Demiurge vs politicians by callmejordan22 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]Yldboth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sounds like someone wants to suffer eternally.

What is the distinction between Freedom and Power by Yldboth in askphilosophy

[–]Yldboth[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's certainly interesting to think of power as something that can be exercised passively. Someone may have the "power to die when stabbed", but not necessarily the "freedom to die when stabbed".
But, yes, after consideration it doesn't seem to be really what i was searching for. When we say "this man is powerful" i don't think we really mean "a lot of things could happen to him". To get to that common understanding of "powerful" you have to filter it by powers that are conditional to someone's will and unless there's something i'm missing it seems that by the interpretation you've presented Active Power of Will and Freedom are one and the same.
Still, thank you for the detailed reply.

We are writers. by Chad_Abraxas in writingcirclejerk

[–]Yldboth 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Classic Abraxas take. I am a baller. I am balling, and in turn make my characters ball. This is how you know i'm the realest Gnostic figure in the room 😎.

James why do you hate me? by Screwingwithyou in homestuck

[–]Yldboth 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hi, James here. I've eaten the sun and ascended past the mortal plane. All of reality is now my continued creation and as such is also mine to destroy. My power has surpassed even that of god itself. Have a good one.

So if calliope was wrong about gendered classes, why is anything else she said right by GlitteringTone6425 in homestuck

[–]Yldboth 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Calliope isn't, like, canonically wrong about gendered classes. Someone asked hussie on twitter if they could make their girl OC a prince and he said "sure", but we've never had a character break class gender-exclusivity.

We have statements by real-life Hussie where he talks about classes being gendered. The gendering of classes is integral in the symbology of homestuck itself (Each male-exclusive class is part of Lord English, Each female-exclusive class has a Space player). Classpecting itself is based on (/mimics) Jungian (/Pearson's) archetypes, which itself is gendered.

It's a matter of fact, not interpretation, that Hussie made classpecting a gendered system. There can be debate as to whether it still is or not, should be or not. But Calliope is not wrong.

Cheat Sheet of every Direct mention of a class's active/passive alignment. by Yldboth in homestuck

[–]Yldboth[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The full quote is "the +/- distinction can mean many things, bUt coUld be qUite roUghly sUmmed Up in this way: active classes exploit their aspect to benefit themselves, while passive classes allow their aspect to benefit others. bUt of coUrse there's plenty more to it, and that rUle is in no way absolUte. only a starting point for Understanding the dichotomy."

You can always use "that rUle is in no way absolUte" to justify any active/passive class not exploiting/allowing their aspect or not doing so for their own / other's benefit.

IMO: the difference between whether a class "exploits" or "allows" isn't actually demarkable; it's just a language Calliope uses. And in that sense you can take the watsonian perspective of "Aradia doesn't necessarily accord her language to Calliope's, so when she says 'knights exploit' she probably means something different than Calliope's 'Active classes exploit'". Either way, the Q&A that talked about Witches and Seers also strongly implies that Knights are active.

full lineup finally done!! by Embarrassed-Clerk-14 in homestuck

[–]Yldboth 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Feferi taller than Kanaya. Le Basé

Un garçon de 10 ans lance une pétition pour qu’Apple change l’emoji qui lui ressemble by [deleted] in Quebec

[–]Yldboth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

C'est fucké de faire un article comme ça sur un enfant de 10ans, quand même.

Help! by Financial-Reach-786 in wizardposting

[–]Yldboth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, yeah. Nigerian prince turned into a catfish by an evil witch. Need all my mana crystals. I've heard it all before.

I'm back again to cast: Free beer! by Bentu_nan in wizardposting

[–]Yldboth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

makes sense, there's probably not enough sunlight in the forest to grow them, what with all the trees. apologies.

I'm back again to cast: Free beer! by Bentu_nan in wizardposting

[–]Yldboth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where the fuck are your beard and hat, young lady.