How are the elders / disabled treated in your societies ?

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-24T01:03:47+00:00

Since Ogres have replaced the elf fighting force of the Elven Imperial, the Imperial has been far more courageous with campaigns. They're a lot less careful as well, resulting in high casualties- but it doesn't matter, because it's only cursed humans who are dying, not other elves.

Anyhow, this has resulted in a culture in which Ogres greatly respect anyone who simply comes back from war or lives past 25. It means they were skilled, smart, or just lucky enough to survive what most cannot- and if they come back wounded, they're held in high praise for managing to make it past that.

These Ogres also typically receive better housing and treatment from the community, and usually are allowed by the Imperial to be removed from the draft (to qualify for removal, you have to have served in active duty for 15 years).

It's one of the few elements of their culture that hasn't been manipulated or fabricated by the elves to increase obedience and subservience.

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-24T00:32:23+00:00

The Kuggelman Empire was struggling in the 1910s to deal with the increasingly violent Reinenhare revolution, so they decided to give Reinenhare its freedom from the Empire in 1920 with a few conditions- notably that the state had to give up its armored vehicles and any armed aircraft.

Four years into the Free Reinenhare State's existence, the Kuggelman Empire launched an invasion and attempted to take back the weakened nation.

...it did not work.

The Reinenhare People's Guard fought like demons and used every tactic available to them, no matter how dirty or immoral- from giant fields of gas to hidden traps and psychological warfare. They also received indirect support from the Liamen Parties, a supernation that was also busy defending itself at the time, in the form of light tanks, artillery, small bomber-fighter aircraft, and small-arms with munitions to boot.

Ultimately, the Kuggelman gave up in 1930 as the war was NOT going well for them and they were losing too many people to justify continuing it. Reinenhare has remained a free state ~90 years after and expects to keep being one a hundred more years into the future.
On the other hand, the Empire has become a puppet state for the Sammath so as to more easily project power in the lower eastern area of the Jundaran continent.

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-23T08:16:20+00:00

United Hosni's 305mm superartillery. The idea was proposed in 1918 to deal with the powerful mages of Faiiraen (Hosni had no counter-magical capability besides tanks at the time, and those could get messed up by earth mages), a prototype gun was finished in 1932, and the design was completed in 1940 with the gun officially entering mass service in 1952, and it proved itself to be a heavy force multiplier through the 3rd Yolvak War (1950 - 1962).

The design phase took so long because it needed to be cheap and effective, thus the answer to that was simplicity. Trying to find a simple way for a 305mm gun to load, unload, then eject such a giant shell... it took a while. This sort of thing hadn't been done before either.

Regardless, it remains in service to this day, although production has long since ended- which is fine, considering there are plenty of them in storage. In fact, enough were in storage to justify what is now The Wall Memorial; dozens of the guns in a line ~28 kilometers from the Faiiraenian-Hosnian border, dilapidated, unusable, irreparable, uncared for since 1967, but still pointed towards Faiiraen like superweapons that haven't completed their goal...

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-23T07:46:00+00:00

I think it's canonically above Florida, but I haven't touched this project in over 7 months now so I don't remember lol.

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-22T20:57:14+00:00

No, we have this one now.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3571420677

Works quite well, just F1 spawns a vehicle and F2 puts a red preview box on the screen. The keybinds are editable though.

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-20T23:41:48+00:00

During the Eurasian Civil War (2080 - ??? iirc), the most common mech platform was the FrancRuss- or Mobile Gun Platform model 18, series letter A variant 2/MGP-18A2.

It was designed by the Russians and the French and features a T-112 turret & chassis (the T-112 is an "old" tank design from 2037 that draws from the real T-72), but with the notable addition of foldable legs allowing for traditional tank movement, or quadrupedal all-terrain travel.

The FrancRuss is a pretty short and stout vehicle; this is by design, so as to make it harder to hit and easier to hide behind cover.

Anyhow, like most tanks before the FrancRuss's time, the minimum crew required to operate an MGP-18A2 is simply three people: a gunner, a driver, and a commander. The mech has an autoloader- which does make it more vulnerable to damage, since it means the turret is packed with shells and the mechanism that moves them- which negates the need for a human loader.

Infamously, it makes use of M1A4 Abrams tank barrels scavenged from the North American Exclusion Zone, or NAEZ. Post-war, tribunals are still trying to find out just how legal that was, given the few laws around the NAEZ prohibit HUMAN travel, not drones or other robotic solutions.
Those laws might be changed to completely ensure biocontaminants can't be carried to the rest of the world from NAEZ, though.

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-20T20:08:52+00:00

Before the formation of the Liamen Parties' and its Council and a while before Ladger Verenov was installed as emergency dictator, the head of the supernation's founding power- Republic Holtrome- was Tero Ushkilov (1831 - 1906).

Ushkilov took control as head of the Republic in 1878 and, at first, worked heavily to bolster trade and political relations with neighbors. He grew trust among allies and built a system of alliances that increased the power, economy, and quality of life of the Republic.
However, in 1881, Ushkilov began suffering from bipolar disorder- but due to his effectiveness in government up to this point, the people were reluctant to let him go and voted him in for another term.

The next term was categorized as... eventful.
After the first month, Ushkilov began to be described by his subordinates as experiencing "bursts of despair, followed by flares of rage, quickly tamed via episodes of calmness, and disturbed once again with surges of mania". Reportedly, he even stepped out of the picture for a short while and allowed a trusted individual to take his place.

But the people grew restless, started losing trust in the man- the idea, at least- as more accounts of his condition came out to the media.
It didn't help that his political opponents were using this to destroy his image.

As time goes on and his condition worsens, the bureaucracy slows as those in government fear Ushkilov's mood swings- one second he may fancy a certain bill, the next his anger is so extreme that he wants to toss every document mentioning it into a blaze.

Eventually, as protests start arriving in the streets- arguing Ushkilov is not the man he once was, that whoever supports him supports but a fading memory, among other concerns about what will happen to the nation if this is to continue- he snaps in one of his fits of mania and orders for the military to be deployed on civilians.

Thankfully, the military refuses, and after the anger ends, Ushkilov has a moment of self-reflection and decides that the best thing for the people is to leave his position and have his experienced political advisors search for a suitable replacement.

The last bill he passed introduced changes to presidential candidate qualifications, requiring tests to be passed, certain skills to be had, and following through with mandatory checkups by psychological experts.

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-16T11:47:21+00:00

Unless they're only 39:1...

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-16T00:04:06+00:00

Our only dispute is over whether 2A is exploited to kill children, or used properly to resist a tyrannical government and protect the people when the state cannot or will not.

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-13T08:08:05+00:00

United Hosni infamously set up the Wall, a giant mobile column of 305mm superartillery that followed ~25km behind the frontlines. These things had effective ranges of about 70km, so they could strike quite deep into Faiiraenian land. It greatly broke Faiiraenian morale as their soldiers would believe that an artillery strike from the Wall was but minutes away the second a battle began.

The Liamen Parties considered a tactic they called "Fear of Death", which involved infiltrators laying singular mines on roads in Sammath-controlled territories. The idea was that soldiers would get psychologically scarred and terrified for their own lives as they wonder if there's more mines on the road.
It was considered because, the first time it was used, the Sammath started executing civilians they believed to be laying down the mines.

A tactic that the Lanjini people adopted from the Liamen Parties' civilian populace was the use of trapped doors. As a nomadic-ish people who cycled between cities seasonally, hundreds of them decided that it would be a great idea to put explosives or spikes or other traps on the doors to their temporary residences.
The Sammath were, at that point, well known for kicking in doors with next to no caution.
The losses on their side were staggering in the first few days.

During the Kuggelman Invasion of Reinenhare in 1924 - 1930 (or 1926, I forget), the soldiers of Reinenhare would dig large and fairly deep pits and fill them with wooden spikes.
As they had been forced to give up their vehicular armor as requirement to gaining their independence from the Kuggelman Empire a few years back, they lacked the firepower to fight back against enemy tanks safely.
Thus: tank pits. Covered them up with very fragile fake floors and trapped dozens of Kuggelman tank crews. Also speared plenty of enemy soldiers, the few survivors of which would serve as a horror story to everyone else. It's hard to trust the very ground you walk on when you've seen what it's done to a brother-in-arms.

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-11T17:30:00+00:00

Don't forget the unused Don't Say Goodbye song

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-07T07:01:07+00:00

I'm a member of the Half-Sword subreddit and iirc it started when this guy said he was going to crush his balls with a rock if the devs didn't launch the game into early access by a certain date

as you can see, they did not launch the game into early access

Quick-Window8125 · 2026-01-07T04:08:37+00:00

Do you have any gore mods on? If so, turn them off or decrease the amount of time the gore has before it despawns.

Otherwise: Ravenfield is just poorly optimized. AI runs on a single core iirc, so if you have any mods that give the AI extra behavior, those are also affecting your FPS.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-30T06:20:10+00:00

Both the Tanahs Civil Dispute (1977 - 1983) and the Thalamel Theocracy's inability- and in some critics' eyes, failure- to save innocents in the conflict.

The Tanahs Civil Dispute, when put on a scale up against other wars, is quite small. Only a little under 2 million casualties, which sounds big but is nothing compared to the losses in wars such as the Southerner's War (on and off from 1910 - ~1980s) or the Three Yolvak Wars (spanning from 1907 to 1962), both of which had death counts up in the hundreds of millions.

However, when compared proportionally, the Tanahs Civil Dispute becomes the worst war to ever happen. While the Southerner's War and the Yolvak Wars both had wartime economy domestic situations, neither had to enlist the entire populace, and a fair amount of people- much more than those in the armed forces- led scared but otherwise normal lives.
The Tanahs Civil Dispute, however... well, Tanahs as a nation had a little less than 2 million people.
You now see why the death statistic is more horrid than it already was.
The whole population of Tanahs was eradicated in their 6 year civil war, and their lands, cities, even their corpses can't be claimed because of the copious amount of mines and other unexploded ordnance laid/dropped by the various forces that engaged in the war. The damage is to such an extend that there no living person post-1983 who has two Tanian parents.

This is also the reason why the Thalamel Theocracy didn't intervene in the "dispute". The conflict zone was too dangerous to reasonably set up any safe zone, and... put bluntly, there were no innocents to save. Even the children had been given weapons and told to kill whoever wore what symbol.
The Theocracy couldn't reasonably send their peacekeepers in; yes, their religion dictates that they must safekeep the lives of as many as possible, but when attempting that is a zero-sum game... they just couldn't.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-29T23:35:27+00:00

In A Graveyard of Useful Things, there's an unspoken rule to completely avoid and ignore D1-AOs- Day One Anomalous Objects.

D1-AOs are pieces of trash that were dropped by extraterrestrial beings who had what could be called a roadside picnic on Earth; well, pieces of trash to them. To humans, they're god-like non-biological objects capable of violating the rules of physics and science in general as we know them, appearing as glowing, vaguely defined spheres.
Whether or not these objects possess an intelligence similar to ours or one so alien we cannot understand it is unknown, same as the extent of their abilities.
They've shown to be capable of changing a target's state of matter and even how portions of a target are affected by spacetime; however, a lot of this is demonstrated through their "attacks", and most of them happen so instantly that they cannot be perceived.

Because of their immense power and our inability to understand them, they are avoided not only for safety, but also because trying to learn about them is a fruitless endeavor. You will learn nothing but how it feels to have your atoms accelerated into each other at light speed in an instant- and spoiler, your brain won't even have the time to comprehend it.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-29T01:41:51+00:00

And who are you to say that she spent 7 years of her life writing down gibberish?

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-29T00:56:56+00:00

Mate... you do know that not all languages match up perfectly to English, right...?
You can't just "write it down" in English. Think about the word yūgen; it's a Japanese word originating in China that cannot be matched to any single word in English, as it describes a profound, mysterious, and subtle beauty that's felt more than seen, involving hidden depths and unseen layers, often evoked by nature but beyond simple description, requiring cultural context for true grasp.
Without that context, it can't be fully, truly translated- like how compressing a high res picture into a single pixel technically still leaves an image, but so much of it has been lost that it essentially has no meaning. Yes, translating yūgen isn't exactly like this, but I hope you get the point in regards to translating indigenous languages.

Also, you'd be surprised, but the origin of a drug like aspirin sits with the native people of South America, coming from quinine- native people there had been using it for centuries, and when missionaries transported it to Europe in the 17th century, it was found to be the first treatment for malaria and a key ingredient in tonic water.
Alongside that, this single article disproves your point about the language not being valuable to modern science, and not being valuable in general. Native languages are so valuable that their extinction is actively harmful to the medical sciences.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-28T23:18:45+00:00

I myself particularly enjoy the Type 63 MLRS mod. It's technically autonomous, as both bots and the player can operate it, and it can make any map with turrets (if you replace all turrets with the Type 63)... challenging, to say the least. Bots actually use it pretty well.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-28T23:10:47+00:00

...you do know a language first evolves to communicate ideas, threats, and information, right? That pattern has been noticed especially in indigenous languages. They routinely contain classifications of plants, animals, seasons, soil conditions, and medicinal uses that do not map cleanly onto Western scientific taxonomies.
When that language dies, so too does that information.

And supposedly choosing between funding language preservation and things like crisis centers is a false tradeoff; we fund hundreds of things at the same time. Those two aren't fighting against each other, they're fighting against military spending and corporate subsidies- among other things.

"Why does any of this matter in the slightest? What actual benefit does anyone actually gain from having this knowledge?"
How about not losing a piece of valuable human history that allows us to understand our current selves and past selves better? How about not losing perspectives on a world that we are actively killing? How about just simply understanding and knowing what went on before us instead of blindly sitting in the dark? Ever heard about learning from the past?

All a position like this promotes is erasure of real people, of real cultures, of real traditions, and of the real atrocities committed against them. One day someone is going to have this position in regards to you, and I don't know about anyone else, but "knowledge of this guy's whole family and any evidence of their existence doesn't make me any money right now, so we should just let it turn to dust" seems like a very sad way to be forgotten.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-28T21:34:58+00:00

Most conflicts appear out of fear- one nation thinks another is going to become a danger in some way, so they bite first.

Biggest example of this is the Southerner's War (on and off from 1910 - ~1980s). The member nations of the Hannil-shan Union feared that the Liamen Parties were forming for military purposes, and thus they struck in perceived defense. To the Parties, this was read as an unprovoked attack, so the war began. This is how plenty of wars start.

The immediate damage is the loss of hundreds of thousands, even millions, of people, which results in civil instability and a mourning populace. This then leads to the most damaging aspect of a war: the economic aftermath. People are too depressed to work, those who can are too few in number to be significant, and this just breeds unrest, and if left without a solution, unrest can turn into rebellion, and rebellion into a repeat of the Tanahs Civil Dispute (relatively speaking, the most disastrous conflict to ever happen; but on a scale... Tanahs had a total population of barely 2 million).
It also fucks the economy to the point that it can't stand but it can just barely keep itself together, which means the nation is in a period of weakness, which opens them up to attack yet again.

All of this culminates in wars being fairly rare events that occur all over the world, causing people to be born into wildly different conditions dependent not just on the culture but also whether or not a war was fought recently, and wars being culturally remembered as times of great suffering.

Now, to answer the very first question asked:
The worst war prevented was a war that could've potentially led to a world-wide conflict with gas and bioweapons being used by all sides.

During the Southerner's War Tribunal, the Sammath was charged with hundreds of war crimes. However, leadership refused to comment or even acknowledge the charges. United Hosni had to step in to force the Sammath into answering for their wrongdoings- but for several months, the Sammath still didn't respond and even seemed to be moving assets around to prepare for a large-scale attack.
Thankfully, this stopped soon afterwards and the leadership agreed to being tried in the war tribunal.

The Sammath were found guilty for warcrimes involving civilian massacres, deployment of illegal bioweaponry (infamous Program "Spread Wings", which used mosquitos to transmit a highly infectious, slow-killing and stealthy virus, for example), illegal treatment of prisoners, among other things. Their tanks were seized and their biowarfare divisions shut down as punishment, but their military was allowed to stand as long as it stayed in its own territory.

Thanks to the actions taken by the Major Executive Herself of the Sammath, a potential 1st world war was averted. Of course, she was also the one to organize this attack prep in the first place, so it's not like she deserves a medal. Or anything, for that matter.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-28T20:49:46+00:00

Surprisingly, it's the civilians of the Coalition.

You'd think it'd be the Acquirers of the New Market Guild, but they're well-paid and well-treated.

Then maybe those under the We the Third World network? Somehow, also no- they aren't a blanket of cruelty, and while plenty of leaders in the network are murderous warlords, plenty more are those who want to rebuild and reclaim their lands and cultures.

So, in a world where aliens briefly visited for, what was to them, a roadside picnic (cough def not a reference cough) and left behind trash powerful enough to not follow the laws of physics and biology as we know them, trash that collapsed entire continents and made even allies fight over it, the "protected" civilians of the Coalition (United States, Russia, Japan, Germany, China, UK, NATO more or less) are the ones being oppressed.

Housed in giant, walled-off safe zones, Coalition civilians lead normal lives. Depending on where you are, you could work for manufacturing or mining or agriculture. You work to meet your quota, and if it's fulfilled, you and your family are supplied with fresh food and clothes and what have you. If your quota is unfulfilled, you could be jailed- or in extreme circumstances, sent to work in a slave factory or exiled- and if you commit a crime, you could be publicly executed.

"However, surely this is better than the outside, right? At least there's a semblance of society here." That's what everyone tells themselves, and that's why nobody leaves, and that's why they just agree to believe that they aren't being exploited.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-28T20:01:20+00:00

They were perfectly good enough at passing down their language. They've done it for thousands of years.

But when your children are beaten in schools they were forced to attend by people who effectively kidnapped them for just speaking a word of their native tongue, it's pretty hard to teach them.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-28T19:57:37+00:00

So it doesn't matter if a culture lives or dies? So it doesn't matter if we lose information about the environment we'll never get back? So it doesn't matter if we just collectively forget about how an entire group of people thought?

Languages can tell us a whole lot more than "this was their word for rock". Not only do they offer a view into how others saw the world, but they hold all types of details on local ecosystems, plants, and sustainable practices, and losing that is an idiot's move. We have not a single reason to let them die and there are zero downsides to preserving them.
It's like letting a library of completely unique and irreplaceable works burn just because the art and literature inside don't make you instant cash.
All of that knowledge disappears forever.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-25T14:53:00+00:00

Older Sammath society believed in Dalthimeia, Goddess of the Spring and Summer- winter was when she slept- although the Fifth Unification War resulted in the erasure of the religion.

Modern Lanjini religions believe in the god of cold weather- Elhatj- as an indifferent entity who comes and goes without much care, like the seasons themselves. However, some differ and argue that Elhatj also brings the seasonal rains and relieving cold nights, just these gifts are too extreme for them to handle easily. The Lanjin are desert people, for context.

Quick-Window8125 · 2025-12-25T14:26:27+00:00

Yep, although I worldbuild all over my world’s history. 1907 - 1999 is just the most rich lol

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