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• imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you mean entomologists rather than etymologists?

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    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      <3

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    • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Of course there’s an xkcd for everything!

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  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here’s a relevant post

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    • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    shows the cruel indifference of many of the gods

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Beyond our understanding! Fifth dimensional!

      But yeah

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• ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Jumi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here you go

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  • Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Europeans fucked them into extinction

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  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think we also interbreed some of them out

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The ants seem to be at a significant disadvantage here.

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• subgoose@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ok but who would win?

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  • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Lussy@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      empire of undergrowth?

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  • synae@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  twitter.com/Hidet0shi1/…/1863353364706111601

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