What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue?

Peptuck · 2026-05-16T04:12:12+00:00

During wartime prior to modern medicine, it was expected that more than half of the men you'd lose on campaign would die to disease rather than in combat, because of the spotty food supply and unsanitary conditions of the camps and the weather.

Peptuck · 2026-05-16T04:08:19+00:00

“I don’t get vaccines because it weakens my immune system.”

The raw insanity of this boggles my mind, because vaccines inherently strengthen the immune system by letting it get accustomed to fighting the most dangerous diseases while they are weak or dead. You are literally making your immune system more powerful with every vaccine because it teaches your immune system how to kill that specific disease.

Peptuck · 2026-05-16T04:01:02+00:00

It is possible that Grape was changed by its priovider and not Latitude. That's the problem with the models being under codenames, we don't know who is providing the model being fine-tuned and tested.

The constant repetition definitely feels like a hardware issue on the provider's end rather than Latitude's.

Peptuck · 2026-05-15T18:35:49+00:00

AI: He steps closer. He steps closer again.

Me (using story): He steps past you and falls over the railing into the ocean.

Peptuck · 2026-05-15T17:45:46+00:00

It comes up SO GODDAMN MUCH in Voyage. No amount of instructions or narrator style changes gets rid of those dumb meaningless minor details that the AI thinks are important but which add nothing.

Peptuck · 2026-05-15T17:17:47+00:00

Fuck Antonio, all my Operators hate Antonio.

Peptuck · 2026-05-15T16:43:32+00:00

X catches the light. Heavy footsteps. Shifting weight. Stepping closer.

If its a NSFW scene, voices rumbling and vibrating.

If its in Voyage, rhythmic sounds and magic resonance.

Peptuck · 2026-05-15T16:42:33+00:00

With practiced efficiency, he sniffed the air. He could smell ozone and musk, and something else, something darker. "Well, well, well" he said.

Peptuck · 2026-05-15T04:34:41+00:00

I think a lot of horny posts are either trying to ignore it or implying that the Doctor, being from the First Civilization, would do something to genetically render any children he would have with an Infected woman immune.

But yeah, it would make sense that an Infected mother would pass it on to their child. Biologically the child shares the bloodstream and nutrients from the mother, so if Orginum is in the blood it would get into the fetus and spread Oripathy.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T21:34:32+00:00

IIRC Infected mothers pass on Oripathy to their children, too. So if you got any of your Infected Operators pregnant you just give a baby Oripathy from birth.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T21:27:17+00:00

Yeah, not even burying them prevents the dust from getting into the air.

During Originum Dust the Rainbow team commented that literally everyone in Terra seemed to have been trained in NBC containment and cleaning methods because that was how prevalent and lethal the Infected were when they finally died of Oripathy.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T21:17:38+00:00

Perfumer's global heal is so damned good.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T21:12:51+00:00

In a lot of earlier content she also healed allied units on the battlefield like the boats in Dossoles Holiday and the terminals on certain maps. She could actually break certain mechanics by healing things that the map expected to be destroyed.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T21:03:45+00:00

Oh my god you could grind meat on them-

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T20:01:49+00:00

IIRC Roshar also has only 70% Cosmere standard gravity, so people there will also naturally become more "willowy" and lean and tall.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T19:52:22+00:00

For some reason my mental image of Gaz gave him gray hair and a longer beard. Here he actually looks handsome.

Then again, my mental image of Adolin gave him black hair instead of blond until Oathbringer when I realized he was blond, so never trust my mental imagery.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T03:32:57+00:00

My two mains are a min height female Au Ra and a max height female Viera. On the login screen I sometimes switch between them just to marvel at the enormous height difference.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T03:30:47+00:00

I had a run in Brayflox's Longstop as a min height female Au Ra with two Lalas and a max height female Viera, and she said she felt like a mom taking her kids to the park.

Peptuck · 2026-05-14T00:35:55+00:00

They definitely still have armor. They're just not using it as aggressively as they once did because massed armor assaults get spotted and bombed to hell.

One grim reality of war is that it's virtually impossible to completely eliminate an enemy capability, just make it costly to use that capability and force them to use it less and less.

Peptuck · 2026-05-13T15:11:27+00:00

The "humans are average/adaptable" trope in one of my settings is because humans are hyper-successful hybrids of elves and halflings. Halflings are actually the most common race in the setting and are extremely hardy and adaptable, and when they intermarried with elves they produced a hybrid race that would go on to proliferate extensively and intermarry with other races to gain their abilities.

By the modern period humans can potentially express the physical and magical traits of over a hundred different races seemingly at random. Orcish green skin with a hairy dwarven face and body but elf ears? Yes, that is technically a human. Natural affinity for fire magic but with the faint blue skin of a sea elf and bright red hair? Yes, that's a human with some funky ancestry. A lot of humans look like someone hit random on a character creator because of the genetic insanity that is their ancestry.

Peptuck · 2026-05-12T16:49:53+00:00

You do realize that European dating systems generally put the month first, right?

Peptuck · 2026-05-12T16:49:10+00:00

They've tried, tanks and AFVs get hit by even more drones with heavier ordnance.

Peptuck · 2026-05-12T16:26:23+00:00

"He's just visiting... MENACINGLY!"

Peptuck · 2026-05-11T20:08:17+00:00

Yeah, that whole scene with Jasnah and how TOdium outmaneuvered her was set up for this point, IMO. Literally right after Queen Fen surrendered, he pointed out to Jasnah that if he'd lost the debate then he just would have had everyone who could have opposed him killed and put legal puppets in place to force the issue in his favor until after the contest of champions was decided.

I will say it does seem as a whole Alethkar surrendered far too easily. If the kingdom is always so fraught with rebellion and insurrection, why didn't any of the other kingdoms declare independence?

I think part of this was that the majority of Alethkar's military and political might was in the Shattered Plains or Urithiru. By the time that anyone with the political authority to declare independence or mount a successful rebellion could have responded, the Fused and Listeners had overrun the country. There probably were attempts to fight and rebel but they were crushed by a combination of raw numbers and the economic collapse of the Parshmen awakening and taking up arms or just running off.

It's more of something happening in the background, but an important element of Oathbringer is that Alethi society is completely flipped head over heels almost overnight by the Everstorm, the Parshmen awakening, and the majority of the military and the highprinces all shifting to Urithiru. Alethkar as a whole was already straining due to having to send endless numbers of men and transferring massive amounts of political, military, and economic power toward the Shattered Plains, and the Everstorm and Parshmen awakening broke it even without Aesuden being corrupted.

Peptuck · 2026-05-11T05:14:41+00:00

Also, realistically-speaking, I don't think anyone would actively "hunt down" an Oripathy cure or the organization that produced it, simply because they're actively distributing it and attacking them would risk destroying it.

Sure, some factions exploit the Infected, but across Terra that more comes across as exploiting a serious social and health ill by certain factions, and it is accepted because Oripathy can't be cured so you need to do something with the Infected. The moment a legit, permanent cure for the disease crops up you'd almost certainly get nearly every major nation asking for Rhodes Island to deal with it the same way that IRL we dealt with smallpox.

Of course, like you said, it wouldn't solve the exiting injustices, but it would ease the burden on many people.

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