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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.


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.


The downvoting behaviour so predictable. The irony of a controlling agent, hating the idea of beeing controllable.


Europe is where the debt is. Khazastan is not in europe.


inb4 some fundamentalist crafts a cattle plague


Nobody ever gets the David Brin references. To Real to be funny.


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.


Imagine a civ where this scenario ran away- for thousands of years. Behaviour optimized towards this.


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?


May i use this chance to promote some free alternatives to Still-cloned-Star-Craft: http://www.istrolid.com/game.html


Carrier of News has arrived.


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?


The Matrix kind of did this, with the switch in color saturation & tint between "inside" the matrix and "outside." Inside was desaturated and tinted green; outside was desaturated and tinted blue. At the time it was considered a nuanced way of exaggerating the difference between the two.


The Wizard of Oz used this in the sense that they saved the change (from black and white to color) for a later point I the movie (about 7 minutes in, iirc). Rather than the movie starting in color the transition was used to ad splendor to the world of oz.


Sunshine did that, by depraving you of red and yellow for a while and then panning out of the ship to show you our sub in all its glory.


Needs a new planet. Elon Musk: Somebody stole my mars shuttle.. or hide in North Korea Kim Yong Nil and Kim Dot Com


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