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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 6338013" data-attributes="member: 18">Well, flinching and internal fear aren't the same thing. Flinching is more about controlling the outward appearance and/or startle reflex, depending on how literal it is. You could have a pulse of 180 and adrenaline and so on flowing wildly, and just appear undaunted (tons of examples of this sort of thing in fantasy fiction, actually it's very common).Presumably that's just bad short-hand, because otherwise that would be pretty hilarious. I do note that the wording on NG means it's pretty much Marxist, not sure if that was intended. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />EDIT - I would also strongly question that independence was &quot;Chaotic&quot; and blindly following orders &quot;Lawful&quot;, based on military history. That would be a lot of war criminals as &quot;Lawful&quot; and the people who tried to stop them as &quot;Chaotic&quot;, and I don't buy that. Similarly &quot;Nation&quot; is &quot;Any&quot;? Er, no it bloody isn't. If you think only your nation (a political construct with no inherent value) and only your people matter, you are at best Neutral, because you are saying that no-one else matters, and devaluing their existence completely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 6338013, member: 18"] Well, flinching and internal fear aren't the same thing. Flinching is more about controlling the outward appearance and/or startle reflex, depending on how literal it is. You could have a pulse of 180 and adrenaline and so on flowing wildly, and just [I]appear[/I] undaunted (tons of examples of this sort of thing in fantasy fiction, actually it's very common). Presumably that's just bad short-hand, because otherwise that would be pretty hilarious. I do note that the wording on NG means it's pretty much Marxist, not sure if that was intended. ;) EDIT - I would also strongly question that independence was "Chaotic" and blindly following orders "Lawful", based on military history. That would be a lot of war criminals as "Lawful" and the people who tried to stop them as "Chaotic", and I don't buy that. Similarly "Nation" is "Any"? Er, no it bloody isn't. If you think only your nation (a political construct with no inherent value) and only your people matter, you are at best Neutral, because you are saying that no-one else matters, and devaluing their existence completely. [/QUOTE]

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