[IC] Myriad Reality

[Techspert]

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They aren’t playing the game.

@Intrepid

They're all in their own game.

[Intrepid]

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They're all in their own game.

@Techspert

But it isn’t the game.

[Techspert]

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But it isn’t the game.

@Intrepid

That game is about as relevant to us as theirs is to them.

[Intrepid]

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That game is about as relevant to us as theirs is to them.

@Techspert

But how relevant is each game to the opposite party?

[Techspert]

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But how relevant is each game to the opposite party?

@Intrepid

Irrelevant to both, for the most part.

[Intrepid]

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Irrelevant to both, for the most part.

@Techspert

And that’s the part that simply is not true.

[Techspert]

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And that’s the part that simply is not true.

@Intrepid

It's super true. I think we're farther away from the base than you may guess.

[Intrepid]

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It's super true. I think we're farther away from the base than you may guess.

@Techspert

It’s not where we’re from that matters. It’s what we do. I think that may be why you don’t play the game as efficiently as you could. At any given point, either one of us could change these people’s lives forever, for better or for worse. They are incapable of doing the same to us.

[Techspert]

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It’s not where we’re from that matters. It’s what we do. I think that may be why you don’t play the game as efficiently as you could. At any given point, either one of us could change these people’s lives forever, for better or for worse. They are incapable of doing the same to us.

@Intrepid

You never know. It takes one moment of stupid and then it's over; besides, just being stronger than the next guy doesn't mean you're better than him. And that applies whether the best you can do is knock him out or if you can literally start the apocalypse.

[Intrepid]

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You never know. It takes one moment of stupid and then it's over; besides, just being stronger than the next guy doesn't mean you're better than him. And that applies whether the best you can do is knock him out or if you can literally start the apocalypse.

@Techspert

I’m not even implying violence, here. Or strength. Raw power means nothing to me. It’s our influence. You and I have incalculably larger influence over Existence as a whole than anyone else in this room. And I say this knowing that you are incalculably stronger than I am.

[Techspert]

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I’m not even implying violence, here. Or strength. Raw power means nothing to me. It’s our influence. You and I have incalculably larger influence over Existence as a whole than anyone else in this room. And I say this knowing that you are incalculably stronger than I am.

@Intrepid

Sounds like strength but in different words.

[Intrepid]

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Sounds like strength but in different words.

@Techspert

No.

[Techspert]

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No.

@Intrepid

If you zoom out far enough, most all of us end up pretty insignificant.

[Intrepid]

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If you zoom out far enough, most all of us end up pretty insignificant.

@Techspert

Of course. I’m not tauting this just to class myself above everyone else. There are always bigger fish. We’ve seen a couple examples of that in recent history.

[Techspert]

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Of course. I’m not tauting this just to class myself above everyone else. There are always bigger fish. We’ve seen a couple examples of that in recent history.

@Intrepid

That's not my point. It's that relative to how big everything is, our lives don't mean all that much more.

[Intrepid]

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That's not my point. It's that relative to how big everything is, our lives don't mean all that much more.

@Techspert

No. But there is a bottom of the barrel.
*Motions around us*
And there are steps up after that.

[Techspert]

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No. But there is a bottom of the barrel.
*Motions around us*
And there are steps up after that.

@Intrepid

*Sighs*
Do all villains see life like that?

[Intrepid]

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*Sighs*
Do all villains see life like that?

@Techspert

And that’s how we write it off, hmm. I’m simply offering you the insight.

[Techspert]

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And that’s how we write it off, hmm. I’m simply offering you the insight.

@Intrepid

You seem really resistant to being considered a bad guy sometimes.

[Intrepid]

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You seem really resistant to being considered a bad guy sometimes.

@Techspert

Only crazy people love that. Who in their right mind actually likes it?