@FlorkOfCows Flork can you draw a character that gains omniscience in 3 second flashes and tries to warn everyone of some great danger (taxes) only to lose it and forget before he can explain.
@ShitpostRock Sometimes I feel like they are the only voice keeping a dying fandom alive and they're just saying what they can because there is nothing left to say. They're getting glazed bc everyone knows what's going on and people are just hoping things will come back.
I think too many people use fictional media as a substitute for reality to derive their moral code when it is an incomplete microcosm. Any fictional world, no matter how smart its creator, is filtered through a lens. Only reality is complete and impartial. A group, organization, person, concept, idea, or any other entity can be presented in any way in fictional media. In reality it simply exists as it is and can be judged on its own merits. So, to the observer paying attention a moral conclusion can be reached. Only reality, empirical evidence, and even anecdotal evidence of others based on reality and not fiction is usable for moral principles. Fictional stories are useful for conveying complex ideas or making people think about things and reflect on their own experiences, but to engage with it in such a way where it substitutes the world itself is self destructive. Fiction is first and foremost entertainment, and everything else second.
@noahbradley An old painter in my neighborhood that visits from Mexico is so humble she refused to sign her work for a long time. She creates religious masterpieces and it took years to convince her just to take credit for it because she was afraid it would be too prideful.
The Prometheus storyline from the Aliens franchise is one of the most underrated sci-fi stories. Prometheus is one of my favorite movies. Covenant wasn't as good, but I hear that they're finally going to continue the story. I've been waiting a long time.
I used to think the reason there weren't hobbit homes was because of a lack of demand, then I realized there was massive demand. Then I thought it was a lack of tech, then I discovered we can build them easily. Then I thought it was cost, then I discovered they cost the same as a regular house. Then I met architecture students and for the first time I met people that didn't like hobbit homes and I understood. The people that design and fund housing projects don't want to build suburbs of hobbit homes. That's it. The consumer isn't actually a factor.
I think that if an objective system of morality existed, then it's possible that such a system would lead one to live an exceptionally mundane life. This is in the same way that the responsibility of an adult is boring to the whims of a child. Maybe not tho