'd recognize it either, which is an important element of 'free society' as we know it. Seems like Loroi culture wouldn't put as much stock in such a thing anyway, since anything not transmitted by 'word of mouth' is less truste...

Perhaps a distinction is being made here between restrictions imposed by the central military government and those imposed by the civilian castes or cultures. So long as the military keeps the restrictions on who gets in the warrior castes, and the civilians stay in line, they can manage their own a...

Victor, I think the point in your last quoted section is that "you are expected to comply" doesn't mean you are expected to agree . You are told where to march, you can say what you think of that order and say where you think you should march instead, but unless your commanding officer agrees, you s...

Victor_D, where are you getting "Dissenters opposing this system are clearly treated as criminals"? From how I've read Arioch's statements in this thread, vocal dissent is tolerated, disobedience isn't, especially in the military castes. You can say a policy is dumb or wrong, but if you're assigned ...

For Tempo, I don't know any intel folks personally, and if judging by pop culture understanding of historical/real figures or by fiction I'd think only a very few are sadists. Hardened generally yes, prone to abusing power perhaps yes, but sadism is something separate and quite a leap. For Fireblade...

It's easy enough to reconcile by saying that the Soian empire originated outside of the scope of modern civilization, and the ancestral homeworld is yet to be rediscovered.

Well, less glibly, if the Loroi want to take Alex apart ASAP there's not going to be much story unless a new third party with completely unprecedented tech pops in to save him here shortly. There are no signs I'm aware of that Tempo is sadistic, there are no signs that the guards with him are trigge...

That brings me to an interesting question that I can't believe hasn't been asked but that I can't find a set of search terms to manageable turn up. Do the various Soia-Liron species have notable overlap in diet? I know the insider says they share biochemistry, but I share a lot of biochemistry with ...

Entity2636, all I can say is that I'm not sure you and I are reading the same comic.

At least now we know one of the reasons it was “unavoidable” that Alex be kept in confinement away from the crew during wartime. For morale reasons. Of course this assumes that Loroi women are exactly like human men. I don't think that's a safe assumption. I'm not sure where, if anywhere, the word ...

Patreon decided to not do that. There was a lot of outcry about the plans, at least half the creators I follow were talking about investigating other platforms. Guess enough noise was made overall.

My understanding from various creators I follow talking about it is that after this change the charges won't be one consolidated thing every month. From then on everyone will be charged monthly on the anniversary of their pledges, to eliminate certain abuse cases. Less consolidated billing leads to ...

I'm not a conlanger, but I've occasionally wanted to be, and I sprung for vulgarlang out of curiosity a few weeks ago. It seems to lack a lot of features I'd really want out such a tool, like being able to edit your input dictionary or edit the output, or spit out data in different formats. I didn't...

I'm having a hard time reading this, and I think part of it is the presentation. You've got a lot of run-on sentences, and a lot of excessive use of commas. On top of that, I think you've broken up your paragraphs too much. The prose also gets a little purple for my taste in places. There's also som...

I don't know if there's enough consistent tech numbers anywhere to say for sure, but my rough estimation is that the UNSC is on a very similar tech footing to TCA. That means they have two key advantages that the TCA does not, oneis a significantly broader industrial base and deeper militarization, ...

It occurred to me recently that the "seems to be" construction of polite Loroi speech has the feature of allowing the speaker to be contradicted by someone else without it being directly interpertable as being an accusation of falsehood. I wonder if that's an intentional aspect of it, or Arioch's pa...

Starfyre's story wasn't an Outsider fanfic, but rather something he was working on before finding Outsider that had quite a few similarities to it by chance.

Frankly right now I can't think of any game I'm significantly anticipating, besides Path of Exile: Fall of Oriath, which is an expansion rather than a really new game. Besides that, none of the things with big hype machines are things I really get hyped for.

The Insider goes into some detail on those considerations, and the various telekinetics variations don't have to worry about where to put the reaction to whatever it is they're doing. A regular telekinetic doesn't have to push off anything, or off themself, a pyro doesn't have to get the heat from a...