It’s been scientifically proven that sitting atop a hill or mountain makes you at least 26% more spiritual
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Out-of-Placers
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Younglets are adorable <3
Also ohohoho narklet's in for a world of trouble
Freakin’ Akismet ate my comment again, and I know I clicked the captcha and everything.
Short version, He’s enjoying humane pleasures like humans do, and thinking like a zealot. I wish he were a good person, but I don’t trust him to be one, because his premise is fundamentally flawed.
the worst kind of evil is one that does not realise it is evil -Weather Report, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
Rich Burlew would agree with you, if the character of Miko Miyazaki is any indication.
Even if you happen to hear the spirits you’d do well to seriously ponder why you should heed their advice in the first place.
oooh some development for the mysterious Narklet! OoO
poor Brakka. XD
Maybe the fireball in the sky killed him. xD
This comic would be head paper if it were drawn on paper. It ain’t funny! ’tis garbage! So edgy! It includes a potential rape scene. Ye’re such an edge cap’n! Anybody who likes this comic be an imbecile! Wit’ this belief that poppet yinglets only good fer breedin’ ye ‘ave no business procreatin’. Pathetic filth. I hate furries.
who hurt you
Ain’t furry my friend, tis speculative xenofiction, my favorite sub genre of sci-fi 😂
Ehat you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
Guys… don’t feed the troll.
He may just be suffering from cuteness withdrawal from not seeing enough yinglets.
I cringed quite a bit trying to read through what looks like a diatribe of nonsense typed out by a stroke victim…
I imagine this person has the thinnest, most pube looking neck beard.
Did you see how it tried to enter the message with an accent of some sort? Perhaps pirate? I can see this creature reading its message back to itself while pleasuring itself, and getting off on it. Only a poseur would care to leave a comment to a comic writing with an accent. It really doesn’t make you look more intelligent. I wouldn’t presume to think it even capable of growing a neck beard.
My grammar nazi just shot himself when I read that comment
That picture of Tommy Lee Jones looking away from a newspaper, and over his glasses dot jay-peg.
Cool story bro
What you have just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.
Fack! Meant to be a reply to another comment. Disregard.
I don’t know it could probably apply to Narklet’s little bit of “spirtualism” there as well.
No I honestly can see his point. It would seem hollow to copy humans instead of developing their own culture.
It’s an interesting issue. Do we keep the isolation between species so they can develop their own culture, or do we integrate so the other species doesn’t have to go through centuries of worrying about survival, malnutrition, poor health and infighting over resources?
Anyone ask the yinglets what they want? Well, I guess they have! And there are two answers. What right do the Elders have to say what the northern enclave should and should not do?
I want intending on finishing this with a comparison to religion, but it is pretty much on point.
Not so much “religious” as “conservative.”
Conservative = Rooted in tradition, custom, this-is-the-way-we’ve-always-done-it-and-it-worked-fine-for-us-so-why-change, that sort of thing. Values solidity.
Progressive = More willing to mix things up/try new things in order to improve.
I find it unusual that a species as r-type as Yinglets, a species whose physiology and culture is so strongly caught up in maximizing genetic diversity, would bring about an individual with such a conservative mindset, let alone one that rose to the rank of Patriarch.
Unusual, not impossible. IDIC, and all that.
Maybe to copy, but is it so bad for two civilizations to grow beside eachother?
If you were prompted with the possibility to advance humans to untold maturity and technology, would you simply deny it, or would you help humans adapt their own civilization around it?
Think of how humans have made progress over the years, it was mostly by relying on our past, questioning our ancestors as much as relying on them, we proved some wrong, and improved the things that were made prior. We as individuals haven’t made them, is it hollow to use something that you didn’t make?
Is it hollow to use battle tested war tactics to save your people simply because you hadn’t thought them up?
Many things in our society is also based a bit on animal behavior that we learned from other creatures by examining them. It is quite remarkable what you can do by observing and emulating the actions of other species, even more so in a fantasy world where there is a civilization that you can properly learn from, if you put the time and effort without.
(This is an interesting conversation, not an arguement, thank you.)
Things would be so much easier if you were a Matriarch, wouldn’t they Narklet? You’d have the power to turn the yinglets away from the current path they tread towards humans and back to where they belong.
Yes, yes, a sign! A sign that you f’d up. You underestimate your opponent and her resources, and/or overestimate your resources. More likely the latter, considering the phrasing and the spirituality.
Also, I have to wonder what he thinks about just _surviving_ long enough to grow as a species. The average yinglet lifespan is pitiful; your genes are so messed up that you need a matriarch to specifically dictate who can breed and who can’t; and you’re mostly restricted to subsistence farming (and calling it “farming” is generous). Wouldn’t a learning some farming and crafting techniques help advance _your_ agenda? It’s not like vizlet is trying to restructure your society. She’s also not trying to integrate humans and yinglets. She’s trying to get past barely surviving in the shadow of humans.
Second attempt to post, sorry if it doubles!
I wouldn’t say their genes are that messed up, just that they are structured for a high amount of mutation counteracted with high litter amounts. The role of the matriarchs is mainly to further enhance the benefits of that process while minimizing the drawbacks leading to a super fast evolutionary speed. While inferior currently, I am sure in 200 years they would be on equal footing with humans.
Piggybacking off another established system is not the action humans perform. The human thing is jumping on their back, garroting them, and then claiming their accomplishments as our own. If you doubt me, you clearly haven’t studied history. The Sea People, industrialization, patenting…
And akismet keeps eating my comment
History is written by the winners, after all…
And the winners are usually the ones with no qualms about mayhem and murder.
Is it bad that the “fireball up zere” makes me want to see the angry sun from Mario show up?
I guess pseudo spiritualism exists for Yinglets as well, or in this case self deluded spirituality. 🙂
I don’t see how its pseudo or self deluded
Until we see confirmation of actual spirits guiding this guy, I don’t see how it could be anything else.
For the same reason we dont consider real world religions that.
What do you mean, “we” don’t consider real world religions deluded? Spitballing here, but I daresay that about 90% of humanity finds at least one other real world religion to be deluded, if not outright evil. I mean, most Christians consider Muslims to be, at the least, badly mistaken, if not outright evil, and vice versa. And everybody who isn’t a Scientologist thinks Scientologists are deluded.
What you meant to say was “we don’t consider our own religion to be deluded.” Or possibly “I don’t consider real world religions deluded.” But what you wrote is simply not true in any sense.
I’ll then amend that to “until we see a significant number of other yinglets themselves believing in guiding spirits”. So far we have seen one guy sitting on a hill, and while that has impressed others enough that he’s been made a patriarch, even the other traditionalists haven’t really been practicing this worship as a religion as far as we’ve yet seen.
We haven’t seen any spirits yet, but we’ve seen at least one thing that violates conservation of mass. That’s a pretty basic thing, so I’m not ruling out ghosts entirely at this point.
Kass retained his personality and memory when she became a yinglet, so that’s a point in favor of souls existing, too. He’s pretty much intact after going from a human-sized brain to a yinglet-sized brain.
The physical size of the brain is a poor predictor of intelligence, though. Consider ravens and crows–they have near human levels of intelligence, but tiny brains. Cows have much larger brains but are stupid as dirt.
You are quite correct about the conservation of mass thing–unless Kass is much denser than she seems, something weird happened when he transformed. Though I’m leaning more towards super-science than magic, but that’s just a hunch.
While it’s true that corvids are very smart, they are NOT human levels of intelligence. Neither are cows stupid as dirt. Your overall point is fine, but cows are quite intelligent. Just because they don’t have human-like motivations doesn’t make them stupid, and just because crows have a handful of behaviors that humans see as “clever” doesn’t make them particularly intelligent on the whole.
Anyway, you’re right on the overall count. It’s not brain size, it’s brain structure complexity.
I do hope narklet wasn’t planing on using the artifact on the trademaster of all people, that would be the absolute peak of stupid ideas if he was.
I’m pretty sure he was going to use it on himself. Kass looks a lot like Narklet. I think he was going to use it on himself after putting on a big show of calling on the ancestors, or whatever. Poof. He’s a female version of himself and he ousts Vizlet.
Yes, as my comment indicates, I definitely think he meant to use it on himself.
Do you think he’ll try to get Kass to work with him for the promise of a (nonexistent) way to transform back into a human?
Wuh… Yinglet spiritualism?
Sweet.
We have also seen signs of Yinglet nihilism.
Everything… is made of bones!
I think your guiding spirits are telling you to go f*ck yourself