My body is reggae.

Anyone watch that torchwood series where no one can die? The population would just increase even faster than it already is.

I felt like I was the only one.

There's a rule I like to follow in my life.

If you don't try, you'll never know.

Believe me when I say it. Those un-answered questions will eat away at you as you age. So, here's the deal. You can try. And you might get hurt. Things might not work out. But you tried. And you got your answer. And on the flipside?

You might be on the verge of starting something that could affect you and give you good times for the rest of your life. Take your shot.

Tricky subject. Immortal, not invincible. We're talking non aging, not rapid cellular regeneration which would  technically make you invincible right?

The thing is, there's pros and cons to both sides. If you give it out selectively, then it can, and will be abused. If it got into the hands of those with power, then, then everybody would be fucked. But we all know that some people out there, don't deserve to have the life that they live. They wouldn't respect what was given, and they'd abuse it.

So, you give it to everybody. What happens?

I want you to imagine this. Take an average, young adult in this day and age. One who's depressed. Because they're living in a system that doesn't function properly. They have nothing to make them happy because they were never taught the value of it, all the while being given nudges and boots in the back to go out and get a job and become part of the system.

They'd kill themselves. Because facing the prospect of living forever, when they can't see a future ahead of themselves, would crush them.

It would crush the laborer, the common man, in his 40's who comes home at night, sits down, has something to eat, and watches TV, day in, day out. Waiting to die and not even knowing it.

We'd be talking mass suicide.

But, on the other hand, what about the dumb people? The people that don't care? The people who pump kids out like factories who don't take care because they don't know any better?

Population explosion.

We'd be talking, middle, lower, working class collapse. People in the middle ground, reasonably intelligent  people, would die off because of how our society operates today. The dumb people would explode in population.

And the people up top? Same thing. They'd either keep the wheels of the system turning to do what they currently do. Anything and everything they want because when you have that much money the world becomes a board game.

Our society is not fit to handle being immortal. Both the people on the bottom, and the top.

If it were me?

I'd destroy it.

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When the big space expansion push happens, if it ever does, things will be messy. We'll be too busy fighting with ourselves to even worry about other life forms.

Let's just say that Earth's nation-states united under one banner (a more effective and powerful UN) and started expanding. What then?

Multiple planets mean new empires. Planets with different conditions and a few generations means Human adaptability, which means new variations of the species.

Look at the moon for example. I few generations of Humans born there, and adapted to the moon, would be radically different from their earth counterparts.

The moon, being so different, would have different values on things, such as minerals in abundance or no abundance. Water. Power.  Earth would lose control if we had multiple planets. It couldn't keep an active grip on so many variations of the species, with different needs, likely different cultures as a result of their homeworld and separation.

Here's the deal. We're going to expand. And we're going to fall apart. But not in the decimation sense. We're going to spread like seeds. Each one, a different outcome. Every world, a different value, different culture, potentially different variation of species based on gravity, starlight exposure, radiation exposure, and overall mineral content. New skin tones, birth traits, physical traits, and appearance.

There will never be central control. I would have to be allies. Allied worlds under a banner of a common interest or goal. Because Earth wouldn't have the power to back itself.

"Okay, you guys bend over for the homeworld or we cut you off."

"K. You don't get our imports and trade then."

Knowing Humanity, our expansion will be messy. Like a shotgun.

So an Insurrection is unavoidable?

Just infighting between all the different values, customs, and variations. I wouldn't actually consider it a potential mass war.

The scale will be different, yet still the same.

Planets will become like countries. Their governments, people, and agendas will either line up with others in mutual cooperation because of something to gain, or they'll clash because of divided interests and differences.

Toss in other potential life forms in the equation, and shit'll get real interesting.

Our expansion will, if it ever happens, be just the way life plays out. Unpredictable, unique, varied.

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Dark Souls was never really about being hard. It was about a challenge. Punishment for mistakes. It trained players, showed them the rules so to speak. And if they got cocky, and slipped up, the game would slap them around for it.

Dark Souls II, on one hand, tried to cater to the "Moar difficulty!" factor. And it didn't work. Because instead of giving and presenting scenarios to the player and a way to get through them, it just made things cheap.

AKA Throne Watcher and Defender boss fight. The tag team that doesn't let you hit them, and forces you to hit both of them equally, while they hit you, otherwise they revive one another. That's just cheapness.

The idea behind dark souls, wasn't so much the difficulty. It was the freedom of choice. You want go there? Sure thing pal! You want to do things this way? Right on!

Freedom of choice and a little bit of a learning curve that can still slap players upside the head who get too cocky. Most people tend to see Dark Souls as a "muh difficutly" game. But if you take a look at the dude who made it, the art direction of the first, and the little finer details, that was never really their intended selling point.

The gamer crowd just latched onto the "muh difficulty" setting and went from there.

I wouldn't say it's very challenging as it is, either. I mean, hell, people were telling me to do things THIS WAY or THAT or RUN PAST THAT BLACK KNIGHT AND GRAB THIS THING LOL HE'S SUPR TUF

And I would be like OH THE KNIGHT I JUST MADE MY BICH? LOL YOU PUSSC

Seems like people don't like confrontation in the game, from what I see

Different experiences. The result of the option of choice. Dark Souls is mildly psychological.

If you beat a boss who's been stuffing your ass for a while, you feel good about it.

And yet at the same time, players set their own limits. For example. I did a cosplay, soul level 10 run as a Balder Knight in the first Dark souls.

Haredest playthrough I ever did. Because I set those limits. The game gives you an engine and some mechanics, and says "here, do stuff."

Those players telling you to run away and avoid the black knight? Their limits. Their limits in their belief to fight the obstacle presented. Their choice.

What was your choice? Fight the knight. Maybe get your ass ripped up. But you got back up and tried.

My choice? Fight the knight dressed as a Balder Knight using the Baller Swag Sword while wearing a flashy red cape at level 10.

And in a way, that ties into the lore. Every player chooses their limits. Chooses to set them, and chooses to break them. In Dark Souls, that's what being undead is about. Your limits and whether or not you break them, or set them.

Crossbow only runs, weapon only runs, guitar hero controller runs, spell only runs, playstyle runs, speedruns, shield only runs.

It all comes down to player choice. The game gives you the mechanics and rules. And then you make it as hard as you want.

When the big space expansion push happens, if it ever does, things will be messy. We'll be too busy fighting with ourselves to even worry about other life forms.

Dark Souls was never really about being hard. It was about a challenge. Punishment for mistakes. It trained players, showed them the rules so to speak. And if they got cocky, and slipped up, the game would slap them around for it.

Dark Souls II, on one hand, tried to cater to the "Moar difficulty!" factor. And it didn't work. Because instead of giving and presenting scenarios to the player and a way to get through them, it just made things cheap.

AKA Throne Watcher and Defender boss fight. The tag team that doesn't let you hit them, and forces you to hit both of them equally, while they hit you, otherwise they revive one another. That's just cheapness.

The idea behind dark souls, wasn't so much the difficulty. It was the freedom of choice. You want go there? Sure thing pal! You want to do things this way? Right on!

Freedom of choice and a little bit of a learning curve that can still slap players upside the head who get too cocky. Most people tend to see Dark Souls as a "muh difficutly" game. But if you take a look at the dude who made it, the art direction of the first, and the little finer details, that was never really their intended selling point.

The gamer crowd just latched onto the "muh difficulty" setting and went from there.

If you liked the movie, you should read the books amigo. While you may not be a fan of sci-fi, card has a lot of ideas and concepts in the background.

I think, ultimately I'd say no. But at the same time, big part of me would want to. It'd be a reset. Things need a little more fine tuning.  I already live a life largely devoid of the internet. I've got folks I can talk to here. But most days when I work, I'm not using it.

And either I have some old fashioned stigmas or just an unwillingless to jump into it completely because I can't afford to. Can't afford to suck all my time down the drain. If things would fall apart, and the companies and other bullshit out there would fall, but everything else, people and the like, wouldn't be hurt in the chaos, I'd press it.

But, everybody's so attached. There'd be deaths for sure. I don't ever aim to cause harm to people. Especially death. So as much as I'd love to say a big grand fuck you to the markets and companies out there, and watch those politicians shit their pants, I realize that it would only do one thing, like it always does.

Hurt the common man more than the assholes up top.

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Mein finger is on the trigger Challenger.

We're going to move this gear up.

u wot

THE GEAR CHALLENGER.

IT'S MOVING UP TO THE SEPTAGON.

It's probably thread merging.

There's a glitch where two threads combine.

I actuallly kind of like it that way.

Clone wars era-Yoda and the Jedi were, how to say it, scientific. Rigid. Too rigid maybe. And looking at the movies in this sense means that Yoda, is a progression in character.

When we see him in the older movies, he's worn down. He's old, and thinking about his life, and where it lead. The consequences of his actions. And maybe he feels that the rigid structure the Jedi once had, was what landed them in the spot they exist in today.

Nearly extinct.

In his age, his views have softened. He's like a real person. I know old guys around me that were fighters in their youth. Tough sons of bitches is the statement. But in age, they've calmed down. Mellowed out. Take a look at life in a different way.

And so, maybe Yoda is being the representation of who he represents. Age. Wisdom. Reflection. Because in his youth, he was aggressive. And maybe, blind. And he made mistakes.

He taught Luke the way he did because Yoda had the advantage of age. And giving luke a spiritual grasp on things over a science gave him more faith. More faith than a countable, visible number.

Maybe I'm overlooking things.

But that's what I like to think.

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Don't know if this would help you at all, but life isn't justified in worth because of where it ends, what really matters is what's made of it while it is.

That's the thing for me. I don't want to be remembered or leave a mark, nor a spectacular life. I just want a quiet house in the countryside that can generate its own energy and be more or less sealed from the outside world and just live a peaceful life. Not skydiving and shit.

Move to Kansas and live as a farmer?

3far5me

That's on a whole other continent. Literally.

Why not try the quiet countrysides of your country? Because they exist over there too. Much nicer than what I have up here too.

Eh. I already live rural. But I'm only 16 so I've still got two years to go before thinking about housing.

You know what? Why don't you say fuck it? Why not start now? Why wait? Instead of pushing it off, "Oh I'll just wait until I'm 18 then I'll look at houses," why not start early?

So that when you turn 18, you can make the jump as quick as possible.

You're limiting yourself that way. You're putting hopes that when you're 18 suddenly all these housing options will pop out of the ground for you because you're 18.

Look at it this way. When you're 18, you're still going to have to look for a home. And that takes time. Years even. And suddenly, you'll be 19. And then you'll be 20. And then 21.

But, if you start looking now despite your age, you can get an edge up your sleeve.