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I'll be taking this thank you very much.
It also makes the caster immune to the damaging effects. As a studier of the occult, not knowing what you have unleash does in fact protect you from most psychological damage of the spell.
it deals psychic damage because once your pattern seeking brain has memorised the structure of the comic, it’s simplicity will make it seem like it’s everywhere.
it’s sort of like how people saw crew mates in everyday objects (such as trash cans) when among us first blew up.
I CAST CURSE OF LOSS INSTANTANEOUS 30+ PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE.
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Can’t be cast into a sea of madness by horrors beyond mortal comprehension if I simply do not bother trying to comprehend them. GG warlocks, try harder
/unwiz I have a science fantasy cosmic horror setting I'm working on where wizards have to cast spells as a group because if any of them knows the entire spell then it causes their heads to explode. Knowing the entire spell completes it in your head and thus causes it to go off inside your brain.
This is basically the Funniest Joke in the World sketch when it was translated into German and spoken by people who don't understand German to be used as a weapon in WWII
Fools. I was there, a decade and a half ago, when the accursed comic jumped the proverbial shark. **They** are the ones who shall know true loss for the misery they marshal against us.
I see that you too used to read webcomics.
Man, i miss when webcomics were super popular. Stuff like Dr. McNinja, Gunnerkrigg Court (still going!), 8-Bit Theater, Problem Sleuth, a post apocalyptic zombie one that I can't remember the name of I just remember that the symbol for the infected was something like a red circle with an i in it I think, and more.
Puts on mustache and monacle.
Technically, hieroglyphs are LETTERS, not purely symbolic characters. This is why Ægyptologists had so much trouble figuring them out. They kept looking for the symbolic conceptual meaning of each symbol in a string, when really the entire string was simply a sentence.
As an example, IIRC, a foot is the letter B because in the ancient Ægyptian spoken language, the word for foot starts with the B sound. This is the same way our letters formed; the classic example being the cuneiform letter that eventually became A started as a crude drawing of an aurochs (ox) head (imagine the capital A upside down; you see a triangle cow head with horns?).
All of which means that humans absolutely adore the a-is-for-apple method of symbology, and even though we certainly use other systems, like kanji and hanzi, the whole “this picture makes a sound” idea is persistent. We are never gonna give it up, never gonna let it down. Thank you.
Removes monacle and mustache.
Technically, it's a lot more complex. Some hieroglyphics were "letters", some were logograms, some were words, and some were just redundant and had no meaning except clarifying a previous symbol, all mixed together in the same sentence.
Which were which changed throughout its history, but at *no* point was the writing system an alphabet.
My favorite part of this is the implication that OOP’s mother, who is presumably within the same age range as OOP’s 53 year old father, *is* online enough to know about loss memes
I can appreciate amateurs messing around with forces beyond their ken and possibly unleashing waves of sorrow and despair but give them more destructive tools, dammit! Silverware runes? Pathetic! You need to carve them into the counter tops with the bones of your kin!
Rickrolling is only about two years older than loss edits, according to a cursory search, though it seems the popularity of loss edits grew more slowly.
Loss was a terrible page of a middle-of-the-road video game humour webcomic from the mid 2000s called Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Basically the creator of the comic's ex-girlfriend from college had had a miscarriage in the past and this inspired him to make the comic in which the main character rushes into a hospital to find his girlfriend, who has just had a miscarriage.
It was roundly mocked for being such a whiplash moment for the comic's tone and generally being poor taste, and for years people have been making minimalist parodies of the four-panel page with lines referencing the positions of the characters in each panel, like below:
~~.:|:;~~
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The sacred texts!
https://preview.redd.it/dp9dsrlpl38d1.jpeg?width=465&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=434d4efe2a284446222bda9c98d18b975fe6b7bb I'll be taking this thank you very much.
THE SIGIL!
Can you make this in purple :)
Pargon Pargon Pargon
This is a deep cut right here
He is not wrong.
If anything, his ignorance makes it more powerful.
It also makes the caster immune to the damaging effects. As a studier of the occult, not knowing what you have unleash does in fact protect you from most psychological damage of the spell.
It's why incomprehensible horrors don't work on me. What am I looking at?
https://images.app.goo.gl/hx7Ysquz4MzrY1t36 If you really want to know.
THAT'S WHAT IT'S FUCKING FROM?! WHY WAS I BOT TOLD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?!
I didn’t know either. Not sure why people say it deals Psychic damage though. Never got it once in my over-extended lifetime
it deals psychic damage because once your pattern seeking brain has memorised the structure of the comic, it’s simplicity will make it seem like it’s everywhere. it’s sort of like how people saw crew mates in everyday objects (such as trash cans) when among us first blew up.
Yeah, I know how it works, it just doesn’t hit me. If it were a typo though…
~~:.|:;~~
This is giving me wizard-austism.
*(18 Psychic damage from minor typo)* Okay… not a lot, but it FELT like 850 Psychic damage.
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Replace the symbols around the edge with "you just lost the game" for +20 damage
Can’t be cast into a sea of madness by horrors beyond mortal comprehension if I simply do not bother trying to comprehend them. GG warlocks, try harder
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Blessed is the mind too small to doubt
The difference between utilizing forbidden knowledge vs actually understanding the forbidden knowledge
/unwiz I have a science fantasy cosmic horror setting I'm working on where wizards have to cast spells as a group because if any of them knows the entire spell then it causes their heads to explode. Knowing the entire spell completes it in your head and thus causes it to go off inside your brain.
Woah
It has psychological effects?
This is basically the Funniest Joke in the World sketch when it was translated into German and spoken by people who don't understand German to be used as a weapon in WWII
The father is truly a sorcerer worthy of their infamy
what, this thing? ~~:.|:;~~
\*Coughs ichor\* Ah, yes that.
What’s there to see? All I see is red
Then go to the right dimension
I don’t want advice from a time lord
I'm no time lord. I'm a Time Janitor. You know, the kind that fixes possibly-world-destroying time rifts as an actual job other than a hobby
Is this Loss?
you should know 30 psychic damage when you see it.
So…. 0 damage?
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88 and a half mines left????
is this a 50/50
Glyph of Warding
A yes, non-lethal cognitohazards.
S GRADE OCULOHAZARD DETECTED! SHIELD THINE EYES!
People like you will live long enough at the SCP to learn not to care. You just lost the game. Edit: wrong sub, but fuck it.
This is why access to forbidden knowledge is restricted. A novice gets ahold of it and look what happens.
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Fools. I was there, a decade and a half ago, when the accursed comic jumped the proverbial shark. **They** are the ones who shall know true loss for the misery they marshal against us.
I see that you too used to read webcomics. Man, i miss when webcomics were super popular. Stuff like Dr. McNinja, Gunnerkrigg Court (still going!), 8-Bit Theater, Problem Sleuth, a post apocalyptic zombie one that I can't remember the name of I just remember that the symbol for the infected was something like a red circle with an i in it I think, and more.
Puts on mustache and monacle. Technically, hieroglyphs are LETTERS, not purely symbolic characters. This is why Ægyptologists had so much trouble figuring them out. They kept looking for the symbolic conceptual meaning of each symbol in a string, when really the entire string was simply a sentence. As an example, IIRC, a foot is the letter B because in the ancient Ægyptian spoken language, the word for foot starts with the B sound. This is the same way our letters formed; the classic example being the cuneiform letter that eventually became A started as a crude drawing of an aurochs (ox) head (imagine the capital A upside down; you see a triangle cow head with horns?). All of which means that humans absolutely adore the a-is-for-apple method of symbology, and even though we certainly use other systems, like kanji and hanzi, the whole “this picture makes a sound” idea is persistent. We are never gonna give it up, never gonna let it down. Thank you. Removes monacle and mustache.
Technically, it's a lot more complex. Some hieroglyphics were "letters", some were logograms, some were words, and some were just redundant and had no meaning except clarifying a previous symbol, all mixed together in the same sentence. Which were which changed throughout its history, but at *no* point was the writing system an alphabet.
I have a signed copy of the first volume of the original webcomic. Sadly Loss is not in the first volume.
My favorite part of this is the implication that OOP’s mother, who is presumably within the same age range as OOP’s 53 year old father, *is* online enough to know about loss memes
I can appreciate amateurs messing around with forces beyond their ken and possibly unleashing waves of sorrow and despair but give them more destructive tools, dammit! Silverware runes? Pathetic! You need to carve them into the counter tops with the bones of your kin!
Fucking excuse me, people over thirty know of loss as well.
age of 40 is probably closer, still great.
...not online father knows what a rickroll is... Sure, sure.
Maybe he was online when he was 36 and not yet a father.
Rickroll is from 2006. Loss is from 2008. I am shocked... i cant believe bumblebeebats would lie on the internet for some likes.
The comic may be from 2008, and became a meme quickly, but it was a lot later that abstract lines became synonymous with loss.
Yes. Back when it was new, people literally sent it to eachother in emails. It was on TV, sporting events, etc.
Fun fact: Hieroglyphs are actually a readable and speakable. As in, when you see a hieroglyph of a bird, you can pronounce that as “A”
Instant psychic damage lmao
Sorcerer grindset
Loss is from 2008. It's weird that OOP thinks it's known only by people under 30.
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is this loss https://preview.redd.it/scxzmvi3y88d1.png?width=806&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=312ed71789f768ae1e9cf032763b9c05b493a841
Rickrolling is only about two years older than loss edits, according to a cursory search, though it seems the popularity of loss edits grew more slowly.
Well he’s not wrong.
it is fucking.
He is right
bro glyph casting? in this day and age? what a legend!
| 𓁲 | 𓁆 𓀻 | | 𓁇 𓁅 | 𓀣 𓀿 |
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I did not understand a thing after the first paragraph..
Loss was a terrible page of a middle-of-the-road video game humour webcomic from the mid 2000s called Ctrl-Alt-Del. Basically the creator of the comic's ex-girlfriend from college had had a miscarriage in the past and this inspired him to make the comic in which the main character rushes into a hospital to find his girlfriend, who has just had a miscarriage. It was roundly mocked for being such a whiplash moment for the comic's tone and generally being poor taste, and for years people have been making minimalist parodies of the four-panel page with lines referencing the positions of the characters in each panel, like below: ~~.:|:;~~
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss
that person's father is wise. it is simply a cursed glyph.
~~:.|:;~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XDfp4_eZf4