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yeah i think they built like six or seven satellite cities all of them are now gone as gently caress, im p sure at least half of them got used the same way mottom's mobile oppression palace did
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quote:A place ruled by the king Au Vam, where Meti was born and grew up. A city built outside of Throne by the demiurges, along with six others, that orbited it. They were immense projects, the culmination of hundreds of years of engineering and planning, that housed hundreds of thousands. I imagine the demiurges threw them at each other.
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Feb 1, 2019 08:54
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universal war was a snowball fight that got out of hand jadis just wanted to show that guy what snow was like
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Feb 1, 2019 13:26
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MikeJF posted:I imagine the demiurges threw them at each other. Swolemon David and Jaggs each picked one up and threw it at other demiurges, obvs. Royalty is a continuous lifting motion.
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Feb 1, 2019 13:30
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The moons git sick of everyone's bullshit, and hosed off to cosmos-Netherlabds and got high as gently caress.
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Feb 1, 2019 18:04
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Dead Reckoning posted:"It used to be around, but then it got hosed up in the Universal War" is a probably a good bet for any unknown in this comic. like with all the people hanging around chatting with YISUN, all the legendary bullshit is in a perpetual state of both existing and not-existing at any given moment depending on which makes for a better story.
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Feb 1, 2019 18:48
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You know the rulers weren't royalty because just because the moons were broken doesn't make them destroyed
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Feb 1, 2019 19:08
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nah they could totally have been royalty and just not cared
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Feb 1, 2019 19:13
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make mockery posted:nah they could totally have been royalty and just not cared While Royalty is powerful I don't think it is actually CHIM in this setting; things have reality here, especially bad decisions. Think about Zoss, 'the closest any human has come to Royalty' - he can't just wish away the Second Conquest, though he could have stopped it at the time. Things get broken, and stay broken. Royalty is capable of moving on (which none of the demiurges can).
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have we yet actually seen any indications zoss was a humanitarian maybe he just doesnt like how much of a mess the demiurges made of things but also cant be arsed to clean it up himself
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Feb 1, 2019 19:24
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Why would Zoss be interested in preventing something when "cause" and "effect" don't really seem to follow a linear relationship for him? The overarching ethos here seems to be, "achieving real ultimate power results in not really wanting to do anything with it, or maybe not wanting to do anything with real ultimate power is a prerequisite for achieving it." Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Feb 1, 2019 19:26
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Zoss' ability to ignore cause and effect seems primarily to be an ability to ignore some of them, about himself. And he still shows up with a hole in his head and no Key of Kings. Because a major theme of the comic is 'breaking cycles' and accepting the consequences of change. Remember YISUN in the garden, to paraphrase: 'reality is an illusion, attachment is suffering, please ignore both of those truths.' If there isn't actually real transience to the world, then that takes away a core theme. I don't think it's that Zoss doesn't want to act, or didn't want to. I think it's that he realized he could not fix this, and was able to actually decide to step back from the world. None of the demiurges have been capable of choosing that; Royalty is a continuous cutting motion, and that includes recognizing what he failed at and cutting himself away.
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Joe Slowboat posted:While Royalty is powerful I don't think it is actually CHIM in this setting; things have reality here, especially bad decisions. Think about Zoss, 'the closest any human has come to Royalty' - he can't just wish away the Second Conquest, though he could have stopped it at the time. Things get broken, and stay broken. Royalty is capable of moving on (which none of the demiurges can). the multiverse is literally a bunch of stories the gods told themselves (and the gods, themselves, may be a story YISUN told themselves) so it's all a gray area. But Zoss isn't going to retroactively undo the fall of Throne, because it's part of his story and you can't just unmake who you are because you don't like that you hosed up (and if that's what you'd want to do you don't have enough command of yourself to really take the reins anyway). It seems entirely plausible, though, that at some point Allison might say meet a god, even though they're all dead and she lives inside one's skull. Dead Reckoning posted:Why would Zoss be interested in preventing something when "cause" and "effect" don't really seem to follow a linear relationship for him? Cause it's who he is. The gods are dead and there's no outwardly ordained meaning to your life beyond what you make of the circumstances you find yourself in, but the more you lean in on that the more 'you' you'll be in ways that have magical kung-fu ramifications (this is the comic where Zoss's role was originally filled by super-Nietzsche). He's the failed conquering king who rear end-kicked his way to God's own throne, tried to impose an eternal rule of enlightened philosopher-kings, watched it all go to poo poo and got merked by an upstart because he was a lot better at conquering than ruling. Now that he's dead he could say gently caress it and go apply for the new opening at Starbucks instead, but his whole thing is sort of being singlemindedly purposeful to the point where even death is just an irrelevant distraction. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Feb 1, 2019 |
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Feb 1, 2019 20:20
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Joe Slowboat posted:I don't think it's that Zoss doesn't want to act, or didn't want to. I think it's that he realized he could not fix this, and was able to actually decide to step back from the world. None of the demiurges have been capable of choosing that; Royalty is a continuous cutting motion, and that includes recognizing what he failed at and cutting himself away. Hell, Zoss did act really, he found somebody else he probably feels has a chance to stop the demiurges and handed his power to them despite the whole dying thing (which may not stop him, but had to hurt at least). Saying “I can’t fix this, let me help someone who can” can be the best solution to a problem sometimes, and he certainly suffered for that action.
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I deeply enjoy that Royalty is Nietzschean Vedic Detachment by way of the Elder Scrolls.
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Feb 1, 2019 21:39
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Death is inevitable and necessary part of life. It gives meaning to what would otherwise become an inescapable cycle of stagnation, madness, and despair. Also accepting death makes you a stupid emo dweeb, because it means you'll never get to do anything cool or fun ever again, so don't if at all possible.
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Feb 1, 2019 22:31
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Royalty is a ring providing a single permanent point of Levitate.
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Feb 1, 2019 22:31
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What?! Their utopian lesbian relationship is not perfection? No way! https://twitter.com/Orbitaldropkick/status/1091505466109247489?s=19
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Feb 2, 2019 02:19
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New comic up. Guess who just reentered the plot? efb
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Feb 2, 2019 02:20
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What's that medallion from? I don't remember it.
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Feb 2, 2019 02:21
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GunnerJ posted:What's that medallion from? I don't remember it. I don't think we've seen it before, it seems like it has no significance other than she's playing with it when nervous/stressed.
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Feb 2, 2019 02:29
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Of course Incubus visits women in dreams. Dude has more red flags than a workers revolution.
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Feb 2, 2019 02:34
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habeasdorkus posted:Of course Incubus visits women in dreams. Dude has more red flags than a workers revolution. I mean... his name is Incubus tbf
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Feb 2, 2019 02:37
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"Final lessons" makes it seem like this is a nightly thing too.
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Feb 2, 2019 02:46
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Ixjuvin posted:I mean... his name is Incubus tbf Yeah, but he's not an incubus, he chose the name. So he doesn't get the devil pass of "it's my nature!" Ofc, I have zero doubt that he shows up in men's dreams as well, so at least he's not gender discriminating.
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Feb 2, 2019 02:52
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liking those incunipples (not sarcasm they're legit good imo)
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Rotten Red Rod posted:What?! Their utopian lesbian relationship is not perfection? No way! Of course not! It came out of nowhere after all.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:liking those incunipples You have good taste.
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Feb 2, 2019 03:55
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HEY KIDDO rap tap tap
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i don't fear the man who draws 10,000 nipples once. i fear the man who draws one nipple 10,000 times.
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GunnerJ posted:"Final lessons" makes it seem like this is a nightly thing too. Yeah. So it looks like there is the angel training, the demon training and the secret training in dreamland.
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Maya, who definitely said the alt text, is going to show up, push Incubus aside unceremoniously, and say "This idiot has been teaching you wrong. I will train you." Everyone will ignore the fallen Incubus, who will be on the ground whining that he was doing his best, while Maya teaches Allison about swords. Incubus will be left completely alone from that point forward, just lying on his side in an alley in Throne going 'heeeey I'm still important, come baaaack."
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Synthbuttrange posted:HEY KIDDO this is exactly what i thought as well.
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habeasdorkus posted:Royalty is a ring providing a single permanent point of Levitate. "So having a ring like that on each finger is Extra Royalty, then, right?" - Incubus
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OH GOD gently caress OFF INCUBUS oh god and hes the Man Inside the Walls too! today sucks!
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Rotten Red Rod posted:What?! Their utopian lesbian relationship is not perfection? No way! Cio right here is a great example of "Doing Relationship Anarchy Wrong".
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incidentally dril 6 billion demons is doing good work still
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habeasdorkus posted:Yeah, but he's not an incubus, he chose the name. So he doesn't get the devil pass of "it's my nature!" Ofc, I have zero doubt that he shows up in men's dreams as well, so at least he's not gender discriminating. He's not AN incubus, he's THE incubus. The earthly concept is basically a metaphysical reflection out into the rest of the multiverse, all based on him.
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That's also not his true form - we've seen his ruined body in previous chapters. Pretty boy in the dream realm, scarred up wreck in person.
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Well that's what happens when you're so bad with a sword
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