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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    The last arc covered how swords/violence are not the answer and Alison is reeling from that

    This arc is going to start with explaining why choosing not to do anything at all is also not the answer

    The arc/comic will end with Third Option

    Edit: oh yeah and repeating the mistakes of the past is also not going to work, RE: rewinding the wheel

    I thought it was pretty heavily implied that if gog had helped with the big spear that they would have defeated the jaggahog

    It might have! But that might also mean that it was impossible. That no alliance between all the demiurges could possibly hold up.
    reach heaven through violence is kinda the whole thing

    at no point has k6bd promoted pacifism

    I don't think K6BD necessarily supports that phrase just because it was said at one point and is rad as hell.
    Yeah I know… but as much as that’s a great sentiment folks kinda got a lot on their plate right now, big war going on. Could just be a bunch of +10 to Not Dying keys. Bit of fire resistance maybe. No fall damage mod.

    I think such a thing might play more of a part than people think. Quote the True King in his last ever appearance.

    "Do you understand, Alice? In the end, even I could not fight alone, at the pinnacle of my mastery. Your struggle must be a terrible fire, which only grows as you pass it to others. Let it be fed beyond the boundaries of the feeble souls of so-called princes, Emperors, and "Heroes". Strength beyond Strength. Remember this. And Awaken your fate."

    This may just be my interpretation but it sure sounds like the suggestion is that Allison must share her strength.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    The last arc covered how swords/violence are not the answer and Alison is reeling from that

    This arc is going to start with explaining why choosing not to do anything at all is also not the answer

    The arc/comic will end with Third Option

    Edit: oh yeah and repeating the mistakes of the past is also not going to work, RE: rewinding the wheel

    I thought it was pretty heavily implied that if gog had helped with the big spear that they would have defeated the jaggahog

    It might have! But that might also mean that it was impossible. That no alliance between all the demiurges could possibly hold up.
    reach heaven through violence is kinda the whole thing

    at no point has k6bd promoted pacifism

    I don't think K6BD necessarily supports that phrase just because it was said at one point and is rad as hell.
    Yeah I know… but as much as that’s a great sentiment folks kinda got a lot on their plate right now, big war going on. Could just be a bunch of +10 to Not Dying keys. Bit of fire resistance maybe. No fall damage mod.

    I think such a thing might play more of a part than people think. Quote the True King in his last ever appearance.

    "Do you understand, Alice? In the end, even I could not fight alone, at the pinnacle of my mastery. Your struggle must be a terrible fire, which only grows as you pass it to others. Let it be fed beyond the boundaries of the feeble souls of so-called princes, Emperors, and "Heroes". Strength beyond Strength. Remember this. And Awaken your fate."

    This may just be my interpretation but it sure sounds like the suggestion is that Allison must share her strength.

    I just had a thought pop up that's Hank Hill as Allison going, "Well damnit, Zaid, if you need my help so bad, here" and then Hank shoves a piece of the key into Zaid's forehead

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    I don't know why my brain is like this sometimes

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  • NyysjanNyysjan FinlandRegistered User regular
    Madican wrote: »
    it's like how bowser is invited to karting

    Bowser never killed anyone. Scar murdered a boy's father in front of him and framed him for it.
    Well, he does live in a monarchy where kingship is determined by who can beat up people the best so the killing thing was perfectly fair.
    If anything, we should see Scar as a merciful figure for not doing the traditional "murder the previous kings son" thing lions are known for. :p

  • ShadowenShadowen Snores in the morning LoserdomRegistered User regular
    He wasn't merciful, he delegated, and his subordinates failed.

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    violence in k6bd is literally divine

    the first lie is the first act of violence, the self-suicide of YISUN

    hell, this is very much exemplified in white chain's character development, stated plainly

    from praying the gods to "forgive her for the violence she is about to employ" to "witnessing the violence she is about to employ"

    it's also not about violence for violence's sake - that's incubus' deal. slaking a primal desire for the thrill of it without consideration of higher purpose

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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  • asofyeunasofyeun Registered User regular

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    Latchkey Kingdom update

    not too sure about the inclusion of the cotton gin in the list of labor saving technologies because that's got some context that should've been considered before putting it in the comic

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    asofyeun wrote: »

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    Latchkey Kingdom update

    not too sure about the inclusion of the cotton gin in the list of labor saving technologies because that's got some context that should've been considered before putting it in the comic

    That's actually the point in including it
    That card accelerated slavery while the other 4 cards play their part in accelerating war.


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    Any tech has its place in atrocities and its all in the spirit of people who use it

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »

    Speaking of crutches, "this character is here to read sections of my character notes directly to the readers," is a terrible one. Stop it!

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
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  • proxy_hueproxy_hue Registered User regular
    violence in k6bd is literally divine

    the first lie is the first act of violence, the self-suicide of YISUN

    hell, this is very much exemplified in white chain's character development, stated plainly

    from praying the gods to "forgive her for the violence she is about to employ" to "witnessing the violence she is about to employ"

    it's also not about violence for violence's sake - that's incubus' deal. slaking a primal desire for the thrill of it without consideration of higher purpose

    Divinity is not really a good thing in K6BD. It's pretty clear that it's not just Jadis that thinks clinging to violence, victory, and control of your own fate is not a good way to live- Zoss says as much pretty much every time he shows up. Jagganoth has his own take on it, but he very clearly thinks that violence is fundamentally bad (though fun) and should only be used to end itself permanently. "Reach Heaven through Violence" is how you fuck up the entire world so badly that its stuck in a prison time loop hell - Zoss started the loop, and Jagganoth is just going to perpetuate that loop by doing what he does, hoping that somehow this time destroying everything will actually wipe the slate clean.

    I think one of the main arguments K6BD presents is that it's a better idea to just be a good person to the people around you and get brunch with your hot demon girlfriend than to try to be some god conquering hero. It's largely an argument against focusing on individual solutions to systemic problems. You can't personally wear a mask so hard that it ends a pandemic, it takes a world working together to do that. That sort of thing. I don't think Jadis really makes this argument, or does it well - her solution appears to be to just only have breakfast and chill in a block of ice - but I think her perspective is a building block for the overall thesis.

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  • DarmakDarmak RAGE vympyvvhyc vyctyvyRegistered User regular
    proxy_hue wrote: »
    violence in k6bd is literally divine

    the first lie is the first act of violence, the self-suicide of YISUN

    hell, this is very much exemplified in white chain's character development, stated plainly

    from praying the gods to "forgive her for the violence she is about to employ" to "witnessing the violence she is about to employ"

    it's also not about violence for violence's sake - that's incubus' deal. slaking a primal desire for the thrill of it without consideration of higher purpose

    Divinity is not really a good thing in K6BD. It's pretty clear that it's not just Jadis that thinks clinging to violence, victory, and control of your own fate is not a good way to live- Zoss says as much pretty much every time he shows up. Jagganoth has his own take on it, but he very clearly thinks that violence is fundamentally bad (though fun) and should only be used to end itself permanently. "Reach Heaven through Violence" is how you fuck up the entire world so badly that its stuck in a prison time loop hell - Zoss started the loop, and Jagganoth is just going to perpetuate that loop by doing what he does, hoping that somehow this time destroying everything will actually wipe the slate clean.

    I think one of the main arguments K6BD presents is that it's a better idea to just be a good person to the people around you and get brunch with your hot demon girlfriend than to try to be some god conquering hero. It's largely an argument against focusing on individual solutions to systemic problems. You can't personally wear a mask so hard that it ends a pandemic, it takes a world working together to do that. That sort of thing. I don't think Jadis really makes this argument, or does it well - her solution appears to be to just only have breakfast and chill in a block of ice - but I think her perspective is a building block for the overall thesis.

    I don't know if you're right, but I hope you are because I like your take on this the most.

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    I figure reach heaven through violence still works as a phrase if you are passing through violence, like a barefoot Buddha walking through a battlefield. Also while Ysun committed a kind of violence by splitting themselves into 77777 gods or whatever it was, it’s not the same as killing other people.

    That said, um, big war. Big war big help needed please send weapons and food and not koans.

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    "Peace is best, but sometimes you have to punch nazis to get/keep it."

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    I should write a spy story

    I should read a spy story

    I should read a spy story that isn't time traveling lesbians

    Any good spy story webcomics?

  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »

    God, Moy is really going to kill him, isn't she? She really loves to troll the audience.

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    stretching the def of "webcomic" a bit, but try Spy x Family on crunchyroll?

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  • OdinOdin Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Brainleech wrote: »

    God, Moy is really going to kill him, isn't she? She really loves to troll the audience.

    Don't worry, there's a private resort downstream

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  • mrpakumrpaku Registered User regular
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Brainleech wrote: »

    God, Moy is really going to kill him, isn't she? She really loves to troll the audience.

    My "probably easy money" bet is that she's gonna cripple/coma Zak, and make Iris's arc be feeling bad for not immediately marrying him when he asked/ deciding to marry him after he breaks both his legs

    My "why not, go for broke" bet is Moy killing off Zak completely and making a long game of Iris aggressively settling for Wilbur, setting up an eventual cat fight between her and Estelle for his sweaty, unearned affection

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    yes yes yes

    Wilbur will feast on your desperation, depression and damnation

    the harvest begins

    Cambiata
  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    edited October 2022
    proxy_hue wrote: »
    violence in k6bd is literally divine

    the first lie is the first act of violence, the self-suicide of YISUN

    hell, this is very much exemplified in white chain's character development, stated plainly

    from praying the gods to "forgive her for the violence she is about to employ" to "witnessing the violence she is about to employ"

    it's also not about violence for violence's sake - that's incubus' deal. slaking a primal desire for the thrill of it without consideration of higher purpose

    Divinity is not really a good thing in K6BD. It's pretty clear that it's not just Jadis that thinks clinging to violence, victory, and control of your own fate is not a good way to live- Zoss says as much pretty much every time he shows up. Jagganoth has his own take on it, but he very clearly thinks that violence is fundamentally bad (though fun) and should only be used to end itself permanently. "Reach Heaven through Violence" is how you fuck up the entire world so badly that its stuck in a prison time loop hell - Zoss started the loop, and Jagganoth is just going to perpetuate that loop by doing what he does, hoping that somehow this time destroying everything will actually wipe the slate clean.

    I think one of the main arguments K6BD presents is that it's a better idea to just be a good person to the people around you and get brunch with your hot demon girlfriend than to try to be some god conquering hero. It's largely an argument against focusing on individual solutions to systemic problems. You can't personally wear a mask so hard that it ends a pandemic, it takes a world working together to do that. That sort of thing. I don't think Jadis really makes this argument, or does it well - her solution appears to be to just only have breakfast and chill in a block of ice - but I think her perspective is a building block for the overall thesis.

    This but with a caveat.

    Occasionally, some people need to be punched in the face. Violence itself isn't bad, but unthinking violence is.

    Trace on
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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    Violence for the sake of violence is bad and will mask itself as violence for the sake of progress

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  • TraceTrace GNU Terry Pratchett; GNU Gus; GNU Carrie Fisher; GNU Adam We Registered User regular
    Violence for the sake of violence is bad and will mask itself as violence for the sake of progress

    Yeah.

    Kinda like Jagganoth going "well I remember doing all this shit countless times before might as well do it again!"

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
  • GundiGundi Serious Bismuth Registered User regular
    There's a Nelson Mandela quote about violence that I quite like that and I'm gonna paraphrase and butcher:
    'I do not have a moral opposition to violence as a tool for justice. Violence should be a means of last resort, but the oppressed have a moral obligation to use all means available to end their oppression. With that being said, violence is seldom a useful tool for the oppressed against the oppressor. Oppressors are oppressors because they have the ability to inflict far more violence on those they would oppress than can be inflicted on them. If this is not the case you cannot have oppression to begin with.'

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited October 2022
    Gundi wrote: »
    There's a Nelson Mandela quote about violence that I quite like that and I'm gonna paraphrase and butcher:
    'I do not have a moral opposition to violence as a tool for justice. Violence should be a means of last resort, but the oppressed have a moral obligation to use all means available to end their oppression. With that being said, violence is seldom a useful tool for the oppressed against the oppressor. Oppressors are oppressors because they have the ability to inflict far more violence on those they would oppress than can be inflicted on them. If this is not the case you cannot have oppression to begin with.'

    Ghandi said that violence is preferable to cowardice.
    I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Odin wrote: »
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Brainleech wrote: »

    God, Moy is really going to kill him, isn't she? She really loves to troll the audience.

    Don't worry, there's a private resort downstream

    Bold of you to assume that anyone other than God's Mary's favorite, Wilbur, gets a deal like that.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    I don't think Jaggs means to be violent, it's just very hard to fill every available space in the universe with swords without some collateral cutting occurring.

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Isn't the reach heaven through violence a metaphor for love from elder scrolls or something?

  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    no it's from k6bd it's a metaphor about reaching heaven

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    that's actually a mistranslation from the japanese, it's really an analogy, "reach heaven like violence"

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    Reach Heaven through violence is "the ends justify the means" except all poetical about it

    it's like that guy in Serenity. "I believe in something greater than myself. A better world, a world without sin... ...I’m not going to live there. There’s no place for me there. Any more than there is a place for you, Malcolm. I’m a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done."

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  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    that's actually a mistranslation from the japanese, it's really an analogy, "reach heaven like violence"

    Again, that's not quite it, the actual quote is "reach heaven-like violence".

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