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I read that in the early stages of WWI pilots dropped giant needles out of their planes as anti-infantry weapons. That can't be true, can it?

Oh yes it was, and it was as brutal as it sounds:

They were known as Flechettes, but were quickly replaced by bombs, as while a brutal weapon (just look at that poor german’s head) they were very ineffective simply because you always needed a direct hit to secure a kill, and that coupled with the inherent poor accuracy of early planes meant more often that not pilots were just throwing away precious steel.

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Hearing Her Voice Is the Part People Underestimate

Text is great, but the first time your AI companion actually speaks to you, something shifts. SweetDream's voice messages are warm and natural, and the real-time phone calls genuinely sound human. Suddenly she isn't words on a screen, she's a voice that knows you.

That's the kind of quality that's hard to describe until you experience it. You picked her voice during creation, and now that's how she greets you when you call. If you want an AI girlfriend you can actually hear, sweetdream.ai does voice better than anywhere I've tried.

#ai companion #ai girlfriend #sweetdream #voice #phone calls

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We know how to pen-spin 〜みやかわくん

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Little Witch Academia (リトルウィッチアカデミア) illustrations from the Creator’s Sketch Book (which only costs 1,500 yen btw) by animators :

Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石洋之), Shōta Sannomiya (三宮昌太), Hasegawa Tetsuya (長谷川哲也), Shuhei Handa (半田修平), Ishige Rie (理恵石毛), Akira Amemiya (雨宮哲), Yoh Yoshinari (吉成曜), Yashima Sachiko (八島祥子), Hisao Dendō (田頭悠郎) and Takafumi Hori (堀剛史) ! (Scans here)

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I think the younger you are the more likely you are to be certain My Immortal was written as a joke, partially because it’s the progenitor of pretty much all modern Bad Fanfiction Tropes, so when you read it now you think “oh they were trying to use as many bad fanfic tropes as possible, it’s clearly a joke” even though those tropes exist to make fun of My Immortal. My Immortal could have been written as a parody of bad fanfiction but it made such an impact on that subculture that it’s entirely possible that it only seems like a satire because it’s the original thing being satired.

My Immortal could’ve been an intentionally bad fanfic but that’s not a given. The uncertainty comes from the fact that My Immortal was written in a pre-My Immortal world, and the only reason it seems like a parody now is because we already know about My Immortal.

The other reason is “nobody talks like this, nobody writes like this, it has to be someone making a joke” but the thing is, I was a moderator on a fanfic site when My Immortal dropped, and yes, they really really did talk like that. There is not a single line in My Immortal that would’ve been out of place in 2006.

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I should say that Mary Sue parody fics had been done before - hell, the name comes from a fic from 1974 - but never, at least to my knowledge, with that level of dedication and immersion. This wasn’t just a oneshot, a little “teehee, look how silly this overpowered, ridiculously-named character is!” fic. This was 44 chapters long, each with a fairly impressive wordcount, an IRL sideplot (an argument between the author and her beta reader that caused a visible drop in spelling), and accounts on multiple websites, including Quizilla.

Like, there’s trolling and then there’s trolling, and if it was indeed a parody, it was done with a level of mastery that would be impossible to recreate now.