"This is very realistic, as I, too, engage in gig work to make a living"
If you think about it, a bartender is an alchemist, mixing up those potions that get you crunk.
Potion seller! I need your strongest potions!!
Bro I cut you off 10 minutes ago get the fuck out of here
Not only that, but alchemists are how we ended up with distilled spirits in the first place.
Idk, but Alchemy was a real thing right up until it turned in to chemistry. And it has a strong philosophical and religious component alongside the al-chemistry. Alchemy was as much about searching for god in the material world and refining the self as it was about turning lead in to gold.
Don't forget killing yourself with potions of immortality. That is an important part of alchemy.
It is interesting to look at it through the lens of alchemical systems that people used, but to claim to be an "actual alchemist" is pretty funny on it's face. It is a bit like finding someone still claiming that they've found Atlantis.
If Noita taught me anything about alchemy it's to always triple-check the spell duration on your explosives
If Noita taught me anything about alchemy it’s that you can’t trust alchemy
I thought historical alchemy was about boiling down piss until it glows and accidentally discovering phosphorus with your homies, but I'm far from an expert and that sounds more poignant
They had a lot of time on their hands, they could search god and boil piss.
What if god was hiding in the piss? You have to search everywhere.
to identify with alchemy at this juncture is implicating a set of beliefs, based on a handful of cherrypicked actual alchemical texts and guys like Jung who use alchemy as a metaphor for internal change that doesn't map at all historically to what alchemy was, which was proto-chemistry first and anything else second, but is something modern people looking back on tend to incorporate into their understanding of it.
But the title of that video just means that guy has read paracelsus and jung and wants to talk about FMA lore as it maps onto our actual extant literature on the matter.
an actual water diviner uses a dowsing rod to review Home Improvement
An actual leftist reacts to hexbear (it's me, the only real leftist)
I get recommended a lot of channels that talk about survival horror games and this guy has always struck me as weirdly pretentious and up his own ass
What's with the trend "actual professional reacts to anime/nerd thing"?
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