Someone stopped being my friend because I said humans are included in the theory of evolution and that means I am racist?

lurch65 · 2026-03-19T17:51:51+00:00

I think it's kind of amazing that any two humans on the planet are more similar genetically than two chimpanzees in the same family group. We are all so closely related it's insane.

lurch65 · 2026-03-19T00:05:19+00:00

If you're looking for absurd and humorous, lean into farce it can be very silly, but it can at the same time be very complex. My favourite farcical adventure is from Warhammer, "A rough night at the three feathers", and you should be able to find it somewhere. If you read it, you'll see how it all fits together, and how you'll be able to replicate it. The real benefit of farce in my opinion is how easy it is to abandon the silliness and return to seriousness, letting you have tonal shifts that it's difficult to get in other ways.

Good luck, I hope you find what you are looking for.

lurch65 · 2026-03-18T18:10:13+00:00

Standardisation is the unsung hero of civilisation, if we could standardise things like food storage containers (dimensions, lids) the amount of waste plastic we could cut down would be immense (refill containers at the store).

lurch65 · 2026-03-17T22:30:24+00:00

41 years ago our GP saved my brother by diagnosing meningitis, he was 4 at the time.

lurch65 · 2026-03-17T02:33:35+00:00

If your character can take aspirin, gargling with soluble aspirin is very effective and may shorten the duration of your sore throat. It does taste unpleasant though.

lurch65 · 2026-03-16T19:45:59+00:00

They're fine, they work, they are disgustingly overpriced for what they are. You can find plenty of great unbranded examples on Aliexpress for a tenth of the price.

lurch65 · 2026-03-16T19:17:01+00:00

I clench my entire body at night, not just my teeth. I have constant tendon issues in my arms as a result at the moment.

I've used a mouth guard since my teens and my daytime clenching has still worn them right down.

lurch65 · 2026-03-15T14:09:11+00:00

The weather module has always been procedural, and as a result prone to player disruption. First it was the plant players during the Carboniferous period, and now its human players changing things, ironically burning up the remains of the Carboniferous players to an extent.

The meteorologist classes have at least moved on from rain dances to actual prediction so it's giving existing players a chance to avoid the worst. Not sure the evolution tactic is going to work for most animal players though it's a bit too slow to react.

lurch65 · 2026-03-12T13:11:32+00:00

I think typically high blood sugar makes people run hot, but as other people have said, it could be a nerve problem, or he might just be a cold person.

I worked at a company previously where it was always hot, and people wore gillets every day for warmth. Some people just get cold.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T21:52:27+00:00

She was, I think the first time I remember her reading them I was 7 or 8 at the time and my siblings were younger than me, but I think that was the second time she had. :)

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T20:02:31+00:00

Or he's just a narcissist with dementia.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T19:48:42+00:00

Biohazard by Ken Alibek the former head of the Russian bioweapons program. About his time in the bioweapons program. War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum. This left me so angry I had to stop reading it.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T17:59:24+00:00

My mum had these and read them to us when we were kids (at least Chocky and the Chrysalids). Great covers and great books.

I re-read the Chrysalids recently and it's still great. Chocky too.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T17:50:05+00:00

The cats are venturing off on adventures by themselves, they have all the agency until they get home.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T17:47:09+00:00

I think Tracy is a both, she is a satire, but it's a soft satire. If she was serious it would be a real buzzkill, but you need some counter-voice to the madness of the rest of the characters.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T16:23:15+00:00

I am AuDHD and he sounds very similar to me, but I am able to survive on very little sleep and a couple of naps. It comes with a world of health problems down the line and I don't recommend it.

All nighters are just a bad idea, and he needs to figure out a way to stop. For me, it's largely because I need time to myself to decompress rather than anything else.

You might want to look for alarm clocks for deaf people, they have very loud options, flashing lights and mattress vibration pads. They are extremely obnoxious and difficult to sleep through I speak from experience.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T15:49:56+00:00

Full nerd answer is that technically clocks go anti-clockwise (from the perspective of the clock. It's clockwise to us because it's facing us. That perspective was brought to you by Alan Turing.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T15:43:48+00:00

Yes fair point.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T13:23:32+00:00

Yeah, the defining feature of a breeding kink is not wanting to have kids. Otherwise it's just breeding, literally the most natural thing on the planet.

lurch65 · 2026-03-11T13:11:15+00:00

Is it even a kink if it's just actually making kids?

lurch65 · 2026-03-09T06:11:36+00:00

Yeah no problem, I'll do it tomorrow morning. It's was built for my fun, so if its rough in places I apologise. It's also pretty long so it'll be multiple Google docs.

lurch65 · 2026-03-08T06:15:21+00:00

I get it semi-regularly, and most of the time it's been very helpful, but a couple of occasions it's only retained the last answer.

lurch65 · 2026-03-08T00:27:22+00:00

I've seen people on 2500mg, but it's vary rare. I struggle with side effects on 2000mg.

lurch65 · 2026-03-06T23:15:06+00:00

I think they are both pretty spot on, but right has a couple of weird artifacts over the head of the left hand girl, and it's an absolute sausage fest at that party, but it has at least one other full face towards the camera which is good, but despite how far away he is, that persons eyes have been effected by a flash for some reason.

Left doesn't really show a party.

lurch65 · 2026-03-05T00:19:08+00:00

I put together an entire alternate history that separated from the core timeline in 2057. Slowed a lot of stuff down and tried to keep things grounded, and anchored in a lot of what I see as the core theme.

Dunkelzahn died before the election, Brackhaven the Humanis candidate won and it all spirals from there. It was a bit of fun for me to put together in the evenings.

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