Post by jadegreen on Oct 2, 2021 4:03:30 GMT
Every rp fucking sucks. RP is such a pointless concept and will never be satisfying. Its like taking a drug it feels good when you do it when you walk way you just feel empty inside. You try to do normal stuff like writing for yourself or go outside and smell the flowers and it just feels empty and wrong. All you want to do is more and more and more and more and more RP. Even if you finish an RP you walk away from it and realize its pointless. Like how has it helped you? How has it really progressed your life in any meaningful way? Its just a short finite dopamine release because god knows why. Like smoking weed or drinking half a bottle of wine when you see ur student loan bill is $45,099 or whatever. Like building a house in minecraft you built it okay now what. Its not like a house in real life you can actually live in so why did you build it? You draw a picture okay why did you draw it? Nobodys going to look at it or respect it, and nobody ever respects me or cares about me.
Every RP Ive ever been in its the same shit BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IM FUCKING DONE D-O-N-E done. No more future tech RP. No more Gayass dominion, no more Hoytachian Ecumen no more Tagroolian Ascendancy no more Dumese Empire no more Galactic Empire no mor espaceships or guns or drawing dumb shit on deviantart because its all pointless. Nobody is going to care about it or read it or actually respect it. It ia appeals to the lose common denominator the lizard brain that sees monkey gun. Nobody gives a shit about those stupid fucking factions anyways.
People say the RP is supposed to be about story but the spend hours and hours and hours drawing spaceships and guns and making stats and technology and lore and how is this not PR about stats and lore and nuclear bomb yields just cocksuckers from spacebattles snorting the insides of their TI-85 cus muh yield calcs. Its why when I post a gun on deviantart it gets like 200 favorites but my character and scenery art gets like a 1/10th of that. Everyone just wants to win to make their imaginary spaceships the strongest. If people really cared about stories there would be board meetings and storyboarders and writers. People try to hide behind their rules and their philosophies and phrases like oh we put story first or its about having fun no its fucking not. Its just likee everything eles in our society.
Its just way of polishing the turd until it looks good. Like we polsh capitalism we say work hard and be happy because we perpetuate a system we say people are poor cause they doint work hard. No people are fucking poor because society is run by parassssite s with all the money but doing none of the work and the politicians and companies in their pockets. We tell people they have to fix the enviroment young people who need to drive cars to get to school and work not the big companies that make the polluting cars or the governments who tell them they hae to drive to scholo.. IOts the same way in rp people talk and talk about hwo same thing. THINK PEOPLE THINK!!! Every server is corrupt some are just better at hiding it that others. Just like in the exanpans there is no good guy or bad guy you just hav t o accept its people with complex backstories clawing over one another in a big mountain like the zombies in world war z.
They dont care if they step on each others faces and knock their teeth out to get to the top because thats evolution made us do. RP is the same way, people get wahat they want they want their escapism because the world is mcfuckingfuckfucked. People die and life is boring and they want to feel liek they could be strong or make a difference. Like their aiomless lives have meaning just like people in RP./ Think how pointless an RPO characters life is. They exist for one purpose probably so that they can fucking die in some pointless battle. BUt art imitates life and thats what RO is like. Everything is pointless its people climbing ober one anther. Nobody cares if a million peopleare suffering nobody cares if their rp character dies or if they kill ap lanet covered in a trillion innocents they think its funny. Because thats a reflection of us. We are sick twisted vile creatures who crave biollnedce. Out of character is the same way everyone has that same motivation and there is politics and bickering and behind the scenes backstabbing and manipulation happening lal the time.
Like when I was in hgich school id idd the chharacter creation battle arena. And it was you make characters and then fight with others. The characters that win get to become stronger and once a character dies they cant be revived. So the new character is always week and stuck ant the bottom but the old characters keep accumulating power till their basically gods. Its just like society its a teacher of sorts. LIke how with capitalism jeff bezos is so rich but he doesnt care all the new young people in the world are working in shis warehouse s drinking bottles of pee. When theres going to be a rebellion the people at the top realize they fcuked up. When everyone stopped making characters all the panethon of high level CCBA characters got bored and they were forced to reset. When an RP server is run by corrupt people all the new people will leave and the corrupt people will be bored and realize their life is empty.
Im,agine in 2025 when everyone wakes up. Imagine all the poor people with $49,955 in student debt are all filing for bankruptscy we are living in cars and refrigerator boxes to work in mcdonalds. We cant get a girlfriend anymore our free choices are to be a stepdad, marry some 900lbs wale or get a girl who smokes is baked out of her mind 24-7. The interest pisle up faster than you make a wage. Then one day we all either just lay down take forever nappies on the choo choo tran traks or there is an angry mob of zombies climbing over each other and governments in helicopters shooting minigusn at them or both. But they win because the machines stop working the bottom half of the pyramid is literally gone and all the politicians and ceos cry boo hoo my shareholders i cant by my ninth giant yacht while simeltanieiously they overturned millions oof lives. Young creative people force dto work all the timedoing pointless work that they should be doing. Like its hard to quantify or put in perspective that. Its like when someone tries to do that rick where they pull the tablecloth out but all the dishes say except the fail epically and everything falls of the table. The best part is its a cycle. You get people born in an pooreses ive system they rebel and start a new one. Then the new one gets rotten after awhile and you have to start over again. Societies rot like milk under a heat lamp and barring we achieve enlightenment or something.
RPs are the same way. People start a server because theyw ant to get away from the oppressive system they write long essays about why the old system was flawed and why they want to improve and make it better but they never take their own FUCKING ADVICE!!!! and jsut wit. But people refuse to become enlightened they vehemently deny it. Its always dangling in front of us like a chicken leg on a fishing line like we can always see how good things would be if we just got our act together cleaned the corruptiong out of our government and build a utopian soiecty. But that will never happen because religion isnt a path to enlightenment its a coping mechanism. People see the world is messed up they see all the stupid ignorant people and they make up stories to explain why things are they way they are and give themselves peace. Peple think if they are good for maybe 60 or 100 years on earth they are entitled to a literal eternity of living in heaven because they were good for that shor time. Thats like saying you work a job for 60 days then you get paid $1,000,000 every day after the last 60 days. People cant actually get anry even buddhist monts are subejct to the human condition that we want to escape. (The chic ken leg on the fishing pole). But like fish we are animals.
It is so easy to say “the world is complicated you wouldnt get it” and use that as an excuse for why bad things hapepn. Its hard to go on an adventure and actually see all the places in the machine where the problems are. But thats what RP and stories can do. We use RP which is just a form of story as a simplified lens. We use it to break down and digest all the problems in the world with fictional characters. So we understand why they happen. Storytelling is not pointless. Storytelling is i would argue one of the most important inventions mankind ever maade because it will help us to one day maybe achieve this sort of enlightenment if thats what you want to call it. Its probably now the whole picture I dont know what that is but its like one tool we need to have on our belt. We can use stories to teach people and make them understand how they can do their part ot make the world a good place.
Notice how much stories focus on elements of our world. We make science fiction stories to dream and digest how new technology might change our world. What if there is an AI? What if we meet aliens? How do we react? The answer is boring and disaapoingting we dont take it as an opportunity to improve we play the blame game and tyr to capitalize on our own petty short lived self interests. We make love stories to understand love. But love is just hormones telling us to reproduce with frosting on top, but it still makes us confused. Because the chemical part of us the lizard brain saying to stick your pensi in something but that makes us confused and comes into conflict with the human condition. Then society and tradition makes love even more complex. We tell horrors tories because we are in bred we are scared of predators. If theres a monster you kill it or run away and the sory is like a way of rehearsing that. We tell stories about conflict about war because oru spiritual side cannot comprehend why we inflict violence on each ohter. It wants to understand why things get so bad that there is no way to solve a problem besides beating the shit out of the other guy.
The evilest most insidious part is that the possibility is there. If the world was just shitty and could only ever be shitty people would just accept it and kill themselves. But when you dangle the chicken leg in front of people they will walk barefoot over broken glass and rusty naisl to ge t it becaus e their hungry belly is crying out “oh im so empty please feed me 100 chicken legs till im big around and full” for it. Just liek that we perpetuate our own suffering in the world by seeing the good in it. Just like after you eat 100 chicken legs you get fat then feel bad and your fat and ugly. But society needs those poeple on the bottom they need the slaves to build the pyramid even if they dont call us slaves anymore we basically are. We work our whole lives can never escape our dic ntoing because its what we are born into. But there are epole that will try to break otu, tryt to resist the brainwashing we get fed conspiracies. Agents make up false conspiracies they make up things like “5G causes coronavirus” "aliens built the pyramids" etc etc etc because its like jingling keys in front of a baby its distracting and it pulls anyone with a rebellious streak wo could be a threat away from them it discredits them. People could have genuine dirt on the rich and powerfulb ut they get lumped in with people that as the president is an alien. Its just like that theory that in the matrix the “real world” is just another layer of the matrix for peopl e with a rebellious streak to be satisfied. We are distracted by that we dont realize how fucked we really are.
The other bad part about RP is that people run away from the real life. Its an escape, just another defense mechanism to hide from how pointless life is. Like smart but depressed people are depressed they wont procreate but people that can ignore the big questions and keep going through life like cattle in stalls and just be happy no matter how shitty the situation is or how pointless and short their life wont kill itself and will live to reproduce. Its a defense mechanism put in us by evolution to try to distance ourselves from the lifes we are trapped in. The base is there we are by default happy we try to cope with humor and memes, laugh it off. Different people deal with it in different ways. Some people smokes cigarettes or weed or beer or play video games for hours on end. People try to escape by RPing but then they just turn around and make the same thing again like matrioska brain.
You say I want this fictional world but I want it to be realistic so that I understand it and just end up making the real world but slightly different because thats all your little primate brain can ever imagine. It just one universe inside of another and nobody care about that inside universe its escapism. Like nobody cares about somebody who fucked off and doesnt care about society anymore. Does anyone ever RP as the random spacer living in the proverbial cabin on a little asteroid who wakes up evey day drinks space coffee and reads the newspaper. Does anyone ever RP as the 1000 people that divergently evolved into an isolationist group of three headed fishmen living in a virtual stratocracy run by a magic goat ai in a VR simulation. No. Because nobody gives a shit about them unless they want to bully them.
Human nature is so cosmically fucked. And we are coping hard. Its why we make things like the four horsemen of the apocalypse and the seven deadly sins. It helps ut to catergorize and rationalize all the bad shit in the world. When I was in kindergarten I remember the teachers son was in my class. He would throw wooden blocks and me and bite my hand and beat me up but he never got in trouble, because his mom was the teacher., Maybe he got in trouble at home i dont know but given he never stopped im guess ing no. But that just goes to show you that it is innate to our most core being. He was a kindergartner who had only had a few years of being conscious and he was already hurting other people. He had nothing to gain from it he knew he could get away with it so whats stopping him? His mom could claim that she was a woman who followed jesus and went to church and red the bible but never got involved even though she knew what was going on. Is that what god would have wanted? None of the other students cared or got involved. Even my parents didnt care and i would show them the cuts and bruisers i got from him and asked them to go to a different kindergarten. That was the tutorial level my introduction to human nature as its one of the first things I remember, and I have not seen any evidence to the contrary. That is the raw unfiltered true face of humanity and what we are before theyve had a chance to learn and mature; is those kindergardeners that will just beat someone up for no fucking reason. Thats what we are all deep down inside. Its super edgy but saying that is also just a defense mechanism for ourselves because deep down we know its all true. Every lefle of society is a viper pit with people using underhanded tactis just within the law to get ahead. The law may be honored to the letter but never the spirit because everyone is an evil cocksucking.
Even love. Love is held up on this pedestal as this like sacred thing we do like oh love is the most powerful thing. NO love is just fucking horniness but PG friendly. And people make love like a game. Like its a fucking guessing game do I text her back or take her to the date or do I ask for sex now or how do I propose marraige. Oh im going to play hard to get. Im going to cheat on him because hes poor or because her boobs are small or play with his feelings to achive XYZ end goal. Like how many people actually genuinely love each other in the way people romanticize it. Probalby not a lot. Look how many people break up or get divorced or cheat.
Maybe that is why we write so much about superheroes. We want SOOO FUCKING BADLY to believe that we can be something better, that we can rise above this. That we can have the power to rise above being mere human. Not just the physical power. Being big and strong and living a long time and flying and shooting laser eyes. But we want to believe that we can rise above oru petty urges. We can become stronger. Or is it because we crave power and the capacity to enact violence.? We see a superhero and think “ ohhh if I had those powers I could beat up the bad people. I could coudl overturn the established hierarchy with violence. There is no way to sort out all the complicated corrupt politics in the world the best thing to do would be to grab all the corrupt people and threaten to beat the shit out of them if they dont sole the worlds problems. Ninety % of tme the reason violence is used is theres no sense in shorting out eleven thousand layers of political bullshit its better to just nuke things down to the bedrock and start over. Just because its good to have something to blame. Its good to boil down the problem into some singular enemy that you can fight”. Maybe superheroes should overthrow the government and rule the world. Maybe omni man is right. Human lives are short and pointless and sad. Hell if omni man wanted to kill me to prove his point thats fine just do it quick and painless.
We try to tru say that he is wrong because he is violent and kills people. But hes not wrong. We are just programmed to think he is evil because we have evolutionary coding to say that we are humans and we are the center of the universe and we are the best. Irts a cyclical mindset we say we are the best because it s what we are we tell ourselves love and friendship and peace will always win out over eavil and whatnot in every story well tell but thats not how it works in the real world. This guy even though he looks human is an alien and therefore even though hes essentially a super strong human who wants to kill the other humans. Just like its an evolutionary advantage to say our lives arent pointless and distract ourselves its an evolutionary advantage to believe we are center of the universe. If we think we are second rate to omni man or aliens that are genuinely enlightened or whatever we become depressed and its basically basically the same thing. Invincible is a stupid story its gay and edgy and gory but at the same time it has a point so i guess thats all that matters.
And just like that it all comes full circl becausese rp s are like people. They are short and usually end prematurelay. We trick ourselves into thinking that they are meaningful but when we look at it they are utterly meaningless noise. It is a trick, an illusion, a hologram. Just like some person living on the other side of the world. Nobody gives a shit about him or her unless they do something really interesting and nobody cares about an RP unles it provides for the capitalist engine; just like people have no value to society outside of what money they can make or a company. Rps are also doused in blood nad violence saturating every poor. Maybe its because we humans are too stupid and small minded to see beyond it maybe its because both in character and out of character we are just coping. Everyone is just coping all the time. You even ad mit it but still do it. Its like flexing how good myric writes 400 page nation sheet oh look how hard I can cope. We want to escape but we only find out the escape is just as shallow and empty as the real world. People will gladly do self destructive things in an RP just like they will anywhere else in life. They will derail the entire story through their own short sigtedness and moronicness.
Every RP Ive ever been in its the same shit BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IM FUCKING DONE D-O-N-E done. No more future tech RP. No more Gayass dominion, no more Hoytachian Ecumen no more Tagroolian Ascendancy no more Dumese Empire no more Galactic Empire no mor espaceships or guns or drawing dumb shit on deviantart because its all pointless. Nobody is going to care about it or read it or actually respect it. It ia appeals to the lose common denominator the lizard brain that sees monkey gun. Nobody gives a shit about those stupid fucking factions anyways.
People say the RP is supposed to be about story but the spend hours and hours and hours drawing spaceships and guns and making stats and technology and lore and how is this not PR about stats and lore and nuclear bomb yields just cocksuckers from spacebattles snorting the insides of their TI-85 cus muh yield calcs. Its why when I post a gun on deviantart it gets like 200 favorites but my character and scenery art gets like a 1/10th of that. Everyone just wants to win to make their imaginary spaceships the strongest. If people really cared about stories there would be board meetings and storyboarders and writers. People try to hide behind their rules and their philosophies and phrases like oh we put story first or its about having fun no its fucking not. Its just likee everything eles in our society.
Its just way of polishing the turd until it looks good. Like we polsh capitalism we say work hard and be happy because we perpetuate a system we say people are poor cause they doint work hard. No people are fucking poor because society is run by parassssite s with all the money but doing none of the work and the politicians and companies in their pockets. We tell people they have to fix the enviroment young people who need to drive cars to get to school and work not the big companies that make the polluting cars or the governments who tell them they hae to drive to scholo.. IOts the same way in rp people talk and talk about hwo same thing. THINK PEOPLE THINK!!! Every server is corrupt some are just better at hiding it that others. Just like in the exanpans there is no good guy or bad guy you just hav t o accept its people with complex backstories clawing over one another in a big mountain like the zombies in world war z.
They dont care if they step on each others faces and knock their teeth out to get to the top because thats evolution made us do. RP is the same way, people get wahat they want they want their escapism because the world is mcfuckingfuckfucked. People die and life is boring and they want to feel liek they could be strong or make a difference. Like their aiomless lives have meaning just like people in RP./ Think how pointless an RPO characters life is. They exist for one purpose probably so that they can fucking die in some pointless battle. BUt art imitates life and thats what RO is like. Everything is pointless its people climbing ober one anther. Nobody cares if a million peopleare suffering nobody cares if their rp character dies or if they kill ap lanet covered in a trillion innocents they think its funny. Because thats a reflection of us. We are sick twisted vile creatures who crave biollnedce. Out of character is the same way everyone has that same motivation and there is politics and bickering and behind the scenes backstabbing and manipulation happening lal the time.
Like when I was in hgich school id idd the chharacter creation battle arena. And it was you make characters and then fight with others. The characters that win get to become stronger and once a character dies they cant be revived. So the new character is always week and stuck ant the bottom but the old characters keep accumulating power till their basically gods. Its just like society its a teacher of sorts. LIke how with capitalism jeff bezos is so rich but he doesnt care all the new young people in the world are working in shis warehouse s drinking bottles of pee. When theres going to be a rebellion the people at the top realize they fcuked up. When everyone stopped making characters all the panethon of high level CCBA characters got bored and they were forced to reset. When an RP server is run by corrupt people all the new people will leave and the corrupt people will be bored and realize their life is empty.
Im,agine in 2025 when everyone wakes up. Imagine all the poor people with $49,955 in student debt are all filing for bankruptscy we are living in cars and refrigerator boxes to work in mcdonalds. We cant get a girlfriend anymore our free choices are to be a stepdad, marry some 900lbs wale or get a girl who smokes is baked out of her mind 24-7. The interest pisle up faster than you make a wage. Then one day we all either just lay down take forever nappies on the choo choo tran traks or there is an angry mob of zombies climbing over each other and governments in helicopters shooting minigusn at them or both. But they win because the machines stop working the bottom half of the pyramid is literally gone and all the politicians and ceos cry boo hoo my shareholders i cant by my ninth giant yacht while simeltanieiously they overturned millions oof lives. Young creative people force dto work all the timedoing pointless work that they should be doing. Like its hard to quantify or put in perspective that. Its like when someone tries to do that rick where they pull the tablecloth out but all the dishes say except the fail epically and everything falls of the table. The best part is its a cycle. You get people born in an pooreses ive system they rebel and start a new one. Then the new one gets rotten after awhile and you have to start over again. Societies rot like milk under a heat lamp and barring we achieve enlightenment or something.
RPs are the same way. People start a server because theyw ant to get away from the oppressive system they write long essays about why the old system was flawed and why they want to improve and make it better but they never take their own FUCKING ADVICE!!!! and jsut wit. But people refuse to become enlightened they vehemently deny it. Its always dangling in front of us like a chicken leg on a fishing line like we can always see how good things would be if we just got our act together cleaned the corruptiong out of our government and build a utopian soiecty. But that will never happen because religion isnt a path to enlightenment its a coping mechanism. People see the world is messed up they see all the stupid ignorant people and they make up stories to explain why things are they way they are and give themselves peace. Peple think if they are good for maybe 60 or 100 years on earth they are entitled to a literal eternity of living in heaven because they were good for that shor time. Thats like saying you work a job for 60 days then you get paid $1,000,000 every day after the last 60 days. People cant actually get anry even buddhist monts are subejct to the human condition that we want to escape. (The chic ken leg on the fishing pole). But like fish we are animals.
It is so easy to say “the world is complicated you wouldnt get it” and use that as an excuse for why bad things hapepn. Its hard to go on an adventure and actually see all the places in the machine where the problems are. But thats what RP and stories can do. We use RP which is just a form of story as a simplified lens. We use it to break down and digest all the problems in the world with fictional characters. So we understand why they happen. Storytelling is not pointless. Storytelling is i would argue one of the most important inventions mankind ever maade because it will help us to one day maybe achieve this sort of enlightenment if thats what you want to call it. Its probably now the whole picture I dont know what that is but its like one tool we need to have on our belt. We can use stories to teach people and make them understand how they can do their part ot make the world a good place.
Notice how much stories focus on elements of our world. We make science fiction stories to dream and digest how new technology might change our world. What if there is an AI? What if we meet aliens? How do we react? The answer is boring and disaapoingting we dont take it as an opportunity to improve we play the blame game and tyr to capitalize on our own petty short lived self interests. We make love stories to understand love. But love is just hormones telling us to reproduce with frosting on top, but it still makes us confused. Because the chemical part of us the lizard brain saying to stick your pensi in something but that makes us confused and comes into conflict with the human condition. Then society and tradition makes love even more complex. We tell horrors tories because we are in bred we are scared of predators. If theres a monster you kill it or run away and the sory is like a way of rehearsing that. We tell stories about conflict about war because oru spiritual side cannot comprehend why we inflict violence on each ohter. It wants to understand why things get so bad that there is no way to solve a problem besides beating the shit out of the other guy.
The evilest most insidious part is that the possibility is there. If the world was just shitty and could only ever be shitty people would just accept it and kill themselves. But when you dangle the chicken leg in front of people they will walk barefoot over broken glass and rusty naisl to ge t it becaus e their hungry belly is crying out “oh im so empty please feed me 100 chicken legs till im big around and full” for it. Just liek that we perpetuate our own suffering in the world by seeing the good in it. Just like after you eat 100 chicken legs you get fat then feel bad and your fat and ugly. But society needs those poeple on the bottom they need the slaves to build the pyramid even if they dont call us slaves anymore we basically are. We work our whole lives can never escape our dic ntoing because its what we are born into. But there are epole that will try to break otu, tryt to resist the brainwashing we get fed conspiracies. Agents make up false conspiracies they make up things like “5G causes coronavirus” "aliens built the pyramids" etc etc etc because its like jingling keys in front of a baby its distracting and it pulls anyone with a rebellious streak wo could be a threat away from them it discredits them. People could have genuine dirt on the rich and powerfulb ut they get lumped in with people that as the president is an alien. Its just like that theory that in the matrix the “real world” is just another layer of the matrix for peopl e with a rebellious streak to be satisfied. We are distracted by that we dont realize how fucked we really are.
The other bad part about RP is that people run away from the real life. Its an escape, just another defense mechanism to hide from how pointless life is. Like smart but depressed people are depressed they wont procreate but people that can ignore the big questions and keep going through life like cattle in stalls and just be happy no matter how shitty the situation is or how pointless and short their life wont kill itself and will live to reproduce. Its a defense mechanism put in us by evolution to try to distance ourselves from the lifes we are trapped in. The base is there we are by default happy we try to cope with humor and memes, laugh it off. Different people deal with it in different ways. Some people smokes cigarettes or weed or beer or play video games for hours on end. People try to escape by RPing but then they just turn around and make the same thing again like matrioska brain.
You say I want this fictional world but I want it to be realistic so that I understand it and just end up making the real world but slightly different because thats all your little primate brain can ever imagine. It just one universe inside of another and nobody care about that inside universe its escapism. Like nobody cares about somebody who fucked off and doesnt care about society anymore. Does anyone ever RP as the random spacer living in the proverbial cabin on a little asteroid who wakes up evey day drinks space coffee and reads the newspaper. Does anyone ever RP as the 1000 people that divergently evolved into an isolationist group of three headed fishmen living in a virtual stratocracy run by a magic goat ai in a VR simulation. No. Because nobody gives a shit about them unless they want to bully them.
Human nature is so cosmically fucked. And we are coping hard. Its why we make things like the four horsemen of the apocalypse and the seven deadly sins. It helps ut to catergorize and rationalize all the bad shit in the world. When I was in kindergarten I remember the teachers son was in my class. He would throw wooden blocks and me and bite my hand and beat me up but he never got in trouble, because his mom was the teacher., Maybe he got in trouble at home i dont know but given he never stopped im guess ing no. But that just goes to show you that it is innate to our most core being. He was a kindergartner who had only had a few years of being conscious and he was already hurting other people. He had nothing to gain from it he knew he could get away with it so whats stopping him? His mom could claim that she was a woman who followed jesus and went to church and red the bible but never got involved even though she knew what was going on. Is that what god would have wanted? None of the other students cared or got involved. Even my parents didnt care and i would show them the cuts and bruisers i got from him and asked them to go to a different kindergarten. That was the tutorial level my introduction to human nature as its one of the first things I remember, and I have not seen any evidence to the contrary. That is the raw unfiltered true face of humanity and what we are before theyve had a chance to learn and mature; is those kindergardeners that will just beat someone up for no fucking reason. Thats what we are all deep down inside. Its super edgy but saying that is also just a defense mechanism for ourselves because deep down we know its all true. Every lefle of society is a viper pit with people using underhanded tactis just within the law to get ahead. The law may be honored to the letter but never the spirit because everyone is an evil cocksucking.
Even love. Love is held up on this pedestal as this like sacred thing we do like oh love is the most powerful thing. NO love is just fucking horniness but PG friendly. And people make love like a game. Like its a fucking guessing game do I text her back or take her to the date or do I ask for sex now or how do I propose marraige. Oh im going to play hard to get. Im going to cheat on him because hes poor or because her boobs are small or play with his feelings to achive XYZ end goal. Like how many people actually genuinely love each other in the way people romanticize it. Probalby not a lot. Look how many people break up or get divorced or cheat.
Maybe that is why we write so much about superheroes. We want SOOO FUCKING BADLY to believe that we can be something better, that we can rise above this. That we can have the power to rise above being mere human. Not just the physical power. Being big and strong and living a long time and flying and shooting laser eyes. But we want to believe that we can rise above oru petty urges. We can become stronger. Or is it because we crave power and the capacity to enact violence.? We see a superhero and think “ ohhh if I had those powers I could beat up the bad people. I could coudl overturn the established hierarchy with violence. There is no way to sort out all the complicated corrupt politics in the world the best thing to do would be to grab all the corrupt people and threaten to beat the shit out of them if they dont sole the worlds problems. Ninety % of tme the reason violence is used is theres no sense in shorting out eleven thousand layers of political bullshit its better to just nuke things down to the bedrock and start over. Just because its good to have something to blame. Its good to boil down the problem into some singular enemy that you can fight”. Maybe superheroes should overthrow the government and rule the world. Maybe omni man is right. Human lives are short and pointless and sad. Hell if omni man wanted to kill me to prove his point thats fine just do it quick and painless.
We try to tru say that he is wrong because he is violent and kills people. But hes not wrong. We are just programmed to think he is evil because we have evolutionary coding to say that we are humans and we are the center of the universe and we are the best. Irts a cyclical mindset we say we are the best because it s what we are we tell ourselves love and friendship and peace will always win out over eavil and whatnot in every story well tell but thats not how it works in the real world. This guy even though he looks human is an alien and therefore even though hes essentially a super strong human who wants to kill the other humans. Just like its an evolutionary advantage to say our lives arent pointless and distract ourselves its an evolutionary advantage to believe we are center of the universe. If we think we are second rate to omni man or aliens that are genuinely enlightened or whatever we become depressed and its basically basically the same thing. Invincible is a stupid story its gay and edgy and gory but at the same time it has a point so i guess thats all that matters.
And just like that it all comes full circl becausese rp s are like people. They are short and usually end prematurelay. We trick ourselves into thinking that they are meaningful but when we look at it they are utterly meaningless noise. It is a trick, an illusion, a hologram. Just like some person living on the other side of the world. Nobody gives a shit about him or her unless they do something really interesting and nobody cares about an RP unles it provides for the capitalist engine; just like people have no value to society outside of what money they can make or a company. Rps are also doused in blood nad violence saturating every poor. Maybe its because we humans are too stupid and small minded to see beyond it maybe its because both in character and out of character we are just coping. Everyone is just coping all the time. You even ad mit it but still do it. Its like flexing how good myric writes 400 page nation sheet oh look how hard I can cope. We want to escape but we only find out the escape is just as shallow and empty as the real world. People will gladly do self destructive things in an RP just like they will anywhere else in life. They will derail the entire story through their own short sigtedness and moronicness.