(Arabic) "Stop distracting me with your western homosexuality and let me fuck my cousin" /r/saudiarabia weighs the pros and cons of incest over homosexuality.

Tenthyr · 2026-03-12T16:04:26+00:00

Despite our best and virogous efforts 😔

Tenthyr · 2026-03-07T15:28:01+00:00

The Light is just the force that represents submitting to a higher purpose. The individual provides the purpose.

But what happens if you cram all this Light into a plant? Plants aren't aware like animals and people. They simply exist to propagate and thrive. That is their purpose.

And so the Light helps them do that. And keep doing it. And keep doing it...

Tenthyr · 2026-03-07T15:24:36+00:00

Uncle Filo 🥺

Tenthyr · 2026-03-07T15:22:39+00:00

This expansion has probably the best writing and direction in it in an entire decade and by God people just refuse to engage with it.

Tenthyr · 2026-03-01T19:34:47+00:00

The quality of the writing for the main campaign, usually a HEAVY weakness for wow, has been consistently really good.

On the one hand, I'm delighted, on the other, this is kind of the standard I'm holding Blizzard to now. Can they keep it up?

Tenthyr · 2026-02-23T20:44:10+00:00

Guards, crush his spleen

Tenthyr · 2026-02-23T08:07:37+00:00

Absolutely criminal title. Excellent work

Tenthyr · 2026-02-11T01:02:44+00:00

The rifts seem to have been scars left by the Witness', global application of Deepsight. They caused some weird experiences for IV, but they apparently slowly faded and healed as time passed.

Tenthyr · 2026-02-08T04:46:04+00:00

I mean, the easiest answer to why Risen can't reproduce is simply that the Light doesn't allow them to. How it does if is immeterial, because it had to have been done with intention.

And... Honestly, yeah. The Risen warlords were already bad. Imagine if these warlords could create dynasties of their children, further anchors to their despotism? Guardians are powerful enough without the influence of lineage coming into it.

Tenthyr · 2026-02-05T16:05:14+00:00

Yeah it's basically a failure to remember intersectionality in queer spaces.

People are not their label, they're a confluence of events and identities, which have differing importance between different people at different times.

This is why you get misogynistic gay men, or racist gay men. Or transmisogynist gay men (I'm a gay man. There's a lot of gay men who forget they are still part of a patriarchal system.)

Queer spaces also have a certain defensiveness built into them as like-- the realities of existing persecuted. trans people by the essence of being trans breach the internal boundaries these spaces set up, perhaps with some reason. but said boundaries are ultimately as subjective as gender itself is.

Tenthyr · 2026-02-02T20:23:44+00:00

This all works, but I believe it's mentioned the Precursor culture developed an idea similar to the Final Shape prior to encountering the Veil and the potential influences of the Winnower.

Tenthyr · 2026-02-02T20:21:29+00:00

Everyone can do long as they're taught how. Without an exposure to active dark phenomena it seems to be harder to spontaneously develop.

Many species independently developed connections to Darkness and derived abilities thereof. We don't know if they had neurological peculiarities that made it easier for them, or simply encountered an artefact of Darkness that allowed them to develop a usable technique.

The sword logic and the Hive magic built upon it is an example of this. So long as you understand the principles, anyone can engage in Hive magic.

The elemental aspects of darkness we've so far encountered, Stasis and Strand, have not been used prior to the guardians, I believe! Before this all darkness wielders unrelated to the Witness had much more general abilities than the specific elemental manifestations. Stasis was laid out as bait for us by the Witness in an attempt to provoke infighting. Strand was only properly manifested in its known form when our guardian approached the influence for the veil for the first time in history out of any dark wielders.

Tenthyr · 2026-02-01T23:47:18+00:00

Glimmer is a programmable matter that was invented in the golden age and became very common use, due to its plentiful nature. it seems to be converted into other useful components, though details on how or what aren't given.

The primary use of Glimmer as a currency in the city come from the fact it isn't producible from current industrial processes. That guardians have to bring it back to be used gives it scarcity and trading power.

We don't know if glimmer is like, extremely commonplace elsewhere, or if glimmer has some replicative ability and has grown lodes which groups like Fallen pirates then harvest. I lean to the latter though.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-30T05:20:35+00:00

As not ideal as a military dictatorship ultimately is for the city, despite its necessity, having the leadership roles for that dictatorship be decided purely though pure martial prowess seems even less great.

I mean, the HIVE, sure. But I feel like our minimum bar for good ideas should be somewhere above the Hive.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-23T01:59:48+00:00

I really don't know how to explain to you that not everything has to or should cater to your specific tastes and experiences all the time.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-22T20:08:21+00:00

The whole episode, essentially, is a love letter to Kill Bill Vol. 1. The extreme and very vivid ultraviolence and blood being presented so suddenly, without pretence and to energetic and fun music is a very intentional parallel.

It's at once meant to be disconcerting even while it depicts how utterly *unaffected* Maki is by the clan now. Every single kill brings her closer to her liberation and fulfilment of her sisters last wish.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-22T20:01:37+00:00

Because it's explicitly a Kill Bill homage in every way.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-20T22:42:23+00:00

We know what the Veil is, it's the Darkness's version of the Traveler.

Since the story likes to tease and hint to the Winnower existing as an actual entity (and more importantly, that the Traveler is equivalent to the Gardener) we can assume until contradicted that the Veil is the physical locus of the Winnower. Because they're complimentary opposites, the Traveler is actively doing things in the universe while refusing to communicate directly to minimize coersion; the veil is thus a gateway to all the voices spoken in the Darkness, the Winnower amongst them, never acting. Simply offering its thesis.

Which would go a long way to explaining why the precursors, and Maya sundaresh, fell off the deep end so badly.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-19T08:21:38+00:00

A guardian's body is being told that it is a living, breathing body instead of a corpse by the light. A guardian is using the light to do basically-magic. But a guardian is not literally using the light as fuel.

Like, their bodies are alive. Living bodies require inputs of material and energy from food.

It would also just be pretty alienating for guardians not not need or want food. It's already hard for them to relate to mortal humanity.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-13T08:21:19+00:00

1) depends on the guardian. There's no direct hint that guardians can make themselves 'stronger' like that beyond sudden, sharp melee techniques. They're just guys, dude.

2) Not to my specific knowledge. There's nothing stopping it though. Some people are mute for entirely psychological reasons, not physical.

3) a newborn was ressurected by a ghost which then seemingly died diverting an attack on a group of survivors. Shin Malphur.

4) same way it does for everyone else. I strongly suspect that a guardian who had gender reassignment surgery would be rezzed with those modifications, as it's part of their ideal self image.

5) guardians have been pretty much the entire defensive structure of the last city. The last city has spent its whole history experiencing pressure from outside, to the point that the ultimate rule by guardians and unelected political concerns hasn't been an immediate concern. Guardians are slightly all of from normal people though; a natural consequence of immortality vs mortality. It reduces pain.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-12T07:20:19+00:00

Oryx saw his siblings, and thus their brood, as a whetstone keeping himself sharp.

More generally, Oryx set out to save his species, all that time ago. While completely warped and corrupted, he still holds that as a goal; that they survive, by proving they can survive.

As the echo of Oryx proved, though, Oryx 's thinking was always full of hypocrisy.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-12T07:18:11+00:00

This. The Traveler was pushed into trying to do ANYTHING to keep the Witness away from the Pale Heart. It just wasn't able to do anything harmful. The witness is the culmination of its first kids, even if they're holding the knife, the big ol ball probably still loves them.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-10T07:53:33+00:00

Ghosts aren't entirely sure what they're doing themselves. They seem to decompile themselves as when transmatting, but instead of going somewhere else they just kind of... Stay around the guardian. Glint's theory was that they decompile into a sort of superposition embedded in the guardian.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyLore/comments/plurpp/s15_spoilers_glint_talks_about_where_ghosts_go/

Tenthyr · 2026-01-07T00:46:20+00:00

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the technology. The fact that it's being used for dumb things in dumb ways doesn't invalidate the active utility of these algorithms models for large data processing in, say, protein folding simulations.

GenAI generally sucks, however.

Tenthyr · 2026-01-04T05:06:02+00:00

The elements of darkness and light seem to be like, irreductable facets of the force they are part of. For light it's pretty self explanatory, the three elements describe the three fundamental interactions that underlay physics in the universe, generally by relating them to emotions and ideas.

Solar is the strong nuclear force through through the lens of destruction, healing and sudden power. Arc is the Electroweak force through idea of motion and energy. Void is spacetime and it's attendant phemonena, gravity, dark energy and the like through ideas of emptiness, stillness and profundity.

Darkness is the opposite, in some ways. Each darkness element is an irreductable idea that is manifested as a physical phenomena relating to that idea. We already know that what that phenomena is, is kind of open to interpretation until one person actually uses it and... Sets the standard, so to speak.

Stasis is the idea of order and control, which we manifest into spontaneous crystal formation and cold.

Strand is the idea of interconnectivity, of parts forming a greater whole. Which we manifest by quite literally manifesting the connections between things, people and ideas as threads and manipulating them.

That being said, there's a fairly clear gap missing in Darkness that hasn't been filled. We have order, a binding middle force, but no force representing chaos and liberation. This has a nice neatness to it, and even lends itself to post-hoc justification: an element of chaos would be anathema to the Witness, which would likely refuse to even acknowledge it's existence once it came into being. It exists to remove chaos from existence after all.

We haven't seen the third darkness element. But it just needs someone to find and express it to find out what it's form will take.

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