urgh, nothing has changed, i'm outta here
[MENTION=35566]Luminous[/MENTION]
about my "pompous condescension"... part of it is true, since sx/sp does have an obnoxious quality, trampling the other over by the Sx's socially blind (i.e. egoistic) need to transmit. That's what annoys socially aware people, since it throws off their group's flow and system of fairness. On the other hand, though, part of it is not true. It's not entirely deliberate condescension on my part, since part of this effect owes to an information that is in and of itself discomfiting for the group's status quo. It's not that I want to insult but if an anthropologist visits a tribe and tells all of them that their gods didn't exist (and the proof is Western world's mastering of magic/technology), then it will inevitably be insulting to their leaders who made up rules referring to them. You think I'm unfair but at the same time it's also frustrating to me that what has remained of Typology forums and hobby groups is just a low tier dive of pre-beginners, dilettantes of uneducated and cheeky adolescents. And working class "adults." And the idea that people being here to learn... after 4+ yrs of trying to assert/share in on these forums what I have learned by myself, I beg to differ. The reason why the African leaders have smartphones today is not because they wanted so badly to look under their hoods to learn the magic...