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Umi-san said:
if the HK steal our reforms again I will be wroth
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It'd probably either a) Break their system into tiny little pieces with the various complexities involved or b) be utterly worthless since they do not have currency.

And a) would be because we have: A huge trading network, a proto-stockmarket, currency, and a huge population with millennia of admin advances to name a few. If they tried to implement all of that they'd probably pop due to all the progressive strain.

veekie said:
And then there'd be the traps like trying to implement our tax code without the intellectual infrastructure to have people to assess them properly.
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Yeah you wanna implement these super advanced and progressive things without the background infrastructure? Okay I'll let you try. <- Crow teaching a dumbass a lesson.
 
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BungieONI said:
And a) would be because we have: A huge trading network, a proto-stockmarket, currency, and a huge population with millennia of admin advances to name a few. If they tried to implement all of that they'd probably pop due to all the progressive strain.
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we're rly only ahead on currency and trade atm; they implemented it when we'd made most of our admin advances, iirc. Except libraries, messengers... many things... nvm.
 
veekie said:
Somewhat. If we were a post collapse splinter I could see a drive to reattain past glories instead.

Nifty. Basically took the overall laws, considered what they didn't want to keep/couldn't afford to keep, struck those off, then considered what's unique to them and added it in.

Handy way to stealth propagate culture. E.g. the laws on proper corpse disposal responsibility might be copied, though they'd laugh and strike out the whole thing on regulating prostitution. They may or may not keep the anti-hoarding laws, since the King would be in favor even if the less powerful nobles wouldn't.

And then there'd be the traps like trying to implement our tax code without the intellectual infrastructure to have people to assess them properly.
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I still gotta say that entire scene where they ran and fucked off when our king consulted the Law after they tried to badger him was one of the funniest things in the entire quest for me.
 
couldn't get the idea out of my head -

Khemetri: Greetings, little barbarians! Take me to your ruler and his throne!

Ymaryn: *tilts head, sits on dirt* This will do.

Khemetri: *sneering* Have you barbarians sunk so low as to consider the dirt your throne?

Ymaryn: *bored face, gestures to the terraces* Yes, because these terraces are a grander seat of power and a more perfect representation of us than any fashioned and adorned seat for a single person.
 
huhYeahGoodPoint said:
couldn't get the idea out of my head -

Khemetri: Greetings, little barbarians! Take me to your ruler and his throne!

Ymaryn: *tilts head, sits on dirt* This will do.

Khemetri: *sneering* Have you barbarians sunk so low as to consider the dirt your throne?

Ymaryn: *bored face, gestures to the terraces* Yes, because these terraces are a grander seat of power and a more perfect representation of us than any fashioned and adorned seat for a single person.
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Khemetri: *sneers for a second more* ... oh. *gobsmacked*

Ymaryn: *chuckles* Want a fire to warm us during our talk?
 
Umi-san said:
we've skipped hating the trell and jumped right to the khemetri, interesting
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Well actually there was a big funk about the Trelli when they first appeared.

Then the Khem showed up and we hated them for a second. Then we realized, "Oh wait this dude is a scrub trader who is posturing and we are seeing culture clash".
 
Andres110 said:
This has stopped being true ever since we lost Nobility in Humility.
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I don't know, it applied before NiH came along, and I still think losing it wasn't entirely fair.

No, we went through our Trelli hatred phase. I remember a lot of people were immediately in favour of killing them off as a knee-jerk reaction to meeting them.
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I mostly remember the hostility being based on CoT - which I was very glad to shed. Note that there has been no talk of war against them since :).
 
Andres110 said:
What's the joke here?
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Think about it.

What's a hippie? A pro-environmental rebel against a conservative culture.

So being surrounded by hippies means everyone is a "hippie". No one is a rebel. So actually for the Ymaryn no one is a hippie, so they don't know the word.
 
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