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- Fri May 17, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
One area of space travel we are currently having to deal with is the lack of protection from radiation. Astronauts say you can see your cells dying when you close your eyes. Given that most of the races in the story that we have seen or have at least been mentioned in the extras have to deal with t...
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:12 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
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- Mon May 13, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Am curious if there's a list of these medals/citations, or at least the major ones. I think that such citations would be individualized. The Loroi are the sort that would much rather gift a custom greeting card rather than buying one off a rack. The two obvious general classifications of such citat...
- Mon May 13, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
- Views: 646634
Re: Loroi Trade translation request general
I had never heard of the "Florida Man" meme prior to it being mentioned in this thread, so I'm not well qualifed to comment on that specifically. I think that in general, trying to attach alien humor to specific modern internet memes would be perhaps... uninspired. The sorts of stereotypes applied t...
- Mon May 13, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off-Topic: Gaming
- Replies: 43
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Re: Off-Topic: Gaming
I have played Balatro a bit.
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Can Loroi catch a sunburn? If so, what color does their skin turn from it? Yes. In humans, burns and other rashes are reddish because the blood supply is increased near the surface of the skin, so it follows that sunburn in Loroi would be bluish. Same goes for any other similar phenomenon, such as ...
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
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Re: Loroi Trade translation request general
The Loroi as a group have very little interest in what the other races get up to.
- Sun May 05, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
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Re: Loroi Trade translation request general
Social mores aside, humans walking into an alien restaurant can't even assume that the local food will be safe to consume, much less that any alien drugs would have the expected effect on humans. If humans become regular customers, then presumably entrepeneurial alien restauranteurs will offer menus...
- Fri May 03, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
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Re: Loroi Trade translation request general
Evil. *While you're translating, do Loroi have a concept of good and evil? Or was that introduced by, oh say, the Barsam? ronnot - malign, hostile lilared - wrong, improper Loroi culture believes in good and evil in the sense of right and wrong, and that people can act out of a sense of benevolence...
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
My point is that there are many animals, including very closely related ones such as chimpanzees and gorillas, with powerful musculatures that do not exercise much as part of their daily routine. They mostly lie around all day, and when they're active, they're usually not running after prey or doing...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Heh, I'm reasonably certain it's a non-evolutionary outcome of a modern, sedentary lifestyle (ie, we didn't evolve to become more flexible, technology allows us to become weaker). Physiological changes that dramatic usually don't happen in just a few generations, so the human musculature most likel...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:58 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Trade translation request general
- Replies: 350
- Views: 646634
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:21 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
- Replies: 20
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Re: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
The fully upright, squared shoulder stance of ancient humans is surely an adaptation to the open savanna by an already bipedal creature. If Troodon evolved for a forested environment, then one need only postulate that one branch survived the extinction event and found itself in more open terrain. T...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
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Re: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
Yeah, it wouldn't have been T.Rex, but perhaps one of the smaller theropods. I think that tool-using intelligence is the path of the generalist scrounger, not the apex predator.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:19 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
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Re: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
The obvious advantage of bipedalism is that it frees your forelimbs to become dedicated manipulators. But my point is that theropods were already bipedal; their forelimbs were already completely specialized and not used for locomotion. In some cases (T.Rex) they were becoming almost vestigial. So th...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2511
Re: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
One of the first rules of (realistic) creature design has to be: long downward-hanging tails and upright bipedal stance don't go together. The whole point of a long tail in a biped is to counterbalance a forward-leaning body. A creature that developed humanlike upright stance would rapidly lose the ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
I don't really think of Gal Gadot as being especially muscular. Maybe a better example is Gina Carano, and yes, a Loroi female could get that big. I do wonder whether the ability to "bodybuild" (to use weightlifting to build for mass rather than strength) is a uniquely human quirk, or whether other ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:13 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Forum Issues
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Forum Issues
I have noticed lately that the forums log me out regularly, and that I get an HTTP 500 error after making a post. Are others having these issues, or is it just me?
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:10 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
- Views: 5243495
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Is it particularly difficult for Loroi in general to put on noticeable amounts of muscle? Not gigachad swole type, but more Laura Croft or Wonder Woman style of athleticism. They are noticeably stronger, but not to a ridiculous degree like how most comic books portray heroes. Loroi don't bulk up th...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6286
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Where might some of these enclaves and reserves be on Mestirot? On undesirable land (deserts, swamplands, steep mountainranges,...). Well, that's true, but I think that's inevitable; traditionalist societies, especially nomadic ones, tend to live at the fringes of civilization by their very nature,...