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Tactical | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +3 
 >dark fantasy / low fantasy novel
>character gets his arm blown off
>immediately lampshaded by the doctor offering to get him a prosthetic that makes him "good as new, if not better"

American writing... has fallen...

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Tactical | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 what was the point of getting rid of the character's arm if it means FUCK ALL

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Spurg | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @Tactical westernized media isn't capable of presenting a main character who isn't perfect or with significant flaws. Welcome to the world of having all of your writing classes taught and peddled by women.
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Springtime for Zeon (Woggy Mk II) | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Honorable mention to thunderbolt, where they took amputees and jack their nervous system into the zakus…but accurately show that even space age limbs are worthless without it

https://youtu.be/TSxnv50wluM?feature=shared&t=31
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Mister Coonster | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 >Western writers taking their own setting seriously challenge (difficulty: impossible)