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[dragdeler]

Yes these are reassuring figures, you're forumites im just an intruder.

[Magmacube_tr]

Yes these are reassuring figures, you're forumites im just an intruder.

_{One of us.}

One of us.

ONE OF US!

ONE OF US!!!

[McTraveller]

Now that Microsoft has purchased both Activision and has "acquired" Sam Altman, what are the Vegas Odds on Microsoft being the company that literally creates Skynet and ends the world, given the probability of AI training itself on Call of Duty?

[Magmacube_tr]

Now that Microsoft has purchased both Activision and has "acquired" Sam Altman, what are the Vegas Odds on Microsoft being the company that literally creates Skynet and ends the world, given the probability of AI training itself on Call of Duty?

none-zero

[King Zultan]

WE'RE ALL DOOMED!

[Loud Whispers]

Swedish folklore has the Skogsrå or Skogsfrun (Forest-Ruler and Lady of the Forest respectively), which is a spirit that appears as a beautiful, possibly naked, woman with a few telltale traits that she isn't human such as a troll's tail. Often she is depicted as hollow, in the way that a hollow tree is hollow, which could only be seen from her having a hole in her back that she would hide. She was a dangerous creature that enjoyed playing with people and could make them wander lost in the forest, trick or hurt them.

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I'm not super certain but i think it is likely that as her name implies in earlier permutations of the myth she was the personification and/or ruler of the forest itself, but in much of the later (ie 17th-19th century) folklore that was preserved she has lost some of the "regality" that would imply. She has a few "sister spirits" like for example the Bergsrå/Bergsfrun (Mountain-ruler/Lady of the Mountain respectively) which retained their "we have to respect and revere these spirits and they will aid us or else they will become angry with us and hurt us" atmosphere.

Sounds much like how Pan lost a lot of his regality over time as he gradually became the drunk spirit of madness

Something amusing in how lots of human cultures seem to have had a nature spirit they revered, but over time grew to associate with fear and mystery

I noticed that I'm the newest member on the first page of the post counts by having joined in 2017 with the next newest guy having joined in 2015.

I'm also right under Frumple on that page as well.

I need to visit the forum games section more often. Lots of posters up there who have stopped visiting the lower boards. Need to open up a general discussion embassy or something to promote lower board tourism

[Magmacube_tr]

I need to visit the forum games section more often. Lots of posters up there who have stopped visiting the lower boards. Need to open up a general discussion embassy or something to promote lower board tourism

Oh yeah, great idea. We could definitely use more people down there.

[Loud Whispers]

Oh yeah, great idea. We could definitely use more people down there.

Or we could go up there. Be assimilated into one big pathos

[Magmacube_tr]

Oh yeah, great idea. We could definitely use more people down there.

Or we could go up there. Be assimilated into one big pathos

lol

Then we shall coalesce into the PATHOS GESTALT.

[Il Palazzo]

I don't want new people down here. I'd have to put on some pants and I don't remember where I left them.

[Magmacube_tr]

I don't want new people down here. I'd have to put on some pants and I don't remember where I left them.

Then get pants, guests are coming.

[Il Palazzo]

How do I get pants? I can't leave the house without pants.
...
Can I?

[TD1]

Oh yeah, great idea. We could definitely use more people down there.

Or we could go up there. Be assimilated into one big pathos

lol

Then we shall coalesce into the PATHOS GESTALT.

Ich bin Pathos, das kleines Forumite. Ich komme aus Forums, liegt direkt am Bay12!

[scriver]

Pee pa pathos
Pathos pathos papps

[King Zultan]

Pathos is love, Pathos is life.