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This use of "landlords" is somewhat alien to me and I suspect our North American friends will call it a Britishism. I'm unsure of a suitable substitute.

A 'landlord' is a term for the owner/proprietor of a pub. The guy who what owns the place you're making use of to get drunk in.

I feel it more traditionally refers to places where the village pub's a feature of the village, rather than a convient storefront some folks are renting to set up shop in.
 
Regarding the explosive drink: Paul is able to purge his body of chemicals. Now that he knows he should, he will probably just do that.
Because, well. Leaving explosives inside you seems rather silly.
 
It doesn't. They're like reverse parasitic wasps, laying their eggs in other sophonts. One wonders why they aren't killed on sight across the universe because of this.
Huge robot fleets, basically. And a basic lack of empathy on the part of their future enemies.
FYI, Zoat, Black Ivory Coffee is actually significantly more expensive than the one you linked to (and much more highly regarded...on top of being corruption-free).
Neither I nor the SI had heard of that.

Given what I just read, I don't think I'll thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Which reminds me, I wonder if Zoat's Thanagar is anything like the Thanagar from the Hawkman series. The concept of rights or morals beyond 'might makes right" is pretty alien to them in the various Hawkman series.
No, because a people like that couldn't make a functioning civilisation. They're more comfortable with violence, but in more of a seventeenth century Europe sort of way.
American here, I call mine a landlord, or at least I do when I'm not calling him 'that useless-human-shaped-sack-of-shit-who-refuses-to-fix-my-dripping-faucet'.
In the UK, a landlord can also be a person who runs a pub. Its use probably goes back to when they used to be inns.
 
We did. Pretty much all human civilisations started as 'guy with biggest stick says X is right/wrong', proceeded to 'guy with biggest army says X is right/wrong' and finally reached 'guy with biggest voting bloc says X is right/wrong.'

What? No while martial might was important in most civs it didn't keep them together just look at the Hitties or Egyptians the perception of a mandate from the gods and basic competetence was what made people keep following them to just give an exempel.
 
We did. Pretty much all human civilisations started as 'guy with biggest stick says X is right/wrong', proceeded to 'guy with biggest army says X is right/wrong' and finally reached 'guy with biggest voting bloc says X is right/wrong.'

Yes, but Thanagar (in New Earth) has an interplanetary empire and no laws against serial killing, torture, pedaphilia, or kidnapping children to sell them as sex slaves.

Because Katar once confronted a guy who did all of the above, and his attitude was "Why are you all in my grill? I'm not even doing anything that would be illegal on your planet, dude."

Katar's response was basically "Shut up, not the point!"

On the bright side, instead of having the equivalent of a swiss guard, the head priests of the various churches have their own ninja assassins.

I'm not sure if I'd call it impossible, but an interplanetary government that has less law than the typical Mad Max movie seems highly highly highly improbable.

A far cry from the earlier portrayal, in which Thanagar had no poverty or a concept of crime until the Manhawks started stealing everything not nailed down.
 
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Thank you, corrected.
I'm...really confused. Did I say something offensive?
No, I just learned that people drink poo-coffee. Elephant poo-coffee. It's not offensive, it's just disgusting.
A far cry from the earlier portrayal, in which Thanagar had no poverty or a concept of crime until the Manhawks started stealing everything not nailed down.
Portrayals of Thanagar have wandered all over the shop.
 
Portrayals of Thanagar have wandered all over the shop.

I suspect that's true for a lot of planets in DC, I know Krypton has been everything from techno utopia to having the Anti-Life Equation, and Mars has been everything from dead planet to Ares's personal fiefdom, and Daxam certainly wasn't always portrayed as genocidal space Amish.
 
Yes, but Thanagar (in New Earth) has an interplanetary empire and no laws against serial killing, torture, pedaphilia, or kidnapping children to sell them as sex slaves.

Because Katar once confronted a guy who did all of the above, and his attitude was "Why are you all in my grill? I'm not even doing anything that would be illegal on your planet, dude."

Katar's response was basically "Shut up, not the point!"

On the bright side, instead of having the equivalent of a swiss guard, the head priests of the various churches have their own ninja assassins.

I'm not sure if I'd call it impossible, but an interplanetary government that has less law than the typical Mad Max movie seems highly highly highly improbable.
It probably wouldn't be too functional, and would be really alien; not just savage and lawless. I recall the Kif from CJ Cherryh's Chanur series (she's really good with aliens). They were pretty interesting; an entire species that literally has no concept of empathy or loyalty or anything other than self interest and savagery, but (just barely) manages to make a semi-functional society anyway.
 
I would have preferred black fire, or star fire, older Zatana, or even jade but I guess a spider queen is fine too.
heh, maybe the new 'queen' is Blackfire.

FYI, Zoat, Black Ivory Coffee is actually significantly more expensive than the one you linked to (and much more highly regarded...on top of being corruption-free).
Mr Zoat didn't say the one he mentioned was the most expensive, just one of them.
 
We did. Pretty much all human civilisations started as 'guy with biggest stick says X is right/wrong', proceeded to 'guy with biggest army says X is right/wrong' and finally reached 'guy with biggest voting bloc says X is right/wrong.'
The issue with most contemporary portrayals of Thanagarians is that they come off as late-Trek Klingons - actual literal cavemen who spend all their time headbutting rocks and eating the third child of every family to make the harvest grow in faster. The JLU's explanation that they were essentially handed civilization by an elder god, which they then turned on for no reason other than petty savagery, made pretty good sense for what we saw of them there.

Meanwhile, one of the Silver Age versions had them be a post-scarcity society that was forced to elect borderline Judges to manage the problem of recreational crime: people on Thanagar became supervillains just because it was a means of enjoying oneself and feeling unique in a society that had erased all of its normal social ills, to the point where you pretty much couldn't end up noticeably poor without trying.
 
The issue with most contemporary portrayals of Thanagarians is that they come off as late-Trek Klingons - actual literal cavemen who spend all their time headbutting rocks and eating the third child of every family to make the harvest grow in faster. The JLU's explanation that they were essentially handed civilization by an elder god, which they then turned on for no reason other than petty savagery, made pretty good sense for what we saw of them there.

There is one downside to Zoat not using the Mad Max version of Thanagar.

As you may know, in Hawkman Katar started an american revolution style revolt with a manifesto stating "We hold these truths to be self evident that all sapients are made equal..."

I can just picture Paul in a battle between Hawkguards and revolutionaries "So, has anyone considered a constitutional monarchy?" as energy blasts fly through the air and people get medieval weaponry to the face.

Because we all know that the founding fathers are Zoat's most favorite people ever. :)
 
What? No while martial might was important in most civs it didn't keep them together just look at the Hitties or Egyptians the perception of a mandate from the gods and basic competetence was what made people keep following them to just give an exempel.
The 'might' in might makes right does not signify martial prowess specifically.
Example: Being a skilled orator makes you 'mighty' because you can convince other people that your opinion is 'right'.
 
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