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A strangely specific reflection of reality, part one: (contrary to the reply to my comment I am not very clever) www.reddit.com/r/elderscrol...

All the text won't fit so click the link instead --- During the recent PSN free to play weekend, I came across Volume 3 of this while wandering around waiting to enter Cyrodiil. I'm not sure if it was specifically due to the typos that stuck out like a sore thumb, or what it was, but a couple days later I had the line bouncing around my skull and could NOT remember where it was from. I even searched for it on both bing and google and was flabbergasted that supposedly that specific sequence of words was not present anywhere online. Copilot was also unable to find it, and suggested I thought of it and didn't know. That seemed unlikely. A few minutes later I realized it was slightly different phrasing. Instead of

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A strangely specific reflection of reality, part two: Dude wrote an ~19k character analysis about the in game economy. I replied stating I didn't read what they wrote but I knew it was true because people are people & within the particular is contained the universal www.reddit.com/r/elderscrol...

ill be honest i didnt even skim this post but the real economy and the ESO one are a lot more similar than you might think when you step away from ESO and really look at it, it really is kinda a crazy (semi unintentional, maybe) social experiment. it wouldnt be the first time, WOW was used as a research platform around how diseases spread

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However, with that idiom I quote too much: within the particular is contained the universal What I usually leave unsaid is to make any sense of either - either the particular or the universal, or how they relate - one must have an understanding of each entirely independent from the other.

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Which is an esoteric way of saying having a wide variety of diverse experiences (of both places and people) is one of the least specific, easiest to obtain, and most vaguely defined ways for one to become a well rounded person Today we have a dangerous amount of inflexible and rigidly shaped people

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