Remove ads

THE MADMAN THEORY - Try Not To End The World

Reader mode
JbeJ275 said:
Will this process prevent the survival of independent intelligent beings and fundamental natural laws or just change the nature of the intelligent beings and or the natural laws?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Definitely the latter, he's channeling a bit of the Disciples of Anu from Phoenix Point in terms of overall vibe and is largely telling the truth when he says "look getting turned into a weird alien/thalassic mutant doesn't mean you're not still you" (although he might be sort of edging around how malleable the idea of "you" really is, but when isn't that true). Plus given the roster of advocates for megadeaths we've already got I wanted to come in with someone who's...far more invested in the idea of some kind of international order and fairly flexible on the details of what it might be in practice.
 
Laplace said:
I heard the Master only counts you as human if you have academic tenure.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
C: "Where are you hearing these ridiculous claims!? I even allow foreign journalists in without guides keeping them on a specific tour!"
TenfoldShields said:
Definitely the latter, he's channeling a bit of the Disciples of Anu from Phoenix Point in terms of overall vibe and is largely telling the truth when he says "look getting turned into a weird alien/thalassic mutant doesn't mean you're not still you" (although he might be sort of edging around how malleable the idea of "you" really is, but when isn't that true). Plus given the roster of advocates for megadeaths we've already got I wanted to come in with someone who's...far more invested in the idea of some kind of international order and fairly flexible on the details of what it might be in practice.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
P: We're actually thinking that once Divya's actually talked to Leviathan, she might offer a currently unused chunk of Antarctica as a place for your xenoforming project, in exchange for joining up with whatever alliance we've managed to cobble together.
 
Last edited:
TenfoldShields said:
Definitely the latter, he's channeling a bit of the Disciples of Anu from Phoenix Point in terms of overall vibe and is largely telling the truth when he says "look getting turned into a weird alien/thalassic mutant doesn't mean you're not still you" (although he might be sort of edging around how malleable the idea of "you" really is, but when isn't that true). Plus given the roster of advocates for megadeaths we've already got I wanted to come in with someone who's...far more invested in the idea of some kind of international order and fairly flexible on the details of what it might be in practice.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I should totally give President Stranger an Agenda item relating to the fact that he's a space alien tbh. Would be funny if he genuinlly finds Leviathan's Pacific Exclusion zone to be more homely than the rest of Earth.

We Just Write said:
C: "Where are you hearing these ridiculous claims!? I even allow foreign journalists in without guides keeping them on a specific tour!"
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
In Antartica they allow everyone in but they use the BRAINSCOOPER 2000 on everyone when they come out.
 
Laplace said:
In Antartica they allow everyone in but they use the BRAINSCOOPER 2000 on everyone when they come out.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
L: "Do you have ANY IDEA how infeasible that would be!? Central Nervous System operations are complex and delicate procedures taking hours at minimum! They're not the sort of thing you can just decide to have as part of airport security for outbound travelers!"
 
We Just Write said:
L: "Do you have ANY IDEA how infeasible that would be!? Central Nervous System operations are complex and delicate procedures taking hours at minimum! They're not the sort of thing you can just decide to have as part of airport security for outbound travelers!"
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
She admits to putting serious thought on the BRAINSCOOPER 2000. Heaven shudders at what their fully operational BRAINSCOOPER 3000 is like!
 
Laplace said:
I heard the Master only counts you as human if you have academic tenure.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
LIGHTBLADE is desperately trying to politely not say that those capable of engaging with problem solving intelligence at least one standard deviation above the mean are the only ones with the right to political participation.
 
It's important to remember that one of the themes of this game, given that everyone is basically a nuclear superpower on a hair trigger, is that you're going to either need to talk to and make concessions to people who you know want you dead at some point, because the alternative is throwing down and destroying everything you care about and work for

Just to make sure everyone gets the right mood and vibes.
 
MJ12 Commando said:
It's important to remember that one of the themes of this game, given that everyone is basically a nuclear superpower on a hair trigger, is that you're going to either need to talk to and make concessions to people who you know want you dead at some point, because the alternative is throwing down and destroying everything you care about and work for

Just to make sure everyone gets the right mood and vibes.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
There's a reason I put survive as my highest priority. I believe it better maps to the desires of actual Cold War states and decision making apparatuses.
 
The Master's ban on Protean is defacto discrimination against the poor and American citizens. As most of the extant sophonts making up Protean were American soldiers and, as such, disproportionately working class this exposes a profoundly unequal view of the world that cannot be trusted with defacto control of low Orbit.
 
MJ12 Commando said:
It's important to remember that one of the themes of this game, given that everyone is basically a nuclear superpower on a hair trigger, is that you're going to either need to talk to and make concessions to people who you know want you dead at some point, because the alternative is throwing down and destroying everything you care about and work for

Just to make sure everyone gets the right mood and vibes.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
fake news the atomic chips embargo will definitely force noncompliant superpowers to stand down telepath peter zeihan said so

anyways back to running the idaho fema death relocation camps
 
ChineseDrone said:
fake news the atomic chips embargo will definitely force noncompliant superpowers to stand down telepath peter zeihan said so

anyways back to running the idaho fema death relocation camps
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Have we considered the possibility that telepath peter zeihan is no longer sapient and is essentially just saying the gibberish the circle of people who rely on him for wisdom want to believe regardless of its truth
 
MJ12 Commando said:
Have we considered the possibility that telepath peter zeihan is no longer sapient and is essentially just saying the gibberish the circle of people who rely on him for wisdom want to believe regardless of its truth
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

he is only telepathic and not precognitive so he might just be reading the minds of the people going to him and saying what they want to hear
 
Havocfett said:
The Master's ban on Protean is defacto discrimination against the poor and American citizens. As most of the extant sophonts making up Protean were American soldiers and, as such, disproportionately working class this exposes a profoundly unequal view of the world that cannot be trusted with defacto control of low Orbit.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
C: "You can and do implant pathogenic time bombs in people that are incredibly difficult to detect. I'm going to have a hard enough time screening colonists already, and letting you anywhere near those efforts would be a grave error on my part. The ban stands for pragmatic reasons alone."
 
MJ12 Commando said:
Have we considered the possibility that telepath peter zeihan is no longer sapient and is essentially just saying the gibberish the circle of people who rely on him for wisdom want to believe regardless of its truth
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
that's even better though it just means he's reflecting the emerging networked collective cognition of the new knowledge economy have you read dow 36000
 
We Just Write said:
J: Tentative list of people Divya will be calling turn 1 in an effort to get an alliance going.
- Europa (@Cornuthaum )
- Entropy (@Carol )
- Schema ( @Red Robyn )
- Gavin 'Second Sun' Powys ( @Imrix )
- Daniil "Horizon" Lysias ( @SitzKrieg )
- Anh "Postcard" Nguyen ( @BlueHelix )
- PRISMATIC ( @harribo )
- LIGHTBLADE ( @JbeJ275 )
- Hu Jintao ( @MJ12 Commando )

J: Will be talked to separately from the main meeting
- Sulumbek "Abu Huriya' Khamatkhanov
- Joanna Harding
- Leviathan/Heirophant

J: Tentative Antarctic Banlist
- Protean
- President Stranger
- DORMIN
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
did everyone forget about Bravo, America's Strongest Soldier?
 
MJ12 Commando said:
It's important to remember that one of the themes of this game, given that everyone is basically a nuclear superpower on a hair trigger, is that you're going to either need to talk to and make concessions to people who you know want you dead at some point, because the alternative is throwing down and destroying everything you care about and work for

Just to make sure everyone gets the right mood and vibes.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Definitely part of it too is the much more mild, but still very effecting, social horror of "these dozen or so other dipshits are now not only your sole peers on Planet Earth but you have to constantly care about their mental and emotional state." Like, the characters will have to regularly stop what they're doing and go get in a room with at least some of the other Superpowers to make sure a. millions don't die but also b. they can keep doing all the stuff they actually want to be doing.

Nuclear armed powers with social claustrophobia and conference room cabin fever is a really fun vibe.
 
Havocfett said:
The Master's ban on Protean is defacto discrimination against the poor and American citizens. As most of the extant sophonts making up Protean were American soldiers and, as such, disproportionately working class this exposes a profoundly unequal view of the world that cannot be trusted with defacto control of low Orbit.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Does Protean maintain the intelligences of all integrated beings and merely let one run on the hardware at once? Or destroy the intelligences apart from a superficial level to permit them to recreate their personality?
 
If anyone gets bored with living in a world of cardboard, I am willing to partake in very stress relieving ultimate challenge duels on the moon in return for token support on education reform.
 
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Remove ads
Back
Top