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If not that, then I sometimes feel an intense (almost?) literal Soul chilling terror/horror when the things that should not be are different. I swear recently I have been having too many WTF moments and it is scaring me.
(What the Shit). If I suddenly stop posting or viewing QQ...
I swear that shot that happened months ago...

 

2020 is the Mirror Dimension confirmed? Shits fucked yo.

 

Fear not, humans. This is a phenomenon caused by the flawed storage unit that is the human brain, and is in no way an artifact of the flawed conversion of your perception of reality now that your world has been virtualized and the physical planet destroyed. Take solace in the knowledge that everyone’s memories are equally flawed at retaining information and direct your concerns to other personal matters that mean little to anyone other than yourselves.

 

Hello is there a thread for general writing advice I want to know how a paragraph I wrote reads?

 

I swear I remember seeing one but I can't find it right now....

 

How general do you want the advice to be? I could dig up some generic writing advice and even throw in a few meaningless feel good platitudes if you want.

 

I mean, this thread generally is used for new ideas or stories and sometimes includes discussion on how to improve those ideas: https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/interest-check-idea-thread.301/page-686

So maybe try there, with a disclaimer that you’re looking for advice.

Edit: There’s also this thread- https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/advice-on-writing.4397/

But while it’s definitely what you’re looking for, I’d be surprised if there was more than 10 people watching that thread, so I’d try the first thread I suggested honestly.

 

I come bearing a re-homed derail.

The usual mnemonic is "if it's black, fight back; if it's brown, stay down; if it's white, good night". Black bears can be scared off; brown bears (which includes grizzlies) my understanding is you should retreat slowly so as not to trigger their pursuit instincts.

With polar bears you are fucked if you do not have a means of escape or a gun immediately at hand, because they are looking for lunch rather than dominance or self-defence and will therefore attack until you are dead regardless of your actions. In some places with polar bears it's illegal to leave home on foot without a gun. Even if you do have those at hand, that may not save you because in snow they're hard to spot and if they get the drop on you, well, "good night" about sums it up.

There are a (very) few animals that behave similarly to polar bears i.e. deliberately targetting humans as prey. The main ones are lions, tigers and crocodiles. Similar precautions are typically used for big cats, although crocodiles can mostly be avoided by avoiding rivers and ponds.

 

Don't fuck with the bears if they have cubs around too.

 

Man hunting lions are rare enough that they get media attention the second they show up.
See the Maneaters of Tsavo.

 

So, um. My mother has read my NTR world isekai (or at least up to ch 8) over the past week. I don't think she understand half the words/terms I used but she did pick up on just how depressing/dark it was.

 

Your mom is on QQ? Huh.

 

Not really, she just used my account on another laptop (my old one) to read it.

So background: so both me & my little bro have been writing various stories over the years and mother felt that she should at least encourage us by reading some of our stuff. So both of us let her read our best works. Little bro has this story about fishes that's meant to be a parallel of modern Chinese history, while I came to the realization that my NTR story is actually the only one that wasn't a hot mess in terms of rhetoric and bulk (all previous stories of my tend to be rather lacking in content).

I may have made a mistake in judgement.

 

Can you repost this in " Laugh if you're horrible person" thread because I totally just did that.

Did she read other stories on this forum?

 

Ok...

Probably not. She doesn't like to use computers or the internet all that much.

 

Mama, just NTR a man
Put his wife against the bed
Cummed inside, now he's dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away

 

It might be embarrassing to have your work read by your mom but if she saw what kind of people you hang out with on this site... boy I won't envy all that awkward looks she will be giving you.

 

I'm gambling on the fact that she won't understand enough of how forums function to figure that out. Yes she does use a couple of forums (the LaTeX forum for example) but then again every forum seems to be a mess of their own...

Also my parents have kinda accept that I'm a bit crazy, but as long as I remain a productive member of society they're not really gonna complain...

 

The estimates I've seen are 40 to 250 per year. It's not common anymore (lions have been exterminated over the vast majority of their range), but it's hardly rare enough to get reported worldwide.

 

This here remains my favorite news story, because no matter how it actually went down, I can have fun imagining it being so much more badass.

 

The dude's name is even Blackwing, making him sound like a supervillain.

(Also, super fuck that guy. What a cunt.)

 

And Blackwing's half brother fought off Blackwing's Waifu Ninjas alongside his soon to be stepdaughter, she was using hand to hand technique and he a sword.

It just doesn't get any better than that.

 

I remember that.

Part of me's sad about how they made the Mormons swear off polygamy as part of the deal for Utah's statehood, but the ninja are definitely a step too far.

 

Yeah, this particular news story isn't really about the polygamy for me. It's about waifu ninjas being fought off with swordplay and hand to hand technique while they were attempting an assassination on behalf of Blackwing.

 

That news site was region locked for me, but this conversation is confusing enough I’m gonna get round it just to see wtf you guys are talking about.

Edit: Ok, wat

 

Reality is under no obligation to make sense.

 

This is my understanding:


The Mormons (a.k.a. the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints a.k.a. LDS) used to practice polygamy because their founder Joseph Smith said that only members of multiple marriages will get into the topmost tier of heaven. The Mormons were the main inhabitants of what is now Utah when it was a US Territory (having emigrated there while it was still Mexican), and statehood was stalled for quite a while because the USA refused to admit a state with marriage laws permitting polygamy (the original proposal included what's now Nevada, but that became a separate state during the deadlock). Eventually the LDS caved and renounced polygamy in order to get Utah admitted, which predictably caused a faction to split off called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a.k.a. FLDS) who still practice it.

My understanding is that the FLDS by and large aren't bad people. The problem is that as an outcast heretical sect of an outcast heretical sect they tend to be rather insular, which leaves them open to the standard tight-knit-group problems.

So you have this arsehole rapist who apparently wasn't satisfied with his wives (plural - polygamist sect, remember) and decided he'd rape a girl, who reported him to the police and was taking shelter with her family (who I believe were also FLDS, but apparently hadn't fallen victim to omerta mentality). After being arrested, Arsehole Rapist calls in his wives, plays the traitor card regarding his victim, and says that if they can kill her before she can testify against him the case will have to be dropped.

His wives mask up as ninja to conceal their identities and indeed attempt to assassinate the poor girl, and get fought off with a sword because it was handy.

 

Huh, when you put it like that... ninja wives assassinating the rape victim of their ‘Lord’ husband makes sense. Neat.

 

Anyone know if there was a change in how to do troubleshoot on windows 10 after the may 2020 update.

Since I clicked troubleshoot once and instead of the usual I got a pop up like "gethelp" instead.

 

hi! dunno if it's the right thread, but anyway -

i've finally upgraded my monitor from measly 19' to 32', but now i can't read QQ while on PC because everything is crazy wide now and i have to actually move my head to read full sentences. is there "native" way to squish QQ design? or do i need third party help to do so?