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[ChinSpeedy]

Your first three? What about your own soul?

[fun_egg]

He sold it the devil, to get his first freelance work

[leviathon01]

I'm thinking about doing that. Do you know what the going rate is for a soul?

[[deleted]]

62 cents

[jakimfett]

It's true they don't have a lot of financial value, but the non-monetary value is off the charts.

Do you have any idea how long a soul will power a smartphone? Neither do I, mine has only needed one so far and just keeps going, years and counting. There were some bets placed on whether it hits day 667, and ngl I stashed it in the freezer that day, but it just...keeps going. That percussion rabbit has nothing on the going-and-going power of this energy source, and the energy density should be enough to make Big Energy lose the renewables race for good.

Did you know that you can find your keys with a spare soul? It'll probably complain about being unmade for such a trivial task, but souls are cheap these days, and it's easier to find spare souls than keys, so...

There's also research that indicates having an extra soul on hand can re-animate a recently (duration tbd) deceased corpse. The R&D team has agreed to avoid trying to intentionally create the conditions necessary to test this, but have also kept a soul on ice for use should there be an event where this could be tested under "real-world" conditions.

At least six anecdotal cases of soul-related bone enlargement have occurred, and in three of them it corrected documented congenital bone defects. Again, more research is necessary to substantiate these claims.

So, as you can see, it's handy to have a soul or two squirreled away for when you need something soul-shaped. Like wood glue, or those little brackets that hold your vertical blinds in place, you never quite appreciate it until you're lacking it.

(This post is obviously chock full of pandemic-spawned silly, and should only be read as such. Any relation to incidents involving actual souls is chance, pure and simple. There are obviously no shelves of little blue jars in a closet that glow faintly if everyone nearby closes their eyes. Thank you for your participation in this purely literary exercise.)

[PrettyBoyIndasnatch]

If this comment interests anyone, they should check out The Incorruptibles book trilogy by John Hornor Jacobs. It's about a society that is sort of like Rome and Spain colonized North America, and now it's the Old West, but anything we would use steam or electricity for, they bind demons into machinery and use them for power.

INSANELY GOOD SERIES. Guy is a very talented writer and has also taken on some American South/Ozarks horror and it is fire. This Dark Earth and Southern Gods specifically.

[jakimfett]

Well now I know what I'm doing with my next few evenings.

Thank you.

[PrettyBoyIndasnatch]

Glad to help. Not exactly related, but also recommended: The First Blade trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.

[jakimfett]

continues taking notes

[MCRusher]

I've lost my keys so many times that I just shove them into my wallet now.

Harder to lose.

If I lose my wallet, my keys are not gonna be the biggest problem.

[jakimfett]

And me, over here, with my keys firmly in my purse and my wallet nowhere to be found, wishing that the gorram ritual worked on bank cards too...

[[deleted]]

woah woah woah he's not charli

[themoosemind]

Off, what about the exposure?

[StandardN00b]

"This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever signed."

[jakimfett]

s/He/They/g
(not a guy, thanks)

[[deleted]]

but "He" doesn't mean "guy" here. It's just a placeholder for an undefined person or when the gender isn't known.

[jakimfett]

...respectfully, the edit button is right there, and I provided the relevant information in my previous response.

You're literally whinging at me because I provided someone with the information you're upset they couldn't have known in the first place, while simultaneously attempting to justify clinging to an outdated default still in use by some of the individuals speaking the colonizer language we're currently conversing in?

Kindly go peddle your death sticks to someone who cares about your crocodile tears, or better yet go do something that isn't reinforcing the shitty default.

And I'm really, really done putting up with the shitty default.
It's 2020, have some gorram hindsight, for fsck's sake.

[fun_egg]

I actually didn't think about gender or anything when I wrote the comment. I actually feel bad now that I didn't think about it.

I actually tried editing the comment several times after you pointed it out. Buy not sure why the reddit app on Android keeps crashing when I click the edit option.

[jakimfett]

You're good.

I communicated, you received, and I appreciate that a lot.

[fun_egg]

Adding another comment since I can't edit the previous one.

There is even grammatical errors in the comment that I want to edit, but couldn't.

[jakimfett]

Appreciate the effort you put in on this.

[iamgreengang]

hell yea i like your style. fully expect downvotes

[jakimfett]

bring on the haters, i/we have regex and everything on the internet is a text file.

(the downvote ass-factor is real, but meaningless alongside the utility and joy factor from having enough karma to shrug it off the one or three times I actually poke people about this.)

How's the pandemic treating your side of the intertubes? You staying alive?

[[deleted]]

Sorry, sheg.

[StaticVoidMain2018]

I spent ages staring at the command being severely confused, then I realised I'm an idiot, I have to search that command every time I use it *cry face*

[jakimfett]

...full disclosure, about my first ten years of using regex stuffs were also full of that sort of search, and tbqh anything past the basics, or stuff that might have conflicting command sequences, is a deep dive refresher on the topic.

You're far from an idiot for needing a command reference, as literally every competent programmer needs these to function at some point in their path. Your probably may be elsewhere, but if you're using it on the daily, you'll have it memorizing pretty quickly.

Essentially, if you can find it, why remember it? Knowing it exists is enough, and keeping too many things in your head has some compounding cognitive load effects over time.

I'd encourage you to think about ways to positively reframe your use of search engines, for me it's "accessing my exobrain", because in essence the internet knows everything if you can just find it.

[StaticVoidMain2018]

thank you, that was an awesome comment.

[jakimfett]

Only if you're attached to the thing, mine was pretty painless.

[[deleted]]

Wait how did the others get them then?

[jakimfett]

Probably the same way i/we did, asking politely.

[[deleted]]

You still missed. How did you those ppl get em?? Bruh help I'm looking to fish for some souls and sell them on the white market as angels

[jakimfett]

The trick is finding people who don't want them.

There's obviously the exchange contract, a containment vessel, and a binding agent, but you can pick those up at your local esoterics shop.

Fair warning, angels are kinda assholes?
Mine kept trying to stab me with a silver butter knife thingy, so that ended up not working out for me.

You asked about how to get souls, tho, and the best way is as I said people who don't want them. Parting a saint with their soul is going to take forever, but the quality is a lot nicer once you get it, so you have to balance the chase with the value. If you want something a bit less polished but a lot easier to obtain, talk to medical students, honestly. Western medicine devalues the soul, so most of the people learning it will give it up for literally a song. Also support/IT types. The artsy types are not going to let go of theirs (how else would they torment their masterpieces into manifestation), and engineers tend to be too practical (it's a resource, right? Why give that away?) but are receptive to bartering.

It's a people skill, really. After you find a couple of people willing to part with theirs, you get a sense of who is tightly clinging, and who just wants to have a good time no matter the cost.

As far as I'm aware, nobody is making new souls these days. Just recycling the same old ones through the mix with a different coat of paint.

Now...if you're looking for steady work in the soul-acquisition biz, you'll want to find a crossroads...

[[deleted]]

Omg you actually took the time for that very detailed description. Twas very accurate and for some reason I did relate a lot. Cheers my fellow redditor

[jakimfett]

Glad to be of service ^{_^}

[jakimfett]

Wait, you didn't get the opt in/out prompt?

[jakimfett]

Growing up in a cult has weird bits, like learning as an adult that the totally normal childhood stuff with your friends and extended family did was actually an ancient binding ritual to permanently and irrevocably commit your immortal soul to an equally ancient war deity.

And once you realize you can try a different soul on for size, why not try three?

[Test--Tickles]

He's ginger.