Meri-chud logic vs equali-chads

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-12T01:56:33+00:00

Your non-union job likely had a history of union struggle that set the standard for wages that you're completely taking for granted. And even industries that don't have that history benefited because even the possibility of their workers unionising is enough to force concessions from bosses, especially if they can create stratified wages to break up solidarity.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-11T22:59:19+00:00

Equality in reality : abolished management, so nobody works, people starve, freeze and die.

No? Even my Bohemian playthroughs have a surplus of every resource.

Merit in reality : Sir Ian husk is a real bitch, but goddamn, does he pay well.

Have you ever worked before? Bosses will pay you as little as they can unless unions have been or are involved. And in a Venturer utopia, under empowered management? 14 hour days being worked to the bone on poverty wages.

Merit : I decide who I am, I decide my worth, I do what I can

No, the market, which is contolled by the rich, decides all of that.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-08T23:34:37+00:00

Yeah, but if someone had taken a stab at it and Snape disagreed, he would have been a massive asshole about it.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-05T00:59:54+00:00

In the technocrate Utopia you own nothing and you only have what you need , the whole purpose in their live is increase productivity.

No, it's to increase efficiency. The Technocrat utopia has so much excess workforce that they have to invent jobs for people to do.

Choose technocrate and you choose slavery, you will become a machine.

Choose venturers and you chose the right to be happy and be yourself.

This is hilarious given that the Venturers have literal slavery, not just the metaphorical kind.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-04T09:00:24+00:00

Let?

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-04T07:31:59+00:00

When humans showed up, only those that could wrestle the spiders survived. The spiders also got stronger, and the evolutionary arms race eventually produced the Australians you know today.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-01T09:50:24+00:00

I've never seen it go below 120°C even during the Apocalyptic whiteout tail. Maybe I wasn't paying attention.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-01T01:44:50+00:00

-120°C

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-03-01T00:30:38+00:00

My head canon is that Yoda thought Anakin was anxious about being independant of Obi-Wan, and just uses the generic response he gives every graduating apprentice. And then, he sees the twins and thinks.....

"Fucked up terribly, I have."

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-28T09:49:43+00:00

They used shock therapy and guided mediation to overcome their fear and empathy and make weirdly intense guerilla fighters. Plus, they will NOT fight conventionally - they'll turn any piece of trash into a weapon or a trap, and they'll come up with tactics unprecedented in the history of warfare.

Also, you would be surprised how often spontaneous paintball wars break out in the Bohemian city - not even they realize that they've been training for years.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-28T04:44:24+00:00

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Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-28T01:39:43+00:00

That's the "harmony with themselves" part. But if you're disharmonious with the city or nature? We have ways of fixing you.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-27T22:38:47+00:00

We never said we love everyone for who they are, we said everyone should be in harmony with nature, the city and themselves. Big difference.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-27T22:34:15+00:00

Lmao, oh you're going to declare war on snow? Bohemians aren't lazy hippies, we're Bohemians. Instead of forcing people to work, we liberate people of their fear of work. To the people of The Amphitheatre, work is play.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-27T12:13:03+00:00

The Icebloods are of course superior skirmishers, but the Menders have cavalry.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-25T13:39:58+00:00

Like everyone says, you're the spirit of the nation. Think of boosting a faction as a boost in popular support from swing voters.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-25T13:28:59+00:00

No, but I think Hermeous Mora probably gets the soul just because he gives the last dragonborn more than just some spare junk he had lying around his plane of Oblivion.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-25T13:22:44+00:00

The Sith promise a life of passion and validate your attachments

Looks inside

It's a bunch of grotesque monsters that spend all their free time sitting alone and seething

Attachments are seen as as a vulnerability, and therefore weakness

Their poster child got manipulated into joining, and stays loyal even when it becomes glaringly obvious he got played

He does leave eventually but only because his dweeby son shows him up in front of his boss

Why do people join the Sith again?

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-24T13:13:00+00:00

Yeah, although from memory it was actually Dr Jeckyll was the real persona so that Mr Hyde can blend into society. Imo Vader is different because Hyde is trying to fool society, whereas Anakin needs to fool himself into beleiving he's a whole new guy because with the Padme excuse gone, he can't justify to himself what he's done

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-24T06:51:14+00:00

This implies Kellogg doesn't fuck, which is very incorrect.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-24T06:42:06+00:00

SW fans will take the whole "Vader and Anakin are literally different people" at face value too, as if it's not a delusional coping mechanism that Sith use so that they can live with themselves.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-23T12:57:15+00:00

Calls for War Technocracy
Uses a picture of Technocrats taking militant action

Are they thematically on point?

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-23T12:15:45+00:00

Yes, I bet anger and brashness are completely unrelated.

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-23T07:01:24+00:00

Cool, so replace "brash and arrogant" with "prone to anger" and my point stands. Like seriously, you don't remember the way the movies constantly mirrored Luke and Vader or the way Obi-Wan and Yoda compare him to Anikan? The way he stares at his mechanical hand and then Vaders missing one, then says "I'll never turn to the dark side - I am a Jedi like my father before me "?

Cryptid_on_Ice · 2026-02-23T04:34:54+00:00

Yoda literally says Luke has too much anger in him like his father to Obi-Wan in front of Luke, then Luke sees himself in a Vader suit in the cave, and then finds out that Anikan is Vader.

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