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Yeah, I feel you on this one. I think it has something to with our remarkably short lives, the utter powerless-ness it evokes, and the Ego we develop in being told we are made in some omnipotent cosmic being's image.

Yes.

Oh please, this - the first chapter of Infernals was horrible.

The Green Sun Princes deserves something better than that.

I don't want to play as someone who is raped by Ligier!

I don't want Ligier to deal with rape in the first place!

Would that mean the first chapter of Infernals would be removed?



(And, how many updates have we had with non-MA Green Sun Princes stuff?

As in, no Infernal Monster, no Black Claw, no Akuma stuff...

How much of that have we had?)

Apart from the fact that you remember how horribly they treated you, and you genuinely disapprove of it, which is the only justification needed.

Humans do what people they trust say to do, and keep in mind what those authority figures say, because those who do did survived more often than not.  Of course, this tendency came with a few unfortunate "security backdoors".  The brain can also get caught in a loop; even for those people who don't have OCD as such, intrusive thoughts apparently still occur.

I'm curious about how an entrant is supposed to know which door is the right one to take?



Two ways to see it:



"I am not so proud as to think myself righteous, so I must walk the path of the corrupt."



"I want to be righteous; I no longer wish to be corrupt -- so I will choose to forsake the path of the corrupt and walk the path of the righteous."





There doesn't necessarily have to be one reason why people do what they shouldn't do.



Still, I put "insatiable urge" ahead of "follow the leader" on the list of reasons human beings do bad things.

For those who get parts of their brain caught in an activity loop, yes.

I meant that people have commented on GSPs getting a lot of stuff.

I was interested in knowing how much GSP stuff we have gotten that isn't related to MA.





Ah, makes sense.

Thank you.

Dammnit man we needed a Gaigaogar reference!  Okay not a fan of the train myself but honestly they make more sense, technically speaking, than sailboats on land and in the air or any other fantasy object that's in the game that I suspect you wouldn't object to with the cocunut effect and all.  A train is really just a set of wagons pulled by an engine and not animals on a prepared track.  Its oddly enough the "prepared track" that annoys me more than anything (and the fact with all the ready made capacity and need the First Age inexplicably never made some sort of rail system its out door plumbing, we KNOW they had the indoor kind, only with goods and servants instead of shit) with making trains figures of fantasy.  The fixedness of the vehicle is so characteristic to it and its identity (the railWAYS are usually the most interesting things about them afterall) that when you choose not to have it it ...seems wrong and off on some level more than say, a flying carpet.  I mean carpets go through the air already this is just better at it.  There isn't a sense of freedom or exploration the roads all constructed and constrained.  That's true of any road or path buts it different for one only usuable by constructed device that needs the road constructed which was why it was made.  Circular situation, circular technology, fixed paths.  So it doesn't light my fantastic in quite the same way.  Though I'm a bit more found of trains as comforting means of a journey between two points.  But I don't like them as a vehicle I want more autonomy.

Hatewheel, did anyone ever figure out the pattern to the "story" you've alluded to in the Synapses? Was it the Ages as the phases of the sun, as someone suggested?



Dex

No, it wasn't. Illushia (sorry if I spelled that wrong) got closer than anyone. I think I explained it in a post but can't even remember anymore. lol

Denliner is a Train!



..Technically it's a Japanese Bullet train, but a train nevertheless. Pretty interesting that when the Denliner isn't traveling through time it moves in basically the same way that Chirmirajen does, with the tracks suspended up in the air and all.