possibly stupid idea forming
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possibly stupid idea forming
possibly stupid idea forming
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There is a vast universe far beyond what humanity can perceive with modern science. The dark corners of reality are filled with horrible, unknowable, alien intelligences
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Earth is like a petri-dish
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That beings vaster than the mind can comprehend peer at curiously, and with contempt for our primitive lives
Echo
Also, sometimes they use us to extract penicillin.
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A wise man lives in fear that one day one of these beings will grow bored and swat us aside
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We can't really do anything about that
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but when you get into the weird corners of reality you can sometimes contact other worlds hidden in the alien geometries of space and time
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other petri-dishes, as it were
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And while the entities in these worlds are hostile to us
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they aren't necessarily more powerful
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There is an invisible war going on between Earth and some other world caught at a right angle to space-time
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Material weapons cannot harm them because material weapons cannot interact with them, as they are out of phase with reality
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But the human body is a bastion of authority. Your own body can exist in multiple planes of reality at once
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thus
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the only weapon we have to defeat Cthulhu is Kung Fu
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Guns and rockets don't interact with these hyperdimensional invaders but punches and kicks work just fine
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thus specialized martial arts are developed to battle horrible tentacle beasts
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and secret agents use them to defend the Earth
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half Enter the Dragon
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half Control
Echo
Hell yes/
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Half 
Enter the Dragon
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Half 
SLIDE INTO THE VOID | Control Song feat. Cami-Cat
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I think the enemy is just one specific kind of creature
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Just so that we can like actually develop a unified fighting style for beating them up
Saturn Is A Tea
I need this
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Okay so stripped of slightly buzzed flowery language
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Aliens from another dimension try to invade our planet, we fight them with kung fu
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The very vague concept I had for the reason behind the conflict is that while both sides are sapient in a way the other can understand, we have fundamentally different values
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Like
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The aliens don’t put any value in personal freedom
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They naturally seek hierarchy
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If everyone is just doing whatever they want it’s total chaos. Better for someone to be in charge
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And if you know someone else is making a mistake or doing something wrong you have a MORAL IMPERATIVE to stop them
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“Let them figure things out for themself” what the FUCK is wrong with you?
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So broadly speaking a struggle of law vs chaos
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The aliens find earth to be a horrifying anarchist nightmare world
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With everyone working at cross purposes and fighting and never accomplishing anything meaningful
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Whereas we see their world as a horrifying totalitarian dystopia where everyone is no better than a slave
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Both sides just feel an instinctive urge to “fix” each other in ways that make the other miserable
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At first there were lots of attempts to understand each other and seek common ground
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But over the years it’s just become more and more clear that we just fucking hate each other
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Hmm
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This feels a bit unnecessarily grim
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“Here’s an enemy that it’s impossible to maintain anything other than antagonism towards”