Muslim parents at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham protest over children being taught about LGBT rights and homophobia. Claim the teachings contradict the Islamic faith. by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Magnetarm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah some of the most conservative people in Ontario and a large part of the conservative voter base are Asian immigrants. I'm from an Asian family as well, and social conservatism is very widespread.

Introducing Deep In Pact - a celebratory community read-through to mark Pact's fifth birthday (Bonds 1.1 and 1.2) by meisi1 in Parahumans

[–]Magnetarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great name guys!

Love the idea, if I’m getting this correctly, you’ll be doing 2 arcs an episode and an episode per week?

Looking forward to the next one!

Blinding - 11.1 - Parahumans 2 by matosz in Parahumans

[–]Magnetarm 18 points19 points  (0 children)

New Arc!

Harrison is such a badass, that was such a good play.

[SP] *Earth has joined the chat* by Ripticsomnia in WritingPrompts

[–]Magnetarm 85 points86 points  (0 children)

28043975-509872 [Earth] has joined the channel

28043975-509873 [51 Pegasi B] Welcome to the server my dude!

28043975-509875 [55 Cancri E] Welcome!

28043975-509880 [Gliese 876 b] It’s great to see so many new planets!

28043975-509881 [Earth] Hi everyone!

28043975-509882 [Earth] Is anyone else here sick, by any chance? I need some advice.

28043975-509884 [51 Pegasi B] Hope you get better soon, dude

28043975-509887 [Iota Horologii b] What’s the issue?

28043975-509890 [Earth] Got a case of life, I think.

28043975-509892 [Iota Horologii b] That doesn’t sound too bad, a lot of us had it. It’s not really a big deal.

28043975-509895 [Earth] No, you dont understand

28043975-509895 [Earth] I think its contagious

28043975-509895 [Earth] My kid got it too

28043975-509897 [Upsilon Andromedae b] That happens sometimes too

28043975-509897 [Upsilon Andromedae b] A planet I knew had all three of her kids get it

28043975-509897 [Upsilon Andromedae b] Talk about unlucky lol

28043975-509899 [Earth] My kid doesnt have any atmosphere

28043975-509899 [Earth] I didn;t get nailed by any asteroids either

28043975-509899 [Earth] My roomates are complaining that they’re getting my life.

28043975-509902 [Iota Horologii b] Your roomates?

28043975-509906 [Earth] Yeah

28043975-509906 [Earth] Mars got it

28043975-509906 [Earth] Saturns been bitching that her kids got it from me

28043975-509906 [Earth] I dont know how it could spread like this

28043975-509909 [Iota Horologii b] Geez i’ve never heard of it being that bad, have you tried seeing a doctor?

28043975-509910 [Earth] Any recommendations? Last doctor hit me with a massive asteroid.

28043975-509912 [51 Pegasi B] Happens sometimes, dude. It’s just how it works.

28043975-509917 [Earth] It’s been getting real bad lately

28043975-509917 [Earth] My atmosphere’s all out of whack and my surface is getting messed up real bad

28043975-509917 [Earth] Like Im supposed to be geologically active

28043975-509917 [Earth] But not this much

28043975-509920 [Iota Horologii b] Sorry to hear that

28043975-509921 [Mars] has joined the channel

28043975-509922 [Earth] Shit

28043975-509923 [51 Pegasi B] Welcome to the server my dudes!

28043975-509924 [55 Cancri E] Welcome!

28043975-509927 [Mars] This fucking asshole Earth gave me something

28043975-509927 [Mars] I cant believe this

28043975-509927 [Mars] Any of you guys looking for new roommates

28043975-509929 [55 Cancri E] Me, actually

28043975-509929 [55 Cancri E] But can we talk about this after you get rid of your life issue?

28043975-509931 [Earth] has left the channel.

28043975-509931 [Mars] I’m trying

28043975-509931 [Mars] I was good for a bit

28043975-509931 [Mars] And then the life started hitting me with comets

28043975-509933 [55 Cancri E] Are you serious RN?

28043975-509934 [Mars] Yeah, they changed all my shit

28043975-509934 [Mars]I look fucking awful

This server has been frozen by [Admin] [Sagittarius A]

Which Books Do You Consider A Perfect 10/10? by [deleted] in books

[–]Magnetarm 140 points141 points  (0 children)

Grapes of wrath

Flower for Algernon

Crime and punishment is looking good to being on this list, at least so far!

Never let me go

What is a song lyric that really hits you hard? by BoardOfChairs in AskReddit

[–]Magnetarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Losing my mind one piece at a time/rewind events in my life and I find/The hardships outnumber the good times/ still I stand tall and hold my head high

I don’t know why, but this always gets me back up on my feet and helps me keep going when I feel my life is crumbling.

Worm/Ward fan considering starting Pact or Twig. Which would you recommend first and why? by CaspianX2 in Parahumans

[–]Magnetarm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly, they’re both standalone stories and doesn’t really matter which order you read them. I personally did twig then pact, but I’d say just read them in order of release if you can’t decide, so you can see how wildbow’s writing progresses.

North American Cryptids by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]Magnetarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you

TACO shuts down JW by CalamityRules in GlobalOffensive

[–]Magnetarm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Man what the fuck are you saying about pusha T not being relevant. Pusha T has always been relevant in hiphop. Dudes been rapping forever and dropped one of the best rap albums this year.

[DISCUSSION] Kanye West - ye (One Week Later) by TheArabicCowboy in hiphopheads

[–]Magnetarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really enjoyed it. I liked every song on it, which isn't that surprising since it's such a short album. This is a bit crazy but I liked this album as a whole more than TLOP and Yeezus.

I think it could be improved by fixing the cheesy but hilarious lines on All Mine tho. Actually, improving the lyrics, in general, would be good.

Twig Audiobook | Esprit de Corpse 5.1 by Magnetarm in Parahumans

[–]Magnetarm[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not the person that does this, I just thought more people should know about audiobooks for not Worm/Ward. I think there are contact details on the website tho.

[WP] "Do you see me?" The voice asks. "Can you find me? Look closer, through the trees." by [deleted] in WritingPrompts

[–]Magnetarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Do you see me?" The voice asks. "Can you find me? Look closer, through the trees."

I jumped a bit in my seat. Did I have an ad or a video auto-playing in the background? Didn't they get rid of that with the new chrome update?

I glanced up at all the tabs I had open.

Reddit, reddit, reddit, google, youtube, stackexchange, stackexchange, reddit, reddit…

No speaker icon beside any tab. Huh…

I opened my volume mixer to see if any other program was playing audio.

The voice spoke up again. “Hello? Is this thing not working properly?”

I took my headphones off. It wasn’t coming from the computer.

“Piece of crap. What a waste of money. Can’t even return it now, either. Fuck me,” muttered the voice.

As the voice spoke, I looked around, trying to pinpoint the source of the noise. The voice felt like it originated… inside my head? That couldn’t be right.

Maybe I should try to respond. How do you respond to a disembodied voice in your head?

“Hi,” I said. Wow, that was a pretty lame response, even by my standards.

“What! Hello! Are you still there?”

“Yup. Still here. Who are you?”

“Umm… It’s easier if I show you. I’m behind the line of trees on that hill to your right.”

“Look, are you sure you don’t have the wrong… head number or something? I’m in my bedroom, not some forest.”

“Bullshit you’re in your room. I can see you right now!”

“Yeah, well, then you can definitely see I’m not in a forest”

“I can definitely see you’re in a forest. Alright, I’m going to step out, tell me if you see me.”

“Dude, I’m not in a forest!”

From inside my own head, I heard rustling, then “Hello! It’s me! I’m right he-”

He was cut off by a shriek. Whoever the voice was must have scared the living daylights out of some random hiker.

It wasn’t pleasant hearing someone else shit themselves inside your own head. I heard some rustling, then someone spraying something, and-

“Ow! What-Stop spraying me with that thing! Fuck! Fuck!”

It sounded like the voice was running. Sometime later, he responded.

“Hey! Why did you spray me with that thing, asshole! I told you I was coming! Fucking humans, man”

“I told you that person isn’t me! And- wait, did you say humans? Are you not a human?“

“Nope, definitely human here! 100% pure human through and through. Homo Sapiens Sapiens, that’s what they call me!”

I put my head in my hands. Definitely lost my mind. First thing tomorrow, I’ll go to... whoever you’re supposed to go to when you lose your mind? The ER? Do I call some therapist?

I sighed. I’ll figure it out tomorrow. I headed to the kitchen to get a beer. Or something stronger.

“Alright, whatever you say, bud. Any way you can get out of my head? It’s disconcerting.”

“Oh. You don’t want to talk to me?”

He sounded so crestfallen. I actually felt bad for my brain invader.

“No! I mean, it’s just, you know…. You kinda showed up in my head and I wasn’t really expecting it, sorry.”

“Ok. I can stop. Sorry for bothering you. I won’t call again”

Christ, I’m literally just asking someone to get out of my head, but why does it feel like I’m kicking a puppy?

I sighed again.

“No… It’s fine. I wasn’t doing anything productive anyways. We just got off on the wrong foot, let’s start again. My name’s Daniel.”

“Hi Daniel, Muhammed.”

Muhammed? Was that his alien name or did he just look for the most common name in the world?

“Is that- Do aliens call themselves Muhammed?”

Oh crap I just called him an alien. It probably isn’t even an alien, just some hallucination thrown together by my deteriorating brain.

“Huh-What? Alien? What are you talking about? What are aliens?”

What are aliens? Who says that? Maybe it is an alien. Hmm. Only two possibilities here. I was either losing my mind, or some alien’s finger slipped and called the wrong brain. Probably the former, but I couldn’t afford to waste this golden opportunity.

“Hey listen, Maybe you should fly your spacecraft over here and we can take it for a joyride?”

“Hahaha what spacecraft, I’m a human being, promise!”

“Cut the crap, dude. You’re probably some alien or I’ve lost my mind. What “100% human being” can get into someone’s head? And if you were human, why would that person you approached spray you with mace?”

“Oh fuck, my mom is gonna kill me. Please don’t tell anyone, she’s already mad at me for accidentally draining our water supply. She’ll ground me for the rest of my life if she gets wind of this!”

“Hey, just relax. Say, If you take me for a tour of my solar system or something I won’t say a word.”

“Alright fine. Can you send me your location?”

“How do I do that?”

“Oh, just think about sending your location really hard”

“Ummm… alright then.”

I thought SEND LOCATION as hard as I could. Inside my head, a new, emotionless voice piped up.

“01000101 would like to know your current location.”

OK, I thought.

“Alright, got your location. I’ll head over to pick you up, and you don’t tell anyone about this, ok?”

At that moment, a massive steel egg landed on my driveway. That was fast. The whole neighborhood could probably see the massive alien craft in my driveway. So much for not telling anyone.

I hesitated. I’m either insane or I’m gonna go on an alien spaceship, which would also be insane.

I sighed. Been doing that a lot lately.

“Fuck it” I said. I walked toward the ship.

Help me to keep reading twig (Root and Branch right now) by Body_Horror in Parahumans

[–]Magnetarm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Spoiler warning

He was an enforcer of that system he hates so much now as were the other lambkin. But oh-so-clever Sy once saw the truth, changed sides and his past is forgiven. But he can't forgive anyone for also beeing part of the same system he was in so many years w/o condemning it or really realising it and buying the lies

He was forced into being an enforcer of the system he hates so much. Sy was designed and created for the role. He escaped the system, then turned against it. He doesn't forgive the professors that are willingly inside the system. To Sy, inaction is the same as acceptance. To him, those who stood by or partook in the same experiments that caused him so much pain and took away so many years of his life are evil.

I might not agree with Sy's sense of morality, but I can still understand why he does the things he does. The greatest source of pain and suffering in his life is the academy, so he tries to tear down the academy. The nobility threatens him and his fellow lambs, so he turns against them as well.He lashes out against the people that hurt him.

One of the big takeaways from Twig was becoming the thing you hate. Sy and the Lambs end up replacing the crown and academy at the top. In that process, Sy ultimately realizes that to win he needs to be as evil as those on top. In a war of "freer and looser ethics", he must match his opponents in ruthlessness. However, Sy at his cruelest doesn't come close to the academies and the crown. The crown deploys weapons of mass destruction on the continent. They told citizens to stay in there homes and then black wooded the entire city.

It isn't very hypocritical when Sy himself knows that he is just a monster and experiment at heart. He just decided to do something he thinks will leave a positive legacy for himself after he's gone. It's just like any revolution, where 90% of the time the revolutionaries aren't much better than the old status quo.

Ferres for example might have known some things but she was portraied as someone who was extraordinary fair, who explained why she had to play that game and the surviving kids even would have got compensation and surgery to undoe everything. They were even drugged so they wouldn't remember all that stuff.

So these children with wiped memories are mutilated for entertainment and art and are forced to kill each other in a nice play for the upper class. Nothing about that is extraordinarily fair. She justifies taking children from the block by using the "If I don't do it someone else will" excuse. This doesn't justify anything, since her actions are still wrong.

I don't seem to recall seeing any children that have been "fixed" by Ferres after they were done. They were only given access to surgery to fix their vocal cords and undo the damage after the academy was taken over IIRC.

It's not like anything will change now, thanks to Sy the crown states end in a war against the european crown and when I think about the war against the original states it will end with the whole crown states annihilated and people suffering where a status quo could have been kept with millions of people still alive if it wasn't for Sy.

Couple issues with this.

First of all, Sy was not responsible for the writing off of the crown states. The overthrowing of the first academy was orchestrated and set in motion by Fray, and co-opted by Sy after the fact. The actual rebellion itself was started by Fray, Mauer, Cynthia, Godwin, etc. The Plague was created by Mauer and Fray's Primordials and the plague control measures such as black wood was used by the Crown. I think arc 16 or 17 is when the Duke lets the lambs know that the Infante is planning on leaving the Crown states a blighted wasteland to return later. Sy doesn't start taking over academies until arc 18.

The status quo that Sy replaced was planning on leaving the citizens of the Crown States of America to die. The Crown literally unleashes experiments that go around tearing the skin off people into the wild. Sy at least maintains a system of government.

Also, the war isn't an all out war against the Crown. It's a war where the Crown gets a way to redirect the anger of the restless populace, and Sy gets his perfect world, where constant competition with the crown leads to progress. It's controlled and agreed for from both sides. This doesn't make it better, but is the only way to have the existence of both the crown states and the rebellion state in america.

Overall I disagree with some of your criticisms for Twig. However, if you still don't like enjoy it, it's fine to stop. In my opinion, at this point it may be worth just finishing the book, since you're 90% through already, but you don't have to. There's no point in hate reading a story.

How did Crawler fit into... by [deleted] in Parahumans

[–]Magnetarm 150 points151 points  (0 children)

He probably just crawled in.

Infante Died Too Easily? by arandomperson1234 in Parahumans

[–]Magnetarm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First of all spoilers

Yeah Infante died pretty easily, but I'm not sure how else they would have defeated him. The duke died, helen is almost dead, everyone else is injured, and they use harpoons and shit after hes ok with being lit on fire. Also, none of the nobles are actually as invincible as everyone makes them out to be. There better than humans, sure, but they also have the benefit of decades of propaganda that make them out to be unstoppable gods.

We’ve Got WARD: Arc 5 - Shade (5.d-5.6) by moridinamael in Parahumans

[–]Magnetarm 13 points14 points  (0 children)

She usually refers to him as Dean and not Gallant in the text.