2026.01.26
"No, I'm not *in* a cult. I'm a service provider *for* a cult. It's different."
"How is it different?"
"I get paid."
"Come on, pull it together – she's messing with your mind!"
"Oh, I know."
"You know you're being mind controlled?"
"Well, yeah. It's kind of hard to miss!"
"I mean, you don't seem terribly bothered by it."
"Of course. If you're gonna control somebody's mind, naturally the first thing you're gonna do is make them not care that you're controlling their mind."
"I... see."
"To be honest, it's always bothered me when people in stories aren't aware they're being mind controlled. Like, the sheer number of things you'd have to command them not to think about to stop them from realising that their actions are out of character – it'd be a wonder if they could function at all!"
"So you don't care that you're being mind controlled, but you still have the capacity to be annoyed by logistically inefficient depictions of mind control?"
"This is me we're talking about."
> Maybe we don't like living in the past
"I can't help but feel you're not treating your god-granted powers with the gravity they deserve."
"I have no idea what you could possibly be talking about."
"You smote Steve for eating the last brownie."
"That's in the past."
"It was ten minutes ago."
"Ten minutes ago is the past."
"I just can't help but feel I'm not being given a fair shake, you know? It's not like I've done anything to deserve this kind of suspicion."
"I mean, you are a parasitic fungal hive mind wearing a human skin-suit."
"An *ethically sourced* human skin-suit!"
"You ever think you might be part of the problem?"
"I think if I were the sort of person who'd know whether they were part of the problem, I wouldn't be part of the problem."
[on Nintendo's Kirby's recurring antagonist King Dedede]
"I've lost fights to a child. And have you seen the kind of fights that child *wins*? Gods and monsters. Thing you can't even imagine. And then there's me. Just little old me. Yeah, I lose, eventually, but I make him sweat for every victory. Do you understand?"
"I–"
"A king may yield before a god, but he remains a king. Let me show you what that means."
understanding the "landlord special" aspect of the US economy looking ok-ish.