Talk:Science Ascendancy/@comment-26484417-20181006163717/@comment-26484417-20181212030938

Agreed about the game-mechanic argument, but that's why I left the "if nothing else" tailing in there. It just felt easier to invoke the game-mechanic, than to work through the implications of the lore.

As for the lore, we know that Add is still incapable of achieving his one and only goal despite his Mad Paradox state and powers. In other words, a certain universal law hinders him as much as it did prior to his final evolution. Dominator path is where Add realises this prior to committing to his time-traveling craze... and commits to the virtual world craze instead.

Moreover, while most of Mad Paradox path is about psychic development--with the final form granting him powers "beyond science and technology"--, I never felt it actually made him immune to science-based technology. For one, it just made it sound like affecting Mad Paradox is a huge deal, but still possible. For another, science-based enemies still showed up even in the story-line and had an impact (though minimal).