Comments on: Annotated 48-30

By: Abnaxis

Abnaxis — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 03:40:23 +0000

For the record, the slowly-heating-frog thing is from an experiment where the researcher lobotomized the frogs first. If you heat a frog slowly--without first inducing brain damage--they will actually jump out of the water before dying. Here's a fun video with that, and other fun little animal myth-busting

By: T

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:04:53 +0000

It was during Chapter 29, when Ardaic ordered the Silver Centurion to the front lines and the Peacemakers to the back.

By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 03:17:40 +0000

When was the last time Frigg saw the Centurion? I dug around some but am apparently missing the obvious.

By: Pylgrim

Pylgrim — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 03:06:33 +0000

He fell for the trap of blaming people, not violence itself for his loss. Violence can come from everybody but it is those who want you to do violence on their behalf who’d tell you that the problem is (other) people. And those people will never run out of people to point to you as the cause of your loss, all while you keep inflicting violence on their name.

By: Zak McKracken

Zak McKracken — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 21:10:03 +0000

That right there is the good aspect of people having integrity despite definitely being on the wrong side. It’s also the benefit of fundamental ethical principles over tribal thinking: it helps you notice when your own herd starts turning the wrong way. Someone for whom political/ideological or similar affiliation/opposition is the main driver is way more likely to go through with whatever horrible scheme their people eventually come up with. Someone who remembers *why* they joined that club instead of the other one also has a test they can apply to find out whether to try and change course or just leave.

…it does not, of course provide a handy reminder of when to apply that test, of course. Otherwise dear Ardaic would have left around the same time as Syr’Nj did.