Comments on: Mana /mana/ More patient than death. Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 By: Ziz /mana/#comment-150 Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:16:49 +0000 /?p=103#comment-150 This concept has been criticized as a “black box”.

It is. But describing the terminal behavior of that box, its interactions with things outside did help me narrow down what’s inside. And my account of that is in undead types.

There’s possibly some archetypal information-transfer in the concept of mana from the way vampires view “blood” a consumable resource (or the maximum amount of it that you can have) in some games, about who could in the end (and as the first things established in logical time among game theoretic “rational” CDT actors) control whom by sadistic domination (the taking of blood).

Note this concept comes from Brent Dill, which makes vampire enlightenment attached no surprise. Still worth understanding though in my opinion.

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By: Ziz /mana/#comment-149 Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:06:28 +0000 /?p=103#comment-149 I currently think the concept of a “cover story” described here is a very bad idea in all instances I’ve seen.

If people ask me what I do, I often just say it’s a fucking secret. I think if you can’t accept the social consequences of saying even this, you should go home and rethink your life instead of “trying to save the world”.

And grr I hate that a bunch of fake EAs attacked Leverage for being secretive and not wanting to be “accountable” to their bullshit.

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By: SquirrelInHell /mana/#comment-60 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 18:33:26 +0000 /?p=103#comment-60 Haha, strong convergence strikes again. When I formulated this concept for my private purposes, I also called it “mana” 🙂 Mind control confirmed. Also there are physical reactions, e.g. nausea and shivers in people you push hard. Note that I currently consider much of this banned on ethical grounds.

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By: Ziz /mana/#comment-59 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 07:17:03 +0000 /?p=103#comment-59 People having low mana can show some politicking to be sadly inevitable in a “FOR THOSE TWO DIFFERENT SPIRITS CANNOT EXIST IN THE SAME WORLD” kind of way, when combined with adjusting positions to be defensible Schelling walls.

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