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Summary: A fencer without powers aims to showcase how far humanity's swordsmanship can go against swordsmanship created by magic.

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The Referee

There were no kings in the Empire—only City Lords in charge of managing provinces. Yet, there was a King in Cresna now and his name was Valle. A Declaration of Independence had just occurred and been transmitted across Imperial lands.

A rebellion was a serious business for most.

I could not, despite my best efforts, care about it.

“THE SCORE IS 40-36! THE NEW BLADEWOLVES LEAD!” I thundered. At this, both teams turned to face me. “The ghosts of the past are gone! Throw away thoughts of the future—for now, you must steel your resolve and march forward!”

Needless warning, that one. Both fencers were burning up with excitement for their next match.

The Clash of Real and Fake was to begin.

From one side of the piste, Duartes-Carr stretched, a sort of calmness about him. He cared little for the Echoes of the Past that had transpired a short while ago. Rebellions didn’t interest him either; there was no question in his being that Johan would stop such rebellion from ever taking place. Nothing about those extraordinary events that had occurred before him mattered to him.

There was only one thing he took away from that match.

“We’re behind by four points,” Duartes-Carr noted dryly. “Looks like I’ll be fencing from behind.”

Max nodded. “So it does.” By now Max was more than aware that the man beside him was not his old friend, but rather an abomination created mixing Carr’s memories and Duartes’ body. Still, the man was a competitor above all. “Ah, well…it could be worse. Individual legs last longer than on Earth, so you have the time to work on this. Take it easy, you can win.”

Duartes-Carr raised an eyebrow at this. “Not gonna lie, I would have thought you would be leaving me like everybody else.” He hadn’t shown, but Katherine’s change of sides—and the Executioner’s to a lesser degree—had wounded him.

“You’re my teammate,” Max replied calmly. “I don’t care if you’re not my friend. I don’t care if you’re not the real Carr. I don’t care if you’re the Devil himself, and trust me I have met the damned man. So long as you’re on my team, I’ll be behind you until the very end.”

“Is that so?” Duartes-Carr sounded genuinely touched. “You rea

What’s your universes villain group named and why do they team up? In my universe I have The Four, the children of the city’s crime families.

At the height of the Vietnam War, the US army and the Department of STAAR (A covert government agency) began issuing experimental drugs and serums to medical patients and monitoring the effects in hopes that they could recreate a super team they once had. The experiments showed no immediate results in the subjects, and the project was abandoned after the fall of Saigon. However, while those who’d been given the treatment went on to live their lives and remain unaffected by the experiments, their descendants would go on to have traits manifest generations later.

As kids The Four were brought together by their parents so that their Familias (the crime families in the city) could broker a truce between them. In time, The Four grew up to become the snobbish rich kids and bullies at their school, the kind of kids who rules seemingly don’t apply to and no one wants to mess with. Already a group of brats with low morals, once their powers began to manifest in their teenage years, The Four sought to not only use their abilities to tear down their parents empires, but to take them over for their own.

Zack Smith / Voltage : Has the power of electricity, can generate and project lightning bolts, can use static electricity in the air to make himself float/fly, has the ability to change his physical form into an energy current that he can use to disappear/reappear like teleportation as well as travel through the air in the form of a blinding bolt of lightning. Zack can also travel through wires, electrical sockets, power outlets, telephone lines, computers, and even cell phones.

Robert Smith / Lava Man : A human volcano, Robert has the power to generate and coat himself in Obsidian armor that’s as razor sharp as it is nearly impossible to break, can emit pyroclastic cloud bursts that incinerate and suffocate everything in their path, can heat metal around him into molten states that he can then throw at enemies, and is even capable of causing small yet powerful seismic quakes by stomping his feet.

Moses Barrios / Steelex : The quote on quote “weakest” member of the team, Moses is no one to take lightly. Acting as the teams heavy, Steelex as he prefers to be called, is a brute with colossus (X-MEN) powers and a short fuse who is completely bullet proof, nearly impervious to pain, and can match strength with an

Based on the title I guess you can say this DD is for all the perverted apes out here

I thought about not writing anymore DD's, but due to the presence of u/joeskunk's massive big dongus brain I decided it would be a nice challenge to race him to multibagger call count 10 in the r/SqueezePlays subreddit. So with that being said, I decided to whip out a quick DD before this thing possibly heads to the moon.

Usually it takes me 10+ hours to write a proper DD since I usually go more in depth + analysis, but since this is just a quick DD, I'll be writing this in about 2 hours with the help of some friends. As a result, there may be some holes in my thesis, so tread carefully.

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Disclaimer

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"But how did the Consortium become a target in the first place?"

"Ah, I see - you'll need more context," said Alexandra, "Back to basics then. Following the Second Cyber Crisis, there was a significant period of the time from the mid-2400s to the early 2600s where the entire Sol system was dominated by corporations. During the rush to Mars in the 2300s a claim system had been set up and legally recognised which massively favoured corporate interests - it pretty much said that if you had the orbital infrastructure to enforce a claim, it was yours, and with most of Earth's space infrastructure in private ownership after the Second Cyber Crisis, the conditions were perfect for a mad corporate rush to space. The assets of the solar system were divided over a number of decades, with corporations staking claims over large swathes of resources and planets, even if they had no ability to exploit them at the time - after all, what was an orbital station or small fleet of ships worth compared to the possible future value of an entire planet or moon?"

"Surely people resisted?" I said.

"That was much harder than you might think. The situation on Earth was much the same - the average private citizen owned very little, constantly paying off their debts to the corporations. It meant that troublemakers were effectively cut off, or for the worst Multispheres, disappeared. Most resistance came from other Multispheres - they were not averse to warring for control of resources. That being said where corporate influence was a little more tenuous some private citizens did try to strike back - the Jovian Pirates are probably the best example. But to really give you an idea of what the Multispheres had become, some corporations were even issuing their own currencies, giving them as much political capital as the countries of your own time and making their workers almost entirely dependent on their continued employment to live. That's not something that Crux did, I'd like to think we were better than that. But you can imagine that if you lost your job and were to be evicted from corporate residences on Ganymede, you'd have to take on a hell of a lot of debt to get yourself to somewhere else, and be in a great deal of trouble in the meantime. Simply put, the Multispheres made the monopolies of the centuries prior look positively competitive in comparison."

She shook her head slightly and sighed a little.

"Oh, and if anyone asks I would say that you should ignore whatever Earth

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

24/30 rankers reporting this week. /R/NBA's Power Rankings are published every two weeks which is a bit different from most rankings. Other than that we rank the teams the same way as our competition. If write ups are left blank the team rep decided not to submit. We encourage any user to fill in the blanks in the comment section. Rankings were supposed to be completed prior to yesterday's games...better late than never? We will be looking for 6 new reps between now and next rankings, stay tuned: DET, LAL, MEM, NOP, SAC, and WAS

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I won't be doing that today!

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You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

Here is summary of Juventus news from Italy:

JuventusNews24

Juve press review: sports newspapers front pages - 4 January 2022

03 January 2022 - by JuventusNews24 Editorial Team

Rudiger Juve, the bianconeri sign up for the race for the zero signing! Details

03 January 2022 - by JuventusNews24 Editorial Team

LISTEN Listen to the audio version of the article Rudiger Juve: the Juventus club has inquired about the German defender who is expiring his contract with Chelsea.

The situation Juventus also signed up for the free transfer of Antonio Rudiger.

As reported by Gianluca Di Marzio in the course of L’Originale, on Sky Sport, the Juventus management inquired about the situation of the German defender.

The former Roma is expiring in June and has not yet renewed with Chelsea.

Juventus is at the window.

Latest Juve: Morata towards permanence, Scamacca goal

03 January 2022 - by JuventusNews24 Editorial Team

In the afternoon, in fact, there was a confrontation between Morata, Allegri and Juventus which reaffirmed the player's desire to keep him until the end of the season.

Latest Hours 18.10 - Due to a flu syndrome, Kaio Jorge and Luca Pellegrini did not take part in yesterday’s training for Juve.

Fiorentina is not a small club, but a great team in Italy, which has a tradition, fans, players.

Scamacca has played with Genoa and Sassuolo so far, it's not the same thing, I'd be curious to see him in Juventus.

Unless the same player asks to leave, in fact, the company has no plans to sell him that easily.

Julian Alvarez Juve, new contact with the agent. The latest

03 January 2022 - by JuventusNews24 Editorial Team

Listen to the audio version of the article Julian Alvarez Juve: Manchester United in contact with the agent of the Argentine jewel of River Plate.

Juventus also follows Julian Alvarez, jewel of River Plate in the sights of the Italian and European big names.

Manchester United's pressure is strong on the attacker.

As reported by Alfredo Pedullà, there has been a contact between Hidalgo, the player's agent

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

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Summary: Carr, the genius swordsman without magic began his duel against his copy, a man with all his skills and the willingness to use such magic!

Update Schedule: Monday!

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The Referee

Why are you coming forward when you’re so much slower? Duartes-Carr thought. A second later, shock wore off and he readied himself. No, that’s exactly why you’re coming forward, isn’t it?

What is speed in a fight, pragmatically speaking?

It is the ability to collapse distance quickly. This point has two meanings; the ability to close the distance between yourself and your opponent and the ability to close the distance between your instrument of violence—either your fist or your weapon. In other words, your the speed of your legs and your hands. When outmatching your opponent in either department, you may control the pace of the fight—after all, how can they fight against that which they cannot react to?

How, then, does one neutralize such an advantage?

For the leg speed, one theory—and the most common, instinctive reaction for the uninitiated—is to simply increase the distance between the two. The logic goes thusly: if one fencer can move across a certain distance faster than the other fencer can react, then by increasing the amount of distance the other fencer has to travel the slower fencer can increase the amount of time he has to react.

This logic is at times solid in both sports and in this world, but it falls apart often. It worked in Carr’s duel against Cassius—the latter was faster than Carr, but because of Carr’s intelligent distance management and Cassius’ absurd bullrush he was giving Carr enough time to react.

This was not the case against a competent fencer like Duartes-Carr.

True, if he was trying to cross that absurd distance in one motion he would give Carr enough time to react. But he wasn’t just a master of stats, he was a master at fencing. This meant he knew that the faster fencer should, in response, just approach in two separate tempos. One step to close the distance, and another step to actually execute his movement—this way, the distance he was traveling with his movement would be shortened and his slower opponent would not be given the chance to react.

Thus Carr picked the only other option available

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "