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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

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Tumblr Live? More like Tumblr Dead !

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"Do not take me for some conjuror of cheap tricks!" says man who spent the last several hours providing the fireworks show for a birthday party

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Every time

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There's one thing that's been ping-ponging in my brain for a while, and I didn't understand why until now.

At the end of act 2, when it's finally shown what the Absolute is and the chosen of the Dead Three are doing their corny power ranger thing to control the brain, it's already clear that they're out of balance between themselves. This is obvious from their disagreement before they take control of the brain, but I think it's something that can also be seen in the placement of their Nether stones.

Ketheric has his on his chest, embedded in his armor, while both Gortash and Orin have theirs on something that they wield with their right hand, be that a dagger or a gauntlet. It might be nothing, but knowing what happens during act 3, it kind of feels like the game is trying to tell you that this plan is unbalanced because two people are trying to fit in the same shoe.

This is further supported if you're playing the Dark Urge: both Gortash and the Brain clearly state that the plan was perfect when Durge was co-leading, not Orin. Durge knew their position in this plan, and they kept to it, preserving the alliance without overtly trying to take it over (which is then the reason why Orin kills them).

This also ties into a little headcanon of mine, which would be that the Durge is a lefty. This would both be funny for a metaphorical meaning (sinister acts, from the Latin root of left, being anything scary, nerve-wracking, such as murders might be), and for this whole balance thing: Ketheric at the heart of it all, where we find him, with Gortash being the right hand, the one that is supposed to bring order, and Durge as the left one, sowing chaos and destruction. All three, together, working under a Brain, with a perfectly executed plan...

Until a second right hand, Orin, messes it all up.

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You are a necromancer doctor. If someone is ill, you must wait for them to die before they can be healed, causing quite the ruckus whenever you ask a bystander for a weapon to do the job yourself.

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This has definitely already been done by now but I don't care I'm excited for this movie

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background music from windows xp installation. few people actually heard it, because it was set to play before the audio drivers were configured.

filepath: C:\Windows\system32\oobe\image­s\title.w­ma 

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POV for when you are going to learn about a recent massive historical and political event for the first time:

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OUR COUSIN MADE IT TO THE NFL

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love love love that the guy who carried around a gun on his waist everywhere he went cause "you never know when shit's gonna go down" did not carry an epipen for his lethal food allergy

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Balance relisten vibes