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Oh god this thread is still here I don't even know why.

I instantly recogonized the alternative spellings of "Dwarf"..."Dwarrow", "Duergar and" "Demuirg"....

I suddenly realize I'm more of a D&D nerd then I thought I was....

Quote from: HAMMERMILL on November 18, 2009, 04:59:57 am

Most work in any distribution center or big warehouse is going to be rough, Wal-Mart or not. I had a friend that worked in a Fed-Ex center and passed out from exhaustion working there. People mail absurd things like 150 pound sections of engine blocks through the mail and the workers have to pull them off conveyor belts by hand for 8 hours a day.

And that makes it okay . . . how?

Not everyone can quit, because not everyone is better off unemployed, and such people that aren't were probably lucky to find any job in the first place, Wal-Mart offering the job or not.

I never said it was ideal, I said it was expected. High-traffic warehouses are crappy places to work and if you are not able or willing to work there you should seek other employment. Its like getting a job in a coal mine and complaining about how the rocks are heavy, the air is stale, its 110 degrees underground and everything is dusty. Well, there isn't much that can be done about it. Its a coal mine.

That said, Wal-Mart can PROBABLY afford to make concessions for their workers, especially in rough places like distrubution centers. Coal miners have unions and alot of regulation because its often the only job available in some places. Wal-Mart is a rather union-unfriendly organization. There is almost always a quick enough turn-over rate which implies better jobs DO exist if people are quitting. If there isn't then you can afford unions with lawyers and put political figures in your pocket to get that A/C installed and some nice ergonomic mats by the conveyor belts.

Thats about right for a goblin, I'd think. Cept they have 5 toes per foot in the raws.

Kobolds only have 3 toes per foot, but still have 5 fingers. So kinda like lizard feet, I guess?

Most work in any distribution center or big warehouse is going to be rough, Wal-Mart or not. I had a friend that worked in a Fed-Ex center and passed out from exhaustion working there. People mail absurd things like 150 pound sections of engine blocks through the mail and the workers have to pull them off conveyor belts by hand for 8 hours a day.

For the original question, I'd say communism is at least a passe ideology, or on its way out. Look at revolutionary communist groups like the FARC, which have basically just degenerated into capitalist drug cartels. Not to mention states like China and Veitnam are not even trying to pretend to be traditional communist states anymore.

Only true communist state anymore might be North Korea, which is more of a psychotic dictatorship then anything Karl Marx or Lenin would have envisioned.

Seige engines are loud producing noise at 16 tiles like combat and placing furniture, construction, ect.

So don't put your 8 peice, 24 hour artillery range above the bedrooms if at all possible.

I'd think a mining town up in the Colorado Rockies would be more "dwarfy" and more centralized in the country in the country then a place in Cali.

Like Gypsum, Colorado or something. Or Dillion, which is by a lake up in the mountains. Its in a central location, but its probably still far away from where anybody lives though.

Also its Aluminum because thats what the guy who discovered it decided to name it.

Do you have "All Dwarves can go outside" and not just "Soldiers can go outside" listed in your o menu?

Happened to me once. I was quite confused as to why nobody wanted to retrieve a dead sparring casualty in the barracks aboveground....