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Dr Subterfuge posted:That's an interesting take. Something shaped like goggles might do the trick, but it isn't just the elite. The laborers and their overseer in the beginning of the book had it, too. Service guarantees citizenship!
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May 30, 2020 07:49
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And citizenship guarantees service. It's a very tidy system.
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May 30, 2020 07:54
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Are we sure that's what's happening in this place? Does Solomon Dave have that "everyone must be made useful" thing that tyrants often do? I don't think it has been shown to be that way. Also: the three standard-bearers we see in the third panel all have different medals. Another nice touch.
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May 30, 2020 15:03
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I like the box full of sulking failsons.
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May 30, 2020 17:27
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I want to think that they each bet the collective wealth of the worlds they rule on Solomon winning, under the reasoning that even a 0.00001% ROI for betting on the all-time champion is still worth it for freeing up some cash to do some minor renovations on their opulent palaces.
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May 30, 2020 17:39
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I see the salami dave has upgraded his beard into an incense dispenser. Which kind of incense would be befitting of the diamond tyrant, tho 
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Lights posted:I like the box full of sulking failsons. Well, you would be grumpy too if your dad looked young, jacked as hell and flexed in your face all the time while you are old and withered.
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May 30, 2020 17:41
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Mindblast posted:I see the salami dave has upgraded his beard into an incense dispenser. Absolute Zero ice imported from the coldest world in the universe, just to prove that nothing is impossible for him (except losing, of course).
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May 30, 2020 17:43
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Wow, look at all those
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Mindblast posted:I see the salami dave has upgraded his beard into an incense dispenser. Finely minced diamond dust.
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May 30, 2020 18:04
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Dr Subterfuge posted:I hope we eventually get a smug explanation about what the apparent ritual scarring across everyone's cheeks is about and why the sons in what passes for his government seem to be exempt. I don't know, but it sure makes it harder to spot gog-markings when you have a helmet covering above the bridge of your nose!  Not quite a match, but enough let you hide it!
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May 30, 2020 18:06
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MikeJF posted:I don't know, but it sure makes it harder to spot gog-markings when you have a helmet covering above the bridge of your nose! I would laugh so hard if Dave's gleaming empire was horribly rotten because he pissed off Gog and all this pagentry was full of worms. I mean, what does Gog offer if not "emotional" contentment. Something perhaps lacking in ways in Dave's place
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May 30, 2020 18:16
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Drunk Theory posted:I would laugh so hard if Dave's gleaming empire was horribly rotten because he pissed off Gog and all this pagentry was full of worms. I mean, what does Gog offer if not "emotional" contentment. Something perhaps lacking in ways in Dave's place The boxfull of failsons lusting after Dad's throne would make a ready home for the Demiurge of Envy.
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May 30, 2020 18:34
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Dr Subterfuge posted:I'm not the one who brought up taboos, that was an actual quote. I said it was frowned upon, and we have as a thread gotten mad at people for wanting more updates. I'd admit it was a polite post. We as a thread got mad at people complaining about their patreon donations oweing them more updates. There is a large difference. pseudorandom name posted:We discussed that endlessly back when it was new, he's the kind of man that creates a society where people die for him so he can occasionally graciously let them live. Early death or suicide represents lost future labor and will be billed to your family's soul mortgages.
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May 30, 2020 19:12
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IMJack posted:The boxfull of failsons lusting after Dad's throne would make a ready home for the Demiurge of Envy. It does seem to be the one area in Solomon's realm that's rife with discontent.
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May 30, 2020 19:47
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I think I'm seeing what I'm hoping will happen shortly, but if I were to give a title to the last page would be "Pride before the fall". I hope I'm actually right, because screw Salami, but I won't hold my breath too much.
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May 30, 2020 20:37
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White Chain dies epically, but in the next scene Solomon David noticed he's bleeding.
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May 30, 2020 21:08
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Drunk Theory posted:I would laugh so hard if Dave's gleaming empire was horribly rotten because he pissed off Gog and all this pagentry was full of worms. I mean, what does Gog offer if not "emotional" contentment. Something perhaps lacking in ways in Dave's place the celestial empire gets gogpilled
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May 30, 2020 21:17
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It looks like it feels really good to make that purple fire, like he's having a real good stretch or mooing.
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May 31, 2020 01:20
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SardonicTyrant posted:White Chain dies epically, but in the next scene Solomon David noticed he's bleeding.
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May 31, 2020 01:44
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The Halogens posted:It looks like it feels really good to make that purple fire, like he's having a real good stretch or mooing. Imagine if he's actually mooing and everybody has to pretend its dignified.
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The Halogens posted:It looks like it feels really good to make that purple fire, like he's having a real good stretch or mooing. Goddammit why did I do this My name is Solomon David. I’m tens of thousands of years old. My home is the grand palace, to the northeast of the colosseum, and I have taken thousands of women as my lovers by my divine right. I work as the ruler of one-seventh of all existence, and I get home by the twin sunset at the latest. I don’t smoke (for I have decreed it to be punished by ten thousand lashings), but I occasionally drink. After having a warm glass of milk from the divine herd I personally tend to and doing seven hours of stretches in the time it takes you to blink before going to bed, I usually have no trouble sleeping until the twin sunrise. Just like a baby who isn’t pitifully weak to rule my empire, I wake up without any fatigue or stress in the morning. I was told that there were no issues at my last check-up (by myself, of course, for only I could possibly detect any imperfections in my body). I’m trying to explain that I’m an emperor who wishes to lead a quiet life once I have found a worthy successor to my throne. I take care not to trouble myself with any enemies, like losing or my inadequate sons, that would cause me to lose sleep at night. That is how I rule my society, and I know that is what brings happiness to me, and peace and order to my people. ...Although... If I do have to fight, I don’t lose.
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May 31, 2020 05:06
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M_Gargantua posted:Early death or suicide represents lost future labor and will be billed to your family's soul mortgages.
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May 31, 2020 13:04
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That feels like more something that would happen under Mammon's rule.
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May 31, 2020 13:38
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paradoxGentleman posted:Still not clear on where people picked up that this is a thing that happens. Every suicide in SolDave's realm leads to a full scale investigation of how the state failed the individual, and ends with a lot of people getting punished.
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May 31, 2020 19:59
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Regalingualius posted:My name is Solomon David. I’m tens of thousands of years old. My home is the grand palace, to the northeast of the colosseum, and I have taken thousands of women as my lovers by my divine right.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Still not clear on where people picked up that this is a thing that happens. lots of people itt like to make assumptions about stuff and then treat them as canon like people who talked about how solomon david cannot bleed as though it were a known canon fact
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pseudorandom name posted:Every suicide in SolDave's realm leads to a full scale investigation of how the state failed the individual, and ends with a lot of people getting punished. Suicide is highly illegal, but suicide-by-cop is trivially easy and extremely accessible, so it's not really an issue.
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May 31, 2020 20:52
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No it isn't, a cop killing somebody instead of bringing them before Solomon David's justice (where they can be properly executed by appropriate bureaucratic procedure) is in itself a failure of the state and also ends with lots of people getting punished.
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May 31, 2020 23:44
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paradoxGentleman posted:Still not clear on where people picked up that this is a thing that happens. It's extrapolation from this.
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paradoxGentleman posted:Still not clear on where people picked up that this is a thing that happens. I see you have failed your empire tertiary education exam on social commentary, we regret to inform you that you have no future in imperial law and have been reassigned to eternally labor as a spreadsheet auditor. It will take 12 years to repay your existing student loans.
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Jun 1, 2020 05:40
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M_Gargantua posted:It will take 12 years to repay your existing student loans.
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PMush Perfect posted:poo poo, really? Sign me up!
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jng2058 posted:It's extrapolation from this. I appreciate you digging up this particular ask to help me understand what people are talking about better. It must not have been easy, Tumblr being what it is. also, what the hell, Solomon, your officers can't even gently caress? Jesus.
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They can gently caress when they're off-duty. He wasnt.
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something something unequal power relationship between officer and civilian something something meaningful consent
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There’s no evidence that Solomon David’s empire is actually directly horrible if you don’t step out of line; it’s legalistic, authoritarian, and prepared to execute anyone who breaks a law, but he’s intentionally a ‘good tyrant’ - his priorities are peace and safety, prosperity and stability, and he delivers. Unlike a lot of fictional Good Tyrants, we are never expected to see Solomon David as anything but an antagonist, or consider ‘what if he’s right?’ - tyranny is clearly understood to be bad without specifically having anything hidden or outside of the tyrant’s claims. You don’t need ‘actually everyone is crushed under debt’ or ‘actually the laws are designed to create misery’ because the draconian system will be bad in any case, will claim victims, will do violence.
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Algid posted:Financial years are based on Rabuya standard across the entire Empire, not whatever system is used on your no doubt primitive backwater. 12 years was chosen because it is the median life expectancy of mortal citizens after their compulsory education.
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Joe Slowboat posted:There’s no evidence that Solomon David’s empire is actually directly horrible if you don’t step out of line; it’s legalistic, authoritarian, and prepared to execute anyone who breaks a law, but he’s intentionally a ‘good tyrant’ - his priorities are peace and safety, prosperity and stability, and he delivers. The quote under the most recent page says otherwise.
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