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Whitenoise Poster posted:Now I know it's a product of this scenario being exclusively possible in fiction created by very not omniscient people. But I hate how characters always go for the most boring cookie cutter questions when confronted with some form of all knowing being. I'd defo want to know if I got a few things right but I also imagine Allison has death on the mind atm
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Hm i dont like the big spikey stabby thing in the seat of the (hm) big universe machine (hmmm) Reminds me of something... 
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I wanna see the creative process behind how H.R Geiger developed his style.
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I want to use a time machine to make a reality show about Freud psychoanalysing Geiger.
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I thought fortune tellers were just all about cold reading and giving generic prophecies, I didn't realize until this thread that they were assholes determined to give people nightmares of the future.
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TwoPair posted:I thought fortune tellers were just all about cold reading and giving generic prophecies, I didn't realize until this thread that they were assholes determined to give people nightmares of the future. paranoia makes for good returning customers
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TwoPair posted:I thought fortune tellers were just all about cold reading and giving generic prophecies, I didn't realize until this thread that they were assholes determined to give people nightmares of the future. Sometimes they sell services or fake jewelry that helps stave off the bad fortune. "I see you dying in a plane crash, but I also see you avoiding that fate by wearing this emerald necklace that I will lease you for $150 a month until you turn 46."
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People keep saying Jadis is in pain, maybe she exists in an infinite point in time. It could go beyond just knowing, but experiencing everything at once as well.
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ConfusedUs posted:I poo poo you not, a fortune teller at the state fair told me I was going to be eaten by a bear. I was 12. I have bad news. You misheard the first fortune teller. The next time you're in Louisiana you're going to be cannibalized by a drunk bus driver named Troy Hebert. A.o.D. fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jun 4, 2022 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I think it's something far more insidious; She tells the absolute truth. This is closer, I think. It's like watching a train wreck; if you have absolute prescience, then you have no power to actually change what you see because what you see is the absolute truth of what will be. You cannot react to it, you can only watch it happen. The alt text is from the part of her that's stuck observing, because even her own body is a slave to the cycle.
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https://twitter.com/TheCaardvark/status/1533236173308579840
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Why does this work so well?
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Reach Heaven Through Wensleydale
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Wyld Karde posted:Why does this work so well? Wallace represents the eighth and most deadly sin - being English
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I mean, he did eat (part) of the moon.
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Reach heaven through starving the Irish
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Reach heaven through Rube Goldberg devices
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Reach Heaven Through Lancashire
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Wyld Karde posted:Why does this work so well? It’s all Swiss cheese. The universe is full of holes.
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maswastaken posted:82 Trousers Born in Emptiness Return to Be Wrong This is the best one.
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I wonder if this isn't really Jadis and it's just the machine. Like Jadis used the machine and then became the crystal cube lady who died fighting Jagganoth. The thing talking to Allison is the memory of Jadis stuck in the machine's Ram cache.
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Donkringel posted:I wonder if this isn't really Jadis and it's just the machine. Like Jadis used the machine and then became the crystal cube lady who died fighting Jagganoth. "It looks like you're seeking strength beyond strength. Would you like help?"
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As we know, remote login is a lot like astral projection
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oobey posted:"It looks like you're seeking strength beyond strength. Reach heaven through Clippy
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Donkringel posted:I wonder if this isn't really Jadis and it's just the machine. Like Jadis used the machine and then became the crystal cube lady who died fighting Jagganoth. Doesn't have to be a memory, it could be a form of recording. If she can see the entire future, then she can have conversations with people after her death and record replies based on what they're going to say. Depending on how set in stone the future is, Jadis can then brute-force her replies to lead people to whatever course of action best benefits her schemes.
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That does lead to the possibility that Jadis as we see her now is the villain part of her timeline, and that perhaps her entombment self is her after some different revelation that things are gonna go off the rails.
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Donkringel posted:I wonder if this isn't really Jadis and it's just the machine. Like Jadis used the machine and then became the crystal cube lady who died fighting Jagganoth. Given the shadow version we see of her in the cover page, I wonder if she somehow split herself in half as a coping mechanism.
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I am in camp 'Jadis is very much dead already'. I like the idea that knowing the future she prerecorded her holographic/mental projection to show Allison what she was always going to see. They open up the machine and find OG Jadis's body just a desiccated husk on the inside, and just unceremoniously huck her out and put Allison in the
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Being a massive nerd, Allison knows full well that getting in the Capital-M Machine is perfectly fine. Nothing bad ever happens when you get in the Machine. Get in the Machine Allison.
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the most wild, "ah gently caress me" poo poo would be if the machine contained the barely-functional corpse of Megatron, who lives.
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“You’ve used me to glimpse the true shape of The Wheel for the last time, Starscream!”
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After the last volume, I'm half expecting Operant to slam on the gas unannounced and unexpected like, we were just handed 180 plus pages with an accelerating plot so gloriously intense that it can best be characterized as a pair of flaming tire tread marks scorched into the asphalt and crashing into the climax so hard that it burst through that climax into another climax four or five times before finally killing two gods, locking a third and fourth into Literally God Knows What The Actual gently caress That Was, and introduced us to Universe Machine which is apparently able to translate the shape of the word "I."
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Potato Salad posted:the most wild, "ah gently caress me" poo poo would be if the machine contained the barely-functional corpse of Megatron, who lives. I'd guess Jadis is integrated inside the machine as part of it, and always was.
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There Bias Two posted:Given the shadow version we see of her in the cover page, I wonder if she somehow split herself in half as a coping mechanism.
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There's definitely gotta be something going on with it, because otherwise why not project brainghost to the meetings of the demiurges instead of existing as an incoherent icecube? Why make her lackeys constantly be struggling to transcribe and interpret prophecies?
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Tiny Myers posted:There's definitely gotta be something going on with it, because otherwise why not project brainghost to the meetings of the demiurges instead of existing as an incoherent icecube? Why make her lackeys constantly be struggling to transcribe and interpret prophecies? That implies that Jadis has the ability to choose anything. The last decision she made was to turn the God Machine on. After that, every event in her existence, every word, mannerism, and thought has been preordained. Her lackeys struggle to interpret her pronouncements because that is how it is supposed to happen. It cannot happen any other way.
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