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[Max™]

Popped in my head and I gotta share it for some reason:

Bill: Ok, fess up, you swore if we made it out of that, you'd tell me your name. Doctor What?
12th: You're really gonna make me do this?
Bill: Shyeah, I'm waiting.
12th: Goddammit... fine... *sighs loudly*
Bill: ...well?
12th: It's Keith, ok? It's fucking Keith, now do you see why I don't tell anyone?
Bill: O.o Shit, sorry man...

[Teneb]

we need words for referring to male or female though, because without it makes it much harder to describe someone helpfully

I dunno about German, but in Ukrainian, even inanimate objects have genders. "Nose" is masculine, "hair" is feminine, "eye" is neuter, etc. It doesn't make that much sense, really.

Portuguese is like that, except there is no neuter. Not a lot of fuss over it though, especially since an easy solution was found whenever someone gets offended: swapping the last vowel (which is usually what determines the gender of the word) for @ or x, based on preference.

[smjjames]

For '-at'? I suspect the @ symbol is supposed to be something with an accent, but it got mistyped.

[Teneb]

For '-at'? I suspect the @ symbol is supposed to be something with an accent, but it got mistyped.

No. @ is called "arroba" in portuguese, but the reason it is used is because it's an "a" (which usually indicates a female-gendered word) inside an "o" (which indicates male gender). So instead of typing/writing "amigo(a)s", you go with "amig@s". Odd at first, but works surprisingly well.

[Eric Blank]

Should use amigoannas. Were ruled by the lizardpeople, after all.

[smjjames]

Should use amigoannas. Were ruled by the lizardpeople, after all.

lol...

[hector13]

Should use amigoannas. Were ruled by the lizardpeople, after all.

What are we ruled by now? /apostrophepleaae

[Teneb]

Should use amigoannas. Were ruled by the lizardpeople, after all.

What are we ruled by now? /apostrophepleaae

Fake Old news. We are ruled by Birdpeople Illuminati now.

[Eric Blank]

Im pretty sure its still lizardpeople. Birdpeople would take better care of our infrastructure while kicking us out of it

[smjjames]

Bird people wouldn't need much ground infrastructure, assuming they were capable of flight.

[Egan_BW]

humans can run, therefore chairs are useless

[Grim Portent]

Watched a few lets plays of One Hour One Life, it's rather funny when the person recording gets picked up as a baby and dumped in the wilderness by their mother.

[Frumple]

Infinite competitive dungeon society. MC duking it out with boss, mounted dullahan. Knocks out horse, breaks boss's weapon. Dullahan proceeds to pick up horse by its leg and try to beat the protag to death with the entire horse.

Cannot help but laugh. That's a bit of absurdity I'm pretty sure I've never seen put to print before :3

[Reelya]

Watched a few lets plays of One Hour One Life, it's rather funny when the person recording gets picked up as a baby and dumped in the wilderness by their mother.

Considering how fast food apparently runs out in one area, that was to ensure baby's survival.

[Grim Portent]

Watched a few lets plays of One Hour One Life, it's rather funny when the person recording gets picked up as a baby and dumped in the wilderness by their mother.

Considering how fast food apparently runs out in one area, that was to ensure baby's survival.

Heh, not really, it's to avoid overpopulating a settlement with too many mouths to feed. An ideal location managed properly can last more or less indefinitely, but usually only sustain 5-8 people at a time with early tech. If the people can get to the pie making stage and keep production reliable from there they can stockpile years worth of food, but one too many mouths to feed or a careless hunter can ruin the whole thing. One generation is all it takes for things to break down.

Common exchange is 'We have too many babies. No more,' followed by someone getting either ignored till they starve or being carried away into the wilds to die.

Furthest I think anyone's got so far is gold crafting, but the main obstacle to progression is people not obeying the three laws* and ruining the ecosystem or a settlement dying out due to lack of births and their organisation methods and tech being forgotten. Good settlements can support one or two people mucking about with tech while the others manage food, but it makes for slow progress and a lot of effort spent on staying in place since each new generation often needs taught to do a job.

*The three laws are basic player made rules to avoid ruining replenishing resources, basically don't hunt animals to extinction, don't fully drain water sources and only harvest milkweed (which is used to make rope) at the growth stage that it can regrow from.