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  1. 1 hour ago, mlooney said:

    Not quite sure how that's gonna work with Edward still alive, but I'm sure it's going to be amusing.  This arc has all the earmarks of being just weird.

    Mainly, the implied undercurrent is that Cinderella had deserved a fair chance to appeal to the Prince all along, and it was her Stepmother and Stepsisters trying to take her rightful status from her—i.e. it’s not a “rags to riches” tale, but rather a restoration of what was lost/taken.


  2. Money exists on two levels. Commodity money has value because it is made out of something that that our society considers to carry value (e.g. precious metals). Fiat currency, by contrast, holds value because social institutions (governments, banks, etc.) will honor it—it is essentially borrowing against the government/bank’s own credit. Fiat currency collapses if the institution supporting it collapses (e.g. a government is dismantled after being occupied in a war).


  3. As Sirleck pointed out, overuse of gold creation would devalue gold in general.

    For perspective, there is an estimated 200 thousand metric tons of gold currently in the possession of humanity, including all known bullion and manufactured objects. This comes out to just under one troy ounce for each human alive—which is about ten times too rare to use gold as cash, which is why mankind moved from cash gold to gold-backed banknotes at the start of the 20th century, back when human population was about 1/4-1/5 of current levels.


  4. True, but in the case of fiat currency, it’s our supposed overlords who decree it unilaterally, as opposed to any widespread consensus.

    Basically, if the government collapses, fiat currency becomes worthless, whereas commodity currency requires a general breakdown of society to lose its value.


  5. Pandora has centuries to build up legitimate funds—even just a slice of the treasures that she and Blaike acquired in their adventuring could have served as seed money for investments, so she would have had those. As likely as not, Hope made a withdrawal from a bank account that was under one of Pandora’s aliases.


  6. On 12/31/2024 at 4:29 AM, mlooney said:

    We know that DGB has at least one immortal that they are in contact with, the one the failed to fly through a ceiling, so they might provide “papers” for immortals that ask for them.

    Something like that, yes.

    On 12/31/2024 at 8:59 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

     

    Your "Super Power" is the ability to use your phone without visibly touching your phone?

    Liz is the correct level of impressed. 

     

    Apparently all of the phone functions interface with Elliot’s brain telepathically or something. Useful, but not “wow, magical!”


  7. Most versions of Cinderella, the motive for the abuse of Cinderella is to disinherit her, so that the estate will go to the Stepsisters instead.

    Also, the fact that they were invited to a ball where the Crown Prince was seeking a bride implies that Cinderella’s father was of a rank that his daughters would be permitted to marry into Royalty, so he was likely at least a Baron, and so there was the inheritance of a title of nobility at stake and not just the house, land, and wealth.


  8. On 12/31/2024 at 0:15 PM, mlooney said:

    I wonder why Bishop keeps insisting that the Asian girl and the Blond Caucasian girl have the same father.  Edward doesn't seem to care.

    Probably to reassure him “Oh no, I absolutely did not sleep around behind my previous husband’s back and therefore will not sleep around behind your back”.


  9. She definitely needs a cover identity if she wants to have any officially-recognized dealings, such as bank accounts, credit cards, and a mailing address. Pandora presumably had at least one such identity, but how is Hope going to insert herself into the official records system? I mean, someone like Edward (or someone in their department) could be a liaison for Immortals to set them up with legal identities . . .