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... I'd be willing to swap suggestion over to the lizard layout above if it meant dodging atronach >_>

Mana regen! Mana regen! No point in even having the fair regen mod if you're going atronach

And that regen is just... just beautiful. Makes magic enjoyable. Without abusing alchemy. Which is a bit of a PitA.

Hold up. When'd Sollux get moves?

Also dat back arrow.

Kinda' been getting this fairly faint wiff of what smells more or less like cigarette smoke for the last several hours. Which. I haven't been around any smokers for over a month. Half wtf/half nuisance. S'very few smells I dislike quite as much, bleh. And the shit lingers.

It's as amazing as you think it is, Robs.

Re: The history books, in that scenario they're already lost. History's been reset, and all that rigmarole has turned into fiction (to an even greater degree than it already is ). If you're going to lose some of your precious space to fiction, you might as well tailor it to be something particularly useful, yeah? You could use historical exerts of varying sources, but within a generation or so there's going to be basically no one alive that remembers that stuff as anything but a story, and there'll be no way of confirming it since the archaeological record is being wiped clean. Sad is better than wasted space in the scenario you're providing, unfortunately

As for man hours regarding information transference, you're probably going to have a pretty notable amount of free time, especially since you're bringing modern know-how into a primitive situation (with a population that small you'll be able to chill with hunting/gathering for a bloody long time, and the latter doesn't really take much effort to build a surplus with if you know what you're looking for and where to find it.). The question is whether you can transfer more before the parts fail than you could bring along as paper (and with some spares, you might be looking at decades of use, I'd wager.). If yes, well, bob's yer uncle. It'd take more effort than your project probably deserves to actually find out which method wins out, though. Just go with whatever.

The advantage of Today's system is that you only need to get more than 50% of the population to support one descision, rather than all of them*, which you would need to do in anarchaica.

Far less than 50% and far less than the population, actually. At least in the states, and presumably elsewhere. Generally you only need a winning population of voters to get something done. Not a majority, just more than the rest. And that number often isn't a population majority by any stretch of the imagination. It's particularly bad in the states where something like 1 in every 100 people, or thereabouts, have had their right to vote stripped from them. Nevermind the voter turnout that's often less than a 2/3rds majority (and sometimes not even a 50% majority) and often highly polarized. You've got plenty of cases where less than a quarter of the population is making decisions for the other 75+%.

Which may or may not be a boon for shoving environmental protection down people's throats. It's generally a pretty damn bad thing overall, though. A system where half or less than half of the people involved can more or less unilaterally decide things for the other half is a sword that cuts both ways, and very deeply.

That's just the USA though. Rest of the world's a far nicer place.

Well, no. Unless you're defining "rest of the world" as "post-industrial nations" (hint: This is still not a majority). Parts of Europe may be. And I guess the rare bastion in other places. I won't say most, but there's at least something approaching a plurality that's frankly worse. This isn't a thumbs up for the states, mind. Better doesn't mean good.

Right 'ere.