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Bleh. Most people just in too much of hurry. Going faster than any land bound creature alive for longer periods than any can sustain isn't sufficient. Must go even faster, because,

... not really sure what the because is, other than because. You don't save much time going 5-10 over speed limit (and the amount you save relatively becomes progressively smaller as you go faster), unless it's really low (20s, etc). Don't save much gas. Still moving faster and more comfortably than anything else on planet. But, no. Must go 5-10 over speed limit. Doesn't matter what speed limit is. 5-10 over, always, for almost everyone.

Frumple just doesn't understand. Go speed limit, maybe leave two-three minutes earlier at most. Get there at same time or near enough it doesn't matter. Don't break law in process. Why go faster when it doesn't make particular difference and is somewhat less safe? If in hurry, already late. Not point rushing then. Late is binary, more late still late.

Is side to most of that, but part of it for me, at least, is a sort of respect... m'grandfather did a lot of the road work in my area. I respect the expertise that went into that... if he and his fellows say "go 55", I say, "Okay. You're better at this than me, so I yield to wisdom."

'Course, I also know that almost all roads are capable of safely being traveled a good 20-30 over the posted limit -- they're built that way, at least most of the time -- but that's not the point. Point to me is that 'people I trust (in a roundabout way) says this is the safe speed' mixed with 'I'm not losing any meaningful amount of time not going faster'. Throw in a "it's more dangerous to be going faster" and it's just a no-brainer to me. Go speed limit, or slower. Only reason I don't just cruise at 10 under is because it causes vehicles to start building up and impatient assholes to start doing stupid-stupid shit like passing three cars in one go.

Now, one thing I will do (and have done) is pull right the fuck over if there's a crapton of tailgating whoresons piling up behind my law abiding ass. Just let th'bastards pass, I say. I'm not in a hurry, ever.

I... can you, like, hand parts of the bundle back out? I'd be interested in throwing in for avernum, but the rest aren't really to my taste. If it's possible, put me in then give everything but the trilogy to whoever comes last

If y'can't, m'not interested in joining, but a customary round of applause for giving this a go, Zeb. I mean, round of applause if you can, too, yes.

Yeah... the more interesting thing to me is gene-engineered... what's that word... tailored? Something like that, it shows up in sci-fi occasionally. Species. Not bring humans down, but taking something else up. Making a non-sentient or barely sentient labor species, or a number of ones built for specific tasks. There'd be no functional difference between a human->labor and non-human->labor, but the direction it came from would change.

It seems a more interesting moral question because people tend to get jittery about specific-task bio-organisms despite it being an exact parallel to constructing custom-task machines. You're just using a somewhat messier construction method... but somehow that tends to be enough, at least for maco-scale entities. We already do exactly that with smaller scale ones, to a limited degree.

Basically, the question is why does it matter if a thing is made from flesh or steel if they do the same thing and are built more or less the same way? If it doesn't come from humans, what's so bad about a

If the wiki's accurate, tactics is +5% withdrawl chance, +15% defensive strength. Which isn't terrible, but deathtouched would be pretty sexy (skeletons skeletons everywhere).

M'still not entirely sure if Agnostic is a good or bad thing, m'self. In MoM, at least, the religions can be pretty useful. I'm just not really sure what the downside to a hostile religion sinking into yer land is, and if giving up the upsides to having your own is worth that.

But yeah, go Ophelia.

After giving them lessons and a test and ensuring that they stick to rigorous laws to prevent those boxes from killing people.  And making sure we take the right to drive those boxes away if they do stupid things with them.

Just a test. Lessons aren't actually required, at least in my state, just the ability to pass the drivers test. Again, they gave me a license. When I passed the test, it was probably the third time I had been behind a wheel, and I'd never had formal lessons... nor any particular notable informal ones beyond watching other people drive. Despite this, I passed, and they sent me on my way.

And yeah, actual enforcement of road law is incredibly spotty. You have to be doing something particular egregious or have a cop cruising for tickets to actually have someone come down on you for breaking them, and there's a number of laws that get broken almost universally (speed limit being broke and turn signals not being used are particularly common. The former especially... it's easier to count the people going the speed limit than the people going over.). Then there's just the horrendously stupid things, like tailgating and suchlike. Would totally vote for a law saying that all tailgaters get beat for ten minutes or so with a bat with "Inertia" engraved in it. But I digress...

Though yeah, you can get the license probated or taken if you get caught doing the wrong thing often enough.

I... I hope not. Absurd societal motives and oppressive stratification isn't something I'd be aiming for, m'self.

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Anywho, best element is probably Magic.

I prefer kindness.

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Now you must do the gojiberry song.I have no idea what the gojiberry song is. Good luck.

I'd say "confirmed finding the flesh of God" is pretty damn sufficiently sexy, regardless as to its practical applications. Still, definitely let's poke it with a stick to see if it jumps.