• Soyweiser@awful.systems
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    19 days ago

    Good for them that they manage to run a subculture without geeks, mops or creatives and only sociopaths. Their parties do sound extremely dreadful however. Like they are trying to recreate something with the lasting power of punk using only one hit wonders.

    E: Unrelated, the whole crystal reference to, what I assume is meant to be soul gems is also quite weird. (For people who don’t know, this traps a beings soul, which is then consumed (or send to a special hell) to power things (which yeah, seems bad), but it doesn’t work on humans (or your regional equivalent) you need corrupted black soul gems for that, which is done by necromancers, who are considered to be pretty evil. None of it seems to be done consensually (you do not pick to go into the gem, you get killed and then they trap your soul, with a soul trap spell), even if the series is rather blase about the use of them. I know sociopaths (who might be the people writing this article in this case) are not really the types to care about the lore specifics, but you know

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