Re the alt-text: Maybe Gravedust’s dam-burst of joy, upon seeing Cliff’s ghost, left traces behind even as he returned to his usual solemn self. Traces in the form of something approximating humour, that is.
Should you desire to have your eyes removed, should you desire to maim and kill, should you desire to have your head detached, climb down Beacon’s Hill.
…typically because Gravy helped them get their revenge on whoever wronged them, I think. The ghost’s unfulfilled desire to set things right / get revenge was what was keeping them from moving on, I think.
I doubt it. By my figuring, a spirit guide like Gravedust needs a huge amount of wisdom to do his job, because if he doesn’t carefully consider what the spirit in question needs to move on, he could make said spirit’s situation worse, possibly even aggravate it into a far more dangerous form of spectre.
Sundar and his group use the word “altruist” in a very… different manner. I’m trying so hard not to call it incorrect, but… dang it, it’s incorrect and it BUGS me. >:(
Aaaaanyway, Sundar’s version of “altruist” is someone who tells everyone that what they’re doing is for the greater good when they’re really just doing it for personal profit. Which is something that Iwatani (and all politicians… and all lawyers… and all doctors… and, well, just all people in general) can be accused of doing. “Give me your farm land,” says Iwatani. “It will be used to provide for the war effort and feed the poor and develop new disease-resistant crops and revitalize the farming sector and expand the surrounding cities and cure cancer.” Really, it’ll just line his pockets with money.
Sundar and his group use the word with implied quotation-marks much as you use literal quotation-marks.
You wouldn’t call it incorrect if you were listening to him say it, because it would be more than apparent in the tone of his voice… the way he said it.
Unfortunately many normal people struggle to read such tone from written words, which lead to misunderstandings like this… Being of the Autistic persuasion myself though, I’m not particularly sensitive to the implications of tonal modulation and have had to compensate by learning to read intended “tone” through the context under which things are said… which DOES translate to text. And in the case of Sundar, his rantings about “Altruists” might as well have a very caustic “so-called” before the A-word in every case.
Cultists gonna cult.
You could even say that Cultists gotta Cult.
Cultists gotta cut.
Cult it out with the puns !
Cultn’t we make puns on something else?
This will develop into a serious cult following.
Gotta cultivate some better jokes.
these puns just isn’t culting it lately.
Hey you guys like Cult Russel?
He cult have devoted himself to a greater cause; made a greater sacrifice.
Re the alt-text: Maybe Gravedust’s dam-burst of joy, upon seeing Cliff’s ghost, left traces behind even as he returned to his usual solemn self. Traces in the form of something approximating humour, that is.
Dry humor? From Gravedust? Surely you jest.
Point taken. And don’t call me Shirley. :)
There is ALWAYS a conspiracy.
Well he’s right about Iwatani to be sure … !
Well who wouldn’t kill to get their hands on huge tracts of lands. Especially if it’s very good pig country as well
We can’t have our death magick ritual here! This is pig country!
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Damn altruists!
I was reminded of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKRm1e2lNjU
It’s easy to tell who the straight man of the group is.
It’s all a performance, where they all play straight man to a mad god!
(A few random encounters and a placebo swap on the rabies medicine later…)
Sundar: I WARNED YOU ABOUT IWATANI BRO!!!! I TOLD YOU DOG!
Byron: IT KEEPS HAPPENINGARWHARGARBL
Sweet Byron and Hella Sundar?
Whence they came from, whither they went? Whence they came from, Cotton-Eye Kent?
Should you desire to have your eyes removed, should you desire to maim and kill, should you desire to have your head detached, climb down Beacon’s Hill.
So Sundar’s gonna be THAT character, huh?
Can’t wait to see how he predicts this all being a simulation.
That joke’s a little far-fletched.
I still don’t get Gravedust and his arrows. It seems like he’s enslaving ghosts to power them up.
The ghosts enter his arrows of their own will, because by doing so they can move on to the next plane of existence.
…typically because Gravy helped them get their revenge on whoever wronged them, I think. The ghost’s unfulfilled desire to set things right / get revenge was what was keeping them from moving on, I think.
Ghost guide the arrows to their target for great justice.
I am really curious about how much control Gravedust exert’s over the arrows. Could a ghost overpower his directions and choose a new target?
I doubt it. By my figuring, a spirit guide like Gravedust needs a huge amount of wisdom to do his job, because if he doesn’t carefully consider what the spirit in question needs to move on, he could make said spirit’s situation worse, possibly even aggravate it into a far more dangerous form of spectre.
So this is one of those individuals Iwanti wanted the cultists to kill. I wonder who else is gonna get it.
I have difficulty believing “Iwatani” and “altruist” can be spoken in the same breath.
Sundar has no idea what “altruist” means.
Sundar and his group use the word “altruist” in a very… different manner. I’m trying so hard not to call it incorrect, but… dang it, it’s incorrect and it BUGS me. >:(
Aaaaanyway, Sundar’s version of “altruist” is someone who tells everyone that what they’re doing is for the greater good when they’re really just doing it for personal profit. Which is something that Iwatani (and all politicians… and all lawyers… and all doctors… and, well, just all people in general) can be accused of doing. “Give me your farm land,” says Iwatani. “It will be used to provide for the war effort and feed the poor and develop new disease-resistant crops and revitalize the farming sector and expand the surrounding cities and cure cancer.” Really, it’ll just line his pockets with money.
Sundar and his group use the word with implied quotation-marks much as you use literal quotation-marks.
You wouldn’t call it incorrect if you were listening to him say it, because it would be more than apparent in the tone of his voice… the way he said it.
Unfortunately many normal people struggle to read such tone from written words, which lead to misunderstandings like this… Being of the Autistic persuasion myself though, I’m not particularly sensitive to the implications of tonal modulation and have had to compensate by learning to read intended “tone” through the context under which things are said… which DOES translate to text. And in the case of Sundar, his rantings about “Altruists” might as well have a very caustic “so-called” before the A-word in every case.
Death to ALL truists!
“Yeah, can point ’em out because they are behind you. How could you not see ’em?”
Well SOMEbody failed their spot check.