Tar_Alcaran

What’s the point of a flail if it doesn’t even give me a small advantage against shields?

Not every shield is strapped down. Though I agree this one is a bit big for just a center grip

You monster, what about curryketchup? (I think that’s the English word for it?)

I’ve heard someone with a similar job reply with “does your computer cost more than a house? No? Then I can’t help you”

You are the people comfortable about genocide of Russians and Ukrainians so you could continue to live a more lavish lifestyle in West.

I am very much not comfortable with the fact that Russia is mass deporting Ukrainians and taking their children.

India and China have similar stances on matters, as does Russia, to the point India and China are the only countries in the world to sign a pact of not using nukes first. Why do western nations never sign that pact? 1945 Japan vibes?

Not only has Russia not signed it, Russia is actively using chemical weapons right now, despite numerous treaties about it.

Russia also signed a treaty to leave Ukraine alone if it gave up it’s nuclear weapons, and look how they are respecting it.

Brezhnev was a leader in Russia, not Ukraine. His place of birth does not matter.

Oh boy. You really really need a course in history if you think all the parts were treated the same. It mattered a LOT.

How manipulative do you have to be to claim Soviet Union and Russia (core of USSR) are not the same,

Despite Russia’s best efforts, and post cold-war propaganda, they really aren’t. I think the continued fall from Soviet superpower into Russianpetro-olicharchy should be a big hint.

But, as with most people like you, it’s protection all the way down

In 1971? I’m pretty sure it was the Soviet Union buddy, and Leonid Brezhnev was from Kamianske, Ukraine. As was a majority of Soviet cold war equipment.

I know that doesn’t fit your political preferences and deep seated need to excuse genocide, but facts don’t care about your feelings.

We were saved by Russia’s intel.

No, you were saved by a Soviet intervention, led at that time by a Ukrainian man, by ships mostly made by Ukrainians.

We have flying cars. They’re called helicopters, and they suck for most activities

“AI” is the new “blockchain”. It’s a solution looking for a solid problem to tackle, with some niche applications

Give us guns?

Well, it’s Modi, so I’m pretty sure the answer is “Corruption, massive and blatant corruption, with a sprinkle of incompetence”

I don’t get it.

That piece of art reminds me of Messerschmitt forrays into “car” building: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200

Women suffering is a feature for them, not a bug

You could even do away with a full skeletal system in the upper section. Could be almost all muscle around some bones for support and mobility.

Having more ribs isn’t a problem for a mammal, those are pretty variable between species, unlike vertebrae. And thats quite a puzzle, how many go into the horse bit, and how many in the human bit? Obviously the horses “neck” and the humans lower back overlap, but it’ll still be a puzzle. You’d end up with a less flexible body.

Now, I would think that with the extra space, there would be something like a stomach in there to begin breaking things down before sending them along but that isn’t mandatory for the basics to work.

Why? Centaurs aren’t ruminants, imagine eating grass with those poor underdeveloped human omnivore teeth, or stripping leafs with human lips, ouch. In fact, feeding a human brain and a horse body with a human mouth is going to be a LOT of work.

If you’re going to do tentacle-arms without bones, the human part would basically need to be all muscle, with some weirdly deformed vertebra for shoulders.

And that leads me to another thing. It must have some very intricate blood-pumping systems, because centaur hands can’t reach the ground unless they bend aaaaall the way down, like head to knees low. In order to actually use those hands, they’d have to be upside down for long periods, but also right side up for long periods. With a very thirsty human-stylr brain.

I love these points. It’s one of the things I run into a lot because I love doing maps for larps. Players all have places mentioned in back stories, or that were visited in past events, and they almost never show up on maps.

Yes, the quaint little village where you killed 200 werewolves was extremely memorable, but if we add every 250-peasant hamlet to the map, it will be solid black.

Yes, it matters a lot to you where your barony is, but just the borders of all the baronies alone will turn the map into a giant blur. And also, I’m not going to name 800 baronies.

So we have a regular worldmap, and a “storyline map” that doesn’t exist in the world, only on the wiki. Many towns are notable because “players were here once”

And if they beat chaos, they still have a pretty good chance of getting shot for knowing things they shouldn’t.

For most regulations, the laws and rules say something like “companies must ensure X doesn’t happen”, and the companies themselves have to come up with a way to do that.

Let’s say the law says “companies that transport apples must be able to show which batch went where”.

Company A says “to comply with the law, whenever we move a shipment, we store the shipping order on our computers”

Company B says “to comply with the law, the truckdriver will film the place they left, count the apples when leaving, then email the entire dashcam trip, and count the apples on arrival”.

Neither process is wrong, they both follow the law. But when I go to Company B, I promise you they’re going to fail the audit. They’re (probably) not doing anything illegal, but they’re going to fail their audit because no truckdriver is going to count a truck full of apples.

They made that rule, and they really didn’t have to.

I do other audits, mostly safety and environmental, and my big question is usually “nobody made you write this, why would you write this down if you don’t want to do it?”

And the book is horrible. Want to throw a grenade? Let me check under grenades… No, not there. Let’s check under the throwing skills. Nope, no throwing rules for weapons. Well, maybe under attacks? No, that doesn’t have grenade throwing rules either.

Oh look, here in a completely seperate section, contained in an unlisted sidebar, are the rules on grenade throwing.