Ah, Odyssial. You rear your head again. And once again, I am saddened at how bad you are at optimizing. Can't even be bothered to tell people why the viziers are being slaughtered, so you can prevent a recurrence, I see.
Well, no, perhaps that is unfair. I'm really just saddened that 'Get Stronger' is a defining principle still, that worthless thing. Not having saved people is really just an excuse, evidence of your need to be stronger, not really something to be sad about, after all.
I really wish we had gotten this out of our system out in the wilderness.
the removal of all distraction, all mental impurities, all the fleeting and purposeless stimuli that constantly assail the mind. What it is, is the triumph of the will, the extermination of weakness and vice. For a man can only live with one purpose - to do otherwise is to be at war with one's self.
This is a sad, sad statement. One made in ignorance, or willfull disregard, of what it is to be human. A shame that Odyssial is merely a rationalizing beast, like us all. To think he is too weak to work towards one goal without a full range of desires and drives.
[X] Resist the Clarity
I was smiling... right up until the end. Now? I... I don't know what I want.
Really? I lost my smile when Odyssial showed up. That mindset is a pitiable thing. To see only one goal, to evaluate a situation along a single, linear axis, its a depressingly common failing.
I think you are the confused one in this case. It has never been definitively stated whether Odyssial winning would have been a good thing or not. Only hints and implications both ways.
Really? Both ways? I honestly can't think of any indication Odyssial has any idea what would be a perfect world for anything we could recognize as human.
I'm just hoping Embrace the Clarity doesn't mean we decide that Lily and her systen is completely bad!wrong since its mostly right when it comes people and stuff when you can't objectively calculate utility perfectly (maybe with our new desire to powerlevel we'll start having EPIC sparring/traing/matches together?)
Perhaps, but since Odyssial has the utmost certainty of always being perfectly right in determining the optimal path, I don't think he'll ever think to do so himself. And lesser creatures that do operate on such a system obviously are just obstacles.
Hah! The irony of you, of all people, asking that question...
Power is worth everything. Power is agency, freedom, the strength to protect your friends, crush your enemies, and the ability to hope for a better future and not have the system of the world grind your dreams to dust. Without power, you are but a corpse playing at being alive.
Power alone is worth nothing. Agency in and of itself is meaningless. They let one achieve goals, and it is true, without them you achive less. But which goals you chose to achieve is more important than ones ability to grasp them. Having a greater quantity of options is not superior to having desirable options. I have less than zero faith that the full Odyssial mindset has any meaningful concept of friends, will willingly make everyone and everything his enemy, and may as well be incapable of conceiving of anything we would consider a better future, while working towards an alien dream none of us would share.
Yeah people that the player base has seen all of one scene of compared to how many scene's we have seen of moon? The connections the player base has formed with Moon? Frankly I don't really care about the fairest or Lea. *I* don't know them. I do know Moon.
