Stratocracy

Myriad Reality

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The important question: Do you get paid for that time?

@Server

Most. I do the majority of it with the IA facilities I have access to.

Myriad Reality

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Okay, so now it's your turn.

@Meta

You really want to know? Alrighty then. Mondays I do strength training. Lift weights and all that. Tuesdays I rest my body and do perception training, and I do things like movement tracking exercises and simulations of scenarios like investigations or tracking. Wednesdays I do endurance training and I go for intense cardio, as well as supplementing the strength training by doing moderate lifts that I maintain for longer. Thursdays I rest muscles again and purely do things such as stretches and acrobatics. Fridays I train, believe it or not, muscle memory. Practice various techniques on repeat. I take weekends off and mostly just get exercise from actual work on those days.
*Takes a deep breath after the speech*

Myriad Reality

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Maybe combat intuition is the short way to say it. The better that gets, the stronger we are.

@Meta

*Strokes my chin*
Right, right.

Myriad Reality

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*Shrugs*
I thought it sounded pretty good.

@Meta

I just ask out of curiosity more than anything. I get what you're saying though, just for the record.

Myriad Reality

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Sure, but again. We don’t have muscles.

@Meta

When I say that, I mean it more as a concept than a literal function. If people have muscle memory too, just like you, then is it really an analog to muscle development? That's what I'm just poking at a bit.

Myriad Reality

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Right, think of that but with the skill you develop from training. In a weird way, you could say that muscle memory is our muscle growth.

@Meta

Even though muscle memory is also just its own thing?

Myriad Reality

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You know how when you work out, it becomes a part of you, sort of? One day you show up, stronger than the day before, and that stronger you is incorporated into who you are?

@Meta

That’s an incredibly introspective way to describe it but yeah.

Myriad Reality

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Training is all about information. The better you understand combat, the more effective you'll be in a battle. But for us, that sort of knowledge is much more visceral and indwelt.

@Meta

Forgive me but I can’t imagine what “visceral knowledge” means. Unless you’re talking about being as brutal as possible when exploiting someone’s weakness.

Myriad Reality

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I’m curious. We don’t have muscles to work out, so it looks a little different for navis.

@Meta

Looks different?

Myriad Reality

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Is this a bad time?

@Meta

It’s just not a short answer.