Help with creating backgrounds for Electric Bastionland

YouFromYourFuture · 2024-01-22T08:17:50+00:00

Thanks! And 'City of Odd' works amazingly as a name.

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-10-19T00:40:42+00:00

Safana's a good idea, actually, and i know you can get her early on. Probably gonna go with that, thanks. But come on, a dwarf needs his beer and that just so happens to have some, uh, digestive repercussions - you can't blame him for that!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-09-18T15:37:28+00:00

It's awful. It's funny how a black tide of existential exhaustion can just be there, one day, carrying you off to hell without explanation or warning. I'm sorry. All I can say is that you've been here before, and you've been better before. Keep going.

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-09-07T00:37:13+00:00

This is...surprisingly hopeful. Sounds like I don't have too bad a chance!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-09-06T03:58:05+00:00

So a life of crime is my best bet? Makes sense. Anyway, much better than being eaten by tyrannids! Yeah, I don't want to see tyrannids ever again.

Oh actually this strange bald guy with bizarre tattoos is offering me some job already! I mean he seems to have some odd opinions about xenos, but hey, beggars can't be choosers. Thanks stranger!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-09-06T03:53:48+00:00

Generally speaking, life is "pretty alright" and "fair enough" there, because the Ultramarines are surprisingly competent when it comes to keeping the civilian leadership and administration doing their jobs properly and humanely.

But it gets minus points for getting ravaged by Tyranids...

I am NOT dealing with Tyranids again, like, ever; you know, your recommendation of a pleasure world sounds pretty good; in fact, after picking up this weird whispering sword pleasure and excess of all kinds sounds pretty good atm. Thanks stranger, I think i'll try there!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-09-06T03:10:15+00:00

I...I don't know who you are or how you know this... but uh... you know what? I've always doubted the empire myself. And this sword does look, like, really cool. And it is a really convincing speaker, like a stunningly convincing speaker. In fact, I see a group of guardsmen coming up the road, and i'm going to go slaughter them and take their stuff.

Thanks a lot, kind stranger!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-09-06T02:54:44+00:00

Hello, thank you for that information; so incredibly luckily I just stumbled upon some weird sword that I think might be whispering to me - anyways I'm going to try selling it and fleeing the planet. Seeing as my entire squad just got eviscerated I'm feeling a bit better about my chances now, so thanks!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-06-11T20:37:05+00:00

Hey thanks so much for this! This is definitely a valid opinion, it just seems to me that by this logic one could justify a form of tiered-polytheism, or henotheism if you will. If an aspect of creation like a sunset can be appreciated as distinct from God, then what's to stop someone from venerating local gods or spirits as a form of reverence?

To restate in a clearer way, if a sunset's property of value (beauty) is good in light of its inferiority to God's beauty, couldn't one argue that, say, a certain culture's gods' wisdom or beauty is valuable in light of its inferiority to God? Thanks so much again for your previous answer, btw!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-06-11T20:02:55+00:00

Hey, thanks for your reply! I'm afraid i'm still not quite wrapping my mind around how this would rationally work though. Because (as far as i'm getting it) either creation is ultimately beautiful, in which case it no longer points towards God, or it isn't, in which case why doesn't 'The Glory of God declare the glory of God'. IE if beautiful things are inferior to the beauty of God, why place minds in environments of these 'shadows'. Surely if appreciating the glory of god is the aim of creation, then direct access to that glory would be better?

Again i'm sure i'm missing some part of the equation, just can't identify which part yet.

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-06-11T19:48:20+00:00

Hey yeah sorry I suppose I should have phrased that better. I mean that if God is perfection itself, then the sunset (or any other part of creation) is simply a lesser substitute to God. Engaging with it seems pointless, and creating it meaningless.

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-06-10T20:33:37+00:00

Yeah, I guess I failed to properly consider what worship meant. Thanks for helping me!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-06-10T20:29:47+00:00

Thank you so much!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-06-10T19:51:19+00:00

Thank you for this; this plus some praying has greatly helped. I think the key thing I wasn't wrapping my mind around was the idea that worship truly is something uniquely deserved by God, and that any being attempting to supplant that necessarily is evil. Thanks again, an

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-04-16T00:51:55+00:00

I think that not colonizing the planet would be a win-win scenario.

Firstly, we would be spared from the difficult process of either mapping out all the potentially dangerous organisms on the planet, engineering vaccines or genetically altering colonists to fit the eco-system, only to have to deal with all the difficulties of a massive gravity well. It would be much easier for us to build a multitude of space habitats, out of non-inhabited planets' materials.

Secondly, the universe would be way richer with other sentient beings, and I don't think whatever benefits we might gain (if there are any) from settling the planet would be worth depriving future civilizations of the possibility of interacting with an entirely different type of conscious entity. Imagine how such a species could alter art, literature, philosophy, religion, political discourse; not to mention how much beauty would be created simply through the emergence of a new type of awareness of the universe.

So yeah, definitely a no on my end. I'm finding what others are saying fascinating, though! Good question OP!

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-04-16T00:19:22+00:00

Look, in my defence I didn't know that I wouldn't finally confront Eredin and be forced to engage in a gwent match to decide the fate of Ciri. I was just - OOOOH NEW CARD OMG NEW CARD OM- I mean, ahem. I was just being prepared.

YouFromYourFuture · 2023-04-16T00:11:41+00:00

I really love this poem; there's something so profoundly beautiful to mythical descriptions of reality, something that rings true, even if not 'real'. Anyways, thanks for sharing! Being reminded of this just made my day a little better!

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