tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post5331844735741602481..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: Five Characters to Play Before You DIE and You WILL die eventually and maybe SOONpjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-60258472371951423472016-09-28T11:18:54.861-07:002016-09-28T11:18:54.861-07:00plus plus plus plus. I like this a lot.plus plus plus plus. I like this a lot.Reckless Dweomerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775134699863149622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-13613048696413368832016-09-22T08:23:27.466-07:002016-09-22T08:23:27.466-07:00Oooooh, it's the whole "everything is art...Oooooh, it's the whole "everything is art" argument. That, only by saying "no, these things are not art", can "art" even be a thing. Nice. Also, goblins.Spwackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15868882089849740065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-45727325944578778122016-09-20T04:32:08.709-07:002016-09-20T04:32:08.709-07:00'What the hell does it actually mean!?!'
...'What the hell does it actually mean!?!'<br /><br />I'll have a go.<br /><br />1: Each individual is unique, and cannot and should not be reducible to a type or a list of generic identity markers (e.g. ‘white’, ‘male’, ‘gay’, ‘lower middle class’, etc).<br /><br />2: The true hero that individual who most completely and perfectly expresses and embodies their own unique selfhood.<br /><br />3: Therefore the true hero transcends and defies all pre-existing structures and assumptions regarding identity so thoroughly that people have no fucking idea what to make of them, or how to classify them. (A great example of this can be seen in chapter 8 of the Gospel of John.)<br /><br />4: You can’t do this by simply ignoring social rules, because then you’ll blunder into all kinds of conformity without even noticing. You have to do it by knowing those rules so thoroughly that you can systematically place yourself outside them, positioning yourself beyond the Law: not just the contingent law written in statue books, but the true Law which people use to make sense of the world which they inhabit. (If you’re fond of Freud, you can call it the Law of the Father.)<br /><br />5: Being beyond the Law, you will become a figure of awe and terror to all who behold you, as you shatter all assumptions about how the world works simply by existing, and no-one will have any idea how to deal with you. From their perspective, you will seem at once terribly powerful and terribly broken: thus, a ‘crippled god’. <br /><br />6: It is the individual beyond the Law which gives shape and definition to Society, which forces it to become a clear and determinate *thing* with limits (which such an individual defines simply by existing), rather than allowing it to disguise itself as the universe, as societies are wont to do. <br /><br />7: If the society in question is an imaginary one, then it is only by first absorbing and then systematically transgressing its norms that the imaginary society in question can be given definition, and from that definition gain a measure of meaning and power. Its power and meaning are defined and created by the process of its struggle with the crippled god which defies it. (Blake called this process ‘Mental Fight’, and depicted it allegorically on plate 19 of 'Milton'.)<br /><br />8: Imagination aims to permit the creation and experience of beauty, but to achieve beauty it must first possess power, and all power entails the potential for harm. If the imagined world does not possess some capacity for real harm then it is powerless and thus pointless.<br /><br />9: Two goblins in a big coat is a fucking brilliant character idea and you should play them in your next game of D&D.Joseph Manolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05387275537008858939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-3615107983884496452016-09-20T03:47:13.731-07:002016-09-20T03:47:13.731-07:00It means that to understand weirdness, you have to...It means that to understand weirdness, you have to understand the norms of your fictional society, and to fully embrace _being_ weird, you have to internalize these norms to some degree. <br /><br />And then, when you have mastered the game, the world, the group and society, you become two goblins in one coat.the Face of Foolshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00087943407544911361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-9270907733824657192016-09-20T01:04:09.192-07:002016-09-20T01:04:09.192-07:00Number four is a wonderful piece of poetry, and I ...Number four is a wonderful piece of poetry, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.<br /><br />What the hell does it actually mean!?!Spwackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15868882089849740065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-58754496973107277122016-09-19T19:26:48.753-07:002016-09-19T19:26:48.753-07:00I'm actually two midgets in a Wonder Woman cos...I'm actually two midgets in a Wonder Woman costume. But I'm not actually two midgets. I'm a broom in a two midgets costume.<br /><br />Also: totally not a robot.Scott Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067161332003628237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-56147311864886306802016-09-19T18:53:41.368-07:002016-09-19T18:53:41.368-07:00OK, I willOK, I willAlec Semicognitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06507482266305964982noreply@blogger.com