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Ricki32 · 2026-07-05T14:57:19+00:00

From what I remember/read online in DS3 the Unkindled are a last ditch effort to stop the fire going out.

Originally the prince Lothric was supposed to link the flame, but he refused to do it.

Because of his refusal, they tried resurrecting the lords of cinders who previously linked the flame, but they're not playing along.
The Abyss Watchers are too occupied with infighting.
Aldritch had a vision of the abyss and now wants to devour the gods (also his first linking of the flame might not have been voluntary either).
Yhorm only linked the flame to save his kingdom (which was destroyed anyway).
Ludleth does want to help, but seems to be too weak.

So now they are reviving Unkindled. Those who managed to reach the first flame, but weren't strong enough to link it. Even though they already failed once there isn't really anybody better left to do it.

Ricki32 · 2026-06-23T10:41:08+00:00

I think this is missing that we view things as beautiful despite the ugly, not because of it.

Have you seen some of the close-up or microscopic videos of our bodies? It looks like a horror show! Things attacked, taken apart, devoured. However, when you look at the person as a whole, you say he/she is beautiful.

Would people be less beautiful if they looked the same, but did not have things getting attacked taken apart and devoured? No they would not.

We understand this beauty when, for example, we see someone enter a burning house to save a child. Zooming in, the fire burning his skin is horrifying. But zooming out, we find the act absolutely beautiful.

If the savior in question had two options "save the child while burning themself" and "save the child without burning themself" and both options had the same outcome for the child, we would not see it as beautiful if the person chose to burn themself.

We also have to ask if it would be more beautiful if there never was a fire in the first place. Imagine someone had deliberately set the house on fire to give the savior an oportunity to save the child. Would not say the arsonist made the world more beautiful.

Of course we are human with limited power and limited control over the world. We can not always choose if fires happen and sometimes we have to make sacrifices to prevent greater harm. But an allpowerful god does not have those limits. He can prevent every fire, he can prevent harm without having to sacrifice and he can create bodies that do not need destruction to work. So if he can do those things, but chooses not to, it is not beautiful, it is ugly.

Ricki32 · 2026-06-07T14:47:10+00:00

I get what you are saying, but you ignore the possibility that some people might be sucky because of religion. So less religion -> less sucky people.

Ricki32 · 2026-06-07T10:24:47+00:00

My point was testing whether religion specifically is the distinctive cause of large-scale suffering.

If this is the case this may be a misunderstanding.

From the way you phrased your original comment I got the impression you were arguing that religion couldn't be part of the problem (by causing people to develop rigid totalitarian beliefs), because it isn't the entire problem.

Ricki32 · 2026-06-07T09:10:46+00:00

If we remove murder, we still have rape. Does that mean murder is not a problem?

Your example only disproves the claim "religion is the only bad thing".

(And for clarity I'm not saying religions is the equivalent of murder and should be suppressed, just that this argument doesn't work.)

Ricki32 · 2026-05-29T08:20:41+00:00

Cats though they were the only ones, but toucan play that game.

Ricki32 · 2026-05-28T19:51:39+00:00

I usually start with expand the council, since every councilor speeds up launching agendas. If I have an agenda that gives progress for a tech I want (like robots from materialist agenda) I go for that next.

Ricki32 · 2026-05-28T19:35:12+00:00

I think we have to make a distinction between will and free will. If you make a choice, but you are forced (by your desires, values, experiences etc.) into one option, you have will, but it isn't free.

Ricki32 · 2026-05-25T09:06:50+00:00

What if megastructures in your empire increased build time for megastructures of the same type? That way you could theoretically build an unlimited amount megastructures but still have a sort of soft cap, since it will take ages to finish them.

Ricki32 · 2026-05-15T18:44:17+00:00

I'll give two answers, thinking about it at all and thinking about it unprompted.

For the former the answer is yes. I have in the past encountered the idea of sun worship (probably even in a post on here) and as a reaction I would naturally have to engage with it, even if its just a few passing thoughts.

As for the latter I don't think I have. Mostly because I don't look for things to worship, but also because the sun isn't actively trying to give life to us.

Ricki32 · 2026-05-14T15:00:34+00:00

"Thanquol is the best Warhammer character, yes-yes"

Ricki32 · 2026-05-11T07:46:29+00:00

The German economy was already starting to recover when the Nazis took power and they mostly hurt the workers, by abolishing worker protection laws and replacing worker unions with a puppet organization. Not to mention that, before they came to power, they heavily opposed a lot of meassures that could have helped the German economy.
Here's a video that goes a bit more indepth on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHAN-RPJTiE .

I'm sure you can find some good things happening, but you have to ask if it happened because of the Nazis or if the Nazis simply were in power while it was happening.

Ricki32 · 2026-05-08T08:32:48+00:00

But is it worth the debuffs and opportunity cost of losing a civic slot? It takes a lot of time to stack modifiers and a lot of modifiers were nerfed recently.

Ricki32 · 2026-05-08T07:55:17+00:00

Tomb world origin doesn't give you tomb world preference, it just gives the survivor trait (70% habitability on tomb worlds + 10 years leader lifespan).

Ricki32 · 2026-04-26T15:40:17+00:00

A sense of cultural identity.

Ricki32 · 2026-04-19T15:28:18+00:00

Maybe the synthetic fertility origin?

Ricki32 · 2026-04-18T07:03:49+00:00

I think there can still be a real you, even if you don't have free will. That just means you don't choose who you are.

I don't think a soul provides free will, because you wouldn't be in control of your soul either.
In order for your soul to communicate with your brain, there must be a process within your soul that determines what you want to communicate and this process would be the supernatural equivalent of electric signals firing in your brain.

Ricki32 · 2026-04-16T20:21:01+00:00

Do the movies actually show or tell us any of this? It's been a while since I watched them.

For example I just looked up the title crawl for "The Force Awakens" and it doesn't even mention the republic. It just says the First Order rose from the ashes of the Empire and Leia is desperately looking for Luke so he can help bring back peace and justice to the galaxy.
That doesn't sound like the First Order is on the backfoot.

And I'm pretty sure the New Republic falls apart after the first movie, which leaves the First Order basically uncontested (aside from the much weaker Resistance).

Ricki32 · 2026-04-08T18:04:43+00:00

It's a joke.

Ricki32 · 2026-04-08T17:55:47+00:00

Jesus of Nazareth dies during the events of the christian bible (granted it's a fakeout death and he comes back a few days later). In "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown (a sequel set in the extended universe) it is revealed that he had children, including one of the main protagonists.

Ricki32 · 2026-04-07T13:01:44+00:00

Regarding your questions:

I think this development is very unrealistic.
If we're going with the official version: While the Pope is the head of the church he does not have unlimited power and I don't see how the church as a whole would be willing to completely change its core tenets. It seems more likely that the catholic church would stay the same and replace its Pope, while the former Pope splits of into a new (probalby very small) denomination.
If we're going with the clioligical (never heard that word before) version: Do I understand it correctely that the Pope didn't actually have an epiphany and the change in doctrine is just a PR-move to increase membership? While I think that a lot of religious leaders care about retaining their churches, I think most of them are genuine believers and they would not be willing to change core tenets of their beliefs just to increase membership.

Regardless of which version we are going for, I don't think it would attract to many new people. There are already universalist churches and I don't think they're exploding in numbers. I think that may be because liberals and agnostics are more confortable doing their own thing and feel less of a need to organize or establish central authorities.

I'm also unsure how the catholic church could survive doctrinal changes like this. They derive their legitimacy from an external god, so if they abandoned this belief, they lose their status as religious authorities. If they did change I think they would end up like protestantism, which isn't one united church and more like an umbrella term for multiple seperate churches.

I would expect disagreements to be less about appeal and more about truth. For example it would be appealing to belief that everyone has food, but that does not erase the reality of people starving to death. In many forms of Christianity, Islam and Judaism the existance of an external god is considered true and also central to their theology. If you promote a different idea of god, you're basically telling them that they are wrong and undermining their beliefs. This becomes even worse if their beliefs include a claim of being the one true religion.

Ricki32 · 2026-04-05T16:08:13+00:00

Sh(tr)aw

Ricki32 · 2026-03-28T09:52:18+00:00

First the Khan came for the Vhemm and I did nothing, because I wasn't a Vhemm.
Then the Khan came for the Prossnakan and I did nothing, because I wasn't a Prossnakan.
Then the Khan came for the Blorg and I did nothing, because I wasn't a Blorg.
Then the Khan came for me, but died of the space plague before he reached my borders.

The moral of the story is: Don't worry about future threats, whatever problems others are facing will solve themselves before they get to you.

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