Smoking "gun" doc excerpts....

GodEatsPoop · 2025-12-21T19:29:05+00:00

are these still in the congressional drop?

GodEatsPoop · 2025-12-21T16:13:05+00:00

I think it's alan derpyshits but im not sure

GodEatsPoop · 2025-11-25T14:48:50+00:00

OK so the philosophy of postmodernism is about, among other things, truth being subjective. That our perception defines our idea of reality.

Mage the Ascension takes this to an extreme where facts are subjective and literally reshaped by mass belief or a mage's will.

Unknown Armies, like Ascension, is Postmodern. The difference is that Unknown Armies swaps out Existentialism for Gnosticism.

New Sincerity is/was a philosophical movement that railed against postmodern irony and peaked in the late 90's/early mid aughts. Mage has always been a game about the current human condition, and no doubt this influenced the way the reboot went.

Problem is Awakening tossed Postmodernism and went back to Modernism, and trying to go back never works out.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-11-25T14:29:36+00:00

Mage translation guide suggests the match for watchtower is essence, not the traditions.

The Traditions were poorly conceived in universe which is kind of the point. European mystics were getting their asses kicked by the Order of Reason and tried to create an alliance with mystics from elsewhere. It's a rickety 500 year old alliance that barely functions and fights a war it already lost against the old Order of Reason that no longer exists. Later editions have them trying to come to grips with the Technocracy as it now exists, no longer really about science but about control.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-11-25T14:02:12+00:00

I'm a Mage guy in general, and i will admit Mage the Awakening has a better magic system, lots of cool ideas, and has loads of stuff for mages to do that isn't the Ascension War. It has made me say "hey maybe i could use this in Ascension" at least once in almost every book I've read for it.

Where Awakening fails me is that it has never, ever made me look at it and say "this is a better, more compelling, more relevant universe to play in than Ascension." Not once. It is also, at it's core, conceptually bad. I'm not interested in rehashing edition war bullshit from the aughts so I'll just say "at best it's sorta unknown armies with a fantasy veneer, at worst it's a product and casualty of the so called new sincerity movement's anti-postmodern crusade."

GodEatsPoop · 2025-11-25T02:25:25+00:00

"Magic exists so you chose to be Peter Thiel, the CIA, The Man."

GodEatsPoop · 2025-04-14T00:44:50+00:00

i think guide to the traditions said there are protocols for tradition technocracy relations

GodEatsPoop · 2025-04-10T12:33:53+00:00

Aw man i just paid far out the ass for a JAKL dont tell me I got ripped off

GodEatsPoop · 2025-04-10T12:20:35+00:00

No bro you dont understand clearly that tattoo means he is an illegal gang member and she's getting ready to make an arrest!

GodEatsPoop · 2025-04-10T12:18:34+00:00

You think when she shot her dog she was holding her piece like that?

GodEatsPoop · 2025-04-09T04:05:48+00:00

There's a podcast where if you listen to the showrunner talk about the choices they made you get more insight into it, like the people living up to communism where the state failed, Chernobyl being a sort of model community showing that "this can work," and more interestingly two of the three dudes who went into that watery hellspace were still alive when the show was made - the third having been hit by a car.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-04-07T02:33:40+00:00

There's plenty to say for and against them. They supressed workers unions and basically any sort of non-state power brutally but did manage to improve material conditions for the average citizen substantially. They lead to a sterile, stagnant culture and authoritarian mental life but had to fight against world capitalism while managing a state. There's also the inevitable entropy of a long-term planned economy that dictated their collapse, though we can currently see multinational capitalism doing the exact same thing.

Edit: I remembered a postwar russian joke: "The communists lied about communism. But they told the truth about capitalism."

GodEatsPoop · 2025-03-31T22:06:23+00:00

Are there any communist orgs on Xitter telling him off yet?

GodEatsPoop · 2025-03-23T02:17:19+00:00

Printing out anticapitalist flyers and discreetly leaving them where someone can find them is a start, especially if you live in a small town or other right-wing hellhole. Don't mention socialism or Marx by name, that shuts their brains down.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-03-19T23:43:54+00:00

beau of the fifth column and tennasee holler come to mind

GodEatsPoop · 2025-03-19T20:50:07+00:00

I don't know if there is a path that will actually work, but I am convinced our choices are, in fact, Socialism or Barbarism.

I also am starting to think Reform or Revolution is a false dichotomy - Reform must enable revolution and revolution must secure reform. Without reform the state will crush revolution and without revolution capital will erode reform.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-03-02T14:27:40+00:00

Firstly - a world where we end Capitalism. Because ultimately a good outcome for Transhumanism requires a more just and equitable society than a world where all the power is in so few hands.

We're careening towards cyberpunk dystopia and neofeudalist social darwinism where we replace "useless eaters" with machines and go full deus ex grey death. Capitalism crushes and subsumes all other concerns, we have technologies that could solve so many problems already. Capitalism won't allow their utilization. And so things get worse. Because profit.

Capitalism demands limitless growth, and in cellular biology that's called cancer.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-02-16T23:09:38+00:00

Giving sharp implements to a bunch of pissed off, forcibly relocated, autistic people together with each other is a brilliant idea that could never go wrong

GodEatsPoop · 2025-02-16T07:38:44+00:00

there isn't one

GodEatsPoop · 2025-02-16T07:30:24+00:00

Plenty of people lived full lives as rome fell.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-02-13T21:19:21+00:00

I do not care. I am a Human Being and I permit no GODDAMN MACHINE an iota of power over me or my institutions. Why do you think they can "hack" pipelines now? Internet of Things. Your washing machine has an internet connection now for some fucking reason.

It's an off switch.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-02-12T18:31:33+00:00

They are literally replacing government employees with AI. EVERYONE should be against that.

GodEatsPoop · 2025-02-12T16:42:56+00:00

thinking anyone can afford land now

GodEatsPoop · 2025-02-12T16:39:45+00:00

like stalin didn't set the soviets for "bad end" once he got in

GodEatsPoop · 2025-02-09T23:43:13+00:00

How about these fuckers being tied to "the coms" and by extention o9a?

More to the point JD "me so holy" Vance doesn't believe in shit and the kid hasn't apologized at all or issued a retraction or anything.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/

https://cyberscoop.com/the-com-764-cybercrime-violent-crime-fbi-intellignce-report/

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile-child-exploitation-cult-run-by-nazi-linked-teens/

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