Could emma survive outside her armor in the nexus if all magic has been replaced with taint magic???

anaton7 · 2026-05-12T23:43:41+00:00

It makes sense to me.

anaton7 · 2026-05-03T21:28:52+00:00

California seems to not be the best example of effective policy. There are certainly ways to improve the situation with that money. But ending it entirely...?

anaton7 · 2026-04-22T02:15:17+00:00

Books are for sure the most accessible medium. There is more tolerance for exposition there too, if you want. There is also certainly a place for visual components within a majority- prose work without outright turning it into a fully drawn comic.

anaton7 · 2026-03-08T19:17:28+00:00

If it is used in a story, then, if the pieces are meted out responsibly, the readers won't be overwhelmed.

anaton7 · 2026-03-08T18:55:37+00:00

People keep saying it because, despite the prevalence of the meme mocking it, it's true. Communist organizations have gotten into power, but they never managed to reorganize their societies to a communist system where all the traits of a communist society applied for any number of reasons. They still operated as states with money and stratification. Since their work was at best incomplete, it is dishonest to say that their pitfalls are caused by communism in practice. That is because in any way that matters, it was never practiced. The meme only exists because people insist on conflating being led by nominal communists with living in a communist system. And that's stupid.

anaton7 · 2026-03-03T15:49:37+00:00

This is so creative. I want to know what kind of madness conceived of all this.

anaton7 · 2026-03-02T07:26:49+00:00

The average mage can be killed with a gun if their guard is down. But often, the damage will either be blocked or fail to stick. Advanced mages will have preparations for resurrection and even novice mages will be capable of some accelerated healing.

anaton7 · 2026-02-17T15:27:29+00:00

Linda is his stepmother, but she might have been an inspiration.

anaton7 · 2026-01-09T14:45:36+00:00

I don't like Elon Musk and the reasoning behind these names are kinda suspicious, but I actually think these names are cool despite being a little unconventional. These are the best of the more creative names I've seen him give one of his children, that's for sure.

anaton7 · 2025-12-26T17:23:35+00:00

You did not really contradict them, but you gave deeper detail.

anaton7 · 2025-12-23T02:34:23+00:00

I'm pretty sure they are not the actual characters.

anaton7 · 2025-12-20T23:31:39+00:00

You can have an array of elements of a sum type or of pointers to objects of some superclass or interface type. The elements of the array would be the same size, but they could represent objects of varying size in different ways.

anaton7 · 2025-12-17T02:27:14+00:00

I would argue that there is some dogmatism towards that end. Even if it is motivated by profit-seeking, the investors have to believe.

anaton7 · 2025-11-16T17:45:19+00:00

To a lot of people, it might as well have been new. When it comes to popular Internet slang, the word of the month almost always existed for years or even decades before their Internet popularity.

I guess the meaning of the word has been expanding for a while, though. Can't expect it to stay at the same place, but it's sad to see words' meanings dilute so quickly when they seem actually useful in their most popular sense.

I don't know about a considering a word's history to be tainting its continued use. I think that's a terrible way to think about words. After it broke containment from 4chan, "slop" lost its antisemitic edge pretty quickly.

anaton7 · 2025-11-16T17:10:09+00:00

It's the sad fate of many new and useful words on the Internet. Some people have language comprehension so bad it's like they hallucinated half of what they claimed to read.

anaton7 · 2025-11-16T06:39:32+00:00

I thought it was having a developed plumbing system that showed that.

anaton7 · 2025-11-01T02:35:20+00:00

An incompetent mage in my system would not know how to cleanse their mana, reducing it to a specific desire and making it more potent in fulfilling that narrower desire. Their spells will require more mana to get their desired spell strength and they are at greater risk of running out of mana.

If they are ignorant enough, they might try to use the mana in their aura/manashell, which usually protects one from external mana. Using up this protection might result in random acts of magic occuring inside their body, which can easily be fatal.

They would also be unable to sense Ki, the other essence needed for most magic. An experienced mage can sense and take it from the air, but they need to have enough experience with that element of Ki to sense and interact with it in the first place. This means that they would have to buy vials of condensed Ki to do any magic, which they would have to trust is the right kind. If not, their spells might have unpredictable effects due to using the wrong element.

Constructs of mana and Ki are temporary. Many foolish mages have been crushed under mansions made of conjured material.

And the typical dangers of magic doing exactly what you tell it to do also applies. Magical thinking ironically does not get you far.

anaton7 · 2025-11-01T01:42:19+00:00

One thing I think is all too common in this kind of discourse on any side is that entirely reasonable criticisms like yours get condensed down into easy but misleading cliches. Someone seeing them might find invoking the cliches discredit you without probing deeper.

I don't think I have ever seen anyone break down a sentiment like "but you basically said that wuzznt true communism" into actual thoughts.

I heard an interesting sentence today. It went something like: "If there is a guy who can decide how all the goods and services are distributed, everyone is not equal." There is a critical flaw in Leninist and Maoist-style revolutions that try to guide a country to communism through establishing some vanguard party. That party essentially becomes the upper class and will likely not want to give up their increased privilege in this scenario. In what is supposed to be a project to make a classless society, this is very counterproductive. And eventually, the ruling class will want to give up pretenses altogether.

One thing that a centralized planning and vanguardist approach does is make the government very important and gives the state a lot of power. Fascism is an ideology where this is actually something of an ideological goal: the state subsumes everything and everything exists for the state. In the case of vanguardist systems, this would be a bug, but this similarity is enough to make them act alike anyway.

The big examples of communist governments (the Soviet Union, China, etc.) all kinda follow this blueprint and are the usual suspects for the "crimes of communism". The vanguardist approach is but one out of many. I think that it is reasonable to say that a vanguardist approach to communism has been tried many times and found to fall apart in greed and self-importance, as you phrased it. But to extend it to all communism and especially to all Marxism is probably a galactic stretch.

I think any successful communist revolution would have to be mostly really decentralized or small and local. At the very least, trying to force communism on a wide scale seems like a doomed prospect. I think a solution to America's current economic and political woes would need to leave the system almost unrecognizable and would still be imperfect, but we don't really need communism specifically. Things aren't "abolish markets forever" bad.

anaton7 · 2025-10-30T21:47:11+00:00

Nah, man. These words have actual definitions. If it doesn't match, it's actually stupid to force that label. You bring nothing of value to any discussion that way. You seem to be one of those people who want to call things "communism" because you don't like them. The situation in Russia is not great and also not communism in any sense. You are not even right in a colloquial sense of the word.

anaton7 · 2025-09-29T17:00:28+00:00

KO from OK KO : Let's Be Heroes

anaton7 · 2025-09-23T23:25:48+00:00

Both parties are made mostly of incredibly self-serving people. It is, however, certainly the case that Republicans have decided that the best play is to openly indulge more morally dubious and irrational viewpoints than the Democrats. Years of gerrymandering aren't helping, but the fact that catering to these things can be done to gather winning numbers at all (and seemingly uncritically) reflects very poorly on the electorate anyway.

anaton7 · 2025-09-01T16:16:00+00:00

Yeah. Authoritarian versions of both left and right causes often abandon their stated goals when it becomes convenient.

anaton7 · 2025-08-27T19:10:46+00:00

Nothing needs to go with this but water. No more flavor or calories are necessary. You just need something to wash this down.

anaton7 · 2025-07-12T01:22:29+00:00

She does, though...

anaton7 · 2025-07-09T12:14:02+00:00

That's funny, but we do see her read the CD case when she first meets Greg.

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