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I like that Spensor is an Autobot with terrible combat skills and a silly transformed form. Those facts, as well as his personality and speaking mannerisms, makes for a funny contrast with the canon. Phil doesn't make quite as much of an impression, but I suspect that was your intent in making him the "straight man" against the silly robot. The behavior of both characters syncs up pretty well with what I expected from their bios.

I like your use of different music preference to highlight the differences between the agents before they actually appear side-by-side in a scene. I also liked the bizarre "solution" to the mysterious RC door, and the weird, counter-intuitive HQ physics that follow from it.

And now, the typo parade!
" . . . actually a transforming alien robot that’s just a few million years you’re senior.

"'...They did not tell me it was going to be you.' the agent replied, sheepishly.
The dialogue should end in a comma rather than a period, since the phrase that follows is a dialogue tag attached to it.

"that last part was said under his breath . . ."

"'. . . this one doesn’t follow the order of the previous of following ones.'"

“Every single other RC we’ve tried today wasn’t unlocked, so why this one?”
Considering RCs are private residences of agents, walking around and trying all the door handles without knocking seems like a terrible idea.

he passed his arm through.

"'...You let’s scram before anything freaky happens.'"
(I assume that was meant to be "yo.")

—doctorlit and many bold tags

The monsoon hit especially hard this year. Simon's eyes are staring into the sky, populated with racing water droplets agitated beyond it's airbone size limit by the dusts and crystals high up in the atmosphere.

The rains hit the zinc roofs with thunderous clatter. Young children are scared and cling to Simon for heat and comfort, but Simon can only feel a calming drowsiness.

"Abang! Abang!" Simon is jolted.

"What, budak?"

"Abang, I'm bored."

Forming his right hand into a claw, Simon clasps his brother's head lightly and rock it back and forth slightly. "Can't you see I am daydreaming, Damian?"

The boy chuckles as his head bobbed around. "Abang, I want to play computer."

"Father says not to, if lightning hits electronics, it will ruin them."

"Can I play your handphone please? Please, please, please?"

Simon sighs. The phone is at 80%. "Alright, wait." He moves his thumb, swiping the screen windows one way and other. After deleting his browsing history, he hands the phone over.

"Tonight, do homework you understand. Don't make Mom take away my handphone. If she does, I am going to eat all your cakes."

Damian shrieks in 'horror', then runs away to play Angry Birds.

After a few hours, the rain slows down to a drizzle. It is afternoon, and Simon grunts as he rises from the sofa. Damian is already asleep, the phone placed safely on his study table. Damian opens Whatsapp. His fingers taps the phone screen lightly, measuring his words.

"Celestine, what you doing?"

"Why? Wanna dating, issit?"

"No, just checking bah!"

"Bah, don't just check only, visitlah some time!"

"Your bapa' so scary, looks like eating people."

"Your fault, you don't bring him durian!"

"Where got durian this year? Next year then durian season."

"Ahahahahah, durian cheesecake also OK mah."

"Oh bah. Later this week no rain, I come yah."

"Arright, later I come, wear nice-nice."

"Ok. Eh, I wanna work now. My brother sick, can't wash plates."

"Babai."

"Babai."

Damian smiles as he opens the app for Maybank. He looks at the amount in his bank. RM 30 000. Hopefully Celestine's father isn't the type to do grand weddings and hosts a thousand relatives, friends, and clients.

This is it. He will propose this week.

Here, have some free NM&NMs. I hear they're delicious. :P

Here, have a triple chocolate (chocolate with chocolate chips and chocolate icing) cupcake! Don't forget to blow out the candles and make a wish!

The Aviator and Zeb are sent up against a goddess replacement of Percy Jackson.

Alfa has stated that the best is yet to come. And since this is the prelude for Karamazov and Russ breaking through the gates, the XIIIth Black Crusade is heating up for the fall of Cadia, Kitten and Magnus are returning to the Palace, and Corax, Vulkan and Russ are all heading there as well, AND given that Alfa's stated that he's definitely got a firm story in mind and aready planned out, and the continually-increasing quality of TTS thus far, as the writers do more fact-checking and the whole thing just gets straight-up funnier, I have no problem believing him.

*Looks up.* Holy run-on sentence, Batman! Yeah... I think I'll leave that as it is.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
MAY ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE
HOPE NOBODY MAKES YOU BLUE
AND YOUR CAKE DOESN'T EXPLODE IN GOO!

*blows noisemakers*

Good luck on the job hunt! Soon I'll be in the same boat XD

The code

Now, the neat thing here is that you can apply the flips and rotations to the input rules instead of the grid windows. This means you only have to screw around with the entirety of the permutation group on the square once.

The bad news is that, for the hashmaps to behave, extracting out the grid windows is still annoying and looks ugly, as does putting the result where it should be.

But that could be a flaw of using [bool; N^2] for windows instead of [[bool; N]; N].
But I've been raised on the former representation, so oh well.

- Tomash

Some of the details you point out aren't feasible - I don't have fine enough control at this scale to widen the knuckles, for instance. But I've done my best to update them all.

hS

*pets* It looks like a dam about to burst. Even a will as rigid as yours can only take so much before something has to give somewhere. What we need is a controlled release. ... By which I mean talking; don't give me that look.

(( Totally dig the ship name, by the way! It kinda sounds like an alien race, and a totally badass one. ^_^ ))

Because I did watch that, too, just didn't have time to comment before.

I also didn't cry, but that's only because I was eating breakfast at the time, and then I had to go to work and not be a mess. If I'd watched it, say, Friday night, when I often indulge in things that make me emotional (e.g. Call the Midwife; hardly a single episode that isn't a tear-jerker), you can well believe there would have been waterworks.

I think the piece was very well performed. I am a fan of spoken-word art. Using language to its utmost potential to evoke important ideas in a beautiful way... yes, please. It goes to show that words do have power, a subtle reinforcement to the message of the piece. And this message is one that I think a lot of people need to hear and internalize.

You—every one of you—have beauty and goodness inside you. You have power. Your voice has power. Use it to share love.

*hugs offered*

~Neshomeh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ows47yrO8CU

Yaaaay, I was worried I'd gotten in too late and the thing was over! Delighted to be wrong. ^_^

~Neshomeh

and am also not a Flower.

I sort of wrote this with the distinct idea of twisting the prompt into creating something that was as unromantic, non-sentimental as possible, with a bunch of characters I made to be as non-shippable as possible.
Maybe it wasn't entirely free of sentiment, but that was more directed at the loyalty between the two fellows, and I do certainly personally idealise loyalty and comradeship above romantic lovey hug-time.

I'm glad that you enjoyed their voices - I do consider dialogue and characterisation to be my better areas within writing, and I'm just plain happy that managed to sort of stick out, there.

But, ey, cheers for the review, ey?

With regards to Pariya's actions, you're right. The reason she says that is because they're both fairly influential figures on opposites sides of the war, so not only are they meant to be trying to kill each other if they see each other, they also have a lot at stake to lose if they're relationship is found out. They've both agreed that it is worth the risks, but normally they try and minimise the risks as much as possible, a relatively open meeting like this is a lot more risky than all the other meetings they've had since the war broke out (again).

Nova

I'm pretty anti-substance abuse, so the alcohol bit getting thrown in at the end pretty much keeps me from really liking it, but it is still a well-made story.

—doctorlit, teetotaler

With four speakers, none of them having particularly recognizable verbal patterns, I tried to keep the dialogue moving as naturally as possible, with few distractions, but I guess I went overboard in that direction.

Hm. I can probably work with that title . . .

—doctorlit, Nursering

I can't comment much on kid-realism, I'll leave that topic to someone else.

I like the scene in general, and the whole "we're not gonna get married"/"are too" sounds like something that would happen.

Now, one thing I noticed is that the setting feels underdefined for how it's used. You're mentioning the fact that there's at least one table and that some are moving a bit, but I don't really have a sense of where anyone is or what the place they're in looks like outside of those briefly-mentioned details (and it feels like I should).

Title-wise ... "Totally-not-love and Games"? (It just popped into my head while writing the review)

- Tomash

Congrats on graduating, good luck on the job hunt!

Have some Convenient Cake

- Tomash

First one since I'm done with studying... And the first one jobless... Being 24 is overdone (and rather old for this community sometimes).