Picking up a goddamn baseball bat and smashing your super special magic computer with the special algorithm in it that tells all of us what to do into little pieces Reminding us all that, in the end, it's just a goddamn plastic box
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
The smug billionaire prick realizing that all the money that exists as 1s and 0s in a faraway computer and all the complex knowledge of law and finance he's spent a lifetime accumulating means jack shit when all the little people start physically rushing the door to his mansion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
@RuffleJax talked about how the Bay Area techbro rationalist community is in love with Mage: the Ascension and their private Discord server is named "Doissetep" after the Chantry of the Order of Hermes And wow that analogy just makes me appreciate Hunter: the Reckoning so much3 replies 1 retweet 16 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I loved Mage but yeah, this is definitely a problem. And it's not hard at all to see why these assholes love it since that is what appealed to teenage me too: the idea you are a special extra smart person who sees reality clearly while everyone else is asleep.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @arthur_affect and
Hell in the Technocracy books they even call your special magic stat "Genius".
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @Nymphomachy and
Hunter: the Reckoning was a lot of different things that didn't fit that well together necessarily, and a lot of its defenders talk about how the Zeal Creeds and the "hobo with a shotgun" signature characters didn't give a full picture of it But I liked that stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus and
As a fan of the Zeal Creeds and what they're about, I'll say -- Of course they're hypocrites and Hunters were just as "supernatural" as any other White Wolf gameline and they had their own kind of "magic" But it is in fact the kind of "magic" that matters
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus and
Hunters aren't special because they're smart, because of their Arete or Genius, or because they're spiritual and wise (Gnosis), or because of their literal bloodline (Generation) The idea of H:tR Hunters, the Imbued, is you became special because someone hurt you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus and
At least for the hobo with a shotgun kind of Hunters, the Avenger Creed and the Martyr Creed and the Wayward Creed Your power level, your Zeal, is a measure of how much you've been hurt, your mana, your Conviction, is how much you're willing to do something about it
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The hobo with a shotgun who isn't smart, who isn't wise, who isn't special in any way Other than that they're been hurt and they want to hurt someone back, and sometimes that sheer anger, sheer rage, unwillingness to let shit stand, breaks the rules and busts the machine
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus and
There's something really powerful about that to me -- and disturbing -- and it's why I'm still obsessed with that game years later It was a game that was very explicitly drawing on everyone's fascination yet unease with stuff like the 1992 LA Riots
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus and
(And with a little unpleasant incident that happened two years after Hunter debuted in 1999, that derailed a bunch of American culture, and that put Hunter in the uncomfortable position of "sympathizing with the terrorists" -- that, to my shock and admiration, they ran with)
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