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Voting closed: April 07, 2013, 10:34:35 am

[Empiricist]

((It's still a military unit. Like it or not, a psychopath is far more efficient than an innocent child. I am not arguing that it will not be disastrous, I am merely stating that it has potential to be more controlled and less catastrophic.))

[BFEL]

((So wait, Avatars are sentient? Like the machines are sentient?

Also Xan, the problem GWG is trying to point out is that the AM probably hates you and would assassinate you if you ever got too powerful. And I doubt even if the battery-pill IS how she got like she is, that simply eating it and going one-winged-angel would increase your chances against her.

Because on the one hand, you would have the same powers, but on the other hand, she has presumably CENTURIES of experience USING those powers. Whereas you would be a newborn space-magic-god.))

[Empiricist]

((I don't think @Xan gave her any more reason to hate him more than Grate.))

[Lenglon]

I can haz healthcare?

[Xantalos]

((I don't think @Xan gave her any more reason to hate him more than Grate.))

((This. I haven't really talked with her all that much.))

[Toaster]

((So wait, Avatars are sentient? Like the machines are sentient?

((There's another brain in there.  In the flavor there are several mentions of restraints and the like.))

[Zako]

((Makes you wonder what else is inside an Avatar...))

Ask Steve what can be fixed or needs to be done right now and how things are going on outside.

[BFEL]

((Makes you wonder what else is inside an Avatar...))

((So its a sentient black box composed entirely of armor and other likely sentient black boxes? Sound about right?))

[Toaster]

((That you get your legs lopped off so you can slave yourself to.  Yup.))

[GreatWyrmGold]

((It's still a military unit. Like it or not, a psychopath is far more efficient than an innocent child.

((Wrong. A psychopath who puts his own teammates at risk, as well as PR for a revolution, is more a liability than an asset if he can't be controlled. By which I mean, forced to do what he's supposed to be doing.))

I am not arguing that it will not be disastrous, I am merely stating that it has potential to be more controlled and less catastrophic.))

((A catastrophe controlled by a psychopath is far more dangerous than an uncontrolled one. And, really, the level of control and the personality behind it are the only differences between the two cataclysms proposed.))

((I don't think @Xan gave her any more reason to hate him more than Grate.))

((This. I haven't really talked with her all that much.))

((On the other hand...well, remember the time Steve's debriefing of you consisted of prolonged electric shocks? Your track record is already pretty bad. And you have displayed somewhat below-average aptitude at caring about teamkills, which since we're comparing it to HMRC average is pretty terrible.))

[Empiricist]

((So? It isn't his fault that he didn't have a decomp. He couldn't have purchased one if he wanted to. How would a psychopath controlled catastrophe be worse? You're arguing that killing specific people is worse than localized omnicide. Yes Xan is unsavory, yes, he is psychopathic, so what? Psychopathy does not mean insanity. Yes he doesn't care about teamkills, but he hasn't teamkilled anyone on purpose. Or at all from what I can remember. How is a directed blast worse for PR than what Grate is doing?))

[Xantalos]

((Apart from that time I incinerated a few city blocks while trying to get revenge after Stacy shot my foot off by accident, yeah I've been remarkably nonviolent toward other people.))

[BFEL]

((So? It isn't his fault that he didn't have a decomp. He couldn't have purchased one if he wanted to. How would a psychopath controlled catastrophe be worse? You're arguing that killing specific people is worse than localized omnicide. Yes Xan is unsavory, yes, he is psychopathic, so what? Psychopathy does not mean insanity. Yes he doesn't care about teamkills, but he hasn't teamkilled anyone on purpose. Or at all from what I can remember. How is a directed blast worse for PR than what Grate is doing?))

((Er...I think Psychopathy usually equates pretty well to insanity. I'm pretty sure you're thinking of SOCIOpathy.
Sociopathy= you don't care
Psychopathy= you actively attempt to harm people.
At least that's my understanding anyway.))

[Xantalos]

((Other way around, I think.
That or oh wait Psychopaths have no empathy, the violent ones are the dumb ones that can't blend in.))

[Empiricist]

((So? It isn't his fault that he didn't have a decomp. He couldn't have purchased one if he wanted to. How would a psychopath controlled catastrophe be worse? You're arguing that killing specific people is worse than localized omnicide. Yes Xan is unsavory, yes, he is psychopathic, so what? Psychopathy does not mean insanity. Yes he doesn't care about teamkills, but he hasn't teamkilled anyone on purpose. Or at all from what I can remember. How is a directed blast worse for PR than what Grate is doing?))

((Er...I think Psychopathy usually equates pretty well to insanity. I'm pretty sure you're thinking of SOCIOpathy.
Sociopathy= you don't care
Psychopathy= you actively attempt to harm people.
At least that's my understanding anyway.))

((Incorrect. Psychopathy is not as the media or popular culture portrays it. It is simply a reduction or absence of emotions and by extension, empathy. Psychopathy IS sociopathy.))