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Southern Cross

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    Southern Cross reacted to ijuin in Story Wednesday January 31, 2024   
    Meh, there are several tyrants in our current world (Kim Jong-Un, Vladimir Putin, and others), but none of them seem to be using arcane power either to achieve or to maintain their tyranny.
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    Southern Cross reacted to Darth Fluffy in Story Wednesday January 31, 2024   
    You may be right, it seems plausible, but this is the first indication we've had that they have any sort of filter for who they steal the royalty aura from.
    They should have noticed by now a lack of tyranny.
     
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    Southern Cross reacted to mlooney in Comic for Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023   
    She has said that her flight was from telekinesis.
     
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    Southern Cross reacted to Darth Fluffy in Comic for Wednesday, Dec 6, 2023   
    So who are the 'good guys' in Israel today? I'd go with 'no one'. If you are harming innocents, you are not a good guy.
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    Southern Cross got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Friday May 18, 2018   
    Because the comic is still in greyscale.
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    Southern Cross got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Monday 4-23-2018   
    or VHS copies of Reptilicus?
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    Southern Cross got a reaction from Pharaoh RutinTutin in Story Friday April 20, 2018   
    You miss my point. A talking item would be considered obvious magic up until fairly recently. Also if Ashley really is a "sleeping" wizard (to use EGS terminology) then Kevin is actually at least as useful than the current magic detection wand, and not as annoying.
    In other words, it's possible that sentient items were a cause of one of the prior magic resets.
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    Southern Cross got a reaction from Vorlonagent in Story, Monday March 19, 2018   
    Also Verres has no access to the spiritual plane. If the whales exist on the spiritual plane, it's quite understandable he would know nothing about them.
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    Southern Cross reacted to Don Edwards in Story, Wednesday March 7, 2018   
    In the school district my kids attended, the percentage of kids that the district got extra state money for, because of diagnosed behavioral disorders, was by some amazing coincidence almost precisely the maximum percentage that the state officially considered believable enough that the money would be forthcoming. And it was stable at that level for five years that I know of.
    Then the state raised the allowed percentage. By about half.
    It took less than three years for the percentage of kids in the district that had diagnosed behavioral disorders to rise to the new state limit. And it was then stable at that higher level for several years that I know of.
    I think it's pretty safe to say that the rate of actual behavioral disorders did not shoot up by 50% in three years. And that either the pre-increase or post-increase rate being such close matches to the state cap, let alone both of them, kind of stretches credulity.
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    Southern Cross reacted to The Old Hack in Story, Wednesday March 7, 2018   
    If they can do that where you live, then your laws are criminally lax. In Denmark the only way to buy antidepressants is with a doctor's prescription. And ordinary doctors in Denmark will decline to write prescriptions for this kind of drug if there hasn't been a psychiatrist involved initially and judged the use of such medication necessary.
    And superstitions are all well and good (or bad) but I entirely fail to see what they have to do with the level of happiness anywhere, save possibly indirectly.
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    Southern Cross reacted to The Old Hack in Story, Wednesday March 7, 2018   
    If Inger Støjberg got sacked, kicked out of Parliament and sent down to Den Haag to stand trial for crimes against humanity, I would party for at least a week. But I freely admit I wouldn't expect the American populace to care very much.
    Because antidepressants have nothing whatsoever to do with happiness. That is sheer superstition. It is medication prescribed for a biochemical imbalance in the brain that causes depression. It allows those who suffer from clinical depression (such as me) to operate at a level much closer to normal. It takes the edge off the worst depressive episodes so I, for example, don't actively contemplate suicide. What it doesn't do is make me happy. In order to be happy, I need something in my life that would, say, make people who AREN'T subject to depression happy.
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    Southern Cross reacted to The Old Hack in Story, Wednesday March 7, 2018   
    This is true. I think I would hesitate to attempt it even within the confines of the esteemed Mr. Adams' own universe.
    I would take it even further. I would say that elites and elitism are both actively harmful. They accept members regardless of the actual quality in many cases and in others keep extremely talented people out based on some irrelevant criteria of family, social standing, gender, sexual orientation and so forth. In Danish schools working class children were discouraged from seeking scientific or artistic occupations because they weren't good enough. It took most of the 20th Century to beat this attitude even partly down.
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    Southern Cross got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Wednesday March 1, 2017   
    Actually, I can't help wondering how long the Will of magic has been planning a reset. Anybody else think that it's not a coincidence that Tedd has the abilities he has? It's possible that someone like Tedd is born before there is a reset, in order to help figure out the new rules for magic.
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    Southern Cross got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Wednesday March 1, 2017   
    Actually, I can't help wondering how long the Will of magic has been planning a reset. Anybody else think that it's not a coincidence that Tedd has the abilities he has? It's possible that someone like Tedd is born before there is a reset, in order to help figure out the new rules for magic.
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    Southern Cross reacted to ijuin in Story Wednesday March 1, 2017   
    Angry ex-Mages are going to be wanting the head of whoever they think is to blame.
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    Southern Cross reacted to Scotty in Story Wednesday March 1, 2017   
    Yeah, considering it was Arthur that made the public statement that magic was real, anyone else that might have knowledge of system changes might blame him.