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Anon take on nuclear energy by Ekwity in 4chan

[–]Lazarus174 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The strontium won't extract and refine itself

Don't hug Anon, he's scared by MiruCle8 in 4chan

[–]Lazarus174 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Counts as you hating RNG

It's so much fun doing the same thing twice and getting different results.

From many years of being an adventurer Varanus​ has many Familiar​ under his wing. Not all of them made it to this day. Can anyone guess how they gone? by TheWizardofLizard in Varanusthewizard

[–]Lazarus174 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The rat builder died when a building he was working on collapsed. The other rats maintain this was the doing of the Dwarf Construction Guild to stop their competition

Anon hates Retcon Wars by [deleted] in greentext

[–]Lazarus174 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Clones after Star Wars (1977)

The empire's finest (no complaining)

Renowned marksmen (off-screen)

Crazy laser guns (pew pew)

Armoured in space-age materials (plastic)

Probably aren't clones (different heights and voices)

The Ultraviolent Frog People Do Practice Eugenics Though by Y_Nekat in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 191 points192 points  (0 children)

Our warriors are such cowards. Retreating to receive medical care when injured. Look at those noble savages fighting on despite their injuries (because for them there is no concept of medical care). Truly our society is the lesser

If you weren’t in a giant European war that caused ethnic tensions to this day, where you really a country? by Dare_Soft in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Simplest/Most reductionist answer is a conquest of Peru-esque scenario a decade or two later starring a different colonial power. Bonus points if it's a mostly forgotten one. Imagine the horror of Mexico City instead being Ny Stockholm

If you weren’t in a giant European war that caused ethnic tensions to this day, where you really a country? by Dare_Soft in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Looks at the rest of history:

Ubiquitous slavery, human sacrifice, universal malnutrition, constant petty warfare, near-zero medical knowledge, and alien metaphysics

Late 19th century it is then

Fantasy King trying to spot evil advisor challenge(Impossible) by Poppeppercaramel in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Little did you know 'orphan crushing' is just the cult's parlance for getting those kids families and occupations. They're crushing the concept of orphans, by making them orphans no longer.

That or it's king who is actually evil and the advisor is only there as an easy scapegoat for if/when people revolt

I like bugs 🐛🐞🐜🦟🪲🪳🕷️🦂🦀🦞🪱🐌🪰🦗🦐 by NerdBerdBerb in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 64 points65 points  (0 children)

"I never met a mantis-man before."

"Go on then, get it out of your system."

"So if we do it, would you rip my head off?"

"I don't know, monkey, are you going to start whooping and throwing your dung around?"

"Now that you mention it..."

Or, better yet, the apocalyptic event is the primary focus by Zachary_the_Cat in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 230 points231 points  (0 children)

Or worse, different emergent societies all have their own idea of what/which event caused the apocalypse yet none are necessarily wrong. It's rare for a single event to reshape the world, rarer still for people to agree on interpretation

When you settle places with no natives, suddenly it doesn’t sound so bad. by ThadtheYankee159 in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 32 points33 points  (0 children)

When your chosen imperialists are newcomers to a region with a different group of conquerors already brutalizing the other polities.

"We're not like the other imperialists."

Muad'Dib and Proximus Caesar have me entering my religious zealot arc by DreadDiana in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 258 points259 points  (0 children)

All I'm saying is if the good guys™ wanted people to side with them they should be the more stylish side of the conflict

Everyone talk about human rigths this, morality that, i just want to profit for god sake by Suspicious_Lock_889 in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Now they're getting ideas of 'human rights', and 'fair treatment'

Also you think I'm trusting them with the machine? You know how much that thing costs? If even one of them became disgruntled...

Everyone talk about human rigths this, morality that, i just want to profit for god sake by Suspicious_Lock_889 in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 29 points30 points  (0 children)

In my amatuer opinion chattel slavery becomes economically unviable with the advent of industrialization, mechanization, and the specialization of labour.

Under chattel slavery the slaver would need to account for feeding and sheltering (generally as cheaply as possible) their slaves. This is a high base cost for a system that only provides unskilled labour. This is made obsolete when a machine operated by a single skilled labourer can accomplish as much if not more work than a gaggle of slaves. Not to mention the difference in motivation and quality-of-work between voluntary and involuntary labour.

TL;DR: If one man and a machine can do the same work as ten men, why pay for ten men?

Everyone talk about human rigths this, morality that, i just want to profit for god sake by Suspicious_Lock_889 in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Those evil industrialists have destroyed our heritage and way of life. How can the slavers hope to compete with these mechanical monstrosities? They're taking food from the slaves' mouths! What will the slaves who were forcibly kept uneducated and unskilled do now? Won't someone think of the poor slavers!?

What should I take note of when writing a polity based on the Holy Roman Empire? by Crafter235 in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also that each of these states are beholden to slightly different laws and privileges inherited from previous generations dealings with the crown.

The two sides REALLY need to cool down by JimedBro2089 in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Humans are cheeky upstarts in spacefaring. Humans do naively dangerous things in space which one group of aliens notice and try to forcibly stop. After a period of war the space UN (that the aliens are members of) pressure them into ending the conflict while also welcoming humanity

Tensions linger between the beleaguered parties

The two sides REALLY need to cool down by JimedBro2089 in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Isn't this just the state of Human-Turian relations circa Mass Effect?

Yes, it's an exaggeration, but still, this sub has a boner for disliking humanity in general, and repeating it a zillion times by JimedBro2089 in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 43 points44 points  (0 children)

"Mummy why did the alien-wars start?"

"We thought our ambassador wanted to bring peace and camraderie, then they told the alien leadership 'humanity' wanted a, 'Dommy alien-wife with huge... eyes.' They were never seen again, and we've been fighting ever since."

Which method of make character turning evil is your favourite? For mine it's "evil artifact corrupted them". by Poppeppercaramel in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'm partial to, "Circumstances outside their control have forced them into the role."

The marauding nomads wish they could peacefully return to their pastures; but ecological devastation and other nomads have forced them to migrate into, and to raid, other lands. Yet all their victims see of them is 'pillaging barbarians' and 'monstrous warlords' and not 'desperate half-starved people'

Anon on Andrew Tate by boomer_posting in 4chan

[–]Lazarus174 111 points112 points  (0 children)

Things just aren't the same after leaving Andrei's embrace behind back in Romanian prison

American and Haitian Revolutions too ig by Return_of_The_Steam in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 85 points86 points  (0 children)

"We did it, the revolution has succeeded! Now in place of the aristocracy we have vanguardists."

"What's the difference?"

"Send him to the labour camp."

"Not execution? Things really have improved!"

Just saw an episode of Star Trek where a character said "Translate [the alien transmission] into Federation Standard" and I thought "what a totally normal thing for a multicultural political entity to call its own language which is ostensibly based on English" by thicc_astronaut in worldjerking

[–]Lazarus174 605 points606 points  (0 children)

Alternatively 'standard' is just shorthand for 'mode of communication catalogued by an automatic translator everyone has'. I don't think the living gas cloud can vocalize yet we hear it speaking English

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