And a lot of the more passive ones are still offensive in the way Harry Potter wizards are, in hindsight, offensive Hoarding power with no sense of responsibility to Muggle society to use it to benefit others Only interacting with Muggles to get them out of your way
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One big theme of Hunter is that the mind control and memory wiping stuff is in fact really really bad, like this really deep fundamental violation of self to the point that "mind rape" is not really a hyperbolic term to use And the other gamelines are way too casual with it
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Hence the core power all Hunters have, the Second Sight, specifically makes you immune to it
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*nods* Can't really disagree on that I would argue that it's not irresponsible for them to not use their powers to help people though, simply because if they're helping people in any noticeable way, then paradox, etc, powers stop working, and so on.
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Sure, well The whole debate over what Mages should be doing with their powers was kind of why Revised happened, and why the Revised core book straight up told you that Ascension was out of reach now, maybe permanently, because of the Avatar Storm
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And since you're stuck here on Earth permanently now and have no hope of earning your way up to flying through magical outer space with the Archmages maybe you should try to think about coexisting with your neighbors
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Finding ways to actually help Muggles once in a while instead of just whining that Paradox makes it haaaaaard
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Thanks for explaining. I see your point. I guess I never saw not being helpful as being that bad on their parts because like, I got into WoD through vampire and in comparison to monsters who literally eat people, some guy who fucks off to live on mars seems good by comparison lol
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cuz like, when the bar for "not awful" is set at "don't eat people," it isn't exactly hard to pass, and I never really thought it should be set higher til you pointed it out.
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Yeah and I mean there's plenty of "good guy" coded Mages who like sell herbal remedies or advocate anarcho-communism on the Internet or whatever But it distracts you from the fact that you can play a huge asshole of a Mage who messes with people for fun pretty easily too
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Like the Sons of Ether are about treating the "mad scientist" archetype as just good old cartoony fun and not dealing with all the, you know, villainous shit mad scientists do
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The Order of Hermes, the "classic" Mages, were bastards all the way back in Ara Magica and they're still bastards now Paradox means they can't just *openly* be bastards But they're still just fine with, like, stealing from Muggles whenever they feel they have to
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Honestly I always saw the sons of aether as more like, Doc Brown with the aesthetic of the Rocketeer than villainous mad scientists. Retro-futuristic heroes of yesterday's tomorrow. Can't really disagree on the hermatics though lol
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