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• Charlie Stross commented on Crib Sheet: The Annihilation Score
  The spoiler thread of TNS won't open until this time next year....
• ADennis commented on Crib Sheet: The Annihilation Score
  I also seem to remember him making remarks, at points, about not being great in a physical fight, though. It occurs to me - no idea whether this is deliberate writing or no, but it works - that a man who is on going-for-a-drink terms with at least one formed unit of Special Forces soldiers might have an unreasonable comparison standard vis a vis how handy he, personally, might actually be....
• Bellinghman commented on Crib Sheet: The Annihilation Score
  A sort of inverse Dunning-Kruger? Possibly, but most of the time most of the people around him aren't Artists Rifles...
• ADennis commented on Crib Sheet: The Annihilation Score
  The people who're around him when he's training, and I may be reading-in, here, very much are. And, indeed, the converse of the Dunning-Krueger effect is that people who are competent at something tend to underestimate their skill level....
• Gerald Fnord commented on Crib Sheet: The Annihilation Score
  Fair enough; I was thinking of being a white, straight, Christian, man's meaning that unless you sank to the lowest levels of (say) drugs addiction there would always be someone you were birthright-guarantied to be above in the general hierarchy, and the strong suggestion that violence in defence of that position were not only permissible, but laudable or in fact necessary to manhood....