>>5701264>Wonder if they'll not be able to act until broken freeit's gonna go this way: as long as they are under peace magic i'll write posts for them with no input from their players. all information regarding their thoughts and actions will still be in full display
>I need to up the mind stat to 7Helen is the only guca around that can still grow without choking on grief seeds. the other five are technically capped already, their natural growth had ended already, so I'd be thinking what I want Helen to be able to do very carefully
>>5701295>It doesn't work that wayi’ll stand by my theory that the core reason for any sort of happiness is relief from uncertainty, but i do think that you deserve an elaborated explanation as to why i believe that, since it is being applied to the story. the way /i/ see it, the mind is a machine whose sole purpose is that of prediction. beliefs, moral values and science included, are theories which our brain uses in order to determine the optimal course of action to produce evidence with which to reduce uncertainty. the brain’s reaction to uncertainty is stress, and the relief of said stress, the main function of the mind, triggers happiness according to the degree of stress to which it was subjected prior
i’ll give you a silly example, but let me tell you in advance that it’s silly not because i think you need it that way, but because i need it this way and this is how i understand the world. as stated before, i am not that smart
So your momma tells you all the time that you are pretty and that all the girls will be all over you. In order to cover for your insecurities, despite the lack of evidence and the fact that it’s your own mother telling you, you decide to believe her. Thus, you don’t work on yourself, you don’t hit the gym, etc, on the premise that the belief will be useful when attempting to predict reality (if i go and ask that girl out, she’ll say yes because mom said im pretty). As reality tests the belief you’ve invested into by deciding to believe in it, you will feel stress when facts point out that you may not be as handsome as initially pictured. Once the lack of solid evidence is found out, in order to not accept that you’ve wasted your youth on vidya and pot, which result on severe uncertainty as the way in which you picture the world itself will be put into question, you /will/ seek solid evidence to support your belief. In this hypothetical scenario, you end up fucking a big titty goth gf. The relief you will feel out of this event will be equivalent to the amount of stress accumulated over time, high enough to send you to the moon and thus not worrying about anything for a long time
peace magic produces the same outcome. the brain assumes that the lack of contradicting beliefs implies that said beliefs have been refutated through solid evidence, and thus forces the happy juices to be produced in celebration because, although illogical, it has always been like that
