sun_the_second
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sun_the_second
2d ago
Whether it's a punishment or a blessing depends on whether it's forced upon you when you're least ready or given when you're most desperate for it.
sun_the_second
2d ago
I see no shortage of conservatives assuming their opponents are stupid, insane, satanically evil or all three.
If your definition of "basic self-respect" is "take advantage of everyone in any way that the authorities tacitly allow (or don't punish hard enough to matter for you), and if they were weaker than you they deserved it anyway", then I suppose you're correct by your definition.
The way I remember it is that he did it utterly regardless of whether or not they did anything to wrong him, he only didn't take all their money so that it wouldn't completely invalidate the allowance the academy was giving (and thus invite harsh measures), and while he went unpunished it wasn't something that was regularly done by the biggest kid on the block.
Doesn't Fang Yuan start beating up all his classmates for money somewhere in the first 50 chapters? That seems to go a bit beyond regular self-respect to me.
And an RPG where the maximum character level is 10 would be pretty good if the progression was appropriately paced, with tiers of power between those levels according to your gear, specialization, etc; with the highest level being not a guarantee but an achievement, something akin to beating Hades on maximum Heat. Dungeons and Dragons and the computer games derived from it have the maximum level 20, and in most IRL games, players only really reach level 10.
FWIW, if you think the progression is too simple I think, as much as I hate to resort to that webnovel trope, you haven't read far enough. It should be cleared up fairly soon how numerous the barriers towards maxing out are. But maybe I'm just not burned out on progression fantasy with 10 million billion power tiers.
sun_the_second
2d ago
Which men are we talking about? The ones in government sinecures, sure. I don't feel any gender solidarity with those.
sun_the_second
3d ago
No, they'd just go to different people.
sun_the_second
3d ago
My point being, the state of welfare for women is utterly irrelevant to what happens if men "just refuse to pay taxes", as per faceh, because governments extract taxes with certainty that doesn't care what they then spend them on. If all women were principled self-sufficient libertarians there would still be taxes.
sun_the_second
3d ago
As if governments didn't collect taxes with brutal force for less noble causes than that for millenia.
sun_the_second
4d ago
Just refuse to pay taxes and see how society reacts to this simple act of peaceful rebellion. If men aren't needed, if women are capable of getting along without them, then things should putter along okay anyway.
It will fail because men in the government want your money, not because women do.
sun_the_second
4d ago
If immortality is possible, why assume heat death will happen?
sun_the_second
5d ago
If you cannot imagine a life more fulfilling than drugs, then maybe it's really not worth quitting.
sun_the_second
5d ago
Who said that the unity, order, design of (ii) are going to be favorable to you?
sun_the_second
5d ago
If matter is more real than consciousness, then the things that intuitively matter to humans are really meaningless.
This is built on a spiritualistic premise that the only things with meaning are the ones without any grounding in the material.
sun_the_second
5d ago
No, no, no, you see, it works very well if the only people that the police is gonna give a pass to are Hoffmeisters and everyone who isn't a Hoffmeister gets hit with the full extent of the law if they try to lynch the shooter.
sun_the_second
5d ago
The Rings are singular artifact though. I meant more like a hypothetical setting where everyone does Satanism for a living.
sun_the_second
5d ago
I had learned later that "Gu" apparently represents various forbidden and reprehensible techniques in many xianxia novels. Given that, it makes sense that the author of RI basically wrote "Murderfuck Setting". It's as if a Western fantasy book had its main magic system be referred to as "Satanism" by everyone in-universe.
sun_the_second
5d ago
Unfortunately, this is one of the use cases where I can't check the LLM's work without having read the whole novel in the first place. If it mixes things up or forgets something crucial, I'm out of luck.
sun_the_second
5d ago
He had seen souls dissipate to seemingly nothing, with no indication that they were passing to any better world, or indeed that the world in question would be better. Why stake everything on another rebirth when you can grasp the life that you know?
sun_the_second
6d ago
If you know how to hack the real world, why would you write novels?
sun_the_second
6d ago
I've not heard of Israel killing every Palestinian child who says "when I grow up, I will kill you", or anything to that effect.
Of course, it's "their child soldiers weaponized and brainwashed by propaganda - our lads providing assistance to our guerillas". It's hard to have read the accounts (even if fictional) of Soviet children helping resist the German occupation during WW2 and not have some respect for the child soldier. But the respect comes with tacit understanding that once you pick up the pistol or carry intelligence for the military, the German can kill you and be no more in the wrong than killing your soldiers in general.
sun_the_second
6d ago
I have to appreciate just how well-handcrafted the brutal math of the setting is. Particularly the shift from Gu Masters to Gu Immortals. I'll spoiler it because the mechanics are not revealed immediately in the story.
Amazing Cultivation Simulator but for Reverend Insanity setting cannot come fast enough.
sun_the_second
6d ago
Are we still talking about Palestine?
sun_the_second
7d ago
Whatever you call that option, having it compared to not having it is freedom.
sun_the_second
8d ago
Yes, this is one of the largest pieces of evidence in favor of their pragmatism.
There was only one Venerable at a time, from what I recall. In addition to just how plain hard it is to become one, enough that their reigns were nowhere near consecutive (they collectively were only alive for no more than 10% of total known history), the first thing a Venerable would likely be doing at any given moment is making sure no one else is strong enough to become one.
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