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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-03-20 12:06 am
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Magic Monday

equinoxIt's just past midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. (I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The picture?  I'm taking a momentary break from chasing down photos of my lineage. Today is the spring equinox here in the northern hemisphere, one of the holy days of the Druid calendar, and this is a photo of the spring equinox sunrise as seen from an ancient stone chamber at South Royalton, Vermont -- one of many astronomically oriented megalithic sites here in New England. The photo's courtesy of New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA), which was gracious enough to send it around yesterday morning.

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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***
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[personal profile] brendhelm 2023-03-20 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Considerations, after having done a bit of research and watching a YouTube video of this scene (I don't own Undertale myself):

- This eventuality is apparently ONLY reachable if the player chooses to do the genocide run of the game and then desires to restart it. If the player plays through "normally", even if they do occasionally kill, it will never come up.

- There are, apparently, no achievements or other quasi-tangible rewards granted on any platform for doing the genocide run. The only reason you would do this would be to satisfy your own curiosity. In short, you have to be willing to do the genocide run, knowing that the only reward from doing so is your own satisfaction, and sincerely believing that hey, they're just bundles of code, it doesn't really matter.

- Playing the game requires agreeing to a third-party license agreement; however, this license agreement (readable through Steam without downloading the game) is short, has nothing whatsoever to do with souls, and explicitly mentions that the agreement is made under English/UK law and jurisdiction.

- Is it possible, through any means (including playing two separate copies of the game), to do the genocide run multiple times and reach the sell-your-soul scene multiple times? If so, wouldn't this complicate matters if indeed it is a real exchange of your soul (as you no longer actually have a soul to sell, but would still be able to make the agreement anyway)?

- If this is a real soul sale, who exactly is the "me" the soul is being given to? The...game? The developer who made it?
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