Did said absolute mad lad use machine translation probably close to an LLM? Sure. Is the man more of a Tenchi Muyo fan likely just churning through said novels alongside various other LNs alongside the core Tenchi bits? Yup.

Do I give a damn? Look, I own physical copies of all this stuff, and I never thought we'd ever see the day when BGC 2032 Light Novels 1 and 2, the 2012-tastic garbage fire Hard Metal Guardians, and the actual Crisis-Crash bridging audio drama Soldier Blue understandable. I've spamposted a lot of BGC shit here over the years and often worried most of it means next to nothing 'round here, but this is nuuuuuts.

The novels themselves are pretty nuts too: Hard Metal is uniformly trying to rip off Railgun as aggressively as it can without the author having half of Kamachi's creative chutzpah (and boy is a Kamachi Crisis a really amazing image, especially after his high-tech Cute Kunoichis novels rely on playing around with high-tech bullshit in ways that'd suit the series well), LN1 Silent Fanfare works amazingly well as what feels like a standalone episode of Crisis with more of Toshimichi Suzuki's particular fascinations worming their way into the thing, and LN2 Break-Down 48 is more a retelling of the whole story in one novel, a sort of Greatest Hits which can't blend into any main story but does stand on its own somehow. I'm pretty sure the one manga Go Go Sabers will be translated soon, and wouldn't be surprised if we see some effort to translate the B-Clubs to boot.

So cool....

The latest installment of the thrilling Critic series of stories is now available here.

Normally, I use VLC Media Player on all of my devices... but as of yesterday afternoon it's crashing without an error message on my Android cellphone and tablet.

Any suggestions for a replacement? Something that doesn't transmit my usage patterns back to its supplier is essential -- that's private information as far as I'm concerned. Freeware is good.

This themed collection of vignettes is now available on AO3 and on the wiki.

My employer has been going through a couple rounds of staff reductions, and I was one of about twelve that were let go yesterday.

Unlike in the past, though, I am close enough to retirement age that I doubt my prospects for being hired anywhere else are very good, so after consulting with our investment team, I have decided to retire about a year earlier than I had originally planned.

So that makes two of us, now, Rob...

This story can be read on AO3, or on the wiki

Previous thread started here and had gotten into overtime.

(04-12-2026, 12:15 AM)Norgarth Wrote: Beware of Chicken (original Xanxia)
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/...-121051038
and next week is the monthly break.

Frampton Comes Alive was released 50 years ago today (April 10).

One of the core principles of our setting is that fictional characters are actually coming from alternate realities.  Fiction describes another world in the many-worlds theory.  Mostly, we've thought about it in one direction, about people coming in.  But I now ask a question that somehow I've never really asked in a decade:

Who in our own world is likely to be the subject of a fictional story in another universe?  I'd love the forum goers to shout out some names.

I suspect there are three kinds of them.  First, the people who are somewhat obviously ta'veren (i.e. protagonists), like George Washington, who led a very unlikely life.  He may or may not have fired the first shot in the Seven Years War, but he certainly ordered it.  Oh, and he became the first leader of the world's most powerful empire. It's like a heroic myth that just happens to be true; I could see someone "inventing him" as a national myth if he wasn't true.

The next kind is the sort of person who finds themselves in a situation where one might make a movie about them, someone who found themselves at a crossroads of fate and seized the day.  People like Stanislav Petrov, without whom you and I would not be alive today, nor anyone we know.  Being the man who made the decision not to launch sounds like a great social commentary on the risk of nuclear war, very dramatic, and he also exists.  Or perhaps someone made a survival film about going to the Antarctic, and how to get out alive, and named his blorbo Ernest Shackleton.

The third type is going to be people mostly unknown to history.  Someone had a brilliant love affair, someone else pulled off the perfect murder.  The kind of stuff that shows up in lit fic, just ordinary life that's a little bit extraordinary.  I don't expect to find any of those, but Andy Weir in our setting is kind of close.

Any other ideas of who's real life might as well be a story?

Two great horror franchises meet for the first time...

Five Nights at Freddy Krueger's