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ironstrange-is-the-endgame · 5 years

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Prompt: Movie night! Stephen finds most horror movies comical because of what he does, but Tony's too proud to admit he's afraid of scary movies.

As far as the bad guy in the horror movie is a real person, someone in flesh and blood, someone you can pinpoint and who has a face, horror movies are not a problem for Tony either. If he can see them, he knows the main characters are going to save the day because that’s how movies work, that’s the message they want to give you. He quite enjoys those enough to watch them. It’s not his favourite genre, but he can go through the movie without jumping on the sofa every time.

Tony’s problem, though, with the movies in which there’s a case of possession, of demonic entities. Stephen isn’t bothered at all, about those, quite the opposite: he’s always there calling bullshit on whatever isn’t similar and/or credible in exorcisms and in the creatures’ anatomy.

Tony is too proud to voice the fact that he doesn’t like this kind of horror movies, let alone that those freak him out. That’s until they watch Insidious, the first one. Everything is perfect (actually Tony is trying not to watch at the screen, but still) until he sees Dalton. It takes half a second to Tony to make the connection - that is half of the reason why Stephen chose that movie in the first place - but when he does he takes the remote and switched the thing off looking straight at his wizard. “You are not making me see my perfect snarky baby being possessed! No, that’s where I draw the line!”

Stephen and Harley tease him about Insidious forever throwing comments to each other and/or quoting the movie every now and then.

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flame-shadow · 3 years

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Thoughts on areas like the Soul Sanctum, Deepnest, or the Mantis's area?

(My brain doesn't wish to cooperate with the name)

you’re going to get all three because two of those areas are faves of mine and the last one has one of my fave boss fights :3c

[i don’t have the wiki pulled up or anything so obligatory disclaimer that i might misremember some things. also, im gonna throw all of this under the cut because this is going to be more of a stream of consciousness than an actually coherent thing]

SOUL SANCTUM

let’s just get this out of the way first - love love love love love the music holy shit. it’s not something i’d listen to when i want to chill out, but oooohhhhh those organs. and when the whispers are in there too?? and “Mage Under Glass” with the laughter??? yesss

Anyway. In general, I’m a sucker for unethical laboratories in stories and games. There’s so much potential for fucked up and creative ideas within canon and in the fan characters/interpretations (I’m looking at you, Fraught. i love you, you fucked up spider <3).

How do you get soul? you harvest it. and you get on the king’s bad side in the process of course. and the watcher’s too, im sure. lurien’s like, ‘hey wtf those bugs are citizens under my watch. stop it’ and ‘well fuck you, im gonna point my telescope right into your office window, you soul bastard. i can read all the notes on your fucked up experiments now. whatcha gonna do now?’

How unethical were the experiments before the radiance’s insidious presence became a factor? Even if the Sanctum started as a safe place of learning, I think it wouldn’t have taken long for at least some of the bugs to start doing questionable things. Not everyone needs a moth to nudge them to cross the ethics line. But when the soul master changed course, set the scholars to study immortality, what did they focus on? improving the body so it won’t slow and cease its function as time passes? prolonging the stability of the mind so age doesn’t corrupt memories or cognition? focusing on a bug’s own soul to do something that way? any combination of this could fuck up the stability of the mind and/or body of the subjects. That’s where we get the mistakes/follies, right? too much soul for some that cause melting pretty quickly. for others that don’t have a negative reaction right away, maybe a dependency on soul is built up and must be maintained to stave off negative effects of withdrawal, then of course there’s a shortage. you can’t harvest bodies forever. maybe the souls of the infected bugs aren’t viable, maybe the infection taints them, spreads the infection to whatever bug absorbs it. there are options here.

There’s also the soul warriors. They have dream dialogue where they say something about not remembering how they have these moves or how to fight or something like that, right? so what if those bugs had souls of trained fighters like city sentries implanted in them? they suddenly have new instincts for situations that they themselves didn’t experience or train for. i kinda get neuromod vibes from this concept (from the game Prey).

Also, the parallels between the soul master and the pale king are neat. they both have corpse pits. they both think they’re hot shit (and to be fair, they are both powerful even if they’re in different leagues). the radiance directly fucks with both of them. neither of them admit defeat in their final dream nail dialogue. (iirc, arty-cakes has made a similar observation about the parallels, but i noticed this long before they made their post. still, it’s a good observation)

uhhh okay i’ll stop there for the Sanctum

DEEPNEST

...skitter skitter skitter skitter...

i feel so sorry for anyone who has arachnophobia and couldn’t enjoy the game because of this area. that sucks. this is one of my fave areas specifically because of the skitters and clicks and snaps and wibbly music/sound effects that occasionally made my skin crawl.

im a fan of spiders and centipedes, and deepnest delivered!

i have a lot of headcanon stuff for deepnest society and beasts that has little to do with the game or established lore, so i’ll leave that for another time. But for more game-related stuff, let’s see...

i think nosks and corpse creepers and grub mimics, if not different life stages of the same species, are at least related. like how wild cats and cheetahs and panthers are related but not the same. nosks have the most developed shape shifting capabilities, and they have a sort of pocket dimension that they can fold their body into so they can fit into smaller disguises (how else do you explain how large the infected nosk actually is compared to the much smaller knight that it ran around as to lure the player in? magical dimension powers is what i’ve decided)

the weaver’s den showed much more development of architecture. more metal and arches and stuff. i can’t recall to what extent the basic shapes and materials reflect parts of hallownest, but i think that place was a more recent development compared to the rest of the Beasts’ infrastructure.

PK reeeaaallllyyyyy wanted to get a tram all the way across deepnest, didn’t he? we get one tram to the eastern edge which conveniently takes riders to the ancient basin below where most of hallownest’s citizens are. but then the failed tramway that heads for the distant village. could it have been one of the lesser conditions of herrah’s and pk’s agreement? but herrah would be asleep so she wouldn’t need the tram to visit the palace or have hornet visit her. but why else would a tram be intended to cross to there? idk that one doesn’t make much sense to me. maybe i’m forgetting a detail, but whatever.

deepnest is a horrible maze that i will continue to get lost in.

[bonus - okay i’ll share this: one of the made-up swears i use for my beast character is “writhing mass” in reference to the skittering, scuttling pit of writhing things found as an area hazard in lieu of acid. like “bloody hell” or something haha. also it’s just fun to say.]

MANTIS VILLAGE

Alas, i don’t spend a whole lot of time in this area. I think the mantids are cool and honorable, and i apologize for my weaverlings attacking friendly mantids, but sometimes a little deepnest should be allowed to cause mayhem in the mantis village, okay?

mantis lords/sisters of battle are great boss fights. the choreography and smoothness and reflexes and aaaahhhh yeah

i seriously wonder what’s up with all the giant spikes though. like. not even deepnest has giga-spikes like that. ......actually. i wonder if those spikes are there in case the beasts overrun the village. they’d certainly be painful obstacles to beasts trying to climb out of the village and into the fungal wastes.

I think it would’ve been cool if there had been some bit of dialogue or a lore tablet that hinted at the mantis traitors. i know there’s the broken throne, but i didn’t notice that; it was pointed out to me after i’d already played once or twice through the game. don’t get me wrong- it’s a cool little thing to look back on and be like ‘i see what you did there’. environmental storytelling or whatever. but i’d like a little more anyway.

i wonder how the fungal folk feel about the mantids. i imagine they occupy their own sections of the fungal wastes and just mutually don’t bother each other. i wonder how diplomacy would work between a mantis of individual mind and a mushroom of shared consciousness? they make a nice contrast in a sharp and cutting/soft and bludgeoning way as well as a swift and silent/energetic and noisy way with how they attack and stuff.

okay that’s it. thanks for asking! if you read all of that, have a cookie

#alskdflasf maybe this is why i shouldn't make posts with takes #i just ramble instead of having cohesive ideas #still! this was fun to ramble about!#thanks for sending the ask!#rambling #flame answers #even though i feel like i asked a lot of my own questions too haha #alistairillustrates #the pale king #the radiance #soul sanctum #soul master

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chimchimssenpai-blog · 4 years

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Some Anti-Theist Religious Bits & Pieces: Round Thirteen

Of those Big Questions vital to philosophical ideas that encompass life, the universe and everything, the domains of religious philosophy and religions and the idea of divinities keep on entrancing. Feelings multiply in books, articles, recordings, discussions in bars and bars, and in reality anyplace and wherever at least two people are in closeness. There's the professional side; there's the counter side. There aren't an excess of fence-sitters. I'm still in the counter camp as the accompanying odds and ends delineate.

With respect to

*You needn't bother with a divine being to have significance and reason in your life.

*There is one quality that the multi-a large number of contrasting strict conviction frameworks/religious philosophies have displayed and that is the intensity of the human creative mind to intensely proceed to envision fanciful ideas never envisioned. The world would be a less vivid and intriguing spot without our different legends Image source The Diamond Club.

*I think there ought to be obligatory strict and Biblical training in schools since that ought to guarantee a constant flow of skeptics growing up and entering the network!

*Religions regularly do great in order to veil the insidious they do, yet would now be able to do without any potential repercussions.

*The Catholic Church: AIDS is awful however the utilization of condoms is more awful since God doesn't support of 'contraception' in any capacity whatsoever. It is obviously instructed in Africa by Catholics that utilizing condoms makes "Infant Jesus cry". Bizarre.

*Then too we had the Catholic Church's Index of Prohibited Books. It wasn't only the Nazis that consumed books. Presently you must be extremely unreliable and uncertain of your religious philosophy and how to shield it on the off chance that you need to take cover behind a brought down window ornament that outcomes by the editing of unique conclusions. It's simply one more nail in Christianity's casket.

*There's no more proof for casual and complicated strict conviction (like being otherworldly without being an individual from any proper strict clique/association/church) than officially sorted out religion. It's all only a type of "charm".

*When it comes to religion, "when in doubt refrain from interfering" True Believers are particularly in the minority. (Through Greta Christina).

*Any religion is only a working speculation about how life, the Universe and everything, except particularly the world, works. All things considered, that religion is dependent upon investigation and reply and being tested and adjusted as would some other working theory from some other topical zone or of topic of worry to people, from the sciences through to political frameworks.

*We don't will in general go out on the town to shop for the brand of religion we need among the entirety of the extraordinary and broadly varying brands of religion on offer and afterward picking the most reasonable the manner in which we accomplish for the multi brands of parcels of scones on offer at the grocery store or for a particular brand or style mark of dress at the women design shop and garments division. Rather we continue eating/wearing a similar brand over and over and again in light of the fact that that was only the manner in which we were raised. Moreover, we will in general keep the religion that was forced on us when we were kids. This is to some extent because of convention (in the event that it was adequate for Mum and Dad its sufficient for me) just as family/social weight. Obviously in certain social orders the weight verges on real physical dangers and disciplines in the event that you stray from the acknowledged overlap.

*Thanks to Christianity and its all-adoring, all-simply, all-tolerant God, more than 50,000 blameless individuals were tormented and executed - they were designated "witches" however were not any more real witches than the individuals who turned the thumb-screws, fixed the rack, and light the blazes encompassing the stake. Coincidentally, this training is as yet going on in numerous remote territories in immature nations. God (and His hirelings here on earth) should drape their heads in disgrace for Exodus 22: 18 "Thou will not endure a witch to live".

As to versus Science

*According to Leviticus 11: 6 and Deuteronomy 14: 7, rabbits (for example - bunnies) cheweth the cud. This obviously is zoological babble. Chalk up one more Biblical uh oh.

*The all inclusive pattern over all of written history is that regular clarifications have displaced, ordinarily surpassed in informative force, powerful (for example - strict) clarifications. I'd wager that is a pattern that will fight the good fight.

As to and Belief

*Saying that you simply know something (without proof to back up your insight) is simply not a pathway to truth.

*If you state your confidence bests proof then you are absolutely impervious to both self-revision and impervious to disagree.

*Religious conviction is confidence in the mysterious. There's not a single confirmation in sight in the strict pudding. Any confirmation to be discovered comes after you've kicked-the-basin and by then it's short of what was expected, to tell anybody.

*The thought of choosing what's actual dependent on what you need to be genuine is preposterous in the extraordinary. The truth is the thing that the truth is and your convictions actually are superfluous. So any conviction framework that urges individuals to disregard the truth is a terrible conviction framework and that covers Christianity directly down through and including New Age "Charm".

*The prime instructing of monotheistic strict faith in an imperceptible enchantment man in the sky is a conspicuous model known to software engineers of GIGO - Garbage In; Garbage Out.

*Christian: You need to regard my convictions.

Nonbeliever: No! I may regard you similar to a genuine and affable individual yet that doesn't mean I need to regard what you put stock in.

*You reserve an option to your private strict convictions until such time as you go too far and your strict convictions enter the open field and begin to hurt others.

*It's deceptive in the extraordinary for you to basin the strict convictions of others when those convictions don't fit in with your convictions and afterward anticipate that your strict convictions should get a free pass.

As to and Miracles

*For the Catholic Church to announce some occasion as a genuine marvel (for example Fatima, October 1917), well that is much the same as a genuine adherent to Bigfoot or the Yeti proclaiming that a photo of a disintegrated 'primate' impression in the snow is supreme verification of same. Genuine devotees will clearly underwrite occasions that reflect proof for their actual conviction.

With respect to

*The thought that strict confidence consequently makes you a decent and good individual is ridiculous in the extraordinary. Detainment facilities in America, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and so forth are loaded with Christians. Detainment facilities in Muslin nations are brimming with detainees of the Islamic confidence. And afterward as well, shouldn't something be said about those individuals of the fabric and the neckline - like Catholic (and other) clerics and other ministry who utilize their places of power to 1) intellectually misuse little kids with startling dangers of everlasting discipline in Hell and 2) who truly misuse youngsters in their consideration, particularly captivating in sexual maltreatment. Furthermore, that is simply starting to expose the shades of malice submitted by those maintaining strict confidence.

Concerning End Times

*Faith is a vessel! Proof? There have been a large number of exact prophetic figures made by the unwavering for the End Times; End of Days; the Second Coming; the Rapture; Armageddon; the Apocalypse, and so on. There have been multi-a large number of reliable adherents who have accepted those prophets. Every single such prediction have fizzled. None have ever happened. Score: reality of extremely genuine reality 1; confidence 0.

*We're despite everything pausing!

*Sorry Michele Bachmann and all related "End Times" aficionados, yet one more day has gone back and forth but then once more, God's absent. What's more, Jesus, of Second Coming distinction, gives off an impression of being somewhat late also. Did they neglect to set the morning timers? Did they miss the transport? Perhaps their Holy Chariot had a level! Michele Bachmann and organization may accept that the end is near (and has been for very some significant time) and the Rapture is inescapable (and has been for very some extensive time also), yet I believe it's really alright for you to plan and pay for your next occasion and develop that savings for your long a long time in retirement.

As to Soul/Afterlife

*This may come as a shock to numerous however there was no confidence in an existence in the wake of death in antiquated Israeli Jewish people group. The main genuine reference to a the hereafter in the Old Testament is at Daniel 12: 2. That is it. There are no different hits "forever unceasing" or "interminable life"; "life everlasting" or "everlasting life"; or "the great beyond" or "post-existence" or even "restoration". So there's no area given for an existence in the wake of death in the Old Testament in light of the fact that with the one special case there is no understanding of a life following death in the Old Testament and Daniel 12: 2 talked about no the hereafter area. Well that is really astounding given the noticeable quality existence in the wake of death gets in the New Testament. Maybe existence in the wake of death was only an after-thought on God's part as in "well, it is extraordinary to have some relentless stockpile of new faces and friends to converse with me here upstairs on my wonderful position of authority".

*As long as religions can dangle existence in the wake of death carrot before the extraordinary unwashed (and furthermore in perspective on the not all that good washed), you'll never dispose of the foundation (particularly when it utilizes a huge number of individuals and creates billions in pay).

With respect to and Hell

*Regarding reports of the individuals who have had a look at paradise, the individuals who have revealed Near Death Experiences (NDEs), why no sightings of extraterrestrials in paradise? Is it on the grounds that there are no outsiders? Is it since outsiders don't go to paradise? Is it since outsiders have their own paradise?

*Faithful Christians go to Heaven. Steadfast Muslims likewise go to Heaven. Be that as it may, the Heaven that dedicated Muslims go to is most likely not equivalent to the Heaven devoted Christians go to. That would be unbalanced and to some degree muddled. (by means of Jason Boyett)

*Actually no one (as in mortal human True Believers) have ever climbed up to or in any case gone up to Heaven as per John 3: 13. I don't know how that jives with the narrative of Elijah (2 Kings 2: 1 and 2 Kings 2: 11).

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