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  • xkcd #3251: Time Machine Conversation

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  • You wouldn't know if someone was "just lost" at sea if the problem was a lack of compass. You'd just not have heard from them for years, still wondering whether they survived, started a new life, or what.

  • Lucky guys

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  • Drinking rehydrated piss is a sacrifice

  • US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

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  • It's the year 2099. Nvidia-Johnson Inc has just announced a new breakthrough years after their merger. Biotech finally found a means to turn human flesh into... RAM

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  • But they need our utilities, all of them. So they want to get ahead of the game and take over that side of government now.

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  • Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.

    Less "we are a utility" and more "we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it's used"

  • Language Barrier [OC]

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  • You might tell your DM to look up Sabir, where the term Lingua Franca came from, the "Frankish tongue" which wasn't really from the Franks.

    This is where the idea of a common language comes from. Sabir was a simplified pidgin mix of Mediterranean languages so traders could communicate. They still spoke fine but didn't conjugate verbs, used Me/you a lot without different forms (myself, I, yourself, them, they, etc).

    Sabir was a Mediterranean lingua franca, then Latin for 1500 years throughout Europe. Now it's English. The idea of Common in D&D comes from Westron or "the Common tongue" in LotR which D&D was heavily inspired from, which was basically written by Tolkien so that his constructed languages had a reason to exist. He was a scholar of languages, and the idea of a common tongue comes from actual history. He wasn't just making it up. Something like that would likely exist in a Fantasy world with lots of trade.

  • Language Barrier [OC]

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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

    It has real historic roots though. A common tongue isn't unrealistic. They once used Sabir or "Frankish" where lingua franca came from, then Latin throughout Europe, now English as a global lingua franca.

  • Language Barrier [OC]

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  • As much as people think having "Common" as a language is weird, it literally has historical roots:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

    People have been using a Common language for millenia. Today, the global lingua franca is obviously English. For about 1500 years, the lingua franca of medieval Europe was Latin. And for a while in the Mediterranean it was Sabir, where Lingua Franca the term came from, which was a weird simplified Mediterranean mix of languages (no verb conjugation, etc).

    Other areas with multiple languages have had their own Lingua Francas. It's a common thing to happen if you have big areas with multiple languages and lots of trade.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas

    So it's really not weird to have a Common tongue in games. It came from LotR which came from history since Tolkien was a huge language nerd and wrote a world for his language to exist.

  • It's time to talk about my writerdeck

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  • It's funny how we have all the tech to make hyper-realistic everything, yet people now are suddenly nostalgic for PlayStation 1 era graphics, 8 bit pixel art, and fully offline 80s terminals to be productive.

    We also have a taste of the sort of AI they wrote scifi about, but everyone automatically sees how dystopian it can be in capitalism and rejects it automatically.

    Cyberpunk dystopia is literally becoming reality. Now all we need is Elon Musk sponsored cyberware, military grade shit that can get hacked just because.

  • Kind of impressive when you think about it

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  • should be ungodly and near perfection

    Counterpoint: garbage in, garbage out

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    Gavin Newsom proposes a California digital software tax

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  • Why is Newsome trying to be even less popular before the primaries?

    All you have to say is the two magic words, "tax billionaires". For fucks sake Newsome

  • Human water hits different

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  • My cat used to do this then I started cleaning the water bowl daily and the behavior stopped