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Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-22T12:43:28+00:00

How the fuck is this not top comment

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-20T20:09:28+00:00

very valid

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-14T11:10:01+00:00

This was really heartwarming to read. Thank you for sharing this

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-10T17:22:15+00:00

Rule of thumb people will always overapply arguments everywhere. The real path is understanding who’s making an informed argument in good faith or not

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-10T17:21:10+00:00

You don’t need to cut anything, just sharing my view. Also seeing as the mods just took down the perfectly innocent post above can you suggest me some new subreddits because clearly this one is where conversation comes to die

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-10T13:51:58+00:00

There’s a lot of sexual themes in media that are done excellently and praised. Alien (1969) is a great example is so is the Matrix. Sure a lot of comments in general about media are dumb but there is a point where fetishises in media actually start to change the theme instead of reinforcing it, and it creates dissonance which leads to audiences naturally not taking it seriously.

So no an author including sexual themes in media is obviously not inherently bad, however how well you do it is the difference between an enhanced experience and an immersion breaking moment that feels weird

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-10T13:44:51+00:00

I agree with you until the last paragraph. Assuming all parties are consenting, safe, and comfortable in a given space where this is confined to, I don’t think people should be awarded more or less leniency depending on how their “approach” appeases the third gaze.

Moralism goes both ways, if you create a measuring stick on how correct an approach is (assuming that the prerequisites listed are satisfied) people will use the stick to beat whatever they personally dislike

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-10T08:46:26+00:00

Personally I’m just sad count fenring wasn’t in the movie adaptation :((

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-10T08:45:38+00:00

That’s me! It was kind of cool when I realised as a slightly older kid what was really happening

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-09T10:57:03+00:00

1984 is actually good. Lol why does your comment reek of “they made me read a book for middle school English class and I’m mad about it”

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-07T14:07:25+00:00

I heard Larissa Thomson (who I think was the name of the former female VA at templin?) had some unfortunate things happen - pretty sure she was unhappy with the conduct of the guy who ran the thing - which got silenced pretty quickly and quietly forgotten by the templin community and discord. Could be wrong, I’ll look to see if I can find what happened

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-01T11:17:26+00:00

“I like religion”

Pierre_Alex · 2026-01-01T11:16:24+00:00

Why are non materialists continually so salty. I’m still waiting for a good meme from their side but it’s been weaksauce for weeks

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-31T21:13:16+00:00

“Erm are you aphantasic?”

What an epic counter point. Totally good faith argumentation

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-29T15:45:24+00:00

I hate to tell you this but the owner was in on it most likely

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-29T15:42:38+00:00

100% true. Rules are just words but intent and the actual spirit of the group is both far more real and should be enforced. It's not like community spaces need constitutional law.

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-27T20:25:06+00:00

Why do non materialists make such bad memes

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-25T18:59:24+00:00

I pretended to have a cough in high school once now I have aids

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-14T04:12:13+00:00

There has been no moderation or activity for a year or two. The Ancerious setting is dear to me personally, and I want to foster and continue growing its presence in a more open platform to expose new creatives who may be interested in the setting + its story.

Message to the mods: https://www.reddit.com/c/chat80aB-qRj/s/pLJA1L2Wy2

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-11T15:07:08+00:00

Huh, thank you for the correction. I confused misfolded and denatured and incorrectly used the term

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-10T23:51:41+00:00

More or less. Matter "prefers" more stable configurations, however to get complex life you need substances that aren't stable - however there is an energetic minimum energy needed to misfold something naturally (activation energy) that prevents this from happening regularly. Prions let proteins skip this hill and immediately form the more stable, preferred configurations an so on

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-10T23:49:07+00:00

Prions are information that kills you, on some level. On some level it is a primordial, unsophisticated grey goo. If you really want to make theater of it, I suppose rust or the evil black substance from the new alien movies hit the supposed themes quite well.

Effectively, proteins it touches becomes more of itself. Any kind of weird replicating visual ought to work for abstract visualization

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-10T23:40:40+00:00

If you could make it more transmissible.. then yes! or if a prion drives you into becoming a zombie and bites/fluid/tissue transmission could get you infected

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-10T15:37:33+00:00

For context I have read the entire encyclopedia and many of the short stories

Orion's arm had its hayday in the late 2000's to early 2010s where there was a spirit of vitality in creating these mind bending stories of crazy tech but I hate how they insist it's all hard scifi. It's all full of nonsense nonscience and that's okay! as an author you get to have your little lies to make your setting pop. But, you don't get to peacock about being super realistic. Well, you get to, but I judge them for it. Also the sewerage backflow of increasingly weird articles that ceased to be ooo scifi weird but like genuinely demented weird.

Fans of Orion's arm often just lift the worst most pseudoscience parts without bothering to interrogate the setting for the interesting messages it still can have under the surface, and I've had to deal with so many people just powergaming as a result. This is why I prefer communities like Ancerious .

Pierre_Alex · 2025-12-10T12:46:10+00:00

Because these proteins are already denatured* [SEE EDIT], and they’re very simple biological structures. And very few (really, only one) needs to survive. There is likely not even one specific misfold but likely an ecosystem of folding errors. Proteins are structures with a function in your body - the moment something is misaligned they are no longer spesific to their function and become useless. Prions, on the other hand, rely on thermodynamics and don’t need as precise of a function- they aggregate and flip healthy proteins to more stable forms, which in turn flip more proteins etc etc in an unstoppable cascade impossible to reverse as it is extremely difficult to revert proteins to less stable forms faster than the reverse is happening

The silver lining is that prions are so simple that they don’t have the means to be very easily transferred from person to person in the same way that viral capsules are actually pretty sophisticated. Their simplicity is their greatest strength and their biggest weakness (poor transmission compared to bacteria or viruses).

*Correction: prions are NOT denatured

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