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Begemot posted:I think that might be why Meti is commenting on her hair. It was a prerequisite for Maya's training. that was definitely my read - maya may look like a badass now, but she hasn't been willing to go through with Meti's pointless painful demands (that are probably the first steps on the path to royalty, of course) yet eke out fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Mar 16, 2019 |
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Alternatively, she has. The comment was "Well it's been years and you're swole now training over get out of my house"
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Mar 16, 2019 04:19
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Begemot posted:I think that might be why Meti is commenting on her hair. It was a prerequisite for Maya's training. I read it as she managed to shave her head long ago and start training and it's grown back now, but it's ambiguous.
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Mar 16, 2019 05:13
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Today I realized that thanks to his kung fu bullshit and his patriarchal society, Solomon David hasn't had daughters since that last batch all died. Mix that with the fact that he has to be the daddy who fixes everything and keeps all his children safe and this tournament is gonna go in a real fun "I have been intentionally repressing my traumas because a man has to be big and strong and capable" direction.
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Mar 16, 2019 05:57
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Solomon is pretty much a masculine foil to Mottom's pressure to always perform youth, beauty and indulgence, I believe. Different hyper-rigid gender roles. Appropriately enough Mottom is acutely aware of what she's doing and justify it as a survival strategy, while Solomon seems to not be entirely conscious he's doing it and believes he's simply doing everyone else a favor by being this awesome.
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I wonder if one of his dumb sons tried to rules lawyer him by showing up in the arena and just pricked their hand with a needle saying ‘I’ve spilled a drop of your blood, dad’ 
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Demiurge4 posted:I wonder if one of his dumb sons tried to rules lawyer him by showing up in the arena and just pricked their hand with a needle saying ‘I’ve spilled a drop of your blood, dad’ I feel like this would actually win Sol's respect, which is why none of his present sons have been smart enough to do it.
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at the very least, doing it shows the balls solomon is requiring of his hypothetical heir a real artist and Artist would shed more than blood, imo. an eye? a hand? a hide? of course, the only way to follow up on it is to attempt to fight him anyway, e: i hold that solomon restricts his trolling to his personal life, btw make mockery fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Mar 16, 2019 |
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Mar 16, 2019 13:14
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also, id say the state of mayas domain is categorically not her responsibility. if nothing else that was and always is the terms of claiming the throne, even ignoring how loving long incubus has had to do with it as he will
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Mar 16, 2019 13:23
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Alternative: Allison shows up in the arena and punches one of his sons in the face, giving him a nose bleed.
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Mar 16, 2019 13:26
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remember, thrones are for idiots
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Dmitri-9 posted:If I read correctly the Yellow City and the Blue City are basically moons that orbited Throne. As was mentioned above bad things happened to them during the war. There were seven orbiting cities, they were some of the greatest creations of demiurge society. There was also an actual moon.
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CAR CRASH CRACKERS posted:Shocked Meti smokes filtered cigs. I assume she just smokes whatever people give her/she finds. I don't think you live in a barrel if you're going to be picky.
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shirts and skins posted:Incidentally Meti is so far down and to the left of this thing Not even going to the drive thru, just staying in your loving barrel and calling uber eats to bring you one
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Renaissance Robot posted:Not even going to the drive thru, just staying in your loving barrel and calling uber eats to bring you one thats a rude thing to call maya
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Demiurge4 posted:I wonder if one of his dumb sons tried to rules lawyer him by showing up in the arena and just pricked their hand with a needle saying ‘I’ve spilled a drop of your blood, dad’ The only reason that doesn't happen is because Solomon empties them of blood before they get the chance to do it themselves.
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make mockery posted:thats a rude thing to call maya girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Mar 16, 2019 |
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CAR CRASH CRACKERS posted:Shocked Meti smokes filtered cigs. All the good tobacco vendors died (and she couldn't afford their wares anyway), so she's stuck smoking lovely menthol kools imported for cheap from one of the Earths.
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theres no way that Meti doesnt smoke something like Pyramids, the cigarette so bad ive seen homeless dudes turn them down
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Demiurge4 posted:I wonder if one of his dumb sons tried to rules lawyer him by showing up in the arena and just pricked their hand with a needle saying ‘I’ve spilled a drop of your blood, dad’ This is assuming any of them can get close enough to pull that off, or that a needle would even work.
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Mar 17, 2019 05:09
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Their own hand, being that they have his blood in them. Assuming they even have this view of course.
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Mimesweeper posted:I read it as she managed to shave her head long ago and start training and it's grown back now, but it's ambiguous. Yeah. It also feels as though Meti's next sentence is basically going to be about how beautiful her hair is and that she should settle down, basically giving Maya one last warning to walk away from the path of the sword. Of course, we all know how this turns out.
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GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:Yeah. It also feels as though Meti's next sentence is basically going to be about how beautiful her hair is and that she should settle down, basically giving Maya one last warning to walk away from the path of the sword. It's interesting how having this interlude in the middle of Solomon David's chapter makes it clear just how bullshit Meti's, "the way of the sword brings only suffering, settle down and have children" line is.
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paranoid randroid posted:theres no way that Meti doesnt smoke something like Pyramids, the cigarette so bad ive seen homeless dudes turn them down she smokes whatever someone gives her the ultimate cigarette bum Patrick Spens posted:It's interesting how having this interlude in the middle of Solomon David's chapter makes it clear just how bullshit Meti's, "the way of the sword brings only suffering, settle down and have children" line is. Is it? To Solomon David his whole family is basically a sword, but also a stupid and useless one. He doesn't have a family, only failsons.
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Incubus mentioned her when he told Solomon's story, chances are more comparisons are gonna be drawn between these two. Beautiful locks vs luxurious beard.
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Patrick Spens posted:It's interesting how having this interlude in the middle of Solomon David's chapter makes it clear just how bullshit Meti's, "the way of the sword brings only suffering, settle down and have children" line is. Solomon David failing at his thing doesn't really invalidate Meti's point. Getting really good at killing people is still a pretty poo poo thing to devote your life to.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Solomon David failing at his thing doesn't really invalidate Meti's point. Getting really good at killing people is still a pretty poo poo thing to devote your life to. Given that Maya apparently grew up in a time of war and famine, I really doubt she had that option.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Given that Maya apparently grew up in a time of war and famine, I really doubt she had that option. Meti's point is definitely somewhat idealistic, but I don't buy that Maya had no choice. She definitely seems to think she had one.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Solomon David failing at his thing doesn't really invalidate Meti's point. Getting really good at killing people is still a pretty poo poo thing to devote your life to. Its pretty clear that the passive stance taken by the monks was incorrect, so SOMEONE has to devote themselves to violence because otherwise your family, world, and sun are apt to be taken otherwise.
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Yeah, Maya has a choice. Fight or abandon everything she knows and the world where she grew up, let it be crushed under a madman's crusade and rot away into nothingness, and meanwhile she goes and cooks noodles somewhere else and grows old and has many children. Little did she know...
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Everyone who devotes their life to violence are idiots and should be dissuaded from doing so. Idealistic, but not incorrect. And if you're still going to insist on doing it, at least do it right. Practical, and what ended up happening. Devoting your life to violence and also trying to pretend you are some kind of enlightened pacifist while watching your home get destroyed? That's a special kind of idiot and definitely worse.
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Dr Subterfuge posted:Everyone who devotes their life to violence are idiots and should be dissuaded from doing so. Idealistic, but not incorrect. And if you're still going to insist on doing it, at least do it right. Practical, and what ended up happening. Hell, Maya even gave that noodle vendor a variation on "if you meet Buddha on the road, kill him" as payment.
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Shugojin posted:Is it? To Solomon David his whole family is basically a sword, but also a stupid and useless one. He doesn't have a family, only failsons. Not his current family, his previous. I'd say Meti's real lesson is "master the sword, but don't let it master you".
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I think the source of metis bitterness comes partially from a lack of lateral thinking. There's convenience to be had in learning how to slice up some deli meat for a sandwich from 4 miles away. Sword arts are wasted on warriors
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Seizon posted:Sword arts are wasted on warriors
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Sadly on foolish warriors wish to learn it, making all who learn it fools better off doing something else.
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the art of cutting is the registered name of my long-distance barbering/tailoring/pizza slicing business
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i only cut the pizzas square
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Mar 18, 2019 00:36
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make mockery posted:i only cut the pizzas square You monster.
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For a second I thought that they had gotten probated for the cutting pizza's square post and I thought "Oh, righteous." Pizza's cut into squares is the type of poo poo that even Pree Aesma wouldn't do on principle.
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