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What is YISUN?
	Mother
	A lie we tell ourselves to have a purpose
	Bliss
	A paradox with no solution
	Father
	A strong female protagonist
	The weakest thing there is and the smallest crawling thing
	Creator
	Everything in this miserable and hellish existence
	A solution with no paradoxes

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PetraCore: Jul 20, 2017; 👁️🔥👁️👁️👁️BE NOT👄AFRAID👁️👁️👁️🔥👁️

paragon1 posted:

Yeah he probably doesn't consider the war to be over and is also Liquid Snake.

Technically if you destroy the entire multiverse in a blaze of relentless violence you've ended war and solved the problem of child soldiers!

# ? Dec 24, 2018 23:20

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# ? May 25, 2024 21:24

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

PetraCore posted:

Technically if you destroy the entire multiverse in a blaze of relentless violence you've ended war and solved the problem of child soldiers!

# ? Dec 25, 2018 17:59

Motherfucker: Jul 16, 2011; I certainly dont have deep-seated issues involving birthdays.

All the big boy are just the meths from altered carbon living in perpetual holding patterns waiting for a stiff fisting by Allison to break up the eternal boredom of their immortal lives.

# ? Dec 26, 2018 08:48

Tollymain: Jul 9, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

i had a sudden realization re allison and her home world

ALLISON: cio what the gently caress is that hideous creature and why is it so ripped

CIO: its a kangaroo, gapeygob

# ? Jan 2, 2019 06:48

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

you're overlooking the terrifying possibility that, in lieu of the Great Barrier Reef, there's a large portion of the South Pacific colonized by aquatic kangaroos

# ? Jan 2, 2019 21:28

thatbastardken: Apr 23, 2010; A contract signed by a minor is not binding!

a universe in which Tank Girl replaces The Shape of Water ? horrifying.

# ? Jan 2, 2019 23:51

Rotten Red Rod: Mar 5, 2002

thatbastardken posted:

a universe in which Tank Girl replaces The Shape of Water ? horrifying.

I think I'd be fine with a universe where Guillermo del Toro makes a Tank Girl movie

Edit: holy poo poo there's a new kickstarted Tank Girl book comic out soon unnnnf

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abbadon posted:

Hey chaps, the 1.8 update for the mech game I work on in my free time is finally up. You can grab it for free here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QVYHu181vIleWd4IQMVwZBp8LCRcrUrX

It's a pretty expansive mech RPG with modular customization, crazy lore, and a lot of my mech art. Check it out!

"I work on in my free time"

548 pages

:stare:

Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Jan 3, 2019

# ? Jan 3, 2019 00:00

DarkCrawler: Apr 6, 2009; by vyelkin

Also free, just like the comic. Only thing I've honestly felt bad about reading for free so I made my first Patreon subscription ever...because this is Moebius quality poo poo. And I haven't even begun to talk about how the art is still less awesome than the story which hits all my buttons so hard.

# ? Jan 3, 2019 01:19

IUG: Jul 14, 2007

If you want to give a few bucks, I rolled the dice on the $8 volume 1 on Amazon. I got it the other day and it is the larger edition now.

# ? Jan 3, 2019 02:57

A Wizard of Goatse: Dec 14, 2014

thatbastardken posted:

a universe in which Tank Girl replaces The Shape of Water ? horrifying.

i mean, same basic thing but with kangaroos instead of fish yeah

# ? Jan 3, 2019 17:31

Tollymain: Jul 9, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

daddy

# ? Jan 4, 2019 11:12

Eschatos: Apr 10, 2013; pictured: Big Cum's Most Monstrous Ambassador

Never realized until today how much this takes from Elder Scrolls.

quote:

CHIM (/tʃɪm/ chim) has been described as the secret syllable of royalty. Many writings have made vague references to it throughout history, but despite its importance, there's a lack of information. It is best understood as a state of being which allows for escape from all known laws and limitations. It is the process of reaching some sort of epiphany about the nature of the universe and one's place in it, leading to a simultaneous comprehension of the full scope of existence as well as one's own individuality. CHIM is capitalized because it is from the Ehlnofex language, the language of the Ehlnofey who are believed to have been the progenitors of the modern races. It is an ancient sigil connoting 'royalty', 'starlight', and 'high splendor'.

CHIM
Mankar Camoran's Commentaries on the Mysterium Xarxes, Book Three, begins with "CHIM" in the Daedric alphabet and deals extensively with the topic. It begins with "The Tower touches all the mantles of Heaven [...] and by its apex one can be as he will. More: be as he was and yet changed for all else on that path for those that walk after. This is [...] the secret of how mortals become makers [CHIM], and makers back to mortals." (Though "the secret of how mortals become makers, and makers back to mortals" is a phrase more indicative of the related concept of Amaranth.) So one who knows CHIM is said to reside atop (or within) the Tower (i.e., Mundus) and possesses incomprehensible power to alter reality. By knowing CHIM, one experiences an ineffable sense of the godhead, which is what allows for escape from all known restrictions.

The Walking Ways are six interrelated paths to achieving divinity, or "mantling", of which CHIM is the fifth.] All paths seem to require some understanding of the Wheel, the structure of the Aurbis. According to Vivec, the first to understand the concept was Lorkhan, whose curiosity and desire for change drove him to the rim of the Wheel and beyond, where he looked back at the Aurbis sideways and thereby learned the name of God: I (as a wheel, observed from the side, is an "I"). Lorkhan then convinced the Aedra to join him in building Mundus, at the hub of the Wheel, in a venture to help others know CHIM and thereby escape all laws which constrained them. This attempt at CHIM failed, though why it failed has been the subject of intense disagreement and bloodshed from the dawn of creation to the present day. Some attribute the failure to a mistake, others to Lorkhan's malice; the circumstances are unknown, but Vivec seemed to suspect that the so-called failure only occurred so that others might know how not to fail. Vivec, who wrote extensively on CHIM, described it as reaching heaven by violence. He apparently learned of it from Molag Bal.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 19:32

M_Gargantua: Oct 16, 2006; STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES; Exciting Lemon

I think that was a thing since long before Elder Scrolls. Most fantasy cribs from an amalgam of millennia old myths and folktales.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 20:05

SunAndSpring: Dec 4, 2013

Reaching heaven by violence in TES is, however, markedly different than in K6BD. When Vivec tells Nerevar, "Reach heaven through violence, then," Nerevar interprets it rather literally and proceeds to travel to one of the moons with axe in hand and begins to attack its craters, who proceed to make fun of him for being an idiot. In K6BD it'd be a valid tactic, but in The Elder Scrolls, "reach heaven through violence" is more "reach divinity/power through acting in accordance with your personal destiny and divinity."

Also CHIM literally means Royalty (or Starlight, or High Splendor).

# ? Jan 4, 2019 20:15

There Bias Two: Jan 13, 2009; I'm not a good person

M_Gargantua posted:

I think that was a thing since long before Elder Scrolls. Most fantasy cribs from an amalgam of millennia old myths and folktales.

The only references I can find to these things are from elder scrolls.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 20:17

Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

spoken like someone who didn't murder vivec and get yagrum bagarn to jury rig the wraithguard for you defeating dagoth ur without the tribunal's help

# ? Jan 4, 2019 20:17

Tollymain: Jul 9, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

reach heaven through violence is still p metaphorical in k6bd

i mean it can be totally literal but its also a metaphor

# ? Jan 4, 2019 20:38

Bell_: Sep 3, 2006; Tiny Baltimore
A billion light years away
A goon's posting the same thing
But he's already turned to dust
And the shitpost we read
Is a billion light-years old
A ghost just like the rest of us

Not to mention one that cuts both ways, especially when violence is inescapable.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 20:45

Tollymain: Jul 9, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

there is no ethical consumption under violence

# ? Jan 4, 2019 20:47

Cat Mattress: Jul 14, 2012; by Cyrano4747

M_Gargantua posted:

I think that was a thing since long before Elder Scrolls. Most fantasy cribs from an amalgam of millennia old myths and folktales.

Michael Kirkbride (who wrote the more esoteric stuff in TES) was definitely inspired by Vedic mythology, but in turn Abaddon admitted being influenced directly by Morrowind. The phrase "reach heaven by violence" definitely comes straight from Kirkbride; if you search it on the web you'll only find results talking about TES or K6BD (or both).
https://killsixbilliondemons.com/about/

# ? Jan 4, 2019 21:58

Reene: Aug 26, 2005

Rotten Red Rod posted:

I think I'd be fine with a universe where Guillermo del Toro makes a Tank Girl movie

Edit: holy poo poo there's a new kickstarted Tank Girl book comic out soon unnnnf

Edit edit:

"I work on in my free time"

548 pages

Abbadon writes the mechanics for Lancer but the majority of the worldbuilding and lore is actually written by Miguel Lopez. He's got a Patreon.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 22:45

Kai Tave: Jul 2, 2012; Fallen Rib

Reene posted:

Abbadon writes the mechanics for Lancer but the majority of the worldbuilding and lore is actually written by Miguel Lopez. He's got a Patreon.

Yeah and Miguel's writing kicks rear end, it's highly recommended.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 22:48

Joe Slowboat: Nov 9, 2016; Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements

M_Gargantua posted:

I think that was a thing since long before Elder Scrolls. Most fantasy cribs from an amalgam of millennia old myths and folktales.

Not so much in this case, Kirkbride was influenced by Vedic stories and Advaita Vedanta but CHIM is a legitimately novel weird cosmotheological idea.

Plus Abaddon used to call the series "'36 Lessons of Vivec fan fiction" - the entire setting is his own, but a lot of the Royalty concepts come from Kirkbride. Ain't nothing wrong with that, either; nobody thinks a work is less its own thing because it has lords of Law and Order a la Moorcock, for example.

# ? Jan 4, 2019 23:59

Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

i mean the thing had a character based on an indie video game in the last arc and an exact line read from dark souls in the one before that it wears its inspirations on its sleeve just revel in it

Cowcaster fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 5, 2019

# ? Jan 5, 2019 01:37

ThaumPenguin: Oct 9, 2013

who was the indie character-inspired?

that one slipped me by

# ? Jan 5, 2019 02:12

Cat Mattress: Jul 14, 2012; by Cyrano4747

KILL BOSS?

Cowcaster posted:

i think more than anything else it's just that kill boss is a little nod to ruiner's puppy, who's a dude, is all

# ? Jan 5, 2019 02:19

SunAndSpring: Dec 4, 2013

No one knows what KILL BOSS identifies as, but there is almost certainly a gargantuan hog tucked into those jeans.

SunAndSpring fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jan 5, 2019

# ? Jan 5, 2019 04:38

ElMaligno: Dec 31, 2004; Be Gay!
Do Crime!

SunAndSpring posted:

No one knows what Kill Boss identifies as, but there is almost certainly a gargantuan hog tucked into those jeans.

i wish this is a literal hog and its named KILL MID BOSS.

also KILL BOSS fucks

Edit: please refer to it as KILL BOSS and not Kill Boss, its extremely important

ElMaligno fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jan 5, 2019

# ? Jan 5, 2019 04:50

Nothing But Hate: Oct 7, 2006; When night falls, she covers the world, in impenetrable darkness

When�s the next update due?

# ? Jan 5, 2019 07:27

CAR CRASH CRACKERS: Jan 13, 2008; commemorative spoons and tiny personalized license plates: the regalia of tourism

Nothing But Hate posted:

When’s the next update due?

https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1081333891942834182

# ? Jan 5, 2019 07:34

Nothing But Hate: Oct 7, 2006; When night falls, she covers the world, in impenetrable darkness

CAR CRASH CRACKERS posted:

https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1081333891942834182

Awesome, thanks for that

# ? Jan 5, 2019 07:40

Fister Roboto: Feb 21, 2008

Joe Slowboat posted:

Not so much in this case, Kirkbride was influenced by Vedic stories and Advaita Vedanta but CHIM is a legitimately novel weird cosmotheological idea.

Plus Abaddon used to call the series "'36 Lessons of Vivec fan fiction" - the entire setting is his own, but a lot of the Royalty concepts come from Kirkbride. Ain't nothing wrong with that, either; nobody thinks a work is less its own thing because it has lords of Law and Order a la Moorcock, for example.

The ending of the words is AlYisUn.

# ? Jan 5, 2019 07:50

Joe Slowboat: Nov 9, 2016; Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements

Fister Roboto posted:

The ending of the words is AlYisUn.

Pretty sure she's more the Nerevarine than the Tribunal, in that context. Which would make Incubus, Vivec.
But also I don't think it maps.

# ? Jan 5, 2019 08:14

reignonyourparade: Nov 15, 2012

Joe Slowboat posted:

Not so much in this case, Kirkbride was influenced by Vedic stories and Advaita Vedanta but CHIM is a legitimately novel weird cosmotheological idea.

CHIM does take a lot of influence from the second big inspiration behind TES, Glorantha. Some of those ideas that enlightenment can Go Wrong, that it's not even necessarily a good thing... those are very much inspired by Illumination.

# ? Jan 5, 2019 09:32

Joe Slowboat: Nov 9, 2016; Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements

reignonyourparade posted:

CHIM does take a lot of influence from the second big inspiration behind TES, Glorantha. Some of those ideas that enlightenment can Go Wrong, that it's not even necessarily a good thing... those are very much inspired by Illumination.

...that's actually from Vedic (and Hindu classical) sources. The demon king Ravana, for a famous example, did vast penance and attained vast enlightenment, such that he could demand Brahma give him a boon: he asked to conquer Heaven and be invulnerable to the power of the gods and demons.
This is why he's the antagonist of the Ramayana.

# ? Jan 5, 2019 10:53