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Heh. Iirc, lemuria can get their first consul on turn... three? And then another something like every 2-3 turns later, more or less forever.* I'm not sure how many it would take to murder an unkitted, mostly spell-less, dragon, but I doubt it would be many.

Ermor would be screwed, though. They've got arguably better casters (in terms of gem efficiency, iirc.), but what they don't have is a zero research, half cost, self-blessing might-as-well-be-a-wraith lord.

*To which one asks, naturally, "But research!" to which the lemurian responds, "A dozen wraith lords on your front door by turn 25. Good luck!" Alternately: Indie researchers.

Quote from: Descan on April 07, 2014, 08:47:15 pm

Then again, if sleeping with a dude -feels nice-, you'll probably do it more? And hey presto, one of those future times you get knocked up. So there's a bit of evolutionary pressure.

This. I've never understood the argument that female orgasm is an evolutionary fluke. Motivation is motivation, even if it's not strictly necessary to the process.

Yeah... there's more to it*, but at least part of the reason it's likely an evolutionary fluke -- or, more precisely, exists in ladies because the physiological reaction is incredibly strongly selected for in fella's, kinda' like the whole nipple thing in reverse -- is... well, you realize that something like a third of women, don't? Or do so very rarely. And that actual, y'know, penetrative sex, is fairly unlikely to cause one? Forgetting the exact numbers, but it was found** that something like half to three quarters of ladies that do experience it, don't (or, at least, seldom) from th'act of reproductive intercourse (which they still get up to plenty, mind. Still feels good, and there's other reasons besides.).

Basically, if it is adaptive, it's really not doing a good job at motivating sleeping with a dude.

*Seriously, look into it. I was personally introduced to the subject of the research et al involved by Lloyd's book. I remember it having an issue or two, but it did a bloody good job of laying out several of the problems surrounding research into the phenomena and regarding an adaptive explanation (which was/is basically the normal assumption) specifically.
**Once some researchers that didn't have their heads up their metaphorical experimental methodology arse started doing some work.

Let it never be said that the average american knows or gives a damn about the geography of anywhere outside the united states. Honestly, it's less important to folks who have an area roughly the size of some continents (*cougheuropecough*) where they know they can go pretty much anywhere in and largely have little to no difficulty settling in. Who cares where Ohio actually is if driving into it and living there isn't really all that different from living anywhere else (in the places you care to go for any extended period, heh.)?

I guess if you wanted to actually reach that place specifically it would be an issue (Ha, google maps says otherwise~), but being able to just randomly drive for several hundred miles, stop, get out, buy property and kick back for the next decade without worry about silly things like language or major cultural shifts or being in another country just... devalues the importance of geography, y'know?

Dunno about vs humans, but vs CPU it's kinda' a cinch. The combo of mindblasters* and their tankier chaff (crab hybrids, shambler thralls) tends to completely wreck the underwater provinces, after which you've probably got a nice base to spew more mindblasters and chaff at everything above ground, too. Throw in the quite nice casters (including really nice spammy stuff like the star children! Cheap s1 assassins? Yeshplox. Gonna' magic dual me some mofos. All the mofos.) and the occasionally wickedly powerful gate summons (Bring a pretender with enough N to get GoR, or some other means of providing it, for some truly vicious commanders) on top of the whole "ridiculous amounts of astral" is just... they've got hella' punch. R'lyeh's pretty sexy, as water nations go, imo.

Basically, I'd probably say don't worry too much about finesse with R'yleh, at least to start. They've got some incredibly huge bludgeons you could be waving about instead, and get pretty far with it. _{and then they don't expect the wishdagger to the spine, nyohoho.}

*A particularly big deal in underwater fights. You're basically the only thing bringing the ranged game to the fight down there, to any meaningful degree, until at least mid game.

No... there's places like that in the states, as SE noted. Place I grew up in wasn't far from it. Not quite as bad -- actual violence didn't occur to any great degree (though it did occur, mind) -- but a difference of degrees instead of kind. North Florida, for what that's worth. There's little insular places like that dotted all over the country.

As for anime watchers being targeted, well... "Weaboo faggot gonna' get 'is legs broke," etc. It's less anything to do with anime specifically and more with it offering someone an excuse to target someone else. Places like these... they tend to become very Us vs Them, and "Them" is free game for, well, a lot. Gods help you if you're born there and don't fit the localized mold.

Plenty of people boycott a company for considerably more trivial things *shrugs*

The only one who gets to decide if a company is "worthy" of boycott is the person deciding to no longer do business/interact with them. I've seen local level shit because a business hired someone distantly related to someone other people didn't like.

It honestly strikes me as kinda' weird. Hasn't most of the anime with the word samurai in it that made it overseas been pretty decent? Kenshin's dub name was silly, but the show itself was alright. Then you've got Champloo, Afro, and Pizza Cats, at which point my memory stops working. Mostly what I'd call quality of one sort or another.

Here's the thing I think you're not getting, at least about my problem with this. This wasn't a boycott. Companies specifically inserted code to refuse to let other people use the product and enjoy their services.

People not only said 'I don't like this guy and what he does, so I'm not going to use his product... but I'm going to take active measure to prevent other people from using his product too.

Glyph... people in the software business do that all the time. Specifically engineering compatibility issues -- either by directly blocking the service (there's multiple games, ferex, that will refuse to run if Process Explorer is open), or making sure your software cannot interact through other means (See: Microsoft's latest document formats or Quickbook's refusal to work with any spreadsheet software that's not Excel) -- is bloody close to standard practice these days. And they're perfectly in the right to do so, though it's goddamn horrifically terrible design methodology. They have no obligation to include or not include whatever features they please in their software -- up to and including engineered incompatibility with other software. If their market doesn't like it, they're welcome to use a different product.

It... it's okay if you don't want your software interacting with someone else's. That's the programmer's prerogative, and they have as much right to refuse to work (Blacklist, whatever.) with another company as the consumer has to boycott. It's frankly the exact same thing, just a company doing it instead of an individual. In cases like this, it's even a potentially good business move -- you've got a non-zero chance to snipe some market share from a competitor by doing so and appealing to the portion of the market that wants absolutely nothing to do with Mozilla.