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Post by steve on May 11, 2024 12:20:53 GMT -7
They are going to be using them as models (But... You can never rule out cameo appearances...).
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Post by steve on May 11, 2024 12:30:24 GMT -7
Hi folks. Out of character here just to announce that our half-Romulan, half-Klingon lady storyline is wrapping up soon! I think that this was the longest storyline yet so far (although, admittedly, there's only been three of them).
We've done a Romulan story...
We've done an Orion story...
We're almost done with our "Klingon" story (she's technically half-Klingon and comes from the Romulan-Occupied Zone but... Well, you get the idea)...
There isn't too many different civilizations left, so I guess it's time to reveal that the next storyline is...
The Federation! Yes, we'll be looking at a Federation citizen next.
I hope that everyone has been enjoying the stories so far and I look forward on writing more of them. I even have a fairly good idea of what the next storyline after the Federation is going to be... But that's WAY far into the future! Until then, thanks for reading!
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Post by steve on May 13, 2024 12:59:16 GMT -7
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"I'm never becoming famous ever again."
"Look, there have been bright spots in all of this. For instance, speaking with the scriptwriters on storylines has been enlightening. It's been basically me correcting them on some pretty fundamental things from the IKN. For instance, I was a little struck that they didn't know anything about inventory management on vessels in the IKN. 'No, that's inaccurate.' 'No, that never happens.' 'No, on an inventory ship, the hallways are never that clean.' 'You need to make sure you get the numbers on the seats right; I know that national navies don't do it that way but the IKN does it that way.'"
"I've also told them how often I get suggestions to get my chest size reduced (which surprised them)... Oh, and they have no clue how to speak or write in Klingulon. 'No, that's not how you say that.' 'No, you would never use Klingulon in that instance.' 'No, that never happens in the ROZ.'"
"And it's so funny because Anka has been having a similar experience when talking about Peace Planets and the Federation. 'No, Terrans and Klingons on these planets aren't at each other's throats constantly.' 'No, there's no need for 'cloak-and-dagger' stuff because that never happens; No one and nothing important is ever sent there to begin with.'"
"I feel so horrible having to make so many corrections to these story ideas... It makes you wonder if the first two seasons were factually accurate..."
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Post by steve on May 15, 2024 12:33:48 GMT -7
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"And, just like that..."
"I'm a citizen now. A full-fledged Klingon citizen. It's contingent upon helping the production team with this season. I've been assigned an 'assistant' from the IKG to smooth out any transition. Anka is now a full-fledged citizen, too."
"The IKG/IKN just didn't want any potential bad press. Anka & I were moved out of the facility, post-haste. Remember how I keep writing to always keep your stuff in order? I'm not joking; Not even an hour after we were told that we were moving, we were moving."
"Anka & I have chosen to stick together, at least for now. Neither one of us really knows how to navigate this new phase of our lives."
"We're 'kinda' private citizens now... Which is really strange. Technically, we still belong to the IKG but we're in this special designation inside of Public Relations where we're sort of 'attached' to the production but we could still be called up if there's an Imperial Emergency of some sort..."
"I'm a private citizen. I wore civilian clothing for the first time in... A long time. I... I don't have a schedule... A set schedule."
"What do I do now?"
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Post by steve on May 15, 2024 12:36:33 GMT -7
And that's a wrap! The latest storyline is over! I hope that everyone enjoyed the story.
On Friday, the next story begins - A teenage female Federation citizen living in an underground colony on a very interesting planet!
See you then!
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Post by brickwall on May 15, 2024 14:16:05 GMT -7
And that's a wrap! The latest storyline is over! I hope that everyone enjoyed the story. On Friday, the next story begins - A teenage female Federation citizen living in an underground colony on a very interesting planet! See you then! Congratulations on another story ended with a somewhat happy ending! All the best to those two. Safe travels to them both! Q'APLA!
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Post by steve on May 17, 2024 13:12:00 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A FEDERATION COLONIST
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"Want to know what I learned today? In the old days, on Terra, people had to worry about the weather. When you live on a habitable planet, you have weather. Rain, snowstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes..."
"It's not like we don't have 'environmental challenges' at the colony as well. The surface can get above 500C during sunside and really cold when we're moonside."
"People always want to know how we can live underground all the time and not freak out. It's easy, really. Just stay underground. It has never bothered me -- I was born here."
"It's kind of freaky, if you ask me, to live on the surface of a planet. It sounds really dangerous."
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Post by steve on May 19, 2024 9:22:28 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A FEDERATION COLONIST
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"Whenever I talk to kids my age who live on habitable planets, they always ask me how I can live underground all of the time and never see the sky or the stars or anything like that."
"First, when our colony goes from sunside to moonside, there's a transition period where the surface is safe to travel on. It's not for long but, yeah, everyone goes up to surface just to look at it (you still wear spacesuits, though, because there isn't an atmosphere). Someone made a recording of the surface crackling and shifting because of the temperature cooling. I mean, it's a little dangerous because you can get layers of the surface to 'pop' and explode upward but that's only when the surface begins to cool off."
"One thing people don't realize is that the colonies on the planet are spread out so that there's at least one colony that's always moonside so that we can have communications with the rest of the Federation. When you're sunside, the sun interferes with interplanetary communication. We have our orbiting space station that's always moonside that is also always in contact with the Federation but our space station can't communicate with colonies that are sunside."
"Anyway, it doesn't affect me much. I don't understand the appeal of wide open spaces and things like that."
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Post by trynda1701 on May 20, 2024 8:10:34 GMT -7
And that's a wrap! The latest storyline is over! I hope that everyone enjoyed the story. On Friday, the next story begins - A teenage female Federation citizen living in an underground colony on a very interesting planet! See you then! Congratulations on another story ended with a somewhat happy ending! All the best to those two. Safe travels to them both! Q'APLA! Agreed. Congratulations steve ! ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by steve on May 21, 2024 11:09:59 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A FEDERATION COLONIST
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"I should probably describe our planet in a little more detail."
"Our planet is very close to the Sun, to the point where we all live underground. There are five colonies and they're all based on the equator of the planet. Our planet very slowly rotates and, in fact, rotates slower than it takes to make one full rotation around the sun. Although we use UFP Standard Time Measurements (and that's the legal measurement), locally, we use the rotation of our planet as our 'year.' I know that, on Terra, the rotation of the planet is a 'day' and the planet rotating around the sun is a 'year.' Whatever."
"Anyway, we initially were going to have six colonies: 4 equally spaced around the equator, one at the 'North pole' and one at the south. However, it was determined that the hot/cold cycle would be too uneven for the North and south pole colonies and so it was determined to just put all of the colonies on the equator. Right now, there are five colonies with room for a sixth one. Of course, there could be more but I don't think there will be more than those six... And I don't think anyone is overly eager to build a sixth as that would be a ton of credits to build."
"We have an orbiting space station and it is locked in place, meaning that it doesn't rotate around the planet. The station is always moonside because, otherwise, it would melt. Whenever someone from off-planet visits, they always arrive at the space station first and then they go down to the planet. Whenever our colony rotates to moonside, that's when we get all of our stuff. In fact, a whole chunk of our space underground is for storage so that we can make it through our sunside time (known as "Sun season")."
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Post by trynda1701 on May 21, 2024 11:36:36 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A FEDERATION COLONIST[Note - The text has been edited for clarity and context. It has been edited with contemporary Terran audiences in mind. Idioms and local references have been changed to the most appropriate Terran equivalent.] "I should probably describe our planet in a little more detail."
"Our planet is very close to the Sun, to the point where we all live underground. There are five colonies and they're all based on the equator of the planet. Our planet very slowly rotates and, in fact, rotates slower than it takes to make one full rotation around the sun. Although we use UFP Standard Time Measurements (and that's the legal measurement), locally, we use the rotation of our planet as our 'year.' I know that, on Terra, the rotation of the planet is a 'day' and the planet rotating around the sun is a 'year.' Whatever."
"Anyway, we initially were going to have six colonies: 4 equally spaced around the equator, one at the 'North pole' and one at the south. However, it was determined that the hot/cold cycle would be too uneven for the North and south pole colonies and so it was determined to just put all of the colonies on the equator. Right now, there are five colonies with room for a sixth one. Of course, there could be more but I don't think there will be more than those six... And I don't think anyone is overly eager to build a sixth as that would be a ton of credits to build."
"We have an orbiting space station and it is locked in place, meaning that it doesn't rotate around the planet. The station is always moonside because, otherwise, it would melt. Whenever someone from off-planet visits, they always arrive at the space station first and then they go down to the planet. Whenever our colony rotates to moonside, that's when we get all of our stuff. In fact, a whole chunk of our space underground is for storage so that we can make it through our sunside time (known as "Sun season")." The astronomy nerd in me thought that the colony was on Mercury, as you capitalised the word Sun the first time, but the rotation verses orbital time ruled that out. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Plus, your space station is presumably at the Lagrange L2 orbital position, just like the James Webb Space Telescope around Earth. I wonder if Trek tech would mean it wouldn't need a sunshine like the JWST has? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_pointen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
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Post by steve on May 23, 2024 13:30:55 GMT -7
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"Anyway, I suppose I'll use standard Terran units so I don't confuse you. My name is Alzi, I'm 16, and I live on 'Roslin II' in Beta colony. It used to not be called 'Beta' but something else. I don't want to get into that right now; The grown-ups still call the colonies by their old names. Anyway, there's Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta & Epsilon. I live in Beta. And, if we have a sixth colony, it'll be Zeta."
"The colonies aren't that much different from one another. We're all underground and we all feature the same type of 'architecture.' It's not like one colony has art deco design while another colony is Victorian... Or anything like that. I mean, there *are* differences it's just not major or significant."
"The space station is simply called 'The Moon.' Yeah, it has a real name but no one calls it by it's real name. We call it 'The Moon.'"
"If you're wondering how we make a living... That's complicated. We sort of 'make a living' by just being here... If that makes any sense. I'll write more about that later."
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Post by steve on May 23, 2024 13:36:06 GMT -7
The astronomy nerd in me thought that the colony was on Mercury, as you capitalised the word Sun the first time, but the rotation verses orbital time ruled that out. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Plus, your space station is presumably at the Lagrange L2 orbital position, just like the James Webb Space Telescope around Earth. I wonder if Trek tech would mean it wouldn't need a sunshine like the JWST has? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_pointen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_TelescopeIt is not in 'our' solar system but in another one; Capitalization of "Sun" is regarded as universal when it is 'your sun' in 'your solar system,' regardless of which solar system that might be. Concerning "The Moon," the planet blocks the sun and so they do not need a heat shield of any kind. I hope that helps.
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Post by steve on May 25, 2024 3:44:15 GMT -7
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"I feel like I have to explain a lot of stuff before stuff begins to make sense. So here it goes:"
"When we're sunside, we live isolated in our colony. No going outside for anything. No real construction (although minor re-modeling and fabrication is OK). It's sort of like our 'winter,' if you will. When we're moonside, that's when a lot of stuff happens. That's when you can go to the space station, construction is happening (and it's *very* extensive), supplies are happening... You can transfer to the space station and then go to another colony..."
"OK, I'll just write this now - The gap between Alpha & Zeta colonies is called 'the desert' (It's not a desert for real; We just call it that) and, every year, the daredevils on the planet try timing the rotation of the planet right to drive on the surface from Zeta to Alpha without getting fried. Part of the challenge is that you're in near-total darkness except for your own lights..."
"Ugh. So much to write. Maybe more later."
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Post by trynda1701 on May 25, 2024 5:28:51 GMT -7
The astronomy nerd in me thought that the colony was on Mercury, as you capitalised the word Sun the first time, but the rotation verses orbital time ruled that out. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Plus, your space station is presumably at the Lagrange L2 orbital position, just like the James Webb Space Telescope around Earth. I wonder if Trek tech would mean it wouldn't need a sunshine like the JWST has? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_pointen.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_TelescopeIt is not in 'our' solar system but in another one; Capitalization of "Sun" is regarded as universal when it is 'your sun' in 'your solar system,' regardless of which solar system that might be. Concerning "The Moon," the planet blocks the sun and so they do not need a heat shield of any kind. I hope that helps. Cool. That means the station must be in a station keeping orbit to stay there. The JWST needs the shield because the L2 orbit position around Earth is actually beyond the Earths' shadow! End astronomy nerd mode. We now return you to the regularly scheduled thread!
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Post by steve on May 27, 2024 4:07:48 GMT -7
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"We don't live in a cave... Or a mine. But we do live underground."
"The best way that I can describe it is a large cylinder drilled into the ground and a large 'plug' placed on top of it. It's like a cylindrical skyscraper but in the ground instead of standing on the ground."
"Anyway, the 'plug' (or mound or whatever it's called) is super-resistant to heat and damage and it also has a shield (like on a starship) but it's only there to repel micro-meteorites and to protect the plug from the wear-and-tear of being exposed to heat and cold. It can't repel phaser beams from starships or anything like that although it would be foolish for starships to try and hit us while we're sunside because the starship itself would get fried."
"Our colony has around 20,000 residents and all of the colonies have a similar population. I think that the max that the colony can hold is around 30,000 but I can't be certain. I know that it can't be a lot because of something about possibly affecting the rotation of the planet and balancing or something like that."
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Post by trynda1701 on May 27, 2024 4:24:44 GMT -7
CONFESSIONAL - FROM A FEDERATION COLONIST[Note - The text has been edited for clarity and context. It has been edited with contemporary Terran audiences in mind. Idioms and local references have been changed to the most appropriate Terran equivalent.] "We don't live in a cave... Or a mine. But we do live underground."
"The best way that I can describe it is a large cylinder drilled into the ground and a large 'plug' placed on top of it. It's like a cylindrical skyscraper but in the ground instead of standing on the ground."
"Anyway, the 'plug' (or mound or whatever it's called) is super-resistant to heat and damage and it also has a shield (like on a starship) but it's only there to repel micro-meteorites and to protect the plug from the wear-and-tear of being exposed to heat and cold. It can't repel phaser beams from starships or anything like that although it would be foolish for starships to try and hit us while we're sunside because the starship itself would get fried."
"Our colony has around 20,000 residents and all of the colonies have a similar population. I think that the max that the colony can hold is around 30,000 but I can't be certain. I know that it can't be a lot because of something about possibly affecting the rotation of the planet and balancing or something like that." 20,000 colonists per colony? That's one BIG underground skyscraper! ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png)
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Post by steve on May 29, 2024 13:46:06 GMT -7
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"School sucks. It always sucks. I hate it."
"OK, I know that snobs in the interior of the Federation always think that people on the fringe are stupid because we don't get 'their' type of education but we do have a strict education curriculum. If the colonies want Federation money (and who doesn't want Fed money?) then we have to follow Fed rules and Fed rules state that education must be taught a certain way. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that the colonies can't teach other things IN ADDITION TO what the Feds want."
"In the colony, we almost have two schools: Fed school & 'colony' school. Fed school is the type of school that the interior snobs would recognize: Educational materials, classrooms, tests, quizzes, physical education, extra-curricular activities, etc. so forth. It's the stupid boring stuff that most of us will forget once we turn eighteen. Colony school, though, is a lot more vocational-technical and geared towards maintaining the colony. 'This is how you repair a shield generator,' 'Surface vehicle maintenance,' 'Drafting & Additive Fabrication Skills,' and so forth. Colony school rocks. It's not even close."
"I hope that I get to stay in the colony past my eighteenth birthday. That would be so cool."
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Post by steve on May 31, 2024 3:21:14 GMT -7
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"One of the things (one of the MANY things) that sucks about living on this planet and, by extension, the colony is that space is limited. Each colony (of which there is only five at the moment) can hold about 30,000 people max but are presently around 20K each. That's by design; Babies are born every year and long-term visitors arrive and people die or are transferred to the Moon. So, each colony fluctuates in population. You never want to go past a certain population level."
"One way to control population levels is that anyone eighteen and older in the colonies has to go serve in Star Fleet Academy. This sucks @$$ -- Basically, it's conscription and the way that works out for us is that we're gone for the next seven or so years. The first chance we'd be able to come back to the colonies is when we're 25 years old. For many people, Star Fleet Academy is an one-way ticket away from the colonies."
"A lot of kids WANT to leave, though. I'm not joking; There are kids I know who are counting down the days until they can leave."
"OK, I can sort of see their point: There's not a whole lot to do in the colonies, especially when compared to the snob interior. Big whoop. Trust me when I say that I won't mind seeing a lot of my classmates leave. Good riddance."
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Post by trynda1701 on May 31, 2024 12:37:43 GMT -7
Hmmm, interesting to hear about the Academy solution as one way (of many) to controlling the size of the colony population! It is a form of conscription!
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Post by steve on Jun 2, 2024 10:05:55 GMT -7
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"So why do I not want to leave? Where do I begin?"
"First, Star Fleet Academy is a joke. Anyone who thinks that they're going to serve on a Star Fleet vessel is an absolute fool; They tell you right up front that less than 5% of graduates serve on vessels. That's less than 1 out of 20 graduates. And not all vessels are the same; Enjoy your service on some stupid tug or a cargo vessel or a mobile hangar or flying people in a glorified shuttle back-and-forth. You think you're going to serve on the Enterprise? Fat chance! You'd have better luck winning the lottery. And not even the 'Enterprise' is the 'Enterprise' anymore. You really think they're going to risk the jewel of Star Fleet in 'Exploring Strange New Worlds and Seeking out New Life and New Civilizations'?"
"Also, why leave? What's in the interior that's so great?! I'm so sick of people trashing the colonies because we don't have interior snob stuff. I don't have 'interior envy.' If someone else wants do deal with crime, pollution, discrimination and all of the other hardships that occurs when living in the interior, they can have it. I'm not into popularity contests; I don't need to be."
"There's nothing wrong with living in a hole in the ground."
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Post by trynda1701 on Jun 2, 2024 17:41:46 GMT -7
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Post by steve on Jun 4, 2024 12:17:07 GMT -7
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"We don't get a lot of immigration here, naturally, given the nature of our colonies. A film crew from the interior went to Gamma a long time ago and stayed for a full year (our year, not Terran year). I've watched the documentary; It's OK but they so botched basically everything. The interior is so lame."
"OK, let's start with the basics: We're not luddites! Just because we don't have the latest technological toys doesn't mean that we don't use what we have! There's a lot of tech that goes into our colonies! It's almost like we're a cylindrical Star Fleet vessel! We've got an artificial gravity compensator, we've got force shields, environmental controls... So long as you don't need brain surgery or some really advanced surgery done on you, we've got all the medical facilities you need. And if you do need them, then there's The Moon."
"A lot of people think that there's nothing to do in the colonies but that's not true! There's plenty to do if you just keep your mind open. We've got sports teams, a theatre, game developers, our own newspaper (each colony has one of their own but the whole planet has one as well)... I mean, we've got everything a normal world on the interior would have... We just have less of it, that's all. And we don't have to deal with crime or any negative stuff."
"Heck, you can even move from colony to colony during moonside if you really want to (not advisable, but still...). I don't know why everyone trashes this place."
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Post by steve on Jun 4, 2024 12:19:45 GMT -7
Hmmm, you mentioned the Enterprise. Wonder what it is like onboard her in your universe, steve (hint, hint) ? ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) Actually, would love it if you could do some sort of story about the Enterprise ! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Maybe someday, I suppose... However, there are other stories to tell first...
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Post by steve on Jun 6, 2024 12:04:18 GMT -7
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"OK, you want to know what's cool about being in the colony? Staying inbetween gravity zones."
"Look, the gravity on this planet is way less than Terran Standard (1 G) and so we need gravity compensators or else our biology goes all out of whack really quick. However, the entire colony doesn't have one compensator but several for redundancy and efficiency. The larger the artificial gravity field has to compensate for, the more variance you will have within it. Therefore, you want to keep the gravity fields as small as possible so that the fields can be as consistent as possible."
"There are areas where the gravity compensators can't reach and other areas where the gravity compensators overlap and it's a really cool feeling when you travel into them. There's even an area that purposely doesn't have a gravity compensator and that's for kids to bounce around in. They won't let teens like us go into there, though, because... Well, we like to have fun in ways that adults don't approve of. I won't elaborate on that."
"However, we have our own areas that adults may or may not (they likely do) know about. It's not as though low-grav gives you a high or anything, but it is a cool feeling. And high-grav areas can be awesome, too, although guys tend to go to those places to show off how strong they are."
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