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Yep. The "nice" thing about how BS Cauldron is is you can put things like this down to Cauldron fuckery; that's exactly why I'm such a fan of the idea that Cauldron actively wants to bring about parahuman feudalism for their own benefit, and are simply lying when they say they believe it's...

It's written by someone who thinks he's far cleverer than he actually is; it's meant to be a deconstruction of the superhero genre and does have some fairly good concepts (hence its enormous popularity as a basis for fanfiction), but itself falls apart on examination because there's enormous...

It's more than a bit stupid, and really only makes sense in the context of Cauldron maliciously fucking society up to 1) preserve parahumans at all costs, 2) "teach" normals that they should be legally and socially inferior to parahumans, and 3) undermine the authority of the government. Like...

That's real life. Parahuman-led gangs in Worm are *far* worse than the worst RL gangs, and in Brockton Bay they are explicitly stated to be so powerful that they compromise the authority of the government. Empire 88 and Lung both "outgun" the Protectorate/PRT, which are reduced to a precarious...

In my opinion, a realistic superhero setting would be regularly demonstrating that properly trained hero capes with combined-arms military and law enforcement support effectively have an "I win" button against self-styled supervillains. That's why it's critical to not allow a PRT/Protectorate...

That's the official line from Wildbow, I'm aware. I find that take on their motives highly implausible given Cauldron's supposedly "perfect" actions via Path to Victory, and find it far more logical from their actions that they don't believe it's inevitable, but want to impose it on society for...

I'd argue that in the Worm universe, that highly irrational notion is built on top of a *absolutely massive* pile of Cauldron manipulating society at large to *promote* that notion as a prelude to the oppressive "parahuman feudalism" that they want to enact over future humanity. I think in line...