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The Eschaton debacle — "Pemulis tells Lord he cannot believe…"

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Pemulis tells Lord he cannot believe his fucking eyes. He tells Lord how dare he don the dreaded red beanie over such an obvious instance of map-not-territory equivocationary horseshit as Ingersoll’s trying to foist.

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Lord has just consulted EndStat's TREEMASTER metadecision subdirectory and ceremonially swapped the white beanie for the red beanie of Utter Global Crisis — the game's machinery formally validating Ingersoll's gambit. Pemulis compresses his whole doctrine into a hyphenated epithet: "map-not-territory equivocationary horseshit." The theme has become a term of abuse.

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