For those who don’t know, Yud’s currently RPing under the pen name Iarwain on a rationalist-run play-by-post site. The start of the shitshow can be found here: mad investor chaos and the woman of asmodeus.
The short version’s that a totally-not-a-self-insert from his ‘utopian’ hyper-rational world of dath ilan (outlined here, also corroborates the author’s identity) is dropped into Golarion, the setting of the Pathfinder RPG. The protagonist swiftly acquires a harem of math pets from the local wizard academy, starts building a cult, and embarks on a journey filled with eugenics, jargon, bad stats/econ lectures, and worse BDSM takes.
The long version has a hundred and eighty pages in the first thread alone, and will have your eyeballs doing backflips from rolling them so hard.
Enjoy, if that’s the right word?
eugenics, why did it have to be eugenics
your username checks out, at least
Got baited into reading this after it was linked on the Paizo forums in response to a question about alignment and was ambushed by it being a ratfic.
I got about two pages in before realizing I was just reading HPMOR again and I didn’t enjoy it much the first time.
Is there a reason why “dath ilan” is an anagram of thailand? If rats are planning to invade and take over thailand y’all gotta tell me
It’s good to see that saving the world is going well!
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What the ever living fuck
I got precisely this far:
…before noping out at the realisation that 1. This is chuunbiyo edgelird fantasy for cultists and 2. If i continued I would be getting uncomfortable insights into what it is like to talk like this all the time.
Edit: apparently it’s kosher
As somebody in the reports kindly points out, if Yud is doing this anonymously then putting it up here shoots right past the boundaries of privacy over a(n allegedly) tacky messageboard fantasy thing, Max-Mosley-in-alleged-Nazi-themed-orgy style
Picking up Yudkowsky’s (public) dating profile is one thing, and there’s public interest in some of the other on-the-edge stuff here, but I need to know if this is kosher so I’m removing this until I get some reassurance and/or the post is edited/replaced
As if this sub wasn’t dorky enough, I am ashamed to be able to work out what that means, nonetheless assuming that a normal person would have any idea what anything in this posts means at all is kinda hilarious…
Before I saw the sub, I thought that’s going to be a new Helltaker game.
I’m not sure I really “get” this website. It’s like a collaborative fiction thing and you allow a few posters to improvise a story line?
wait so why does his pofile picture keep shuffling though images of like Troubled Teen Bad Boy #7? Is that supposed to be who the character looks like??? The image description says riverdale, is that a riverdale character? Is riverdale a rationalist show? My impression was that it was a massive clusterfuck, which I guess would be on brand. Also uhm. https://glowfic.com/galleries/7544 that’s a Lot of pics of this dude
Of which people only know it exists because of makin’s review