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Theacefospades 5 points ago +5 / -0

This is how the Nephandi work in Mage. Each of the 9 spheres of reality (time, matter, spirit, space, etc) mages use them by molding and creating them with will. The naphandi do the opposite, they do magic by destroying their sphere.

So a mage would teleport by connecting the two Spaces that were distant, and a Nephandi would rip the concept of the distance between them to shreds.

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Theacefospades 2 points ago +2 / -0

And even then her character design, while being the retarded version, isnt the actively offensive retarded version.

Everyone else is mostly fine, storm being a standout and wolverine being... somewhat disappointing but with a pretty good gimmick.

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Theacefospades 3 points ago +3 / -0

Mr Rage is probably the most consistently correct over long term out of any commentators at least that I'm aware of.

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Theacefospades 2 points ago +2 / -0

And it worked REALLY well until people either got imported who had no vested interest in society as a whole continuing, and a different group decided it was advantageous to push the envelope as farrrrrrr as it could possibly go.

Litterelly society is held hostage by "I'm not touching you." Like sure in the end you didn't fire the first shot. But you're also dead so nobody gives a shit.

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Theacefospades 19 points ago +19 / -0

My boy we lost the war to the point of irrecovery during Regan. It was lost but recoverable during the Truman years and on.

What you are witnessing now is the fight over what the new world looks like. Some parts of that are inevitable and one of those inevitable pieces is that a lot of people like that are going to die.

Frankly they probably deserve it.

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Theacefospades 8 points ago +10 / -2

You guys are pathetic lol.

Between browsers I have.....

Close to 300 probably.

Brave is my best friend. Tab grouping. Me gusta.

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Theacefospades 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's like he knows everyone is wrong, in precise terms. Except for Marx who was spot on accurate

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Theacefospades 3 points ago +3 / -0

My read on it is that he's at like stage 2 or stage 3. He's the libertarian with a bit more guts than your average lolbert.

He's the kind who rejects "gays defending weed with guns" because he recognized negative externalities, and had the foresight to see degenerate behaivor as one.

But on the other hand, he still has the core of tabula rassa in his heart, even if he doesn't believe it cognitively. That break pushed you to stage 4. The thing that's odd is you don't usually end up "here" without doing that first. Makes me think he was a Reddit The Donald transplant rather than an OG GG hack.

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Theacefospades 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's Antonio He's a legit autist lol, you have to spell things out for him to the tiniest detail.

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Theacefospades 2 points ago +2 / -0

The logistics of that would be.... interesting.

When they find an island of redheaded Polynesians we can talk.

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Theacefospades 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's a technical thing to be sure. The "true israel" as described in the bible has always been the same religion, but it takes a familiarity with Christianity that isn't universal to be aware of that fact.

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Theacefospades 1 point ago +1 / -0

I think the key is the crossroad of fake and annoying.

It's one thing to be annoying. But being fake means that you didn't have to be. You chose to be that way, out of all the options available you chose to totally suck.

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Theacefospades 4 points ago +4 / -0

I trash you a lot but I don't know that I've read something more correct than this in a while.

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Theacefospades 3 points ago +3 / -0

They don't have strong beliefs that's sort of the point. Their beliefs are clunky and mundane, they don't stand up to comparison or to logic.

Comsmicly they're cave people beliefs, ones centered around how to divide the berries because they can dream that the stars are reachable. Base.

Indoctrination isn't the same thing as strong belief, nor is abject stupidity.

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Theacefospades 2 points ago +3 / -1

Doesn't have to be. Real Humanism requires the same thing, it's what I'd be if I wasn't religious.

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Theacefospades 8 points ago +8 / -0

Part of it comes from utilitarianization of things, which is the continual March of technological progressivism.

The goal is to atomtize humanity and human experience into the most efficient chunks. It's what the "Creat Context" speech is about, and the basis of transhumanism is.

It's the idea that once a mechanism is explained, it must be controlled, anything less is irresponsible.

In our ignorance and our arrogance, we've decided we cracked the code on not only what storytelling IS, but what it is FOR.

And in that arrogance, we must not only REPRESENT in our stories but we must do so with PURPOSE. On a finite planet, with finite resources we MUST not pollute the cosmic conciouness with petty exapism, our path to godhood cannot abide such distractions.

Walls rose up, great walls of concrete. Windows, their measurements precisely regulated. A series of standardised bricks for other parts. Construction crews and workmen and all the rest, working efficiently and precisely for a long time; filling in the details, the furnishings and precise abstract wallpapers and everything else that went into making a facility.

Finally, it was finished. One single, new tree had been planted in the centre of the central courtyard; not through any sense of whimsy or delight, but to give those within a little sense of nature, of reality in the centre of the grey. To keep them sane, nothing more. A precisely mandated allowance for the improvement of human mental health, until they can find out a way to phase that out entirely.

I watched, and I thought about all that they- that we- had done. I thought about the world they wanted. I thought about their spinelessness. I knew what good was, and what evil was, and I saw none of it in either of them. I thought about hollow men, made of straw, plastered together with thick paste and sold in a hundred, a thousand identical ways in a thousand identical shops. I thought about what we had lost. And I howled.

At night, the day before the site's grand opening, I dug up the seeds of the tree, and replaced them. With a seed of my own devising. And over Site 231 will stand a thing of blood and bone and sinew. A tree that drips and leers and feeds. It will drip strange fire, and that fire will both burn and warm in equal measure. And they will look up at it and wish they had listened while they had the chance.

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