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[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

I can't find the exact quote because google has decayed into hot garbage juice, but there's a line in Gideon the Ninth where Harrow asks Gideon how she thinks necromancy works exactly, and Gideon says something like, "I don't know, maybe you think about bones really hard until something happens?"

That's how LW people think actual intelligence works.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 14 points 3 days ago (6 children)

A good necromancer doesnt even need bones, he can create diamondoid undead just by looking at a picture of a blade of grass.

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

what if a future necromancer were to resurrect and torture all people who did not contribute to their eventual creation. I'm going to advocate for teaching necromancy in schools

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

Necromancers are just genetically better, they quickly keep up in conversations and they seem to sparkle(*), I suggest we make them the elites.

*: please ignore my detractors who keep pointing out this could also be because they snort bone dust. They are just a snarlbunch, and we have noticed the skulls already.

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