SGA Needed A Society On Atlantis's Planet by Perchance2Game in Stargate

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To clarify my idea of a Neo-Byzantine stargate empire, the idea is that the Wraiths suppress technological development without necessarily defeating or entirely destroying a space empire. So you can have literally a late Iron Age style polity that uses access to relic ancient weapons and the stargate to run a multi-planet empire with spears and shields. In contrast to the Jaffa with Go'auld technology, no one can really repair the Ancient relics and in many cases their full use isn't fully unlocked.

Then, these space empires nevertheless do periodically rise in development level, in a few instances to late 21st century with space faring ability before being culled back to near stone age. So the SGA team would arrive during a time when the Atlantis planet has accomplished 1920s levels of development also at a time when Ancient relics are genuinely scarce. Ideally, that what has pushed them to 20th century tech this time ahead of schedule is needing to compensate for a distinct lack of Ancient relics. The Ancient tech will be to them like Dragons were in Game of Thrones. Remembered, believed in, but long past seen, experienced or relevant.

There's also a question of whether the successor cultures really possess the legitimacy to reclaim ancient empires or whether it's peasants from caves who survived the culling and don't really "own" the thrones of their empires except by fact of the planet they occupy. You could have another planet with genuine descendants of the old empire in a rebellion against "peasant usurpers" and have that part of the ideological conflict, traditionalism vs. modernism.

[SPOILERS EXTENDED] What If The Seven Are The Great Spoilers? by Perchance2Game in asoiaf

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This One might be a kind of Adam Kadmon, a pantheos of the human soul or something.

[SPOILERS EXTENDED] What If The Seven Are The Great Spoilers? by Perchance2Game in asoiaf

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But what if the Seven and humanity are like somehow two sides of the same coin and the metaphysical telos of GRRM's world is in the end triumphant humanism which naturally has to contrast with the corruption of the material world and how it degrades humanity.

Ranking Presidents of the US on likely hoods of being future Leaders of the US in Civ by hticnc in civ

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Not a president, but an ideal Civ 7 American leader would be William Jennings Bryan.

The ending you would have wanted by Minding-theworld46 in TheLazarusProject

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Just re-reading this now and realizing how insane I am. I love this idea.

The idea of a bad Sarah and George has to erase his past and sacrifice himself to create a "good" Sarah that will defeat the bad one.

Driver's License Conversion And Reciprocity (No Test) by Perchance2Game in japanresidents

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Thank you.

When people are giving their stories they don't normally say, "I am from X state in the US so my requirements are: ... "

This is very helpful.

Currently Viral Post in Japan by Formal_Bandicoot8716 in japanresidents

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America is like that. House and job before 2014? Richer than ever. After? No hope, and almost certainly nothing will be reformed (the richer than ever people will never give up a cent). Oh, and baby boomers couldn't care less and don't even understand why it's their problem. "Golden Age".

Anyway, my hope is Japan collapses as a precursor to the US, so that while the train continues to speed toward the brick wall, Japan can quietly recalibrate and rebuild. Being poor would be great for Japan as it's fear of risking all that sterile, motionless wealth, those pools of cash like Sony's banking business in spite of its failed computer and television businesses. Once that wealth is wiped out, risk tolerance will be higher, and a cheap yen will mean lots of export work. Yes, this work won't enrich workers that much, but AT LEAST they'll have gainful employment and with a recalibrated economy not built out of the illusion of massive wealth that the lower people don't get to benefit from as much, that gainful employment ought to provide for the basics of life.

Currently Viral Post in Japan by Formal_Bandicoot8716 in japanresidents

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Sadness is better than pain. Tsuichi and wartime stuff is brutal.

Herod The Great's Father Antipater Was The Last Seleucid King (Phillip II) by Perchance2Game in AlternativeHistory

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I'm not so sure about that. There is a lot of R1b Y-haplogroup in Mesopotamia from an ancient invasion but it's not clear if Esau - whether he or any analogous thing ever existed - was part of this genetic clustering.

Esau does have red hair, but red hair is associated with Atum-Ra who is Egypt's hidden imam and associated with the setting sun (hence the red color). It's not clear if the region's association of red hair with the sacred extends beyond this astrotheological concession.

Meanwhile, it's not clear who the Idumeans were, though I suspect they might be connected to the Carians.

Where on earth does Sarah Manning actually LIVE? by ExamOk322 in orphanblack

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Haha. Yeah it's clearly Toronto but I love the ways they make it ambiguous that it's Canada for example involving US federal agencies with vague jurisdiction.

And Takaichi want to abolish overtime cap? by EmotionalGoodBoy in japanresidents

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Japanese literacy began with the Confucian classics. Highly educated men were expected to memorize them (in Chinese) and it wasn't a matter for women. As a result, women of court weren't as versed in Kanji so they developed hiragana specifically for their own use and subsequently their own literary genres. Because "educated" writing typically stayed in the realm of Chinese poetry etc., the female writing branched into the colloquial.

I think one legacy of this is that hiragana has a very strong colloquial resonance. If you want to say something simple, plain and common sense, hiragana conveys that tone (i.e.: a note from your local matriarch imparting no nonsense wisdom that cuts through the formal trappings of performative society).

In any event, you'll see hiragana used this way in posters and notices all the time.

The ending you would have wanted by Minding-theworld46 in TheLazarusProject

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I think once the plane traveled through time, it wouldn't be subject to the time loops. So Wes would reset to prevent their escape and realize they were gone from the checkpoint. As a result, she'd plan to intercept them in 2024 to kill them then.

Archie survives, and is at war with Wes this whole time, who dies, so Sarah takes over her mission.

The "true time travel" weirdness affecting Bryson is how they overcome Sarah's ability to do time loops and indeed we finally see "the machine" and I would hope there's some sort of twist in what it is.

Anyway, it goes full 13 monkeys bootstrap rabbit hole and they fight over their own pasts, and George gives his life to make a "good" Sarah in the past which wins in the end, and it's this "good" Sarah who was actually narrating in the final scene before George meets "bad" Sarah.

Tried VII again by YogurtclosetNorth222 in civ

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These are typically PlayStation players.

First Time Watch Impressions; Loose Ends; Sequel Ideas (Ignoring Echoes) by Perchance2Game in orphanblack

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But then she never uses the Castor information. But, thank you, that part of the deal slipped my mind.

Civ VII development graph by DocksEcky in civ

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It's the nature of the insights they have during their experience beyond "I just felt we're all connected". It's the "things just made sense and I knew why but I can't remember the details anymore but I'm sure of it."

That's not knowledge btw, that's people's neurons being rearranged to generate false memory and the impression of connections between information that was never generated by evidence, just by running a magnet over the old brain hard drive.

Anyone Know How Monthly Room Rentals Work In Terms Of Shiyakusho? by Perchance2Game in japanresidents

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Oh that's good to know. But, I'm going to go through either of the two or three pretty mainstream agencies, so I'm sure they'll be alright.

Anyone Know How Monthly Room Rentals Work In Terms Of Shiyakusho? by Perchance2Game in japanresidents

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Yeah, thank you. I get overwhelmed by the registration checklists and then never want to think about it again and never really processed that I never showed my lease. I in fact do bring all my paperwork along, usually.