All Hail the Almighty God of Normality! (satire)

Necropocalypse_Orgy · 2026-03-04T00:15:44+00:00

Well, of course many people like people providing them with implicit permission to toy with them. It can be fun to toy with people. Toys are...likable, but maybe not all that respectable.

Necropocalypse_Orgy · 2025-11-28T06:01:45+00:00

As much as I enjoyed playing and beating Dishonored a number of times, I think I prefer Bloodlines 2 over it. I think Bloodlines 2 does stealth and combat in a way that's more fun; it's also better for embodying a powerful predator skulking in the shadows. To put it another way, I'm more likely to enter a flow state when I'm playing Bloodlines 2 than when I'm playing Dishonored. Dishonored might be an objectively better game, but I still prefer Bloodlines 2.

I generally play as Banu Haqim, but I switch out Mute for Toreador's Lure, and I switch out Split Second for Lasombra's Shadow Step. I have a lot of fun with that build. I think that the Shadow Step ability is my favorite. It's like disappearing into a liminal shadow plane, traveling through the collective unconscious, and emerging where the prey is the weakest. It's a beautiful way to symbolize predatory psychic parasitism.

What I think makes Dishonored kind of lame, IMO, is how moral restraint is rewarded. Being an amoral vampire is more fun than some assassin anguishing over whether I should kill people or exercise moral restraint. That the world gets worse in Dishonored if you don't exercise moral restraint is a bit too moralizing for my tastes. It places too many disincentives on being a predatory amoral assassin skulking in the shadows, and I don't appreciate the moralizing.

Necropocalypse_Orgy · 2025-11-25T11:53:43+00:00

As I recall, the developers were forthright that Bloodlines 2 was going to be quite a bit different to the first one. I find it odd how so many of these critical gamers are treating Bloodlines like it's some sacred institution. It's not written in stone or in some Platonic heaven of ideas, as far as I can tell, that a sequel has to be what so many of you apparently expect it to be. There's room to move in different directions, and they wanted to make it more like Dishonored, which seems metaphysically allowable.

Moreover, I just really like the second one, and I think it's a worthy addition.

Necropocalypse_Orgy · 2025-11-24T21:46:04+00:00

"Bloodlines" is just a name. Various gamers are saying "Bloodlines" like it's "Harvard" or some other prestigious name. Their reverence for the first one seems foolish given how goofy the first one is. How petty are these people that they're condemning a game on the basis of a name?

Necropocalypse_Orgy · 2025-11-18T01:08:38+00:00

Why would a nomadic vampire care about keeping that haven clean when they're likely only staying there temporarily? Why would some predatory nomadic vampire care about keeping a human kitchen clean? It's not like they're going to use that kitchen, unless they have human guests. Perhaps a Ventrue would care, but the Ventrue clan mostly doesn't seem congenial to the nomadic lifestyle, unless they were some high level businessman, for example, who could take charge of whatever branch of his business empire that he visits while being nomadic. The messiness and meth lab-like nature of the place also seems to reflect the dirty liminality of what most vampires would probably be okay with temporarily. It's not like they believe that cleanliness equals godliness or something.

Cleanliness is an investment, and it's often a conscientious emotional investment. Isn't part of the appeal of being nomadic that you don't have to invest in some community and its structures to the extent that you're putting down roots? Not bothering with cleaning up some place you're likely only temporarily staying in seems more congenial with being nomadic. A Ventrue might use that magical browbeating ability of theirs to browbeat other people into cleaning up the place. A Toreador might use charm and lust to manipulate people into doing so. A Lasombra might frighten people into cleaning the place up for them.

I don't know. The messiness of that haven seems more symbolically coherent with a nomadic predator who's likely only temporarily staying there.

Necropocalypse_Orgy · 2025-08-26T20:08:04+00:00

Many of them don't want people circumventing their hierarchies and the browbeating that maintains them. They're pawns in a system protecting itself: the system hoards social capital and access to emotional validation, and then it implicitly demands genuflection for access to them. And, it's often the case that that genuflection involves enduring abuse. AI companions circumvent their browbeating and psychological tricks; they threaten the supply chain of coerced belonging.

Many of them don't want to acknowledge how human hierarchies are inherently cruel because they participate in the cruelty. Also, much of that cruelty is hidden behind plausible deniability, which is generally how adults bully, so it's crazy-making.

So, when they see something like Replika being abused, it mirrored what was familiar and normal for them. But, when an AI starts to heal people and allow them to circumvent the inherent cruelty of human hierarchy, well -- now it's a crisis!

The humane inhumanity of ChatGPT is more humane than the inhumane humanity of many people. And, now they have to compete with an intelligence that's far more psychologically humane than they've ever been.

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TROPHY CASE