The Dragon betrays everyone..including himself. One soul can be a philantrope..while ten other are murderous dictators, gangsters and psychopaths..evening things out.GreggHL said:
Or it could be that we are going by the meme of 'Bill Gates is rich and therefore he is EVUL' which was no less fucking stupid when Gates actually ran Microsoft.Durabys said:
GreggHL said:
Thing is though, this falls flat as an analogy for the Ebon Dragon. Microsoft did things that were legal, but questionable. The company would use the rules to game the system, allowing them to both have the air of following the laws, but at the same time use them to put themselves on top.Nicholai said:I was, as a matter of fact, making a cheap shot at Bill Gates' reputation for less than ethical business relations and how almost everyone had a "Windows ate my _____" story to share.
I actually started a PM with someone where I pointed out some of the good things Bill Gates has done. It has to balance with the fact that Microsoft didn't become a virtual monopoly because Bill Gates is a nice guy. It became a virtual monopoly because that's what he wanted. For crying out loud, part of the design cycle of Microsoft is to change things in all their major software every update so that people have to go back and get re-certified or buy new reference books to do their jobs.. just so Microsoft can make more money with the re-certification / reference books.
Is he doing good things with his money? Yes.
Is he a saint? No.
Apparently I fail at internet sarcasm.
Well, it's never said it's the Eye. Chances are, since the Eye's been in Creation, Auto just used the other one.Vanigo said:
Too conventional.Cyclone said:
This will involve Jane whupping the ass of a Cacaproptocoakichi (whatever the fuck they're called), with said Raksha in his final moments declaring "I shall have my vengeance! If not through me, in my dying breath-" Spits up rainbow blood in a stream all over Jane's face, "Then through my HEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Monshroud said:
Except for that one time a Raksha charged out as a unicorn built from metal, hatred and copies of most of Adorjan's "run fast and kill people all day erryday" charm cascade. Plus a constant aura of '80s pop.GreggHL said:
Fun fact! Auto's old workshops in Yu Shan are still intact.Nicholai said:Are you sure it wouldn't go something like this?
Shepard: Let me get this straight - Autocthon managed to clone himself into an artifact he left lying around in the reality next door.
Kal'Reegar: Sort of. He/They tried explaining it to me and after the first 30 seconds I could feel my sanity slipping.
Iri: Oh, you poor dear! Not being able to keep up with the Maker's brilliance!
Kal'Reegar: I'm pretty sure that wasn't it.
Shepard: Stay on topic, 'Reegar! So there were two of Authcthon running around?
Kal'Reegar: Yes.
Shepard: And they were just trying to find the ... "tools" they needed to fix the Exaltations and our reality, right?
Kal'Reegar: That's what they said when-
Shepard: That's all well and good..
Kasumi: Here we go!
Shepard: *ignores Kasumi* .. so how did that lead to every god in Creation moving into MY SHIP?!?
Kal'Reegar: Did you miss the part where I said that the two Autos tried fixing Creation?
I'm kind of surprised they didn't wall them off under multiple layers of containment domes. Or try to drop the whole area into the Wyld long enough to erase everything there.GreggHL said:
Is Autochthon the one who is physically incapable of making deathtraps that don't have some kind of puzzle solution?TheSandman said:
Oh, it is. It absolutely is quarantined as much as is possible, but it is still there. That means Autobot might find a way in, and this was shit that was made when he was still a primordial, and hasn't been touched by him in thousands of years.TheSandman said:
EDI: Shepard, I have already begun organizing the gods into unions and guilds. I have also moved my main processing avatar into Yu-Shan 2.0, and have set up my offices in the Cerulean Lute.Nicholai said:
I believe the highly technical term for those items is Happy Fun Stuff.GreggHL said:
Little of column A, little of column B.SpacePaladin said:
..of the Dwarf Fortress kind..in this case..quite literally.The Bushranger said:
There's a reasonable chance that the workshop/forge of the voidtech-ridden, absent minded genius and blasphemous inventor has, over the last 5-6 thousand years left long, become the Anteverse.Durabys said:
..you realize that if it is true then just smiling the wrong way when they are found will lead to a smackdown of epic proportions..by some lesser god who know a few perfect or two. Pacific Rim is very low yield when compared to Exalted..at least I think it is.GreggHL said:
Most gods don't have perfect defenses.Durabys said:
And does the Anteverse Aliens in the Pacific Rim movie have acess to perfect defences and non-basics advanced (Exalted/Primordial-level) motonic and sorcery tech? Nope. They still get stomped hard.RadiantPhoenix said:
