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Comment · 10 years ago
Eh, no, alcoholism lead to farming.

If you need the booze, you need the bees, if you need the bees, you need to stay for the summer. If you want a year round supply you need storage, if you have storage that is not transportable, you have settled.

If you cultivate plants, you can up the numbers and found city states- but for that you allready have to be half way settled. Else that nomadic sheep guy from across the fence will drive his cattle through your fields.

Comment · 10 years ago
The downvoting behaviour so predictable. The irony of a controlling agent, hating the idea of beeing controllable.
Comment · 10 years ago
We are programmers and architects - do not bend the rules, we made them, your bending suggests flaws and imperfection and is offending.

Trains shall run on tracks. Spontanious agents are a loss of controll. The horror.

Comment · 10 years ago
Europe is where the debt is. Khazastan is not in europe.
Comment · 10 years ago
Nobody ever gets the David Brin references. To Real to be funny.
Comment · 10 years ago
Imagine a civ where this scenario ran away- for thousands of years. Behaviour optimized towards this.
Comment · 10 years ago
inb4 some fundamentalist crafts a cattle plague
Comment · 10 years ago
I dont trust you to hold back on the lottery tickets and not start a civil war - so to secure my future, i got to put lots of lottery tickets into the pot.

Gametheory makes us do it.

Comment · 10 years ago
Open the Door Hal, its my spouse, she wants in.

> Im sorry, but your true love is allready home.

Turns down the heat in the stairwell.

Do we really have to humilate burglars into prentending to be dogs?

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Comment · 10 years ago
Carrier of News has arrived.
Comment · 10 years ago
Yes, what a wonderfull example of corpoorate paranoia. They are out there- the enemy, the other tribesman and there psychopaths- out to get me, my fortress, my product for cheap- but i will show it to them, i shall leave no mark upon this world, for which i shall be remembered.

Ten layers of tinfoil can capture pirate-bullets.

Comment · 10 years ago
Could you rejuvinate this effect, for example let a movies colours and 3dness fade out before a dramatic plot point brings it back to full colour?
Comment · 10 years ago
Needs a new planet. Elon Musk: Somebody stole my mars shuttle.. or hide in North Korea Kim Yong Nil and Kim Dot Com
Comment · 10 years ago
I want a cable laying snake..

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