pls don't tell me they are a real threat, october is getting closer 
every fantasy setting with necromancy needs to give me a really good reason why skeletons aren't being used to automate all labor
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i think Overlord works like this
Wow so even when I'm dead I can't escape capitalism
Fantasy liberalism. It is. Cheaper to poorly pay a worker than to automate a process with a trained mechanical necromancer
Because of woke. Nobody wants to work anymore, not even skeletons.
Anbennar does this, the souls of the dead are in perpetual agony as slaves and the country run by necromancers is like mega Hitler
look at this bourgeois pos over here. slaver. seize the means of ressurection!
probably because their loved ones corpses being puppeted around to make doo-dads and harvest wheat would upset people
that's why they said skeletons, you flay off all the flesh and give the bones a good bleach and nobody's recognizing anybody
This reason rapidly declines the more long lived the species in question is.
Edit: it also basically has to be puppetry otherwise many dead will just choose to do labor if they can. Also that elf prince that just got snuck in the middle of the street is not letting 1000 years just slide.
They exist and there's a 10 foot one at costco
LIAR!
Skeletons are a capitalist construct designed by Big cow to sell you more milk
The capitalists are constructing skeletons?!
The workers are constructing skeletons, comrade.
They tell bad puns
and then they do that nasal laugh like nyehehehe they don't even have noses wtf
Bougie doctors put them inside the newborns to steal their calciums and magnesiums. We must get liberated from this capitalist psy-op!!
You mean the true agenda of the Kids Improved Not Decalicified (KIND) Act was actually to decalcify our kids and build a skeleton army?? 
bit idea: trying to "decalcify your pineal gland" by drinking a whole lot of coke
I'm not interested in a skeleton.
Me neither! 
The moves if skeletons are managed by dialectic forces. You have muscles thst act. You have oposing muscle thst react. It is through the combination of these forces that your motion is produced
Is that why they have been called the immortal dialectics? Those who master them could... control a skeleton?
Currently we are all animated skeletons.
I don't know about you, but I feel rather more live-action
No... that's not true. It's IMPOSSIBLE! 
Some weirdos think there is a skeleton hiding in everyone of us. Can you imagine?
There is. Saw one trying to escape once, wasn't great
There is? Then how do you explain this? 
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I know we're supposed to be materialists who seek truths from facts, but I'm too terrified to get to the bottom of this. What if, at the bottom, theres a... coffin? 
They make great xylophones
I turn off a movie if I hear xylophones, that means skeletons might be coming
I have never seen my own skeleton so I question whether it is actually there
I had a gardening accident, I can confirm I possess at least one bone.
We'll know for sure after the next correction whether it is fictitious calcium
Army of Darkness is a documentary. Few know this
That means skeletons have been defeated at least once!
We can do this!
Army of Darkness is such a good movie. Not talking about high art. But its just a legit fun movie despite its age.
There's so many lines that became everyday catchphrases you don't realize that's where they came from.
did you know there's a spooky skeleton inside of you? let it out!
Bones are an instrument of the bourgeoisie, used to extract physical labour from workers. We must build a classless, moneyless, boneless society.
Fuck. So on top of everything else, porkies are sending skeletons to our beds during the witching hour to graft horrid bones to our innocent flesh as we sleep to make machines of us 
Conditional on the existence of closets
B-but my apartment has a closet, and I can't find a way to lock it shut...! You're telling me my apartment was deliberately designed to create skeletons but not keep them contained?! 
Inside you and me there's a smiling skeleton, literally
Skeletons aren't real. They can't be! You're...you're confusing me! 
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