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I think it's fascinating how MAG 95 portrays the Slaughter as a Fear that follows you home, even after you've left the battlefield. I feel like it's very representative of traumatic mental illness. (PTSD is probably what Jonny was aiming for.) The level of commradery and community present in the statement is as a wonderful thematic contrast to the violence and really reminds us what these soldiers are fighting to protect.

I gotta say, this statement was lost on me and this is the first time I've actually listened to it carefully. You're absolutely right. Also a fascinating combination of various fears witg a strangely melancholic tone, love how war is portrayed in this podcast as complex and simple all at once

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MAG 53! I really liked this one on my first listen and immediately saved it to my Spotify playlist for my favorite Magnus episodes. The idea that there was a previous Archive before the Institute implies a lot about the Eye and how it operates (and potentially how other Entities operate). The inclusion of Ancient historical buildings and figures tells the listener "Hey! the Entities aren't a new thing! they've been around for a While!"

And may I say again: Woo! Capital 'S' Spooky Buildings!

Yeah! I love how that expands the little we know about what's going on way beyond what would have been expected. The world building this episode does is great

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I love the Existentialism of Mag 94. I love it so much I almost wrote about it in a college level class of the same name for extra credit but ran out of time and energy.

Live life to the fullest folks! If life has no meaning, you can give it meaning. <3 Embrace the Void smiling from a life well lived.

The End: YOLO

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Upon The Stair was one of the first episodes that I truly fell in love with in regards to style and format. I love the uncertainty and Start-Stop tone this episode has; it's the narrative equivalent of "one step forward, two steps back". This is another one that I found myself stopping what I was doing in my Minecraft world and just standing there completely engaged in the narration.

It really has a way of gripping your attention when you listen to it

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Welcome to America. Come experience the Hunt, the Buried, or the Flesh. Possibly all three at once!

Anyways, I remember listening to this one the first time and being simultaneously freaked out and fascinated. Historical statements are always wonderful to listen to, but the desperation and hopeless fear that's present throughout may as well qualify it as a Buried and Flesh statement.

That would make for an interesting roadside attraction…

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Being up at 4am after a rather indulgent New Year's and listening to this statement hits different.

Reality who?

Reality when? Nothing is real and this year will not exist

Sleep no more

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I like the overall decision to include Spooky places as well as objects and people. The creation of entire structures to house and feed Entities is a tma topic I think is really interesting. I wish we had more world-building info about what makes a structure Spooky. Is it the involvement of an avatar in its construction? Can a structure be accidentally Spooky? Or does it require some kind of intent in regard to its association with the Entities?

Anyway, I'm with Tim; Spooky architecture is underrated.

YEAH! I love that quote Smirke said

"To stir the feelings of man, to create a small place of being divorced from the rest of the world, while still retaining that balance, is the true goal of the architect."

Buildings and spaces that manage to evoke emotions in the precise way that was intended by the architect, especially if it's fear, is really a skill worthy of note.

A completely physical creation, defined by its physicality, generating and influencing something that is beyond and outside the physical, emotions and the unworldly. That is what tma is inherently about if you think about it

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I remember this one vividly; I was just so taken with this episode that it ended up distracting me. I was building a pretty complex house in Minecraft over a lake and found myself stopping what I was doing in-game to listen to this statement. It's just so Spooky! Peak End/Eye terror. I think I started mindlessly clearing out a forest instead of building so I could have my full attention on the statement.

The normality of finding an old hidden thing in a loved ones possessions and letting your curiosity take over. The horror of knowing that everytime you read the book your death gets worse conflicting with that deep desire to Know when and how.

Oh God yeah this one is a very big nope for me