Excellent, excellent title! I knew it sounded familiar, until it clicked: it's a Hobbes' Leviathan reverence! "No arts, no letters, no society; and what is worst of all continual fear and danger of violent death. And the life of man: solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short [long]." Or at least it goes something like that, it's been ages since I first memories that line. Love how it challenges those Hobbesian ideas in a subtle way without directly spelling it out.
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Heh, this very reference made me confuse it with:
https://exstasisgames.itch.io/nasty-brutish-short
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In other things, not gonna avail myself of the Community Copy 'lest my payment actually go through, but in Actions, it's "ley( )line", not "lay line".
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Mmm, Classes. Gonna get this to see what I can do with LitRPG-s...