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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 47: Discussion
« on: December 30, 2016, 03:35:33 pm »
I shall go for sexy cocoa.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 46: Discussion
« on: August 08, 2016, 04:04:42 pm »
This is when the Warden pulls out a credit card with some kind of reward system and the commercial jingle starts playing.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 46: Discussion
« on: August 03, 2016, 04:14:00 pm »
The administrator is probably the actual official person in charge, considering the guards did appears to consider the consequences for a second or two. Rather weak compared to the de facto authority, though.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 46: Discussion
« on: August 01, 2016, 12:06:18 pm »
Well, the assistance from the Warden has certainly taken a more direct step now. It's also peculiar that the guards do not seems to be doing much compared to their rather good earlier reaction time. I do wonder if it's based on that the Warden has the higher real authority or just fear.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 46: Discussion
« on: July 20, 2016, 11:26:49 am »
Hmm, well, Book Zero did show that ressurection was possible, but that it was expensive and depended on the cause of death. Since we also now know or at least assume magic is produced by tiny nanobots, I guess the big limiter is how damaged the brain is. Still, being death does damage the brain rather quickly, so the time limit has to be rather tight.

Good thing the warden is there with his sincere used car salesman smile to propose the deal of the century. Stringing along? Nonsense, the management is wholly unresponsible for this fully unexpected and unfortunate turn of events. It is only in our vastly infinite generosity that we propose an equitable solution with an insignificant cost compared to the expenses deployed for it. Truly, you are in our (infinite) debt.

Also still possible, perhaps being the more affordable option, would be having the poison causing a realistic simulation of death and having the healer lying.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 46: Discussion
« on: July 17, 2016, 08:03:13 pm »
I am confident the arena might just happens to have the right extremely rare antidote in stock, available for the tiny price of going to S-Rank and perhaps an extra thousand marks or five.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: July 21, 2015, 08:37:04 am »
Well, Bern did just very recently offer to replace her for her remaining 18 days if she ever felt the need. This seems like a fair compromise if I ever heard one. Har, har.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 43: Discussion
« on: April 17, 2015, 08:29:13 pm »
I do say, the reverse reflection effect on those swords would need to be rather carefully balanced in any game setting.

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Flipside Discussion / Re: Chapter 42: Discussion
« on: January 24, 2015, 12:10:08 pm »


We do not have cultures centered around human sacrifice on top of pyramids anymore do we?  Why.. because a morale compass has told us such societies do not serve the greater good of mankind as a whole. 

I contend weather one believes or disbelieves in a 'God' watching an judging from above that a morale society is a much more stable and superior society than one bereft of such.  In fact I feel that every social advancement our race has ever made is because of a strive to be a morale and justice-minded species.  There are indeed a glut of profoundly Amoral people out there who would slit your throat as soon as look at you... but society in-general makes such misanthropes outcasts at best and criminals in common.



I find these two statements rather bizzare when put together. I am fairly sure that most cultures that did the whole human sacrifice thing did not do so because it was fun or all that empirically productive, but because a narrative was created that doing such a thing would please some kind of God or otherwise Divine Being who would in turn provide some kind of nicety that would help the community. In this case, a God watching did indeed support what would be considered rather immoral today.

While it is true that societies that banned all kind of religions by force were certainly not very nice at all, I contend that most of them simply traded a God for another one. Lenin is great and Stalin is His prophet, or that whole Juche thing.

As for the whole divine spark thing, I am all to support the glorious Flying Spaghetti Monster who will decide in His/Her/It Infinite Wisdom if we will have delicious meatballs for eternity or if we will be stuck with cans of lukewarm Chef Boyardee, but I still think there is also a risk of elevating humanity a bit too high compared to what it actually is. Most people might have stopped throwing poop, but toilet humor is still quite popular, so I dunno if the fruit fell all that far from the tree.

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