Comment on Anon has a power fantasy

Estiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Boats beat out horse drawn carts by an insane amount.

  It’s why trade hubs and major cities were practically always on a major river and/or in a favourable location for a port.

  I find most campaigns severely lack river transportation

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  • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep, not having a bunch of your trade going to feeding and caring for your horses makes a huge difference.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Boats can also move much more than a horse and cart. More than a pair of bullock even

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    • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Someone’s never owned a boat.

      There are 3 idioms that come to mind.

      A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into.

      A boat owner is only happy twice. When they buy a boat, and when they sell it.

      “You don’t want to buy a boat. What you want is a friend with a boat!”

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      • EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A boat for personal use and a boat for trade use are two very different things.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        For trading, boats have always been better in regards to the amount of stuff you can carry, even back before sails were invented. Also, unlike roads, water doesn’t need maintenance, it just needs to be at a high enough level that the boat won’t crash into rocks or whatever.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This message brought to you by Big Equestrian.

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  • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Big horse killed my baby

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    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are opportunistic carnivores after all

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    • ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is that what Bojack Horseman is all about?

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      • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, my baby _loooved_heroin.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Big (and smol) Equestrian

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• NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All magic comes with a price.

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  • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What can I get for tree-fiddy?

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    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, it was about that time when I noticed that Rumpelstiltskin was about 8 stories tall and Crustacean from the Protozoic era…

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  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It just costs 1 gold coin a month…

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• conditional_soup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have giant hummingbird mounts in my game, but guess what? They need nectar from giant flowers, or just barrels full of sugar water, and/or they sometimes pick fights with giant insects in order to try and eat them. (Fun fact, hummingbirds eat small insects IRL) They’re dead useful and loads of fun, but it exacts it’s price.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m so very glad that I never tried to enlarge my pseudodragon familiar to try and ride him into battle. Never even thought about the fact that pseudodragons cannot pay attention for shit.

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• Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Big chocobo disagree with you

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  • snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Large chocobo is pretty neat but can’t compete with my spherical sheep mount

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Plus, not every species can be domesticated. Gryphons and dragons are independent and not herd animals. So they may not understand the concept of following a leader, which is an important part of domestication. And if they did, you’d probably have to best them in combat before they’d do it.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But you can talk to them and make friends with them

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This assumes two things: That I am capable of making friends and that I would then not feel weird asking to ride on my new friend.

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      • Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is it not normal to ask if u can ride ur friend?

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• uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But what if cart drawn by flying pony?

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  • Estiar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I could never ask Fluttershy to haul things for me. At that point, I would start carrying things for her

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      YEAH!

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      But also Equestria is r63-land.

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• Gladaed@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This, but also for coal power in the 80s and 90s.

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