Recent content by Kaiphranos

Nice Ben Aaronovitch collection in the background too!

Messing around with a hand-drawn map for a fantasy wargaming campaign:

Would widespread adoption of nuclear energy replacing fossil fuels be sufficient?

What is "Illyrian" cuisine like?

I've got to say, all the entries for MotF 279 so far are delightful - I can already see it's going to be a tough decision when it comes time to vote!

Hmm, now I'm curious about alternate hieroglyphic decipherment routes. With more interest in cuneiform, maybe we get something like the Caylus Vase but going the other way - using one of the other languages to decipher the hieroglyphs? It's a pity the Treaty of Kadesh would probably require...

The written versions might be more mutually comprehensible than whatever is actually being spoken.

That's an interesting dialect we get there - I presume it is Ohio-specific (though I wonder how affected it may be as part of the speaker's stage persona...)

I wonder if the parable of the blind men and the elephant gets brought up a lot in the context of Diversitarianism and objective truth...

I still think the way to go for weird Societist food culture is class-based sumptuary laws - the intelligentsia are issued with fish (or other "brain food"), workers get bland and hearty fare, Zonal Reyes are required to feast in the grand manner...

This was my entry for the 12th Telephone Map Game, from a bit further down one of the branches: I was given a map of a united "Australasia" and decided to work backwards to show how it might have come about.

Random thought: if Societism envisions the "Final Society" as incorporating all of humanity, what are Societism thinkers' opinions on the possibility of intelligent aliens? Would Societists attempt to incorporate aliens into the World State, or would it be a strictly human-only affair with...

I'll claim. I voted for branching, but I'd be most interested in a limited sort of branching where maybe the initial map gets passed to two people but is linear from there onwards.

This was my map for the latest Telephone Map Game: I followed on from @GodoftheTranses and decided to come up with an explanation for the rectangle in Northern Luzon.