Metatextual postmodern asshole incoming.

[sociospatial]

Now this is interesting.

You realize I'll know it's fictional. Coincidences, timed events, plot arcs - these things have noticeable characteristics, from the inside. Ordinarily, I would simply think that events are being manipulated by an unseen hand. It's what I do, after all. But after a while... no one can rule the whole world. No one can make all the puzzle pieces fit together. That's why reality, in all its messy chaos, is so beautiful. You can't have signal without noise.

But this place, this one... if you extract every single signal and add them together, what you get is noise again. Chaos. Randomness, even if it's a randomness of a particular color. I've never seen such a fascinating bunch of nonsensical rambling.

Let's talk about doctrinal creation. Superheroes, as you well know, necessitate an entirely new body of law. Civil and criminal. I have plenty of reason to create exceptions for our noble vigilantes who insist on hiding their identity. Imagine if that were legalized. A Registration Act - it's rational, yes, but the process of a two-dimensional mind. Anyone can see that would lead to a civil war. No, I would think... something else. Control the heroes by controlling the image. No - by controlling the villains.

Yes. That's perfect.

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[sociospatial]

Humanity's the best part. Nothing really unexpected happened in the universe until sentient life.

[sempiternally]

Oh.

Yeah human's really are the best thing that came from the universe.
[He's being sarcastic, despite the fact that he would kind of care a lot if something did happen to his species. He likes people, just not all people.]

[sociospatial]

We are the universe's way of understanding itself.

We are the meaning of life.

I think that's a little miraculous, don't you? Meaning is ... us.

[sempiternally]

[We are the universe's way of what?]
Man this conversation just went too philosophical for my unsobered brain.

[sociospatial]

Should teach you not to make assumptions about villains.

Villainy - the kind of villainy you're talking about, the kind that uses evil as means to an end - is yesterday's war. Information flow has caused a situation that exacerbates small, unpredictable trends, and gives a voice to anti-whatever. These days, your means have to be your end. Evil for evil's sake. Good for good's sake.

I'm not your mustache-stroking wannabe dictator. I'm happy right where I am.

[sempiternally]

Actually, I was talking about a New World Order that both fictional and non-fictional villains seem to be fond of. Pretty sure that doesn't qualify as evil being a means to an end. It's more like domination, control, what I thought you got off on.

I didn't think you were like planning on blowing up the Earth or something.

[sociospatial]

...to be fair, I get off on a lot of things.

[sempiternally]

I bet you do.