#lore-discussion

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pliant ruin
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no?????

thorny shell
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why not?

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I don't think you can simply create them.

pliant ruin
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thats such a random assumption to make that he'd just learn how to Create Elementals

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can you control them?

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No.

pliant ruin
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no

north root
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why?

pliant ruin
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"why"

thorny shell
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what can you do with them?

north root
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it's freaking Exotic

pliant ruin
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thats. because you cant.

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what.

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north root
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and Resonant

pliant ruin
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you cant Do Anything With Them they're just. a type of being that exists.

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why can't you Control Lihzards guys

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why can't you Do Anything with Lihzards

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these are such odd questions im sorry 😭

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You can like, hang out with them? Or at least Silva, since she's the only one that's chill.

north root
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why? because that means you have something that will always be there. so only elementalists have this kind of thing going on?

pliant ruin
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incomprehensible

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glad reef
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Old.

pliant ruin
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witch doctor is cool dont diss him

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he gets a pass

north root
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why did SiIva even ascend

wanton pendant
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Sorry.

wanton pendant
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Go ask her.

pliant ruin
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We dunno yet

wanton pendant
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Oh, wait.

pliant ruin
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She seems pretty chill though

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She's in pieces.

pliant ruin
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According to Gorthus anyways

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At the bottom of the Marinara Trench!

north root
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i mean it feels like elementals are just more immortal than gods

thorny shell
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I guess... Drill Containment Unit... I will Drill the world and leave nothing of it...

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Yeah.

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They are.

pliant ruin
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gods can still very much die as you can uh. see

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Gods don't die of natural causes, other than murder.

pliant ruin
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elementals uhhh
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING they can i suppose.

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Elementals only die if their concept is erased.

thorny shell
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Which, is impracticle.

pliant ruin
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i wonder

thorny shell
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this is depressing

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Unless, say, you burned the entire planet to ashes...

pliant ruin
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what elemental would be the easiest to actually kill

north root
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what if you blow up the underworld i feel like that would be pretty easy

thorny shell
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I am starting to feel Yahrim...

north root
pliant ruin
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like that genuinely seems like a really hard question to me

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Earth.

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Brimstone is kinda heat incarnate, or fire, or something like that.

pliant ruin
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fire, water, air, earth, life

out of all of these id say definitely not water or air

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so it leaves us with

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fire, earth, life

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Life... you'd die.

pliant ruin
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yeah life is just

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Fire, you'd freeze.

pliant ruin
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gotta Kill Myself Real Quick

icy veldt
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Water... die.

pliant ruin
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fire and earth

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both seem tough

thorny shell
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I am done with this conversation... If I can't kill them inside the world, I will just delete the world, and thus they all will die with that world

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Earth... maybe?

thorny shell
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yet my character can visit other worlds

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pliant ruin
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Honestly id say earth probably

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initially i was gonna say fire

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but

north root
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is brimmy actually the fire elemental

pliant ruin
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considering that like

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Probably.

pliant ruin
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the crust of the earth is lava

icy veldt
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Use a really big drill

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Maybe it's more heat?

pliant ruin
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probably earth ????

north root
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i thought she was the hell elemental

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I'm not sure.

pliant ruin
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nah

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she's Fire

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No, why would Hell be an element?

pliant ruin
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the elementals are just the 4 main elements + life

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pliant ruin
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air, earth, water, fire

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Chaos.

icy veldt
glad reef
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but what is "earth"?

pliant ruin
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all the other elementals are "lesser" versions of them basically

north root
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water, fire, air and dirt

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fucking magnets, how do they work

pliant ruin
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ice elementals - lesser water elementals
granite elementals - lesser earth elementals

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deleting earth, and deleting all solid matter with it

north root
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therefore siIva is the magnet elemental, solved it

pliant ruin
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basically elementals of a type that just change based on their surrounding

real glen
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Elemental brainrot

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Well, they're like, parts of the same elemental.

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They can kinda split into pieces.

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At least, Air does.

north root
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i feel like brimmy is lava elemental at least

icy veldt
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It's very much more fire.

pliant ruin
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Brim herself is Brimstone, as her name impleis, which is the shape she's currently taking

north root
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also why is earth elemental so weak

wanton pendant
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Brimstone is just, like, sulphur, and she's fire themed, and sulphur is fire associated.

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north root
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is it because they are stupid

pliant ruin
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But she's a Fire Elemental overall

thorny shell
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question, is there an Astrum Elemental in big star corruption places outside our world?

pliant ruin
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The same way the Granite Elementals are just a subtype of Earth

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north root
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is it because we ran out of budget for elemental bosses

pliant ruin
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Earth Elemental (the miniboss guy) is not an actual elemental

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pliant ruin
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It's a construct made by Azafurians

thorny shell
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then if I star infect the entire world, every elemental will die

north root
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finally...

pliant ruin
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The Sand Elementals are just, weaker than Anahita or Brimmy due to being less "concentrated", iirc

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thorny shell
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Brimstone doesn't dilute their power, I guess.

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pliant ruin
real glen
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north root
pliant ruin
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its not that

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earth is inherently weaker than fire

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pliant ruin
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its just that the elementals we encounter ingame that represent earth are just, not as strong

thorny shell
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earth is everything solid, is it not?

north root
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rock and stone

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A miserable little pile of secrets?

pliant ruin
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ground and rock types from pokemonm

thorny shell
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aren't we made out of earth elements too?

pliant ruin
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thats earth

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north root
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they're not actual elements guys

thorny shell
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so yes

north root
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and since calamitas used brimstone magic to make cryogen

thorny shell
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if there is ice under you, is it not still the ground that you are standing on?

north root
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brimstone elemental = earth elemental

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She used Cryomancy.

pliant ruin
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She didn't use brimstone magic to make cryogen nah
Keep in mind she can't only use that one

real glen
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This conversation is like im watching pokemon element chart ManaRose

pliant ruin
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She just uses it in her fight bc

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It's her strongest magic

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She knows other magic.

north root
pliant ruin
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and shes trying to fucking kill you

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shes red because she wants to fucking kill you

north root
pliant ruin
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like this

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But her other magic isn't as powerful offensively.
(I think it'd be cool if used it as supplements to her main attacks though.)

thorny shell
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also one moments... if you delete the stone and ground and rocks... you fall into the center of the world

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GG

pliant ruin
visual kiln
pliant ruin
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Perhaps in her npc form or in cutscenes or something

visual kiln
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calcore

pliant ruin
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Would be cute imo

glad reef
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If you're too annoying she Snowgraves you.

visual kiln
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Like her clothes

north root
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okay what if i replace the planet entirely with frozen helium

pliant ruin
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Calamitas casual fit is something id love to see tbh

visual kiln
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Yea

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Ditto.

real glen
pliant ruin
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Maybe if she has high enough happiness as a npc

wanton pendant
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Who the HELL draws it up like that!

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Imagine seeing cal in like

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A hoodie or something

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And jeans

pliant ruin
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not beating them

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the allegations

thorny shell
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I say the easiest to kill is the water elementalist by far, because there are many planets that have no water, + water is just H2O, with enough energy turn it all into gases, and if you want to make sure, bind these gases to other elements to turn them into rocks

pliant ruin
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NOT beating them

wanton pendant
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This is what she should wear.

visual kiln
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What allegations

north root
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maybe after her fight she gives up brimstone magic so like she changes her fit and stuff

thorny shell
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viola, water has ended

pliant ruin
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and if you are a robot like Deargon or whatever his name

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you dont neet water

north root
pliant ruin
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not beating the allegations

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robots are inharently strong against water elementalists

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I suppose

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its just metal

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and oil

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visual kiln
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i did in fact imagine u specifically in those clothes

north root
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thorny shell
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so draegon or whatever his name need water/

wanton pendant
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Dragon or Draedon?

thorny shell
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Draedon

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i don't think an ai

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needs water?

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Draedon could use it for cooling.

thorny shell
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does he need water?

glad reef
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tru

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"could"

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but "need"?

north root
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what if Draedon wanted to destroy all of the elementals though

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And he may need it to grow Sea Prisms.

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thorny shell
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I say wind elementalist is the hardest to kill c:

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harder than life

glad reef
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It's Air.

thorny shell
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air

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that

thorny shell
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robots ai are just built diffy

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is he truly even alive?

north root
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what if i transmit my consciousness into a robot body and Then kill all the elementals

thorny shell
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the counter to almost all elementals

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He doesn't have a soul, probably. Which you would know if you read the chart.

thorny shell
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remove all water and elemental of water ended

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as for earth and air, tough

glad reef
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that would mess up a lot of his research i feel

north root
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why would he have a soul his name isn't WB-00: Draedon or anything

thorny shell
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but he is the only one who can be argued to be able to end elementals

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Warner Brothers?! Of course, that's why he's soulless!

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Xeroc is alive

north root
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isn't he?

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The Blue Providence in the corner:

glad reef
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xeroc is way too strong

north root
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is he alive or not tho

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It's Primordial Light.

thorny shell
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if you remove life, he will die, won't he?

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Do gods count?

north root
thorny shell
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you can kill gods

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can't you?

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killing is removing the life of

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north root
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if gods don't count all we need to do is yoink yharon's auric soul and then destroy the elementals

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Of course, as dangerous as the Elementals are, destroying them is a bad idea.

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I am saying Xeroc is alive, so he can't go against life. and he can't do without water since his body is that of a human (if it is not then maybe)

north root
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we're destroying them only because you keep saying we can't

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Xeroc is also a god and doesn't need food or water.

north root
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the indomitable human spirit vs. the actual lore of the mod

wanton pendant
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Their body is likely no longer remotely human anymore.

distant smelt
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the indomitable human spirit always wins

thorny shell
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what about life? and air?

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Doesn't need air.

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Immortal.

thorny shell
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but what will he turn it into?

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north root
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life probably doesn't extend to immortal things yeah

thorny shell
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air is everywhere, funny enough, even in space there are gases

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And Xeroc can get rid of the sun.

thorny shell
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If they can move the entire sun, they can probably get rid of a bit of air.

north root
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So it gets broken down.

thorny shell
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what is the scope?

north root
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the scope is just terraria world i think

thorny shell
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and yes, there is earth inside the sun

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the sun core is iron

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We don't know if Moon Lord's from a planet. They could be from a moon, or a space egg.

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north root
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it wouldn't make much sense for the elementals to have power over other planets

thorny shell
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you can check it

wanton pendant
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We're talking about Xeroc's sun.

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Not the real sun.

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the fusion reaction ends at iron

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How do you know.

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Xeroc's sun is magic.

north root
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not Xeroc's ours

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So... how is that relevant?

distant smelt
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I dont think earth includes all land in the universe

thorny shell
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So why bring it up?

thorny shell
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but how do you know that there is no air in space like in our world?

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I never claimed as such?

north root
thick slate
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theres no way xerocs star is fusing heavier than iron

leaden bridge
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this is why the cosmology being different is so weird it introduces so many little weirdnesses

wanton pendant
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Xeroc's sun is magic. And it isn't a star.

distant smelt
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Stars i.nCalamity are mana

north root
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thorny shell
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what I am saying is, you don't know if air exist in space like in our world or not

leaden bridge
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The devs, ,, aughhhhhhhhhhhh

distant smelt
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And the sun is not that.

leaden bridge
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Well we'd assume space is at least the same

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With more tentacle monsters.

leaden bridge
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mana stars work like normal stars anyways

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I mean, not really?

distant smelt
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Do they really though?

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not really

leaden bridge
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they do

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Normal stars don't fall out of the sky.

leaden bridge
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They're just smaller and do that

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there is magic gravity attraction

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Or turn into the rot.

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Or get eaten by big worms.

glad reef
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the rot consumes

leaden bridge
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but they're just condensed space clouds

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I say... if the terrarian became draedon

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?

thick slate
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xeroc is weak

thorny shell
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then could resist star infection

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No.

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and turned himself insto an astrum robot

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and star infected everything

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Draedon can't resist it due to the robot body being vulnerable.

thorny shell
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then we can kill the elementals

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BOOM

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And also Draedon's a different person.

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So we can't become him.

distant smelt
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I guess we die together with the elementals

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Infected life is still alive.

leaden bridge
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draedon should just make itself a body out of astral ore

thorny shell
leaden bridge
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It's frankly that simple

thorny shell
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the question is

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It's infected earth.

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Still made of earth.

thorny shell
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do you think there is an astrum elemntal or not?

wanton pendant
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With rotten star infiltrating it.

north root
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I doubt it.

leaden bridge
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already infected matter can't be reinfected

distant smelt
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Just use infected everything and make a robot body

thorny shell
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so if we made the whole world star infection?

thorny shell
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Everyone would have a bad time.

distant smelt
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It also infected a comet which is how it got here

thorny shell
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instead of colabsing under its own weight

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it gets star infected

distant smelt
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Did

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It infected Astrum Deus.

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Who threw a star at the planet.

north root
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is silva the life elemental or nature elemental.

leaden bridge
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Comets and stars are different things.

real glen
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ah yes sick deus

eager bluff
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Probably the dead guy.

distant smelt
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sick infant dues Q _Q

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he still a baby dues :c

north root
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so then why can't we kill her without exterminating all life

leaden bridge
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well but we don't know if it's a brain upload or complex ai

wanton pendant
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You'd have to kill all of nature.

north root
leaden bridge
north root
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it's a different thing

distant smelt
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Then
Then what about the astral meteor that lands with it 100% of the time?

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thorny shell
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life is not natural

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I agree

thick slate
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why do i have embed perms in every channel but this one

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worst channel

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leaden bridge
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Lore disc doesn't get embed perms

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Because of their sins

real glen
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I wonder how Terrarian did not infected by astral
Even aureus infected

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Grow in strength and return.

thorny shell
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ok at least let's agree.. Draedon can kill life elemental

thorny shell
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I will take this as a partial win

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at least we got rid of one!

leaden bridge
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anyways "nature isn't life" is ultra semantics on this one because like what else could "killing nature" possibly entail

thorny shell
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the indomitable human spirit never loses!

leaden bridge
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You can't kill rocks

thick slate
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yea u can

north root
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that's life, it's not nature

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north root
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how

thorny shell
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its not natural

leaden bridge
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awesome! Not relevant because to our knowledge terraria has none

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Because it's a living organism. Thus part of nature.

thorny shell
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even our life is not natural

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does air decay?

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does earth decay?

real glen
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Even I can't control this star infection - draedon, probably

north root
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Are you saying Calamitas Clone doesn't count for killing Silva?

north root
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look at a dictionary and look up nature

wanton pendant
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You know it makes no sense, right?

thick slate
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my computer is a natural organism

thorny shell
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he has no soul

distant smelt
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Do you think that the concept of nature will notice that Calamitas Clone was lab-grown and as such doesn't count her.

leaden bridge
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"nature" as a whole isn't a thing you can kill so it's pretty obvious Silva's life is tied to just Terraria's natural life since again, killing "nature" is just indeed killing life because the other natural things that aren't alive aren't alive and thus cant be killed like please you guys are smart you know what words mean and how we use them you don't have to be ultra semantics warrior about stuff so simple

wanton pendant
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Do you think that that's something that could be considered.

wanton pendant
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Exactly my point.

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Obviously she counts.

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Since she's nature.

thick slate
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robot doesnt

north root
leaden bridge
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We'd say whether or not she counts is irrelevant tbh

wanton pendant
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Yeah robot doesn't.

thorny shell
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????????

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Life is not nature...

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and robot ai is not alive

north root
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i'm so confused

leaden bridge
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you can't kill things that aren't alive this isn't complex

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leaden bridge
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Like you don't need to pull out definitions

wanton pendant
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I really shouldn't need to explain this.

north root
leaden bridge
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silva just needs no natural life to exist to die

thick slate
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i love arguing semantics with people predisposed to not agree with your arguments XD

distant smelt
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Calclones existence is unnatural but this does not mean calclone is not a part of nature

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thick slate
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so robots

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Thus, nature.

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Robots aren't truly alive.

real glen
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think it like, they have living flesh part

leaden bridge
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technically everything is natural

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Otherwise they'd resist Astral Infection.

thorny shell
thick slate
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you can synthesise a species without living flesh

north root
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thick slate
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so are the robots from detroit become human

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natural

thorny shell
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but life is nature or isn't, I want to proof something... long before life in earth... before even one cell organism emerged... was earth the planet nature? nature could exist without life?

wanton pendant
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No, according to Calamity.

north root
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And Calamitas Clone, an artificial life form, is an animal.

thick slate
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Thus, nature.

eager bluff
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its SEMANTICS why are we ARGUING IT when we already know we DONT AGREE and WON'T AGREE

distant smelt
thick slate
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its alive

thorny shell
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Can nature exist without life?

thick slate
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and it was created

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distant smelt
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leaden bridge
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It's pretty arbitrary

thick slate
thorny shell
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we are not arguing about killing that nature itself

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thorny shell
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but killing the elemental that represents it or transform it into another form

leaden bridge
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Natural is just everything that's ever existed sans everything Humans have made

distant smelt
thick slate
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Humans made other humans, which are natural.

thorny shell
leaden bridge
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Despite the fact there's no real distinction between our creations and a spider web but degrees of complexity

real glen
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Mmm are clones artificial species
Well complex question..

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thick slate
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clones are not an artificial species

thorny shell
thick slate
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its an artificial creation

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leaden bridge
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again everything is nature

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Kike everything is natural

thick slate
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of a pre existing species

distant smelt
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I agree with this specific point actually

leaden bridge
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like literally the only things that aren't natural r human creations

north root
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GUYS WAIT WAIT, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MANY THINGS AND CONFUSING THINGS

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LETS AGREE WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT FIRST

wanton pendant
leaden bridge
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But since it'd be stupid for Silva's death condition to be 'universe has to stop existing' it's pretty clear it just means "life in terraria"

thick slate
zenith geode
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what would draedon think of hallucigenia

thick slate
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you said no

wanton pendant
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That's why you're confused.

distant smelt
thick slate
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even though that goes against your criteria

wanton pendant
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No it doesn't?

thick slate
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you said alive and created

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And robots aren't counted.

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In Calamity.

thick slate
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why not

north root
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They aren't regarded as alive.

north root
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why not

thick slate
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but some robots could be

wanton pendant
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Well, not in Calamity.

distant smelt
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Not in calamity

thick slate
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at what point does soemthing stop being a robot

zenith geode
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if it has a soul, is it alive?

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Dreadon ain't.

eager bluff
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we are arguing meaningless semantics ive seen where these discussions start and how they end in the same exact way with no common consensus being reached and everybody being angry

leaden bridge
north root
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is skeletron prime alive? it;s a robot with a soul

thick slate
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if you gave draedon a soul

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is it alive

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Maybe?

thick slate
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nice

zenith geode
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is SHPC alive due to having souls?

leaden bridge
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anyways semantics argument over silva dies when all life on terraria is dead

thick slate
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megashark is alive

real glen
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Well about that lets question that to lore writers

north root
distant smelt
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Im going to have a migraine

thorny shell
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RECAP
The main agenda is: Killing the elementals in Calamity lore.

I argued that since Draedon is a robot AI and has no soul, then he is not alive, thus if we remove all life in the world, the elemental of life will die and Draedon will survive.

Now: A new argument appeared which asks: "Is Life Nature? or is it not?"

leaden bridge
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Well obviously it is

wanton pendant
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Of course.

leaden bridge
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Everything is natural except things humanity makes

thick slate
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not all life is nature

wanton pendant
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Name one thing.

leaden bridge
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clones r technically human made but we don't give a shit frankly

distant smelt
wanton pendant
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On Terraria that is alive and not nature.

thick slate
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because you can make artifical life

thorny shell
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Me and @north root argue it is not because

Can nature exist without life?
if not, then what was the nature of our world before life began to exist

wanton pendant
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And what artificial life is counted?

thick slate
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none of it

leaden bridge
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on Terraria only really like calclone is objectively made by something that counts as humankind

north root
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if something is artifical it is definitionally not nature

thick slate
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exactly

leaden bridge
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So it's pretty meaningless whether she counts or not

thick slate
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artificial and natural are opposite terms

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you cant be both

wanton pendant
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And technically, humans are natural, even if they are made by other humans.

zenith geode
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are there ligers

thorny shell
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meanwhile @wanton pendant@leaden bridge argued that it is, because everything within nature is nature, such is life, thus even artificial life is life

leaden bridge
leaden bridge
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Useful but arbitrary

zenith geode
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or donkeys

north root
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ligers

thick slate
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are GMOs natural

wanton pendant
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If I make a garden, it's artificial nature.

leaden bridge
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Again there's not much difference between a spider web and a house

wanton pendant
thick slate
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kinda?

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are you dense

thorny shell
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@north root and I argue that nature and life are seperate, because nature can do without life, but life can not

wanton pendant
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Yeah it's like, breeding. But plants.

eager bluff
thorny shell
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life is dependant on nature, but not visa verca

thick slate
leaden bridge
north root
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if we killed everything besides GMOs would silva still be alive? we don't know. i don't care anymore

wanton pendant
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I didn't do Agricultrual Science, sue me.

thick slate
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ok

thorny shell
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anyhow I agree with @north root

north root
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i hate silva now we should never add her ever

thorny shell
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that Silva will die

leaden bridge
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ultimately everything artificial is also natural because humans are part of nature and natural things are a result of nature

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#deep

eager bluff
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just fucking kill everything that could in any way be considered alive then silva dies congrats we solved the issue

wanton pendant
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Yay?

north root
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we learned today that nature has a very loose definition

wanton pendant
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No, just that you refuse to read.

leaden bridge
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Just blow up the planet

wanton pendant
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Good idea.

north root
thorny shell
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I agree that artificial life is life, and that life is part of nature

leaden bridge
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We're not sure if being alive is much consolation for silva if she's an incorporeal spirit

distant smelt
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In case anyone cares i’m dipping until this argument evolves into anything that isn’t edge cases and stupidity

thorny shell
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Can nature exist without a life?

wanton pendant
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No.

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Of course not.

thorny shell
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why can it not?

wanton pendant
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That's insane.

thorny shell
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why can't it ?

leaden bridge
eager bluff
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please stop

wanton pendant
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By the literal definition of the words.

leaden bridge
thick slate
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but life can exist without nature

thorny shell
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so the world didn't exist before humans?

leaden bridge
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THAT'S NOT ULTIMATESMUG

thorny shell
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before creatures?

wanton pendant
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Look, I'm going to sleep, you can scream into the void.

north root
thorny shell
eager bluff
leaden bridge
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THAT'S NOT HOW THAT'S CALLED

thorny shell
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so before every living organism, the world didn't exist?

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nature didn't exist?

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not the word, but what we consider as nature

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what we define as nature

leaden bridge
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Circling back to draedon and weird animals we think draedon would really like weird animals and do its best to study them

eager bluff
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this is going nowhere, it will end nowhere that we aren't already at, and the only thing to be gained is wasted time and needless anger

north root
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i think we're done

thorny shell
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I think so too 🤷‍♂️ lol

thick slate
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this is so fun

thorny shell
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Nature > Life

thorny shell
thick slate
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me > nature

thorny shell
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wait

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me ❤️ you

north root
leaden bridge
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as draedon says itself it's gonna be a while until it's done studying Terraria they probably have an individual server dedicated to each and every animal on the planet

thorny shell
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correction

tall delta
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doesnt xeroc canonically stalks 60% of your playthrough

thorny shell
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which is funny

thick slate
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does draedon know he lives inside a video game

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someone should tell him

leaden bridge
thorny shell
north root
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green slime

thorny shell
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too bad i doxxed him preimtively lol

eager bluff
leaden bridge
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Are zombies and skeletons and slimes all part of a "monster" kingdom

north root
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depends on if skeletons and zombies come from dead humans or not

leaden bridge
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elementals are technically magical constructs but they're still like a Type of being where the fuck would you put them

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There's too many differences between magical constructs to say they're like a single global thing at any level surely?

north root
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it groups by biome

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which i think could work somewhat

leaden bridge
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that's lame though

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it's also just One way of grouping when we have a bajillion

north root
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anyway skeletons are weird because i'm not sure if they're dead humans

thorny shell
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they are weak in game eitherways

thorny shell
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the ones in the dungeons

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they are prisoners

leaden bridge
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We can also divide all entities on earth by whether or not they live in tundras but that doesn't mean that's sensical if you want proper classifications

thorny shell
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that Yahrim took and threw into the dungeon

leaden bridge
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A penguin is just a penguin but like

north root
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taxonomy by rarity stars

leaden bridge
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Ice Golems aren't ice elementals and unless they're made by perma or some bullshit like that they're both just different types of magical constructs

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Like granite elemental

north root
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we group by elemental then

leaden bridge
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We're ignoring chaos we always ignore chaos nobody likes that guy

tall delta
north root
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which elemental are they in the jurisdiction of

north root
thick slate
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guyss just play silksong

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its so fun

thorny shell
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we actually were asking the wrong question

north root
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i'm too poor to play silksong so i have to argue on discord instead

thorny shell
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we should have asked, what is life?

leaden bridge
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anyways the problem with like the division of life is that like Terraria's many species r sooo diverse

leaden bridge
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We're unsure a big all encompassing Monster group would ever make sense

thorny shell
north root
thorny shell
thick slate
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also like does a zombie count as a separate

thorny shell
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I bought it for $8

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want to add me on steam

leaden bridge
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plants mushrooms animals and the others we don't care about much r all pretty strictly divided thanks to genetics now

thorny shell
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send me $8

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and I will gift it to you

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or maybe I can't gift it cuz different region?

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dont know steam wanky system

leaden bridge
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Do zombies and skeletons even have like dna they're monsters

thick slate
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what

leaden bridge
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assuming they aren't just actual revived people

thick slate
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yess?

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i assume they are revived people

thorny shell
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check this out

leaden bridge
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Well then let's move to other types of monsters

north root
leaden bridge
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Slimes r just slimes so obviously they have some basic genetic data

thorny shell
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because non-organic matter exists

leaden bridge
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magical constructs like golems or elementals or possessed armor r, well, magical

thorny shell
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and before organic matter ever existed, non-organic matter always existed

leaden bridge
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Then there's ghosts and spirits, obviously no dna there that's just paranormals

thorny shell
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that was our argument I believe

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what do you think?

north root
north root
leaden bridge
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Most other monsters we can think of rn r just basically animals

north root
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where does a vampire go

leaden bridge
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the demons and imps we guess are not necessarily? But, they prob work like that

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Vampires r basically people

thorny shell
leaden bridge
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most eclipse enemies r weird on that regard

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we'd throw them in the same group as zombies and skeletons though

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fucked up "people"

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demon serpents are legit animals that just like? Die? And their bones just keep going or some shit since 1.4 we know that when they were alive they were obsidian serpents

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so like they're just revived animal

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Fairies are fairies

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Magical being

distant smelt
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Does magic count as nature? Because as far as it’s reasonable to assume mana is totally natural

north root
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i think the best definition for nature in terraria is everything that an earth human would think is natural

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and then everything else is magic

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and besides that is artificial things

north root
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what is actual nature is subjective

leaden bridge
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anyways in conclusion slimes go with animals Somewhere and throw basically all else into a new category that's just Magical Beings

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either zombies and skeletons and the weird eclipse enemies r fucked up people so there's no distinction or they're new, different magical beings and thus go in magical beings

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Martians obviously go in animal

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Machines don't get taxonomical anything because they're machines

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We don't fucking care about the holiday moons but everything in them already fits either

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Is the truffle a mushroom or an animal

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he's a mushroom but it's a fun question to ask

distant smelt
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He’s a fungus

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Btw categorically i font think mushrooms have souls but they can attain them

cosmic zenith
leaden bridge
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truffle has a soul

leaden bridge
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You're a hater

distant smelt
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Idk about calamity mushroom sould

north root
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truffle doesn't have a soul but all other mushroom people do

leaden bridge
north root
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he just sucks

leaden bridge
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That's scary

cosmic zenith
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What determines what creatures get and don't get souls

distant smelt
north root
distant smelt
leaden bridge
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The problem really only comes with the things that don't have genetic material

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which is basically all just magical beings that don't reproduce but instead just kind of exist

distant smelt
cosmic zenith
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I don't mean like in general

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I mean a system that doesn't suffer as much from the inherent human need for "box" classification

leaden bridge
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well uh

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We're not really sure what u mean by that

cosmic zenith
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Basically

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As an example, we divide vertebrates into fishes, amphibians, reptiles, avians and mammals
But the march of evolution isn't like skipping stones, there were intermediary species that could fit in more than one category, or none, or represent evolution towards a new type of being
Like how dinosaurs represent the branching of reptiles into avians

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I wonder if Draedon would come up with a more blurred system that took into consideration such things

leaden bridge
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We mean we guess so since they're meant to be really awesome smart and logical and efficient

cosmic zenith
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Yeah, agreed

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It's fun to think about this aspect of Draedon

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I wish people thought more about it rather than wondering what his next big glopshittobuster mech will be

pliant ruin
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im gonna be so real with you

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this exists

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its called philogeny

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😭

cosmic zenith
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Phylogeny still has its issues with this

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It shows us how things connect, but doesn't really make the nomenclature less rigid

pliant ruin
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it kind of does tbh ?

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like

leaden bridge
pliant ruin
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the idea of separating reptiles from birds because birds have feathers and reptiles don't per example

vagrant star
pliant ruin
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that is a concept that is just

superficial

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It's sthe stuff that's fine for a casual talk

cosmic zenith
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You know, I did want the Sunken Sea to have these Draedon data bots at some point that researched the local fauna and flora

leaden bridge
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The trash machine is actually very important because as a parallel to the vessel

pliant ruin
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But when you actually get down to the scientific discourse about it

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yeah birds are just reptiles

cosmic zenith
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And breaking them gave you a boost in the Bestiary

pliant ruin
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in philogeny there's no "boxes" that things are separated from eachother in, it's just, branching really

cosmic zenith
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How do you classify a feathered dinosaur

pliant ruin
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reptile because philogeny isn't determined on superficial traits like that but evolutionary descendancy :p

leaden bridge
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It's an animal

pliant ruin
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if it's in the clade "aves", it's a bird

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if its not, not a bird

leaden bridge
pliant ruin
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aves being a clade within maniraptora, which is a clade within theropoda, which is within dinosaurs bla bla bla

vagrant star
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Hell yeah

cosmic zenith
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There's no real issue with present-day species because evolutionary branching is a very slow process and for the most part, it'd be hard to recognize a transitional species through a punctual imprint alone

visual kiln
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birds are dinosaurs

pliant ruin
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all tetrapods are fish also

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you're a fish

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technically also means that

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someone whos saying "arent whales fish"

is actually right.

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crazy.

cosmic zenith
leaden bridge
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what if draedon isn't a brain upload nor an ai but there's like a hamster inside and it's not found out yet

leaden bridge
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Maybe it's a bunch of underpaid third worlders from outside the heartlands

pliant ruin
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Just whatever are the defining evolutionary traits of the clade aves

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Stip respectfully this is like. universaly agreed on by scholars and is the system that's been used for like hundreds of years now and there's a uncountable amount of studies done surrounding it

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I think you're biting of more than you can chew by questioning it 😭

cosmic zenith
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But if it doesn't take all defining traits, which ones, or how many, are needed to establish something as avian?

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You should know that scientific progress is made exactly because people bothered to question the existing systems :p

pliant ruin
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Yeah but

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people who are qualified

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and. stip. completely respectfully here.

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you're not 😭

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i'm not either, being eal

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neither of us are

cosmic zenith
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Well, yeah, none of us are
And I'm not speaking with authority here, I'm sharing my opinion in regards to a speculation

pliant ruin
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because it's pretty clear to me that you don't understand the exact intrigues of how it works given, again, not trying to be mean here, but just, respectfully
i think i know more about it than you do and even i wouldn't able to do anything close to actually contesting it

cosmic zenith
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Which is why I'm asking you more questions than you are asking me

pliant ruin
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fair enough

cosmic zenith
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I'm testing the model

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Do you see how, despite the fact that it can organize things very neatly, it does take some liberties?

pliant ruin
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The only liberties it really takes come down to categorizing where a clade starts, what specific evolutionary trait defines, "this is when a new clade starts", which yes, is a inherently human aspect, but the entire concept of classifying organisms into different species is inherently human

cosmic zenith
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Naturally it wouldn't have many problems, it has been polished over centuries
And in recent decades, the pace of scientific studying has become dizzyingly fast

pliant ruin
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And i really need to specify, evolutionary trait, not a trait visible on the organism

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We may not have gills or Swim but we're still fish on a phylogenetic basis

cosmic zenith
pliant ruin
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Honestly i doubt it

visual kiln
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same

pliant ruin
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Because again, the entire idea of categorizing organisms

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is inherently something made up by humans

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there's no way of really doing it more objectively i don't think

cosmic zenith
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To be fair, it is undeniably useful

visual kiln
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it makes sense to categorize things and develop abstract models of things in place of the actual thing

pliant ruin
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Draedon could probably figure out what the fuck tullimonstrum was .

visual kiln
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because the actual things are extremely complicated and would require an insane amount of data storage to fully represent

pliant ruin
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he'd know

visual kiln
leaden bridge
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Draedon categorizes all life by unrolling its genetic material and then using a sorting algorithm

visual kiln
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its a strength of pattern recognition

leaden bridge
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How that works is an exercise for the viewer

visual kiln
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an optimization

leaden bridge
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You may ask which algorithm - whichever you think is funnier

cosmic zenith
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Because firstly, there's a lot of shared genes between species

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And secondly, there's epigenetics, which also play a significant role in phenotype

leaden bridge
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They're sorted by percentage shared

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That's bound to have pretty funny results

cosmic zenith
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That sounds really shady, yeah

frosty charm
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finally settled on a prologue i like

frosty charm
sinful adder
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That's

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Wrong

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Like completely wrong

long bloom
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no it's true i was there

crimson junco
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Humans are literally bananas

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Did you know?

thick slate
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yea

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have you ever seen me and a banana in the same room

frosty charm
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do the sky islands have a canon name

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since iirc they were a civilization

cloud ibex
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Chrysadia

frosty charm
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cool

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uhh how much of a civilization was chrysadia

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like how developed was it

long bloom
frosty charm
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coolio

long bloom
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it was founded only ~300 years after azafure

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but it got completely fucking obliterated by fovos

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in 1037

frosty charm
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cuz mc lives in those ruins (hence why they're somewhat intelligent, they picked up off the ruins)

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wayyy out of the loop byea

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tryna figure out if that makes sense or not

long bloom
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could definitely work

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the sky islands we see in game are the outer rim (chrysadia islands formed a circle) and were mostly small settlements or pilgrimage temples

sinful adder
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It was like greece

frosty charm
pulsar ocean
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Have you ever seen yharim and Freddy fazbear in the same room

thick slate
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yes

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right now

wanton pendant
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I mean, Chrysadia had like, one of the dragons on their side so they may have been quite religious. Also they did do trade with Azafure.

pulsar ocean
thick slate
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not anymore

spring helm
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Can’t believe Yharim didn’t tell Draedon about Xeroc. Absolute troll move from the Godseeker.

Yharim, it has been some time since we’ve last met. I am constructing a set of machines meant to surpass al the gods. As such, I will be using your current combat data and specs as reference, as you are more powerful than any god.

And then Yharim’s just standing there like:
“Bro doesn’t know about Xeroc clueless

real silo
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Yharim would never admit it

wanton pendant
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Yharim's a jerk.

pulsar ocean
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Why didn't xerox just use his ultra super duper omega ultron sun laser beam to smite yharim before he slimed out xerox's godly fellows

wanton pendant
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Xeroc's busy with... I don't know... god taxes?

long bloom
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xeroc tax

crystal pendant
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Grok is this true

wanton pendant
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Liver failure in 23 minutes.

brazen swallow
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my theory is that xeroc only wants to observe the world

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he knows that if he did something it could affect literally everyone

long bloom
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so draedon but with morals

fallen kindle
pulsar ocean
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does this include gorthus

frosty charm
limpid saddle
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He's the guardian of the world, but of cosmic threats, unless something on the planet grows so great & terrible it threatens it's absolute destruction, he will turn a blind eye to it

frosty charm
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Zeratos watching as Xeroc proceeds to do nothing with his godly omnipotent powers

limpid saddle
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But if it does happen, he's pulling up (like in the Embers story written by Cei, except that time y'know, too late & then took the L)

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I am making so many typos today holy shit

wanton pendant
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Why didn't Xeroc kill Moon Lord? Is he stupid? Or.... is Moon's Haunted Theory correct!

pulsar ocean
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Is the sun a lot closer to the planet in calamity verse or xeroc can teleport to around 150 million kilometers away from earth instantly

wanton pendant
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It's probably closer I think.

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And smaller.

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Sun orbits the planet.

pulsar ocean
wanton pendant
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Yes, and that's not what that means.

pulsar ocean
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Why doesn't draedon make a miracle nuclear bomb and throw it at the sun

pulsar ocean
wanton pendant
strong notch
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Exo sun

cloud ibex
wanton pendant
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And the sun isn't Xeroc, probably.

visual kiln
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sun 2

wanton pendant
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Why doesn't Yharim just kill Xeroc? Is he stupid?

magic epoch
strong notch
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too old to run after Xeroc

wanton pendant
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Xeroc is older.

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Thus, Yharim should have better knees.

strong notch
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Xeroc has no knees so those don't ache

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Xeroc has clear advantage

wanton pendant
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If Xeroc had no knees, they couldn't run away.

strange stump
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oh my god

visual kiln
strong notch
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Knees are for the weak

wanton pendant
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Yharim Teleport Power:

strange stump
mighty zenith
strange stump
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hi garbo!

mighty zenith
wanton pendant
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New development: Plague Bringer Goliath can use Primordial Light, for some reason.

wanton pendant
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Is that Goku?

mighty zenith
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no he's cooler

mighty zenith
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damn...

strange stump
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but he is cooler

mighty zenith
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(hi space

strange stump
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while freeza is freezer

strong notch
mighty zenith
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freezer was cooler and cooler was freezer

visual kiln
wanton pendant
visual kiln
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16 times the detail

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16 times the map size

strange stump
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damn...

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we're gonna burn alive

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they have to reduce that

mighty zenith
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lower the graphics settings smh

strange stump
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cant

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@warm gull hi :D

icy veldt
strong notch
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More important question:

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Would he kill the bee because it's Xeroc or not because it's a bee?

wanton pendant
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Hatred for gods goes beyond bee appreciation.

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Goddess of Bees found that out the hard way.

warm gull
wanton pendant
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British.