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puppetmaster55 · 2 years

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Tell me more about you adding themes of faith in vld this sounds really interesting

There's just something so "themes of faith" in how five almost-strangers come together and must have faith in one another to create a being grander than the sum of its parts. Having faith that the person fighting at your side will be

In how that empire has been going for ten thousand years (which, for human scale, is about as old as the pyramids) and whole systems have been under that rule for as long, and then imagine being one of those people, whose culture is so far gone under the rule of the empire that archeaolgy would be needed to even begin to bring back the ways from Before The Empire, and then there's five lions descending from the sky and they remove the empire and come together to defeat an equally giant monster that's dropped from the sky, and then those five lions land and along comes a castle and out of it all is a handful of people who look absolutely nothing like you and all they say is "you're free now, we're here now, why don't we do this one thing" but that hasn't been done by literally anyone alive and there is no memory nor story of doing this thing but apparently these beings from the sky know it and know how to do it and you discover that it's a game, it's how houses used to be built, it's what all the ruins you grew up around once were.

it's faith in how something that nobody in the whole universe has seen but they all have heard about in some capacity ends up being real, and with it comes a message that you can fight and find a better world and make a better world.

It's about how that much faith can move not only mountains but entire galaxies. It's about being one of those five humans who has the faith of galaxies placed upon their shoulder and the need to not only be an example of a better world but to fight and win against an empire whose expanses are beyond even what can be seen in the night sky.

It's about how those humans are so utterly mortal, and as mortals they are not perfect beings, and they make mistakes, and do the best they can, even if that means that they make the wrong decisions and act in defiance of the god-like beings that galaxies have faith in and believe them to be.

It's about the immortal emperor who has been in charge since the grandparents of grandparents of the empire's current generations, a god-like being in his own right with the power to obliterate entire planets with the swing of his ever-changing weapon.

It's about that emperor's faith in his wife, and her faith in not only her husband but the primordial creatures she seeks.

It's about the faith their child has in creating a future for himself and everyone else in the empire, away from the taint of his parents.

#puppet answers asks #anonymous

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realtalk-princeton · 4 years

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I want to take a gap year next year because I do not do well with online learning, but am so afraid that I’ll either be forced to take 2 years off because of lots of people taking gap years, or I’ll return and have a terrible senior year because everyone I’m friends with will be gone... what to do...?

Response from Aarksh:

I think it really depends on your major and what you want to get out of Princeton. If to make strong social conditions, have more “hands on” research opportunities, or to do interactive lab work are really important to defining your idea of “a memorable Princeton career,” then perhaps the risk of two gap years is outweighed.

In addition, you say that you don’t do well with online learning. However, I assure you there are ways to overcome this - I was terrible with online learning at the start of this fiasco but was able to close the semester fine. Still, my issues and yours are likely completely different in that respect. If you’re comfortable doing so, feel free to write what are your issues with online learning (if I can’t be of assistance with your particular issue, I’m sure another contributor can help!).

Now, if you take on the two gap years, you will not see your friends at Princeton, but you can always make new ones.

If you are a humanities or foreign language major, I assure your learning experience might still be different, but as long as you have a decent wifi connection, the important components of discussion, essay writing, and reading will still go along fine. Of course, this is a gross generalization based on my experience with several departments, not all of them.

If you’re an engineering, science, art and archeaolgy, computer science, and perhaps social science (depending on your independent work/thesis) major, it may be more difficult given the lack of proper working environments for lab work, engineering projects, and collaboration (for example, help in computer science is really different from in person vs. online).

At the end of the day, it really is up to you to weigh the pros and cons of this decision (namely, it seems your decision is between no longer being in school with your friends versus the difficulty online learning poses for you).

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