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Contentious opinion: popular music has gone to shit ever since it became possible for mediocrities to create crap quickly, i.e. some time in the late 1980's. I don't really agree with that, but, either way, I've got the feeling that late 1980s music, on average, sounded a good deal more different f...

Something random that I've been thinking about for a while: Aren't we long overdue for a fundamentally new music style? I've got the impression that the major music styles on offer have basically stayed the same since the 1990s, except that Techno is less popular than it was back then. I mean, I'm a...

I've checked the Planet Construction Kit and the Book of Cuzei on both my (admittedly fairly old) Kindle and my cellphone's Kindle app, and the tables of content didn't work in any case.

SPOILER WARNING Ok, I've planned to post this for, I think, at least a year or so, but somehow never got around to it. It's kind of a partial review plus comments on the book. LAST SPOILER WARNING First of all congratulations on doing something of which I'm not sure if anyone else has ever done it-...

So they can combine sex and fishing without problems?

The Sex with Ducks Song (NSFW). Not great or outstanding, IMO, but the title line is pretty catchy, and it's less preachy than it could have been.

I've not seen how often each map will appear. What's the schedule? If you go to the Really Old Changes page and scroll down to 2001, you can get some idea of the speed at which the Historical Atlas of Eastern Erelaé was published back then. Zompist may or may not put stuff up at a similar speed thi...

I just thought I might draw the attention of those of you who don't regularly check the Almeopedia for updates to the Historical Atlas of Arcél, which Zompist is starting to put up now.

Since it seems to be Strange Music Weekend: The Eighties gave us the Terminator franchise and the various subgenres of Eighties rock. What they didn't get around to back then was to combine the two.

4) I'm not very sure how the ilian telepathy could work. Human perception of reality is due to highly sophisticated cerebral processing of sensory input and there is no known way of "downloading" perception. Even the experiment of stimulating the brain directly with electrodes only makes the subjec...

Nice work- IMO from a late 20th/early 21st Western perspective, it's kind of funny that one of the things that make the female dominance viable in that environment is the lack of horses. :P And as for women having better endurance and maneuverability... I have no idea what that means. Certainly wome...

Ketumak wrote:So, if you give bees cocaine, they get high? Cutting edge research

Not as dumb as it might sound for people who don't know much about biochemistry- different substances can have very different effects on different species. Think of humans, dogs, and chocolate.

Seems to be up again.

And so is, apparently, everything else hosted by Lore. I hope it's not too serious.

Now that people have started talking about Gelalhat- it's mentioned several times that they send priests to areas out of Dekhnam that Dekhnam wants to influence. But what do they preach there? The main central tenet of Gelalhat is, apparently, obedience to the ktuvok rulers- what shape does that tak...

Hmm, for a start I think "Eynleyni" sounds pretty. If you really want to rock the boat don't add pleasing euphony to the language, give the people a motivation other than the Lex-Lutherian obsession with harassing Verdurians. Maybe rewrite the history Perhaps you should re read the history? Did you ...

Does that mean that you'll have to edit hundreds of pages to change all the place- and country names from Eynleyni languages we've seen so far?

Edit: And shouldn't you really be asleep now?

The barbarian in the second lesson of the practical course - is he part of a barbarian invasion in the Dark Ages and plundering the farmer, is he part of the ruling elite in a nomad-ruled kingdom and taking advantage of his power, or is he just some guy, and the farmer helps him out simply because r...

The latest in expensive upscale cosmetics: Get slowly eaten by tiny fish. Just in case you've always wanted to know what it feels like to be the big animal in one of those cleansing-for-food symbiotic relationships you've seen on TV.

Erenat- Netherlands (a country that used to be ruled by a foreign, but not too distant, different country, started a revolution inspired by a newly imported religion, drove the foreign rulers out in a lengthy guerilla war, became a mercantile, sea-oriented republic, and is full of high mountains) Te...

(Warning: Dumb and offensive right-wing site ahead) THE MUSLIMS ARE DESTROYING OUR ICE CREAM TRUCKS!!!!! Sure, there's no sign that they're behind it or in any way connected to it, but IT JUST HAS TO BE THEM!!! It just HAS TO BE!!!!! If there's no evidence for it and it isn't reported, IT'S CUZ THE ...

Why? This way, they get everyone who types "penisland.net" into a browser as a visitor. That might be a lot more than they'd get with another URL.

Well, at nearly any age, I don't really want to hear about any of my own ancestors' sexual experiences -- my mom's least of all. (I don't even want to hear about my dad's, or my grandparents', or my sisters', though my brother has a few interesting stories.) As an adolescent or late pre-pubescent p...