Chinese emperors don't need to be descended from an imperial clan. Never mind the fact that the Qing were Manchurian, which is kind of counter-productive in post-imperial China.hyzmarca said:
An Imago of Rust and Crimson (Worm crossover)
- Thread starter EarthScorpion
- Start date
... yeah, it's probably best to assume that Imago has taken everything about canon geopolitics, thrown it out the window, chucked a Molotov after it, and started again from the starting principle of "superpowered individuals started appearing in the late Cold War" and "giant monsters attack a city every few months".hyzmarca said:
Hence, for example, the fascist groups which have arisen because of aforementioned giant monsters are grounded in "Yeah, that's what happens when the economy is fucked up with massive unemployment", and they are 100% native home-grown American fascists who would respond to German neo-Nazis with "We beat you in Dubya-Dubya-Two! Go back to where you came from!".
(And anyway, looking at the circumstances and the point which things started going downhill and the late-cold-war point of divergence? Germany's going to have far more communists than Nazis (note that I say 'Nazis' here, rather than 'fascists'; they're not the same).)
Uh no we only know that a Neo-Nazi crime organisation called "die gesellschaft" the society is active in Europe and that they are more powerful then E88 and buy from cauldron. But then Europe is notoriosly low in details in the wormverse and remember that they never got invite to any of the secret meetups in the storyline.hyzmarca said:
edit: And next time I should remember to reload a page before posting as I missed that one by a hour.
And in regards to Europe the question is also how the fall of the iron curtain went , as for example people like Ceaușescu where quite likely to get killed by a parahuman.
TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
Less doublethink required then you might think, or maybe better to say doublethink already native to the mindset. Most racists don't see themselves as racist, and clearly they'll have a black friend (they just need to find where they put him, so they can trot him out in front of guests). A lot of the naivest talk will be about lifeboats, and how there is only room for so many people.EarthScorpion said:
Miss Militia lets them say they aren't racist. They can point at her and say, "See, we support her. She makes space on the lifeboat instead of taking it."
NSMS
Probably evil, unfortunately.
- Location
- A rapidly widening tear in the fabric of reality
One of Accord's minions has a powerset that's somewhat similar to Taylor's in the 'control being in alternate world to affect this one' sense; I don't recall exactly how his powers work, but he has an 'imaginary self' that lives in an alternate world and can interact with this one to some degree. And he's classed as a Stranger according to tv tropes, so assuming that's correct she might well end up with that classification.illhousen said:
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
- Location
- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
Eh, happens all the time on SB, don't take it personally. Jace called me names because I chimed in at the end of a lonG argument between two other people once, probably conflating me with Khaos.HioH said:
HioH
Gentleman, Scholar, Dinosaur
NP, I know the feeling.megamiaouh said:
Don't watch Adventure time while half-asleep, it does strange things to your mind...
Guile
Having a really great time right now
Please don't use the word 'flavor'. It meshes really weirdly with the line you quoted.theBSDude said:
HioH
Gentleman, Scholar, Dinosaur
I thought the combination was Hilarious myself.Guile said:
But yea, if it isn't intentional you might want to think about it.
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
- Location
- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
To be fair, ES is a distinctly better world-builder than wildbow when it comes to realism with he social sciences. Which isn't to say mutton's argument doesn't have merit in the details.
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
- Location
- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
Given ES's known propensity for using fellatio as a metaphor for people being so infatuated with something that they brush over it's glaring deficiencies, I'm not sure why guile has that concern.
pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
- Location
- North American Plaguelands
- Pronouns
- She/Her
To be fair to Wildbow, ES and Aleph are also better than the vast majority of published professional writers when it comes to that aspect of worldbuilding.Satori said:
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
- Location
- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
You could say that of a number of writers here on SB. It really says more about the standards of professional writers, or perhaps, their readers, than anything.pheonix89 said:
pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
- Location
- North American Plaguelands
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You mean Flor with the Code Geass thing? She's a borderline sociopath - at LEAST as fucked up as Regent was, probably worse - and a massive pain for anyone but Imp, Dragon and other people with Heartbreaker shards to work with safely.
pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
- Location
- North American Plaguelands
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Thats like perfect justification for a kill order right there. Especially since the dude cosplayed as the Simurgh's kid brother or something like that.SolipsistSerpen said:
Were they actually Endbringer cultists, or did they just cosplay as them to look big and scary?The Nomad said:
Well, a lot of the "capes" aesthetic and the cops and robbers thing can probably be put down to "bullshit Cauldron/Contessa hax".
They seem to have figured that that's a decent enough way to either provide more capes for Endbringer fights or to help bring about those post Scion rampage feudal societies.
That said, it is one of the things that I'm willing to wave away for the sake of a good story, even though I look forward to seeing what Earthscorpion has planned.
Even though I suspect that he's deliberately lengthening this chapter just to screw with us because he finds our fumbling for knowledge to be amusing.
Not that I believe that to be a bad thing, of course.
They seem to have figured that that's a decent enough way to either provide more capes for Endbringer fights or to help bring about those post Scion rampage feudal societies.
That said, it is one of the things that I'm willing to wave away for the sake of a good story, even though I look forward to seeing what Earthscorpion has planned.
Even though I suspect that he's deliberately lengthening this chapter just to screw with us because he finds our fumbling for knowledge to be amusing.
Not that I believe that to be a bad thing, of course.
At heart, her power is an observation-based one - she's concluded that much already. Just look at the relative effort that viewing the Other Place takes, compared to making a construct there. Her fundamental power encourages observation, introspection, and "trying to work out what the hell these convoluted metaphors mean and what things I can learn which I shouldn't be able to know", in contrast to the canon command, control, and "swarm them with creepy crawlies". Hell, an obvious first difference is that she won't be able to get her hands on a sweet spidersilk costume, and thus would be rather more flimsy if she went "heroing" as an independent or vigilante [1]. She's a Thinker first and a Master second, as opposed to canon's Master first and Thinker as a peripheral power.illhousen said:
At a narrative and Watsonian level, even before you get to my personal preferences for stories, she's being encouraged to take things slower and work things out for herself [2]. And that's before you take account of things like the deliberate genre flip, towards horror and towards urban fantasy, which promote a slower pace and more of a character focus rather than scale-escalating battles.
[1] If she joined the Protectorate, they'd issue her with gear.
[2] Rather than have Tattletale hand her answers.
a) Raw, blinding cosmic forceXicree said:
b) A shrieking mad fractured manifold crystal
c) A ham and cheese sandwich. The ham is human flesh.
d) Like Taylor, but mirrored.
e) A pile of stinking meat, squirming with worms and dripping with uncounted oceans of blood.
f) None of the Above
g) All of the Above