I'm sick of people romantizing life before the orbs. I'm old enough to remember what that was like, and let me tell you: it sucked. Yes, it's true that it's easy to get hooked on doompondering and neglect your duties. And yes, it's true that sometimes demons can possess you through the orb. But the orbs have advanced wizardry more than any other invention since the wizard staff. We can't stay stuck in the past.
87One day you’re pondering the orb. The next you’re strung out, fuckeating some tomatoes, and denying that your son even exists
42First off, that's not the orb's fault. Denethor's Palantir was hacked by Sauron. If a Maia wants to hack your wizardry equipment, then they're going to get in, orb or not. Any threat model that tries to defend from the fucking Dark Lord himself is completely bonkers. The only way to protect yourself from threat actors with that much power is to not make yourself interesting enough to be worth their time (see the Blue Wizards).
Second, Denethor wasn't even a wizard. If he was, he may have been able to recognize Sauron's influence and avoid pondering. But again, it's ridiculous to think you can defend yourself from those kind of threats.
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Dude, take it easy. This guy's hot elf twink boygirlfriend probably just dumped him for some musclehead orc and he just needs some time to process.
27…Elendil😭😭😭
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These days there's so many free open source spells that I just use those and stick to the core functions of my orb.
13It's your addiction to the orbs talking.
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I don't know why we're pondering orbs
And at this point I'm afraid to ask
22Live by the orb, die by the orb 🤷
15Hopefully don't die from orb pondering.
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Me neither, and I've been pondering it so long that now I am.
6It's supposed to be it's own occult mathematical logic system that was mostly lost to time.
You could use it to build up more complex and abstract shapes inside a simpler one, which meant a lot of things to "wizards" with Orbs at the time.
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So did Lemmy just catch on to the orb pondering meme, or some other reason it's back?
20People went away and pondered for a while, then thought it would be good to bring it back
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I heard this in David Attenborough's voice
9...wish we could go back
9"riddles in the dark..."
7orbs are for the weak
6mods ban this ORBLESS mf
6Do I see a man in a bright blue jacket with yellow boots‽
It must be Tom Bombadil!
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