In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien drew upon the language and themes found in the old Medieval hero-tales in order to construct a kind of new mythology. The brilliance of Tolkien was in his departure from the Pagan modes of conduct and morality of these old tales, his creation of a syncretistic fusion between Christian thought and Pagan language, and so his work achieved a deep resonance with all who read it.
We find this passage at the conclusion of The Return of the King:
The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare.
Adversaries in the stories that Tolkien drew upon, Grendel, Mordred and the like, often served as obstacles that the heroes could overcome through feats of strength and cunning. Sauron is not like them. When Sauron is defeated, it is not because Aragorn is stronger than him or because Gandalf is wiser. They are not. It is only that his hubris was so great that it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the thing he held so dear. It is not until the final few seconds of his existence that he realises his mistake.
I think that I Am Jazz displays a similar moment. In the pictured scene, Jazz's journey to what he believes is womanhood is almost complete. He is resting after surgery, a triumphant smile on his face, his rotting groin held together by a labyrinthine patchwork of stitches and grafts. But as Eru Ilúvatar nudged Gollum over the Crack of Doom into the fires beneath, so too does the God of our world intervene in this.
Pop!
In a second, the follies of men are undone and Jazz's crotch explodes, a meaty froth of blood and pus pouring out of the hole where his penis used to be.
This specifically affects 'Ironmen' characters, those who choose to restrict themselves by not trading with other people. They're notoriously toxic when it comes to updates that make the game even trivially easier.
Runescape has a gamemode called ironman mode, where you can't trade other players. It makes the game harder.
Some NEET EHP nerds (EHP = efficient hours played) try to rush 99 crafting on this gamemode, a grind that takes over 100 hours to do, simply because with 99 crafting you unlock a convenient teleport to a bank. The fastest way of doing this used to be farming seaweed (arguably fun) and collecting sand (boring but afk) but now Jagex added a method where you can turn sandstone into sand, which is a faster way of obtaining sand except that it's not afk and it costs a tiny amount of gp. Some people aren't happy about this.
I play ironman too but I'm not a no-lifing retard so I just kill bosses and dragons and use their drops for training crafting instead of literally collecting virtual sand for 50 hours.
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1 SnapshillBot 2019-03-16
In The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien drew upon the language and themes found in the old Medieval hero-tales in order to construct a kind of new mythology. The brilliance of Tolkien was in his departure from the Pagan modes of conduct and morality of these old tales, his creation of a syncretistic fusion between Christian thought and Pagan language, and so his work achieved a deep resonance with all who read it.
We find this passage at the conclusion of The Return of the King:
Adversaries in the stories that Tolkien drew upon, Grendel, Mordred and the like, often served as obstacles that the heroes could overcome through feats of strength and cunning. Sauron is not like them. When Sauron is defeated, it is not because Aragorn is stronger than him or because Gandalf is wiser. They are not. It is only that his hubris was so great that it never occured to him that anyone would want to destroy the thing he held so dear. It is not until the final few seconds of his existence that he realises his mistake.
I think that I Am Jazz displays a similar moment. In the pictured scene, Jazz's journey to what he believes is womanhood is almost complete. He is resting after surgery, a triumphant smile on his face, his rotting groin held together by a labyrinthine patchwork of stitches and grafts. But as Eru Ilúvatar nudged Gollum over the Crack of Doom into the fires beneath, so too does the God of our world intervene in this.
In a second, the follies of men are undone and Jazz's crotch explodes, a meaty froth of blood and pus pouring out of the hole where his penis used to be.
In that moment of blind panic and terror, Jazz is Sauron. All triumph and victory is gone. Only the Void remains.
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1 Laetans 2019-03-16
Its over for sand (((merchant)))cels
1 Verdreht 2019-03-16
This specifically affects 'Ironmen' characters, those who choose to restrict themselves by not trading with other people. They're notoriously toxic when it comes to updates that make the game even trivially easier.
1 queerjihad 2019-03-16
Runescape has a gamemode called ironman mode, where you can't trade other players. It makes the game harder.
Some NEET EHP nerds (EHP = efficient hours played) try to rush 99 crafting on this gamemode, a grind that takes over 100 hours to do, simply because with 99 crafting you unlock a convenient teleport to a bank. The fastest way of doing this used to be farming seaweed (arguably fun) and collecting sand (boring but afk) but now Jagex added a method where you can turn sandstone into sand, which is a faster way of obtaining sand except that it's not afk and it costs a tiny amount of gp. Some people aren't happy about this.
I play ironman too but I'm not a no-lifing retard so I just kill bosses and dragons and use their drops for training crafting instead of literally collecting virtual sand for 50 hours.
1 TruthPains 2019-03-16
uh... k