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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] Inverse fire
« on: August 06, 2017, 07:21:13 pm »
It is but that doesn't mean it was done successfully. Ajokli doesn't seem very trustworthy to me.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] Shauriatas
« on: August 06, 2017, 07:20:32 pm »
Yeah they're awful. People with certain personality disorders are also prone to giving false negatives since they respond to lying differently.
Sadly some courts are now admitting neural imaging, which is even less reliable at the moment. Neurologists keep telling them no but apparently legal standards of truth and scientific one are entirely different.
Sadly some courts are now admitting neural imaging, which is even less reliable at the moment. Neurologists keep telling them no but apparently legal standards of truth and scientific one are entirely different.
Did the Mutilated speak in a circular sequence?Yes, but it could just as easily be Dunyain being able to read each other. They're not going to have trouble avoiding talking over each other.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: So...where do we go from here...? (Post TUC questions and thoughts)
« on: August 06, 2017, 07:17:53 pm »
Given that at some point this was the ending I have to assume that some things that would have been in this series were moved forward to the next one, since I can't see him ending with so little about Seswatha, the Judging Eye, and the No-God unexplained.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: Why would the Inchoroi fear damnation?
« on: August 06, 2017, 07:16:51 pm »
I don't think just being really evil is all it takes to be a ciphrang. We only see two, maybe three confirmed cases. And even then, being a Ciphrang isn't necessarily very fun. Gin'yursis seemed to be suffering quite profoundly even as the master of his own mini-hell.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] Music for TUC
« on: August 06, 2017, 07:15:33 pm »I read the Golgotterath battle while listening to this:Ah In Extremo. I was introduced to them via a video game, too. The Gothic concert was neat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rayhp9Wj1KE
Palästinalied from Walther von der Vogelweide (In Extremo version).
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] The Survivors
« on: August 06, 2017, 06:27:57 pm »
Nice symmetry to the course of Sorweel's character in UC.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] The Survivors
« on: August 06, 2017, 05:28:22 pm »
Watch Serwa be alive in the next book only to succumb to her wound in the second chapter.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] The Nonman who reached Oblivion..
« on: August 06, 2017, 05:26:47 pm »
I gotta be honest so far I'm still not getting the distinction. Is it something to do with awareness or reflection?
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] The Judging Eye is not Blinded by the No-God
« on: August 06, 2017, 05:24:35 pm »
I still like to think that it's not actually God's judgement Mimara is seeing, but Mimara's.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC spoilers] "I know the truth of Him! ....I know what He is!"
« on: August 06, 2017, 05:21:29 pm »Wouldn't the No-God not be damned as no one on the Outside can see him?Excellent question. A shame we'll never know if Kel looked in the Inverse Fire and if he did what he saw.
So why did Nau-Cayuti see himself as damned in the Inverse Fire?
Or is he not as No-God as Kel?
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The Unholy Consult / Re: How big is Sil?
« on: August 06, 2017, 05:18:36 pm »
I just took it as the Inchoroi varied a lot from individual to individual depending on how they were grafted.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC spoilers] "I know the truth of Him! Saccarees, I know what He is!"
« on: August 06, 2017, 12:11:03 am »
He dreams of Nau-Cayuti because the homunculus inside every Mandate Schoolman is actually Shauriatas not Seswatha. The Mandate was designed to ensure that one day the might of the remaining human civilizations died bringing an Anasurimbor to Golgotterath.
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General Earwa / Re: Prince of Nothing film
« on: August 06, 2017, 12:08:04 am »I think like any good author invested in his work Bakker is right to feel a little bummed no one wants to adapt this shit but it's kinda on him for making black cum smearing rape aliens fucking inextricable from the larger themes at workIIRC he has actually been approached but then said the people that approached him essentially ran away screaming when he described the Inchoroi.
And are they inextricable? I guess it says some fucked up things about human psychology, but the same events would be far more palatable if the Sranc and Inchoroi just ate people and the epilogue of Warrior Prophet had them explain "We are a race of gluttons." I wouldn't like such a change, but would it actually alter the underlying themes, or just the aesthetic?
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The Unholy Consult / Re: (TUC Spoilers) My thoughts overall - I was right and I was wrong... maybe
« on: August 06, 2017, 12:06:03 am »
No matter what happens, people will believe this was all part of Kellhus' plan until Bakker has finished the next series and died of old age.
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General Earwa / Re: Prince of Nothing film
« on: August 05, 2017, 10:03:26 pm »
I maintain that an animated film or television series would be the way to go to translate the series most faithfully but western animation is dead and I refuse to see a kawaii anime Kellhus.
The pitch black doom and gloom needs to go. Bakker's world feels the most real when the characters are joking, when we hear Three Seas idioms or learn about some crazy shit that happened in camp because of an Ainoni who did this or a Conriyan who did that.I half agree. I think it feels most real then because making jokes in the face of horror is really natural. It could be toned down a bit though, yeah.
