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[quote=The Author Guy;3121]There is no such thing as the ACAP[/quote]
One of the reasons I’m much more likely to take a chance on an unknown Eastern European author than an unknown American author is that advertising and other propaganda narratives have homogenized expression quite a bit, and made the predictable much more so.
Have you had the occasion to come across any of these movies?
The Jenn character is a walking stereotype, a straw-woman, but the other characters still react to her as if she’s making sense, and contributing towards their objectives.
Clearly, the only explanation to this would be that the demon god so many of the divine cast have been hinting must be responsible for re-upping Tom isn’t hiding in plain sight as I believed previously.
Jenn is Concordenax.
Other characters ignore her continuous racism and vitriol only because Jenn is cleverly mind-controlling them through secret links she’s imposed on Team Doom while they weren’t looking. Since Jenncordenax doesn’t want Team Doom discussing their assets and objective prioritization openly amongst themselves, she’s “forcing” the team to “keep her ignorant”, which would be a bit much to expect of them at this point of book 3, since the motivation for that is gone.
> Orc/D’Orc Restoration of Glory
Tom’s gone to American high school history lessons – but did he pay attention?
Rome: When you aggressively structure your society along expansionist lines, you’ll have real trouble when the expansion starts to slow. Decadence is just another word for replacement activities, replacing martial glory with games, without changing your core values.
Post Great-War Germany: The psychological damage which a humiliating loss might cause could lead the high command of the D’Orcs to adopt an extremist “Never again!” or “Never forget!” attitude. Kaiser went missing for a great long while, are we ready to accept him back?
I bet Tom’s mother taught him to accept each moment as it is, and to take charge of the well-being of himself, his family and friends. After all, that would be consistent with his actions so far.
[quote=Gelcube;3389]Bobble heads[/quote]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QhwY2VLmQM[/youtube][quote=Gelcube;3432]Which makes Tom very interesting, as at the end of ITA, he didn’t go to a memorized form, he made up one on the spot that he’d never taken before.[/quote]
Or does Tom really have some unconscious connection to Sporkus, and pulled the form from those memories?
Surely T-A-G didn’t break continuity just for some cheap storytelling convenience, like some dirty LitRPG hippie?
[quote=Tizzy;3591]an executive from ABC Standards and Practices.[/quote]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPsjdxURAYI[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vahmSjnpXgg[/youtube]The reaction from the previous US ambassador to our country:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/DodszU9.png[/img]
Oh fuck.
Posted by Bruce J. Oreck on Tuesday, November 8, 2016
If Team Doom is preparing to take some casualties, is there a chance that Elyelwith Flores would become the first(?) D’Elf Shaman?
Would the D’Orcs accept him?
[img]http://i.imgur.com/CMhJ2xc.png[/img]
[img=http://www.phrases.org.uk/images/petard.jpg]Petard[/img]
[quote=The Author Guy;5621]I need soviet anthems and marching songs at full power to write battle scenes![/quote]
Here’s something you might not have run into previously. Back in the sixties and seventies, Soviet Union promoted communism, communist parties and socialist parties in Western Europe, with quite a bit of success. As a part of the effort, SU and the parties promoted communist art, including music. Those songs often had a strong internationalist message.
[quote]Lenin-setä asuu Venäjällä. Ja sieltä on pitkä matka Vietnamiin. Mutta minusta vain tuntuu, että Lenin-setä asuu yhtä lähellä kuin setä Ho-Chi Minh.
Leninillä on niin suuri otsa, että siihen mahtuu koko maa ja taivaskin. Ja Lenin-setä hymyilee ja silmät tuikkivat ja hän nauraa niin kuin setä Ho-Chi Minh.
Lenin-setä asuu Venäjällä. Minä kutsun hänet kylään tänne Vietnamiin. Hän rakastaa meitä. Meille hän on yhtä kultainen kuin setä Ho-Chi Minh.
Minä olen pikku pioneeri. Ja vähäinen on vielä minun voimani. Mutta pienikin voi taistella, rauhan puolesta kuin Lenin ja setä Ho-Chi Minh. Rauhan puolesta kuin Lenin ja setä Ho-Chi Minh.
[/quote]“Uncle Lenin lives in Russia. And from there, it’s a long way to Vietnam. But I just feel, that Uncle Lenin lives as close as uncle Ho-Chi Minh.
Lenin has such a high forehead, that it can fit the whole earth, and the sky as well. And uncle Lenin smiles, and his eyes twinkle, and he laughs like uncle Ho-Chi Minh.
Uncle Lenin lives in Russia. And I invite him to visit here in Vietnam. He loves us. To us, he’s as golden as uncle Ho-Chi Minh.
I am a small pioneer. And lacking still in strength. But even a small one can fight, for peace like Lenin and uncle Ho-Chi Minh. For peace like Lenin and uncle Ho-Chi Minh.”
Now, this song originated from the co-operation between Viet Minh and the Soviet-driven international (communist expansion organization), but at the time when Europe was largely against the war in Vietnam, it was translated into all the European languages by the local party organizations, and was played widely on TV and radio.
With a little “eh” before the word.
Barons and baronesses of Chaos can use whatever bathroom they like, but of course the corrosive fumes will kill anyone who doesn’t run away.
Indeed, but the actual reality matters much less than the perception that the D’Alfing might be the communication of just such a threat.
Actually, I was searching for the Hesseforthalus thread to ask about whether his needling of Sammael was meant to communicate the fact that this was a setup, and that they are being watched. After all, Hesse wouldn’t profit from antagonizing Sammael unless there was a receptive audience, and Hesse would be too canny to take such a risk for no profit. Therefore: Lilith.
To finalize the series of posts about my plot concerns, I’m wondering about Sentir Fallon’s end game.
We’re still missing a lot of pertinent information regarding his motivation, but we do have enough to wonder about his end game.
I suppose there are three principal scenarios: one in which he’s a unwitting fall guy for Tiernon, one in which he’s a mole for the Parents or a similar actor, and one in which he just got over his head with career and project planning.
If Tiernon’s strange insistence on evidence is based on Sentir Fallon being a double-cover expendable asset to manage relations to Lilith and the Elf Gods, it could well be that Tiernon is suppressing Sentir Fallon’s ability to really consider the end game. In this case, Tiernon is planning to use Beragamos to burn Sentir any minute now.
If the Parents, or another similar entity turned Sentir Fallon, or infiltrated him into Tiernon’s organization, his end game is clear and his actions toward it have been effective and consistent: the shutdown of Tartarus intake, revenge, and slow or off-screen action towards destabilizing Tartarus conditions, if he knows where it is.
If his motivation is proactive career planning, and the two primary branches in his and game are getting away with it until Tiernon forgets about the specifics of the era, or if his game is blown, perhaps the hijacking of some god pools to some multiversal backwater, he’s made some serious strategic blunders it would be hard to believe someone who’s hundreds or thousands of years old would make, unless the doctrine really does rot the brain on the outer planes.
Lilith and Aodh, as well as Aodh’s principals are aware of Sentir Fallon’s betrayal. They could burn him at any time without suffering too many consequences. This would have opened him up to extortion at any time, and at least Lilith wouldn’t have had any reason to abstain, as all of the actors believed they’d done Orcus in, and it’s not like Tiernon would have let it slip outside his organization.
So would the likely consequences have jived with Sentir’s expected end game objectives?
