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Calling 911 because it's next to 800.
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If you were the first person on mars, what would you say?
kerbiloid replied to KleptoKat's topic in Forum Games!
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Granted. After seeing that, the human race is not human anymore. By ramming the iceberg, Titanic deflected it from the whole continent.
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One sentence you could say to annoy an entire fan base?
kerbiloid replied to Fr8monkey's topic in Forum Games!
The only thing never shown in countless Musketeers movies is the musket. -
Mrs. Pollybanna bans'em all.
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Beerf Beer and beef.
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Hawaii is cheating. Too many volcanoes and too many "ii" at the end.
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When you are looking at the videogame NPC and see only colored zeroes and ones, instead of unique personality, full of feelings.
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Also banned for the palyndromes.
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The metallurgy is a by-product of mass pottery crafting, when you have to mix the clay from different places, and to check different compositions, adding every available powder (like crushed green stones aka malachite, or dried orange mud aka bog ore), like here https://www.youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550/videos. Thus, the metallurgy is caused by the local wide need in pottery (we need as many jars as we can!), by using mixed materials from different sources (we need any material we can get!), by competition between the potters (wow! colored pots! looks much better than simple ones!), and at the root - by locally raising food producing, due to high density of local population, due to ability of settled farming rather than usual hack-and-slash semi-nomad agriculturing, due to some external local source of fertilizer, which lets you run your primitive farming before you adopt crop rotation and other primitive high-tech. In turn the fire pottery crafting is required when you have often rains (and thus can't burn your pots under sun), and a lot of trees to turn them into charcoal. None of this can be said about the so-called Fertile Crescent, but is absolutely normal in South Europe. That's why I (not alone) am sure that all those MidEast pra-civilisations is a fairy tale from 1001 night and Aladdin cartoons, and the real birthplace of the human civilisation (including fire pottery, metallurgy, settled farming, primitive cities, and so on) is the Central Italy, between the Phlegraean Fields and Vesuvius as the source of volcanic ash fertilizer, and what's now called Tuscany aka Etruria with its fertile plains. Actually, the (South) Europe is the best and probably the only place in the world, optimal for the civilisation birth, as it's a place of different seasons and various resource sources, joined together. The Amerindian, Polynesian, African, etc. peoples live in the natural surrounding which is either rainy, or rocky, or sandy, or sunny, and all of that limits their settlements with local villages of settled or semi-nomadic hunters-gatherers with facultative farming. They don't reach the population level of mass-production. Look at the demographic table on 1900. Total population ~ 2bln, and what about by-continent? Hunters-gatherers = 0.1 human/km2, steppe herders 1 .. 2 human/km2, primitive farmers 10 humans/km2, advanced farmers 100+ humans/km2. That's also what we need to know about the Mongolian invasion(tm), Tamerlan and so on. The American empires are same fictional, just because when you have to send 100 pedestrian soldiers without draft animals, you have to send 1000 pedestrian carriers, and all of that - to defeat 1 000 rebels, armed with same wooden clubs as the soldiers, knowing the place, and having prepared. You can neither have a big army, nor reach something farther than a week travel by foot, nor make deposits to hire mercenaires. While in say, Italy, or any other Europe and semi-Europe, you can have a gang of 100 horse riders with iron weapon, which can quickly easily massacre any village or tribal settlement in a hundred of kilometers around. Having a fortress at the famous local sanctuary (probably of Vulcan, of course), they can cut out any traces of family/tribe communes, making the survivors a loyal population of then-founded intertribal city (in Russian - sloboda), and hold them all under one hand. Founding such cities as outposts, they can easily create a local empire. Don't you wonder, where the family/tribal European communes had disappeared to? None of that is available outside of special conditions of the Southern Europe.
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A huge carnivorous banosaur is approaching to you.
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Bansteroidal banbecue is coming.
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Stop thinking about chicks when the dynos are in danger from a bansteroid.
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The opposite trend is to form the actors' crew from not best-looking nonames, to make them looking next-door (I'm looking at you, Game of Thronz, but not only). As a result we have series which consist of such not best-looking nonames, that not every next door can contain so many of them.
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Transcedentally immanent, immersive ban.
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Banwater Cross-thread Hill
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Because all of them are documentary. They could change roleplaying actors, but can't replace real persons. And this again proves the multiverse hypothesis. There is one Zoe Saldana per Universe, and a lot of her reflections in different realities and timelines. See Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny and Michael Moorcock book series(es) for details.
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If you were the first person on mars, what would you say?
kerbiloid replied to KleptoKat's topic in Forum Games!
No speaking. Just doing. -
Nothing can be new in the banned town of Midian.