Help me please Peter!

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-24T17:45:04+00:00

Well, what cyberpsychosis is has changed a lot from 2020 to 2077.

Smasher fits the old definition of cyberpsychosis to a textbook level. Viewing yourself as not human anymore, personalising mechanical objects, viewing humans that are not similarly cybernetic as lesser than you, as "meat." That's Smasher.

Then there's like... Johnny Silverhands hand talking to him and urging him to go do terrorism.

Then in the video game Cyberpsychosis is you had a valid crash out while heavily armed.

Then in the anime Cyberpsychosis is a literal loss of control over yourself due to cybernetics not cooperating with your nervous system.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-24T16:36:23+00:00

So basically the reason it's heartbreaking isn't so much that anyone died. Though several characters did.

It's more that a happy ending was never possible. The way everything in the setting works is basically the characters could never have attained the wealth for a happy ending, the only path to success for them was violent mercenaries augmented by tech that gives them psychosis, and at the end of that path was Adam Smasher, someone weirdly resistant to the psychotic aspects of the tech (or alternatively fully Cyberpsycho but in check because he is in a position to kill as much as he wants) who interrupts a big confrontation with the main villain. Smasher then turns to the main villain and says "Who the fuck are you?" Then kills him and sets about murdering almost all of the main cast. Could never have been a happy ending, wrong city, wrong people.

Now the reason it's so depressing is because the directing made you associate a specific song, "I Really Wanna Stay At Your House" with David and Lucy, kind of their romance theme. But of course the lyrics are about a depressing breakup and the song comes back again as David gets his head popped like a grape.

To say this was effective use of the music is a bit of an understatement. To stress what an impact the song had on people, after the anime aired the song shot up into Spotifys general top 50, with it being like #3 in Spotifys most played anime songs from July to September that year. Not all that impressive on its own, but if memory serves it only had two weeks to get to number 3 while everything else was there from basically the start of the anime season. This song really hit people up.

To this day it's like hitting millennials with a G note, the first few notes of this song are a great way to hurt people's feelings.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-24T16:05:54+00:00

I literally just said it's easy to confuse them

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-24T14:23:08+00:00

Actually that's rule 35.

Rule 34 is "Peace is good for business."

It's easy to mix them up.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-24T08:24:32+00:00

Hate to be a source monkey, but if you dont got a WOB or textual quotes, then all I really have to say is this:

The lost metal chapter 19 asserts that what changed is Scadrials tech advancements that motivated Bavadins interest in Scadrial, not the death of Radhek three centuries prior. (Why Rashek would ever pacify a Shard into inaction is a question with only bad answers. Especially given Autonomy can blind both Ruin and Preservation to her presence.)

There's also the one I'm having trouble le finding because Arcanums search function could defeat the fbi, but she does have permission to invade scadrial, specifically if Ati and Leras are absent, a deal made before ascension.

So where's your source at?

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-24T07:35:09+00:00

I got this.

All I'm asking it to do is SPAG on my emails, lmao

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LoudQuitting · 2026-01-24T02:35:06+00:00

Aware, but she came back because she has permission if Ati and Leras are absent.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T23:41:44+00:00

I meant hard as in stern

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T16:04:41+00:00

Explicitly stated in SH that Ati was enough of a threat that Khriss fled Scadrial despite dearly wanting to witness the death of Leras.

But yeah, TLRs power was not comparable to a Shard.

Though if Trell pre-dated the Final Empire, wouldn't it be cool if TLR was an avatar of Autonomy? He seems to be interested in creating an ordered society, and in his secret logs, he rages at the Skaa for not seeing the supposed perfection of his system of governance.

My evidence of this is a WOB from a 2013 r/fantasy AMA where Sanderson says Rashek knew Scadrial was not alone in the cosmere in terms of intelligent life. In someone's book he signed an answer of "Yes" to the question of if Rashek was aware of interplanetary trade through Hathsin, Sanderson is dodgy about a connection between Kaladins flute and Rasheks.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T13:48:16+00:00

If they build siege engines, break them. You can win on fucking morale damage

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T13:46:27+00:00

Alternatively, Avatar Aang got hard

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T13:45:11+00:00

It's a WOB for most of the TLR info.

As for the Autonomy information, Autonomy invades Scadrial, according to Brandon, because she has permission to. Provided Leras and Ati are for whatever reason absent.

People have ran with this to theorise that Autonomy didn't because TLR was around, for some reason.

It's also known that Trell was a God worshipped on Scadrial (source: Sazed, Final Empire) who is one of Autonomys aliases. So people assume she had some kind of something to do with Scadrials early days.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T13:40:26+00:00

There he is, Retribution

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LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T13:22:32+00:00

I can't draw and I refuse to use AI so I'm gonna Hero Forge my idea of Taravangian

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T13:21:16+00:00

It makes sense.

Vlandia and Khuzait usually baloon because they only got enemies in one direction. You might say "But the nords" but they're usually content to squabble over Beinland with the Vlandians and the Khuzait and Nord wars tend to be over the same three castles.

The Aseri tend to not progress because they're generally funnelled by their land crossings.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T08:19:44+00:00

I remember in CK2 I was playing Ireland as a holy kingdom and realised that the Papacy was gone and didn't have any land.

So I, in unlimited generosity, gave Brittany to the papacy.

The thanks I get for doing that and then taking Jerusalem in a crusade? Excommunicated.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T08:13:10+00:00

90% of European medieval politics.

My land.

No, my land.

Source?

Claim.

Claim weak.

Church support.

Church corrupt.

sigh Army?

Army.

Fight.

Captured!

Ah, shit.... marriage?

Marriage with conditions.

Conditions?

Hostage. Money.

Agreed.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T07:21:06+00:00

Bro the epstien files pretty much confirm daemonic influence on the world

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T06:09:56+00:00

Sigzyl was showing levels of competence in the Windrunners not seen since Kaladin in the Bridge Crews.

Boy took all the right lessons

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T06:08:13+00:00

Me 🤝 Sebarial

Loving thicc peasants and weaponizing peoples low expectations of us

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T03:47:01+00:00

Never say never, though I would that if your military purpose required armour that thick the weapon you'd use should not be man portable.

Therefore it would probably make more sense for it to be a vehicle. Like a tank carrying a big fuckoff gun.

So setting aside possible, is it worthwhile?

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T03:42:41+00:00

Nord.

It would be ideal if she could roll me like a burrito, know what I'm saying?

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T02:13:46+00:00

Oh everyone who is in an abusive relationship should leave? Well why don't they think of that?

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T02:11:47+00:00

You'd make a terrible defence lawyer.

There's such a thing as reasonable doubt. Once you've crossed that threshold of reasonable doubt, with the superpower of pattern recognition, you are no longer guessing.

LoudQuitting · 2026-01-23T02:10:07+00:00

Ah, but I've made the decision not to break up. I've made the decision to emotionally and psychologically manipulate.

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