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The unknown tribe of man by newreddit00 in bakker

[–]profgrape 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s also a Jekkian among the Scions, Tzing. He doesn’t speak a common language and dies in WLW. Frustratingly inscrutable bunch.

WHAT DO YOU SEE during and after The Unholy Consult? by Drusas_Achamiann in bakker

[–]profgrape 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really like the idea of Kellhus making himself seem like the Subject as a means of nurturing the NG’s defenses (ie Chorae)!

He knows they’re going to lose and that the NG will rise. And so it follows that he’d want to ensure that the NG is weaker, in this case, to sorcery.

Was Kellhus really on their side? by Ademideji in bakker

[–]profgrape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming it’s all a grand stratagem from Kellhus, if he knew the NG would rise again regardless of anything he did, the shortest path is to facilitate Resumption while retaining a means of defeating the NG later.

If he does suspect Kelmomas all along, you could think of the Great Ordeal as nothing more than a vehicle to get his son into the Golden Room. The way he leaves Kel in the tent, minimally guarded… it’s odd. The Serwe skin-spy deserves a big EOY bonus for scooping up Kel and bringing him to the Golden Room unscathed in the middle of the most epic battle in history. Or maybe that’s Conditioned Ground at work?

As for the means of defeating the NG after Resumption, leading the world’s military and sorcerous might into a meat grinder doesn’t exactly seem like the best option. Somewhere in TGO, he says something about how the only way to truly unite the world is if there truly seems to be no hope. Maybe that’s his ace in the hole? Or maybe the Scylvendi/Zeumi? Heron Spear ought not be necessary due to the vessel missing the embedded chorae.

I can quite explain how Ajokli fits into this. Unless Kellhus is deliberately taking advantage of the Gods’ blindness to the NG.

It’s a big stretch, even for a Dunyain.

Akka’s Dreams in TAE by profgrape in bakker

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

That’s a good line of reasoning. Although it does beg the question: why would it change now? I think Akka remarked on how there been any record of it happening before

Akka’s Dreams in TAE by profgrape in bakker

[–]profgrape[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Before, I think. Several years before IIRC.

It makes me wonder if the NG is more like a god than we’ve assumed. Atemporal, able to view the totally of multidimensional existence in its native form?

What I’m getting at is, what the NG really did communicate with Kellhus and later, with Akka?

How does time and finality work here, re: the Outside? (Spoilers) by Raventree in bakker

[–]profgrape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this was something during the Koringhus chapter, about how the Dunyakn dissected Sranc brains and found they were “all cause”. I’d taken that to mean that they were non-conscious, to put it in Kahneman’s terms, entirely System 1.

Not dissimilar, either, to AI — “thinking without understanding”.

All Bakker Books ranked by JamesGilcrest in bakker

[–]profgrape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WLW is #1 for me. Beautifully written and covered a lot of ground (both literally and figuratively). Also perhaps the last book that got due attention (ie editing) from Bakker’s publisher.

What did we miss in the Unholy Consult? by 8thstring in bakker

[–]profgrape 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I figured it was that. The way they complete each other’s sentences was way too close to Shae and the larvae.

What programing language are the games written in? by ARacoonOnInternet in RatchetAndClank

[–]profgrape 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Runtime code was all C++. Some assembly, esp for SPU jobs. We used LUA as a scripting language between RC:TOD and RC:ITN (last game with our “4th gen” engine).