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I wish my author took me seriously.
Sorry, I'll try to do better.
Dear readers, I hope you enjoyed the joke. It was a bit on the obvious side, but that's in line with the James_Miller character as established. Thanks for reading, and sorry for breaking the fourth wall.
Unfortunately I just don't have the processing power to run any of you lot very quickly. You're also simply not as fun as the next several fictional universes I write: you run on strict physics and don't Munchkin things very hard.
That depends on how seriously your author takes you.
Oops! I had been mindlessly assuming that I lived in the basement.
It is precisely dialog like that that keeps you a minor role.
You seem to confuse cause and effect. Oh wait... I must precommit to talk like a major character... But I cannot precommit unless the author writes me that way...
The author can choose to avoid characters with your state of mind, but they can't choose the decisions implied by your state of mind. You can precommit to act like a major character, in which case you won't be a minor character, but you may fail to get in the actual story.
Seriously dude, who writes stuff like that? Maybe your agent can get you something else.