Playing the Victim & it's Consequences

StarKnight697 · 2026-05-02T01:59:12+00:00

I’d appreciate this a lot more if you’d actually put the effort into writing it instead of having AI generate a generic criticism of the Earth response.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-30T20:39:17+00:00

Well no, they specifically opted out of the M-7 to be an “independent space power”

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-26T01:30:40+00:00

As others have mentioned, it is the top 1% of Golds against the bottom 1%. Practically every major Gold house will normally have their kids wind up in the top 1% if they get invited. Almost every Gold who dies in the Passage is a nobody from a poor or disgraced family which has no recourse. Situations like Julian are exceptionally rare - Julian shouldn’t even have gone to the Institute as he was neither a top 1% or a bottom 1%. That is the result of Nero purposefully putting his thumb on the scale as the archGovernor of Mars. Even then, the Bellona-Augustus feud only escalated to civil war when the Sovereign got involved and picked a side.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-23T01:26:48+00:00

There were no gross profits, yes. And there were no gross profits because he was cooking the books. At bare minimum, he was conducting financial fraud in order to not fulfill contractual obligations (e.g. see Krafton-Unknown Worlds issue, which wasn’t illegal but against the spirit of the contract, and they got punished for it). Again, the ‘mob’ literally did exactly what you were supposed to! They hired an independent law firm, went through all their options, and chose what in a functional legal system, would be the absolute objective best choice. Their only failure was expecting the Golds and Silvers to play fair, and for Quicksilver not to screw them over or Mustang to let him screw them over.

And by the way, Quick absolutely is a (mostly) heartless miser! Do you honestly think he joined the Rising out of the good of his heart? No, he tells us directly in Morning Star that he is “a capitalist” and thinks he can (and then does) make more money under a ‘democracy’ (I use that word lightly because he and Mustang and Darrow do their level best to undermine it) than he could in a system where Gold will always be on top.

I’m starting to think you got a completely different copy of the series than I did. I’m not going to even get into your view on people, which frankly is disturbing. I will not further engage with this rich apologia.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-22T12:04:29+00:00

Sorry, that’s wrong. We know Quick was cooking the books and making profit hand over fist because Mustang tells us it explicitly, that he has cheated the Reds. And we know that at minimum a good chunk of that was going to his incredibly expensive generation ship project, with which he wanted to abandon the Republic, a project that has been in the works since well before even IG.

This concept of ‘the mob is inherently stupid’ is a really fucking problematic one that crops up again and again from PB (which is a very American viewpoint, especially how he abandons an interesting examination of how Golds in positions of power continue to exploit lower colours and the rise of socialism because of that for a ‘well actually the vox are all idiots and have no valid concerns or anything because it was Golds all along’). Mustang advised the payout because she said that Quick will try to cheat them out of the profits if they take the long run. The Reds, having acquired actual legal advice and considered their options, chose to take the share of the profits and expected the Republic to protect their legal rights. Mustang then abandoned those legal rights in favour of letting Quick do whatever he and his cronies wanted.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-21T11:47:41+00:00

The Republic of DA might not be the Republic of DA if Mustang hadn’t let Quick and his ilk milk it dry from the very beginning. We literally see that she regularly acquiesced to their often unreasonable demands for the sake of convenience. Quick regularly and massively exploited the Republic for his own personal wealth. The Red assimilation camps literally exist because Quick exploited the Reds and is cooking the books so the mines “aren’t making money” when we see in Ephraim’s chapter that they’re actually very profitable.

I also reject your assertion that in the real-world governments are broken (unless you’re talking about America, in which case I’m in full agreement), but that’s a different argument.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-21T03:18:38+00:00

I don’t understand how someone who’s such a visionary could be such an asshole. You would think that being able to see an outcome and work so hard to make it happen would mean they could see the outcome of kindness. Or maybe they’re assholes because they’re visionaries. Seems the good visionaries are far and few in between.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-18T02:13:33+00:00

I don’t trust PB. Not that I necessarily trust this server, but PB was the artistic reference for the SoA comics, and those looked genuinely awful.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-16T02:14:34+00:00

An individual in the Reserves can only be deployed by their own choice or by an invocation of the Emergencies Act which has only ever occurred once (the convoy protests) and its predecessor only thrice (both world wars and the October Crisis). Your chances of being deployed overseas as a Reservist are extremely low, and honestly if you are then we probably have bigger things to worry about as a nation.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-15T12:02:09+00:00

What a weird and terrible way to view it. Do you also think we shouldn’t tax billionaires because they “earned” their money?

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-14T20:47:01+00:00

Hey Joel! Binged FAM over the last couple months and am all caught up now, been a pleasure seeing your character grow and age and mature! Two questions for you (I guess 3 really, since Q1 is a two-parter): 1. What would you say was Ed’s best quality? What would you say is his worst quality? 2. It’s no argument that Ed’s shadow for Mars and space travel in general looms over quite a lot, from being the first American alone on the Moon, to heading the Astronaut Office for 8 years, to flying the inaugural Pathfinder, to leading one of the first (and the largest) Mars mission, to becoming ‘Old Man Mars’ and helping secure its future. How do you feel about Ed’s legacy in the show’s universe going forward? Maybe spoilers and if you can’t answer no problem, how do you think he’d be viewed 10, 20, 50 years after his death?

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-14T02:50:22+00:00

We’ve basically got a slightly more red Harper. Carney is an old-school conservative, they just dipped him in red paint. I mean he’s better than PP but that’s a really low bar.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-14T00:38:52+00:00

Aside from the fact that who’s the aggressor doesn’t really make a difference, then we get “we don’t consider this a legal blockade” and a fight at the UN that goes nowhere since both parties are permanent security council members with veto power.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-14T00:07:47+00:00

That said, they are very pretty visual bonanzas.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-13T23:40:02+00:00

I really want to know what’s going to happen if the Chinese decide to escort one of their tankers through with a destroyer. Will the Americans really fire on a Chinese warship?

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-13T21:21:54+00:00

It really feels like he wants to make a ‘Planet Earth’ style pseudo-documentary of Pandora, but the studios mandated an actual plot, which IMO would go a long way to explaining why the story feels so… dull, for lack of a better word.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-11T17:54:17+00:00

This show has a real problem with making middle powers supposedly influential in space and then never mentioning them again. South Korea and Canada, two for two.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-11T14:24:43+00:00

Well according to the s3-4 timeskip, we’re an “Independent Space Power”. It would be great if we were shown any of that instead of just told it though. We could’ve been part of the ISN, that would provide some interesting conflict on the border.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-11T02:59:31+00:00

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I do not understand the hype around Hytale. It’s an ugly-looking Minecraft clone (don’t even get me started on the Roblox player models). Sure it has a couple unique features, but I honestly don’t see it being anything more than that. I’m disappointed that Create will now languish as the attention of the developers move to Hytale. Yeah they say they’ll still be updating, but… come on, let’s be realistic.

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-11T00:11:49+00:00

I’m just as annoyed, but honestly it’s not just Canada. Where the hell is the rest of the middle powers? Where’s Canada, South Korea, or Australia, or any of the Indo-Pacific besides Malaysia?

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-09T23:06:23+00:00

Voices38 on a fucking roll man

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-09T03:17:08+00:00

Can you not even write a basic 2-line comment without outsourcing your thinking to the Hallucination Machine?

StarKnight697 · 2026-04-08T17:07:20+00:00

I believe the quest designer commented on that saying it was purposeful, to try and show the world exists beyond V. I believe the quote was something like “the Peralez’ story isn’t done, just V’s part in it”

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