I would try to avoid acronyms like NSA. In the United States, the National Security Administration has a dark reputation that may be even more disdained than the CIA, Department of Homeland Security, or the IRS. They literally took the book 1984 and made it a reality. If China's cybersecurity is the Great Firewall, then the US's is the Great Internet Spiderweb.

Six shields = same total width as Eight fishmen.

He's a stereotypical knight from something like the legends of Camelot. Chivalrous to use his power to protect others, but with no sympathy for criminals beyond the basic mercy of not killing them.

Noblesse Oblige - The duty of those with power is to protect those with none. It is the foundation of Chivalry. It's the "Uncle Ben" saying.

A gun will also knock you down if you aren't strong enough. The sling would be the best bet, as it is reasonably effective even for weaker people.

While fast food can be cheaper, most colleges offer fairly cheap options in house, like cafeterias. In my experience, it's rare for fast food to be cheaper than school-provided options. Then there's the amount of walking that is necessary. While some smaller colleges have parking near the major facilities, most require you to walk pretty far to get to where you need to go. If you aren't physically fit, it is really difficult to get around campuses. I personally only knew a handful of students who were decently large, and they mostly had extenuating circumstances like difficulties with how their body processes fat, or similar issues. Diet generally wasn't the issue, since the vast majority of students were required to maintain a certain level of fitness just to manage their class schedule, or they had to rely on the in-house options, which were already healthier.

A village this small would not have swords. They are too resource-intensive and not worth the cost. They would be using the metal on armor, which is more important. That allows them to concentrate on spears and armor, rather than comparatively useless swords.

No, I got it, but was this really the best chapter for it? It just feels wasted to do it here.

How did you even get 69? 69 is 3 x 23. Neither number is present here.

They have no choice. If they have no talent worth cultivating, they basically end up as slaves by another name.

My sister once travelled nearly 70k blocks just to find Mangrove wood. I chose to settle at spawn, while she built a large warehouse there, only to functionally abandon it in favor of practically being a nomad. Minecraft players truly are nutjobs.

Capital city pun? Was not expecting that. (While not currently the capital, Shanghai was once the capital of China under the Yuan dynasty. Dubai, as most people know is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.)

Confidentiality usually doesn't apply to those outside of an organization's influence, so it stands to reason that Zhang Mei is excluded.

Sound familiar?

There are many ways to make yellow snow, from the super harmless crushed frozen lemonade and just yellow dye on snow, to the super dangerous sulfur on snow, to the gross urinated snow. Clearly he is referring to a certain lustful variety of the last category.

Great-grandmother? When the gap is 10,000 years, you may as well call them "ancestor" or "progenitor". She is older than Stonehenge and maybe even Karahan Tepe, which existed before the close of the Mesolithic Period!

In theory, the Jedi-Sith dichotomy. Think Ten Commandments versus Eight major Sins. Or just Humility versus Pride, as pride is literally the root of all evil, since sin is defined as any act that places your desires above that of God (and by extension other humans).

Twenty years in Afghanistan and we created a government that collapsed in days. His wars had an end that would have lasted. This is more like the Copperheads during the Civil War who would rather see the US cut in half by a tenuous peace than a united states without slavery. Making peace meant allowing evil to continue, so it was better to fight to the end than let the evil survive.