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[Calidovi]

@T, "Charlie Sheen taking the alcoholics anonymous pledge" may be the finest analogy I've ever seen. I bask in your wisdom.

[TheBiggerFish]

On an email, in the header:
[Message Contain Objectionable Language]
Message did not contain objectionable language.

[Yoink]

Maybe the author finds English objectionable?

[Lightningfalcon]

All my fellow students with Monday English classes wish they had the day off. I also with I had it off, since I need more time to work on this essay. So far I have... seven words done. Seven is a lucky number, right?

[Bauglir]

All my fellow students with Monday English classes wish they had the day off. I also with I had it off, since I need more time to work on this essay. So far I have... seven words done. Seven is a lucky number, right?

Depends on the words. "I cannot find words to describe this." might work.

[Calidovi]

So far I have... seven words done. Seven is a lucky number, right?

You knew exactly what this was going to be before you clicked it.

[Sergius]

Zombo.com

WTF

[Rose]

Everything is possible.

[RedKing]

I always knew Lyndon LaRouche was kind of fringe...but holy fucking shit.

This guy is like real-life Liberal Crime Squad, complete with armed gangs, torture/brainwashing sessions, incoherent conspiracy theories and using music to try and change people's ideologies.

He recorded sessions with a 26-year-old British member, Chris White, who had moved to England with LaRouche's former partner, Carol Schnitzer. In December 1973 LaRouche asked the couple to return to the U.S. His followers sent tapes of the subsequent sessions with White to The New York Times as evidence of an assassination plot. According to the Times, "[t]here are sounds of weeping, and vomiting on the tapes, and Mr. White complains of being deprived of sleep, food and cigarettes. At one point someone says 'raise the voltage,' but (LaRouche) says this was associated with the bright lights used in the questioning rather than an electric shock." The Times wrote, "Mr. White complains of a terrible pain in his arm, then LaRouche can be heard saying, 'That's not real. That's in the program'." LaRouche told the newspaper White had been "reduced to an eight-cycle infinite loop with look-up table, with homosexual bestiality." He said White had not been harmed and that a physician—a LaRouche movement member—had been present throughout. White ended up telling LaRouche he had been programmed by the CIA and British intelligence to set up LaRouche for assassination by Cuban exile frogmen.

[Sirus]

Oh man, I remember when some of his followers set up a booth at my college. I liked a couple of his ideas (high-speed rail, maybe), but the rest just seemed kinda out there. He was anti-video game as well, IIRC :/

[scriver]

Never trust a man called "LaRouche".

[Neonivek]

Goodness

Honestly I am starting to want to beat up the first person to ever spout the term "Magic Versus Technology"

Since the more I see it, the more I notice that it relies ENTIRELY on connotations that take place entirely outside the setting and otherwise makes absolutely no sense.

Watching this "Total Annihilation Kingdoms" Letsplay and the Creon are basically all Into technology and HATE magic. Yet they constantly spout on and on about how they destroy superstition and use logic.

Yet... here is kind of the thing
1) Magic in this setting is not an unknowable force, nor one that is learned strictly through some form of spiritualism. It is usually learned through academic study.
and
2) It isn't SUPERSTITION when these things are REAL!!! Dragons, Centaurs, and Merfolk are real living beings you can see with your eyes... This shouldn't be that hard.

It forces this whole theme of magic versus technology but it never establishes anything solid for this to work. HECK the factions aren't even inherently magical anyhow (well except two), the game pretty strongly establishes that only the nobility really have access to magic and even then the majority of their armies aren't even magical. People don't cook food with spells in this setting.

And no they aren't meant to be hypocrites, I am not missing some theme. They really are supposed to be these bastions of logic and destroyers of superstition...

[Helgoland]

It can be fun if done right. Example: You have sorcerers, who are part of the ruling class and derive their power from the fact that for many vital applications magic is the only option. And you have non-magical, non-nobility people taking the first steps towards the industrial revolution and modern thought: Constructing machines, rationalizing production methods, maybe even introducing basic hygiene to the medical system... The conflict 'magic vs technology' then organically arises from the conflict 'nobility vs bourgeoisie'.

[NJW2000]

Or vice-versa, with the bourgeoisie being the scientist and developers, while the poor rely on superstition and magical remedies, which actually work as its a fantasy setting, though the upper classes wish to industrialise and thus control the means of production/medicine/combat/etc. There's lots of good ways they could have done it.

[scriver]

The bourgeoisie would be the "poor" in Helgoland's example.