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we're running out of assdrills at my plance 

I realize that plance is a misspelling, but p-lance in that context just...

... the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak?

... This thing? Guessing one of the contributing philosophers?

As for not minding, I am a bit upset that we can't have giant armies of ships, though you are professional with jumpship strikes. You have that going for you.

Oh, we could, I'd just be kinda' useless not long into the game due to command lag and whatnot, plus probably dragging the rest of it down a bit, heh. If there's preference towards hoards, though, I'm not exactly troubled by sitting it out

I'm still up for saturday, but if y'all have enough folks for a decent game (say three or more) I'll pass. Save the you lot the trouble, yeah.

... isn't that (claimed to be) enshrined or something? Probably in like a dozen different places, but whatever.

And yeah, too bad, there's a market. Apparently at least partially coming from the medical field! Research and whatnot. There's uses for human flesh (regardless of source, really, but I guess there's probably specific stuff for that, too), and given the whole circumcision thing being fairly common in places, well, there's an easy source. Waste not want not.

E: Buggery hell, if this article (Google finds it fairly easily if you search for selling) is accurate, one of the uses is (was?) the manufacture of insulin. If there was ever a reason to avoid getting diabetes...

E2: Holy shit, burn wound treatment too. Apparently foreskin is fairly useful in the field of medicine. I could have done without knowing that, ahahaha!

The best thing we can hope for is that we will read a book and not cringe. Oh where are our modern literary masters? What living Daedalus will furnish us with flights of wonder?

There's dozens of them, all over the place, in all sorts of languages, both mimicking the masters of past and forging their own styles. We have our thousand monkeys and our thousand typewriters, and that is but a fraction of all our typing simians.

They're just hard to find. Lot of stuff out there. Have to do other things than filter through piles upon piles of work. Like sleep, eat... that sort of thing.

Maybe, not sure.  I'm saying, in a very poorly worded way, the internal politics and policies of the organization may have prevented this stuff from being taught in any meaningful way.  Teaching psychology on human sexuality/urges may just not fit in the 'professional' spy business viewpoint.

... if it doesn't, someone needs to be drug out into the street and shot (... or at least fired with extreme prejudice), because they're doing more damage to their country's intelligence operations than their actual enemies.

Seriously, you basically don't get human psych at all if you leave that out. It's right up there with food for major human motivations. Leaving that stuff out in regards to data processing and whatnot is just... incompetence isn't even a strong enough word...

I'll side with GCHQ here. Between 3% and 11% is a surprising number, in that it's so low. Obviously, there's no number so high that it could be surprising, unless it were to exceed the actual number of all captured images.

Ha. Yeah, I guess they could have been coming from that angle...

It's only funny until you get rammed into by someone doing it.

Mm... yeah, iirc, jungle is separate from forest. Might even be able to have both in the same tile. Lizarddood improvements don't destroy jungle, just forest, so you'll be able to have plantations, mines, etc., so forth, planted right down in your jungles without problem. They've also got this swamp... thing... which is different from swamp terrain, somehow, that they can make with mana. It does, uh, something. Mild yield improvement for lizards, I think. Good for dropping on tiles you don't want to clear out (lost temples, stuff like seven pines, nodes, that sort of junk.). You know it by the tile saying Swamp (not irrigated/irrigated) in the tile description whatsit instead of just swamp. You can't build anything (so far as I'm aware) in a tile the stuff's in, though. Might be able to put it in a tile that already has an improvement, but I don't recall if I tried that or not...

And yeah, about the best thing you'll be able to do with a prophet, early or not, is turn it into a specialist or feed it into l-whatever altars. Which isn't exactly a bad idea even if you're not going for the victory condition -- you've got access to some pretty decent discipline units, and that altar gives 'em exp when they're built, eventually, on top of other junk. It's actually really nice once you've fed a few prophets into it, iirc. Only other thing you'd really get use out of 'em for (beyond the golden age, anyway) would be if you manage to capture a holy city...

And... is that blasting powder, just to the south east-ish? Delicious hammers ;_;