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The funny part is that this is based on two quests and yet in terms of plot, it commandeered the vehicle and drove it off the road through a cornfield and robbed Fort Knox. How much relation is there to the actual source material?

Seriously fun to read though! I actually think I prefer this to the Danmachi one, and that one's pretty good...
 
Alivaril said:
The moral of the story here is that Taylor built an over-the-top haunted underground complex in her dreams – complete with a variety of different attractions – and it turned into a nightmare complex in reality.
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So you're basically saying that Dreamer/Taylor has pretty much made/reality warped by all accounts, a "Shambhala" like nightmare complex in a Battle Harem world? Complete with a cover story amount of 'excuses' that are so cultish (and nightmarish), that it might easily end up being a potential treasure trove for both Antagonists and possibly UN...

Once people possibly get past the horror of;

"You lived in that horrible place?" (Cue therapy over an assumption of a lifetime of blood and conflict.)
 
Kai Merah said:
Just so long as there's no one living where she wants to warp, she could literally dream up a full sized industrial complex with all the bells and whistles. Or a nightmare hive of monsters. Or heck, she could dream up chocolate rivers and giant pools of jellos. So, so OP.
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She probably can warp reality if people are there, like when that goddess threw popcorn at soma from the dream, she could probably also convert people to appear in her dream, although she probably wouldn't want to.
 
I like this fic so much... Iwaited to read about more QA adventures so long. Thank you, author.

Will someone in Academy or army will get theory what Taylor was implanted not with valkytie core but with salvaged Antagonist core?
 
Logos01 said:
Of such statistical modelling errors is made stories such as Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?! - Wikipedia!
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That story is less about statistical modelling errors and more about the protagonist blatantly refusing to listen to the godlike entity responsible for their reincarnation, forcing said entity to rules lawyer the reincarnation request.

IIRC it's noted in the story that if the protagonist had gotten the intent of what they wanted, they'd have died horribly of disease or monster attack or something along those lines before the age of 10; the protagonist really has only their own idiocy to blame for what happened.

Yzarc said:
and the most important and probably option...
4) All of the Above
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If it is 40k then All of the Above is the only option.
 
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Neruz said:
IIRC it's noted in the story that if the protagonist had gotten the intent of what they wanted, they'd have died horribly of disease or monster attack or something along those lines before the age of 10; the protagonist really has only their own idiocy to blame for what happened.
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So the story is about free will then (or lack thereof).
 
The story is about a person wanting to be normal without really thinking about what it means.
And universe saying "No".
But mostly it is, from my fragmentary memory of reading the web novel couple years back, just a fairly basic isekai story about an OP girl and her friends without any harem shenanigans or a world shattering threats.
 
Valmond said:
The story is about a person wanting to be normal without really thinking about what it means.
And universe saying "No".
But mostly it is, from my fragmentary memory of reading the web novel couple years back, just a fairly basic isekai story about an OP girl and her friends without any harem shenanigans or a world shattering threats.
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Yeah, from what I got out of the anime it tried pretty hard to just be slice of life. It's fluff.
 
Valmond said:
The story is about a person wanting to be normal without really thinking about what it means.
And universe saying "No".
But mostly it is, from my fragmentary memory of reading the web novel couple years back, just a fairly basic isekai story about an OP girl and her friends without any harem shenanigans or a world shattering threats.
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That really is a theme in most isekai isn't it? The protagonist becomes super powerful, but hides that power unless forced to use it. I don't know why.
 
Paloneia said:
That really is a theme in most isekai isn't it? The protagonist becomes super powerful, but hides that power unless forced to use it. I don't know why.
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Generic "I'm more powerful than any of you but not more than all of you" combined with "If I show my power people will try to use me" to whatever degree of mixture.

I mean, in this particular story's case it's because she was too special/OP in her past life and fetishized being normal -- and just utterly failed at living her dream because God is apparently a filthy kinkshamer.
 
Logos01 said:
I mean, in this particular story's case it's because she was too special/OP in her past life and fetishized being normal -- and just utterly failed at living her dream because God is apparently a filthy kinkshamer.
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IIRC she assumed she was reincarnating into a world like ours, where being an 'average human' (or more accurately, an 'average first world Japanese human' because that is what she was really thinking of when she said 'average') is actually a pretty good life and is significantly better than like 90% of the rest of the human population in the world.

The god tried to explain to her that she was in fact reincarnating into a medieval high fantasy world where humans were on the bottom of the food chain and the 'average human' died early and died hard, typically because they starved to death, were eaten by monsters or caught some kind of disease, but she was too busy wallowing in that Japanese cultural fetish for 'being normal' and 'not standing out' to pay attention to the god's perfectly reasonable explanation about how she had no fucking clue what she was asking for. The god was bound to her request though, and since he was actually doing her a favor and didn't want to send her into a life of suffering and pain just because of her own stupids, he decided to take an extremely liberal definition of the term 'average' to be the mean of every living creature instead of the intended 'average human' that the protagonist had wanted, so she ended up with the magical and physical ability of the average between the weakest living creature in the new world and the strongest, which turned out to be around half as powerful as an ancient dragon or 3600 times as powerful as the maximum a human was capable of. Which promptly triggered her prior trauma about being special and led to her trying to pretend really, really hard that she was normal, and failing entirely to do so in progressively more exaggerated ways.

All of which could have been avoided if she had just listened to the god's explanation about the world she was reincarnating into instead of blindly assuming that it was exactly like the last one like the spoiled, arrogant brat that she was.


I mean, I dunno about you guys, but if I find myself before a godlike entity offering me a chance at reincarnation, I think I would be inclined to listen to anything it has to say about the nature of said reincarnation, or anything really, because it is a godlike entity and I am not.
 
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ROTH963 said:
She probably can warp reality if people are there, like when that goddess threw popcorn at soma from the dream, she could probably also convert people to appear in her dream, although she probably wouldn't want to.
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Well, I'm not sure about her ability to convert given what Alivaril said.

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What isn't converted are people. Taylor experiences social interactions through QAylor, but that can almost be considered disconnected from Taylor herself; she can't aim that way
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I'm going to assume that means that the popcorn scene was able to happen in INW because
1) It wasn't Taylor throwing the popcorn
2) It happened in the vicinity of QA, who Taylor is connected to.

Of course, this means she might be able to warp the area immediately around QA... Maybe she's doing exactly that to make the physics of Symbie work. Who knows?
 
Kai Merah said:
Well, I'm not sure about her ability to convert given what Alivaril said.
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What I meant is that she probably could but won't want to, which is why they aren't there, there really isn't much of a reason for monsters to be real there and for humans not to, she is unrestricted, the manton limit is artificial.

So she almost definitely could.
Kai Merah said:
Of course, this means she might be able to warp the area immediately around QA... Maybe she's doing exactly that to make the physics of Symbie work. Who knows
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She can probably do it, but Symbie is based on real technology, so if she does it than it is more for black boxing than for need.
 
Kai Merah said:
I'm going to assume that means that the popcorn scene was able to happen in INW because
1) It wasn't Taylor throwing the popcorn
2) It happened in the vicinity of QA, who Taylor is connected to.
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The Fate was aiming at the soma lake: a location in the dream corresponding to a location in reality i.e. soma's workshop. Seems consistent enough, with a bit of license for humourous aiming.
Kai Merah said:
Of course, this means she might be able to warp the area immediately around QA... Maybe she's doing exactly that to make the physics of Symbie work. Who knows?
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This almost has to be the case, since she's the one who's doing the stuff to update the sim/impeller interaction.
 
When they say sentient, they mean sapient right?

Because every animal is sentient, a plant is not sentient and human are the only sapient creature on earth (we are also sentient, but so are dogs).
Kai Merah said:
Taylor must have accounted for that when constructing the cult story. I'm now wondering just how much of that 'automatically choosing lasagna and shielding food' thing was truly reflexive...
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Fucking precogs.
 
ROTH963 said:
When they say sentient, they mean sapient right?

Because every animal is sentient, a plant is not sentient and human are the only sapient creature on earth (we are also sentient, but so are dogs).
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They're talking about what they previously believed to just be an alien robot. One being sentient is a big deal.
 
Valmond said:
What is and is not sapient is an arbitrary line, that will keep getting moved as necessary to make sure humans are only ones who it applies to.
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Do you try to make it sound racist (specisit?)?
Because not accounting for aliens, humans are the only life we know of that have serval abillities other species don't possess, like abstract thought and the power to make and advance technology.
Torgamous said:
They're talking about what they previously believed to just be an alien robot. One being sentient is a big deal.
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This is why it confused me, if they mean sentient, than it could be only emotions or something.

But sapient characteristics is what Symbie might have shown when she hacked their computers independently of QA.
 
ROTH963 said:
Do you try to make it sound racist (specisit?)?
Because not accounting for aliens, humans are the only life we know of that have serval abillities other species don't possess, like abstract thought and the power to make and advance technology.
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I have no problem agreeing that humans are the smartest thing on this planet.
But the line for sapience is fuzzy at best of times.
Tool using? Apes do that.
Tool making? Some birds do that.
Farming? Ants.
Abstract thought? ehh, how would we even know?
Long term planning? Animals do that, no in the over decades scale, but then neither do most people.
Advanced technology? So random tribe of humans with stone age tech does not count? Yeah, no.
 
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ROTH963 said:
Do you try to make it sound racist (specisit?)?
Because not accounting for aliens, humans are the only life we know of that have serval abillities other species don't possess, like abstract thought and the power to make and advance technology.
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Other animals have demonstrated the ability to work with abstract categories, along with other stuff like the mirror test. Like, there's a limit to how sure we can be without a shared language, but there's some solid evidence that abstract thought isn't a particularly human thing. It's assumed to be until proven otherwise, though, because racism (speciesism?) demands that humans not just be a bit better than other animals at things animals do but definitively different.
 
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