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Yeah... stuff similar to DF predates DF, city builders and whatnot had been around for a while. There were already terms for that kind of gameplay, which is probably why there hasn't been some kind of common DF-like term. Add on that "colony builder" or whatever is both pretty short and sweet, and plenty descriptive, and there's just no particular need.

Stuff similar to rogue kinda'... doesn't. Predate rogue. It and moria were some of the earliest examples of its kind, and easily the most well known/popular one for a good while. There wasn't preexisting vernacular, and no one's really managed to come up with something better since. So it sticks around, heh.

"Titanium" is such a bobo sales argument... Rare are the cases a good steel can't do what titanium does. And everytime I see titanium on a consumer product that's not going to be implanted into a body or something, it's just a metal object... I can't help but be reminded of an acquaintance... The dude could be browsing something out of boredom the second he stumbles across one in the list with titanium the value proposition shoots up 69000% in his head, and he starts religiously hailing that brand as a beacon of quality.

Good steel can't bend like titanium stuff does, 'least in my experience, though there's probably similar bendy metals that works just as well.

... not sure what it's good for besides glasses frames, but at least from what I've encountered it's genuinely significantly better for those than even good steel (and a metric fuckton better than anything not-metal), with a price difference that's not actually that much. Doubled or less price point for something that lasts 10x longer is generally a good deal if you can afford the upfront cost

Yeah, doubt anyone here that only knows trans folks online is alone. Don't know of any in my immediate area, either, but the flip side of that is that I'm pretty sure someone that was open even a little about being trans in the shithole I live in would be very literally murdered, so that's... not surprising.

Had offline friends or family friends end up pretty much everywhere else on the lgbt-etc. spectrum (once they managed to gtfo, anyway), but if there were any that were trans, the hatred around here buried it deep as a survival mechanism

... I honestly can't remember there even being a point the concept bothered me, though, even with all the crap around where I live and when I was young. There was definitely some insensitive jokes and junk that got inherited for a while, but actual enmity was just... nah. Never really made sense to hate folks for being trans (or... basically any other gender permutation or sexual-preference-that-doesn't-involve-non-con, for that matter), and no one in my life ever managed to even make a coherent argument for doing so, nevermind a convincing one. Encountered plenty of certainty there was something wrong about it, but if they had reasons at all they were pretty obviously horseshit, either on the face of it or with trivial amounts of research. Probably helped that no one I particularly trusted tried, but eh...

Any case, I've definitely found trans-friendly-ish places online are just... generally much nicer places to hang around, as a rule. There's probably exceptions, but everywhere I've found myself spending much time around has had that as a characteristic.

We have a thread for wizards and warlords around here, somewhere. It's pretty neat.

That... so you were touching/prepping it, but never actually ate any? 'Cause you ain't gotta' be told that stuff is spicy, you just gotta' get some on your tongue, heh.

You jest, hopefully. Even well poisoned and constructed buildings are generally quite infested by all sorts of bugs. If they're not inside rooms, they're inside walls and the ceiling, under the floor, in and around the piping, on the roof, etc. Death awaits some of them, but for most it is a comfortable land, indeed.

If the Bible were for bugs, it'd mean bugs are (the one and only correct) God's chosen people. They would rule the Earth and all the animals on it. Formiciform forumites would ponder what the Bible would be like if it were for apes instead, and whether ants would care.

I mean... you're aware of which side of that comparison has the biomass advantage, yeah? What feasts on the flesh of even more things than humans do, and in greater quantities? Ants don't need forums or theology to rule this world to their pleasure

'Course, going that route you can go even further; by mass bacteria and whatnot rule this planet functionally unopposed. Even us humans are nothing more than feeding grounds for them. You can say they don't have great philosophies and such, but they clearly have no need for them, so...

You're in the company of basically the entire world, for what it's worth. If there's anyone that doesn't dislike that mess, I've never heard them say it out loud.