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  • Its hard to say what the most popular are.

    Star Wars is sorta explicitly not psionics, the force is an outside thing that force users can tap into.

    Mass effect has psionics, but psionics in general play a really minor role, some psionic characters play big roles, but them being psionic is meh.

    Warhammer 40K might be the most popular franchise where psionics plays a major role. Every major faction except the Necrons are defined/driven by their psionics.

    Star Trek has some psionics, but those are generally minor plot points, not major ones.

    Dune has the Atreides be psionic, the Bene-Gesserit are arguably psionic, as are the navigators.

    Akira is all about psionics, and is arguably Sci-Fi, if a grittier, closer to current reality one.

    Arguably the most popular series with psionics is Star Trek.

    Arguably the most popular series where psionics plays a large role is either Dune or Warhammer 40K. Warhammer 40K has probably made more money, but I think more people have read Dune.






  • 2 or 3 reasons that Banks give out VP titles like candy.

    1. Some regulation after Bush’s recession tried to tie shady shit at banks to VPs, at the time, that would have tied the shady practices to the actual people doing them. Since the actual people in charge wanted to have scapegoats, they just gave the title to everyone.

    2. It makes people feel important, if they can call the bank and get a VP on the line, it makes them feel heard if they can complain to a VP etc.

    3. Its another form of wage reduction, basically they give people the VP title so the people with the title feel like they are going somewhere, but they don’t actually give out raises to go with. It lets them keep people around for a bit longer without giving them any more money.

    The last one has kind of stopped working since everybody knows what’s going on, and once you have 5 VPs at one branch, becoming a VP becomes a lot less important, but its part of why the title became so widespread.