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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So what you’re saying is we have orcs and elves, And… We are the demigods?

    Oh Lords. When we pour the liquid metal into an ant colony to get its shape?

    Man now I kind of want to run a campaign treating the gods as if they thought of us as literal ants and termites.

    And… That gods that work with clerics and stuff are etymologists… And such…

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    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you mean entomologists rather than etymologists?

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      • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The typo kind of makes sense though. The Gods are etymologists who study the language of the bugs. It’s why they understand prayer. Entomological etymologists.

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      • rikudou@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Entomologist: From French entomologie, from Ancient Greek éntomon (insect) + -logie (from Ancient Greek -logía (from “lógos” - explanation)).

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      • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        <3

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      • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Of course there’s an xkcd for everything!

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You know how we like put shoes on ants right feet and it makes them go around in circles because they don’t understand what’s going on. Normally they can walk just fine? Now That’s a fun curse

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Here’s a relevant post

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      • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s like that movie vivarium or the show from, you keep driving trying to leave but keep passing the same houses after hours of trying

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        honestly i feel like an even more fey curse would be always ending up only slightly to the left of where you intended, cursed to never enter a doorway successfully.

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s a story element in Babylon 5. Some of the ancient alien races had evolved to the level of gods. One of them guided several alien races, in our case creating the myth of angels.

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    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Piquing a demigods’s curiosity, returning to your home city and finding it’s been turned to metal and everyone is fused into the walls/floors.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      shows the cruel indifference of many of the gods

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      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just that so far no gods have materialized in our world to study or even interact with us :/

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      • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Beyond our understanding! Fifth dimensional!

        But yeah

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Franz Ferdinand one of them, let’s see some carnage

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    • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here you go

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    • Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So if you’re lonely, you know I’m here waitin’ for you

      I’m just a crosshair, I’m just a shot away from you

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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We used to have hominid cousins living at the same time as modern humans like neanderthals and denisovans. I don’t think there’s a consensus answer on what wiped them out, ecological changes over the last ice age reducing the availability of resources that they couldn’t adapt to maybe, or prehistoric wars maybe and only the most vicious and violent hominid group survived, or some combination of changes and fighting they couldn’t adapt to quickly enough.

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    • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think it’s widely accepted that it’s

      Changing environment + being less competitive than homo sapiens (not a “war” with the “most vicious and violent”, but just that we used up all the resources and left nothing to them) + intermingling (Nenaderthals and HomoSapiens bred together into the modern day human) (yes, you’re the analogue of a half-elf.)

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    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Giving human history of treating humans of the same species with slightly different genetic features… I’m almost glad of not knowing what we would have done to a whole different species.

      “It’s the humans rights declaration, not the hominids rights declaration”

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        what we would have done to a whole different species.

        Well, humanity has about 6% Neanderthal in their genome.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok, but this is more like if one of those was a bird.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, but all from the same line. Less like fantasy and more like Rimworld.

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    • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Europeans fucked them into extinction

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    • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think we also interbreed some of them out

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ants seem to be at a significant disadvantage here.

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  • subgoose@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ok but who would win?

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    • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the long run? The colony that avoids open conflict unless it’s absolutely necessary to spare lives and energy. Guessing that’s how these two ended up like this.

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      • Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But if shit went down those ant soldiers would probably get rocked. They’re smaller and there’s less of them and they dont eat wood for fun.

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    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would say the ants.

      Termites would be the equivalence to a hippo in or out of water (wood, for them) while the ants would be hyenas. One on one, the termite would win, but ants tend to have the numbers and their bodies are more built for tearing tearing apart flesh/exoskeletons. With termites, it only really the soldiers that are capable of attack/defense while most ants in a colony are capable of such.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, I’m standing here, what do I see? A big nothing threatening me

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  • Lussy@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve got an idea for an age empires but with insects

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    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think they made that game recently,I don’t recall the name, but I’m positive an any rts was released recently.

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      • Fishroot@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        empire of undergrowth?

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    • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I grew up with SimAnt and look how I turned out!

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you like fantasy the series Empire in Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky is basically that concept in book form.

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  • AernaLingus@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    twitter.com/Hidet0shi1/…/1863353364706111601

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