Spiders Everywhere

there's a post on here that pissed me off so i didnt fully read it so there may be something im missing, but i just gotta say: in real fucking life, killing a large predator has an impact on the ecosystem. the larger the predator, the larger the impact. tyria mirrors this and it applies to the elder dragons, which is what glint was on about in the first place regarding her scions. you cannot kill that massive of a predator, especially a predator in its native zone, without severe, worldshaking ecological impact. you have to have a plan to mitigate said impact if you do. if balthazar and braham during lws3 successfully killed the twin dragons, there would not have been an aurene to mitigate the ecological impact as glint had planned. this is not a nuanced, in depth reading this is the 1 + 1 = 2 of the elder dragon lore. if braham and balthazar recklessly (for their own reasons, well intentioned or not) killed the twin dragons fresh off the heels of the deaths of two previous elder dragons, who's fallouts we barely understood but knew were coming, the ecological impact that followed afterwards would've been devastating. I daresay it would make what kralk did to ascalon and elona look cute. is this thing on.

(USAmerican trying to imagine a societal environment) Okay, so picture a highway,

inability to correctly perceive 3d objects is in fact far more dangerous when someone is driving a car next to you then when they're like, sending emails to you.

the whole “i used to be a teen who hated authority only to grow up to become the authority that hates teens” is a bad bad thing that practically every other generation has fallen into and we all need to make an extremely conscious effort not to repeat the fucking pattern

Studies have shown that the shift starts to happen around age 30. If you’re close to that, make a conscious effort to be open to and accepting of younger people. I’m 31 and paying close attention to how I react to young people and new trends and shit and trying to keep myself from developing those thought patterns.

noted

It is imperative you befriend people other than those of your own generation. It’s harder to lump people together if you know some of them. This is why you should also pursue friendships beyond your race, ability, religion (or lack thereof), and class. Humanity relies on relating to each other.

This is one of the areas where the internet can either really help, or really hurt. It’s easy to get trapped in echo chambers on the internet, but it’s also easy to find new people if you go to the effort.