I didn't say there are only two ways, which you rightfully pointed out. I just used the two boundary extremes.
I’m partial to Jacque Fresco’s Venus Project myself 🤞
People get trapped in surface labels, but mechanically every system is an angle between total flatness (communism) and total verticality (capitalism). Modern discourse, especially in the US, is so polarized that it treats those two limits like the only choices on the menu. My point is simply that at their extremes, both manifest as cancer.
I genuinely didn't know that Sorlock was a thing, thank you for that intro!
From what I know about Warlocks, a core requirement is a binding pact: a metaphysical bargain where the mortal willingly agrees to specific terms in exchange for forbidden magic and eldritch knowledge.
I can't seem to find Wanda making one in either the MCU or the comics. Otherwise, couldn't "patron" just be loosely applied to any mentor who taught her, any entity trying to use her as an unwilling vessel, or any cursed book she found lying around and read?
Where am I missing Wanda being a Warlock via a binding pact?
@Creativemelody1 Thumpers penetrate deep into the sand with heavy, rhythmic strokes. Harvesters just skim and tickle the surface at their intakes. If you were a worm, which one are you coming from - I mean for?
@secondcomingrjc@gullskept@NovaNova266079 Oh there are who knows how many setups to a "simulation." We can have something like, but not limited to:
Ever make a Sim of yourself? Build the avatar, hit play, and suddenly you're literally playing a version of yourself from "out there."
That explains why both stories run the exact same villain: a cold, calculating architect who splinters his soul to enforce control. One forces a fractured land to unite and break corrupted power; the other unites a fractured school to belong to a home worth saving. Both hinge on love vs. fear.
@Freddnova Hits hard for every father-son relationship that never actually got to exist :(
There is something unintentionally real about introducing a son at a backyard cookout and then never following through on the relationship.
Definitely gonna leave an emotional Skaar.
Communism eventually forces every cell to hide what limited resources it has left once redistribution hits the bottom, dropping to minimum output. "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work."
Capitalism eventually builds a hierarchy that siphons upward until "there can be only one." Except one is none when the host is a body made of individual cells.
@mcsquared34 Funny how the right train isn't labeled. Taken to their actual extremes, not the sugary safeguards each side touts, both capitalism and communism optimize for endless extraction until the host collapses 😂
@welovesweetboy_ True to his name, Vision saw past physical clashes. He won the only fight that ever "mattered" and became energy - in addition to literally phasing through walls.
After all, fisticuffs begin where vision ends.