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1:07 PM

@Green I have no idea...

1:18 PM

@Hosch250 Oh, getting shot in the head doesn't make you leader for life, it is just to help remind you and others not to get ideas above your station, or to put your own desires over the law and needs of your people.

2 hours later…

AndyD273

3:04 PM

I kinda like that unfair division of electorates question. It took a little bit to wrap my head around what they were asking, but I think it would make for a lot of potential intrigue. At least in the scenario for my answer.

James

3:44 PM

@Green I don't want to read that.

John Locke

@AndyD273 I didn't understand what the question was. The seats are already unfair, and the OP wants to make them more unfair?

AndyD273

3:59 PM

@JohnLocke The first unfair is that you can buy seats, meaning that only rich people get a say. The second unfair is to weight it even more in the favor of the rich. So if you have enough money to get a seat, then it's easier for you to get more seats than it is for someone who doesn't have a seat yet.

James

4:17 PM

@AndyD273 Did you just noun unfair?

AndyD273

4:33 PM

@James That's a matter of perspective.

Green

@James why not? It makes great bedtime reading.

Green

5:02 PM

I have a favor to ask of anyone who's willing to help or has time to burn.

I'm considering putting a few of my really well written WB answers into a cover letter/portfolio package as evidence that I can reason well, have a sense of humor and can write well too.

If any of you have answers of mine that you especially like, would you please point me towards them?

These should be SFW answers (and I'm aware that I have a number of questions and answers that outside the context of WB.SE, would be highly controversial. I don't want those.)

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James

6:14 PM

Q: How long would it take a region to geologically settle down after a major cataclysm?

So in my story/world I have a region that is straight up destroyed...demonic magic is nasty stuff. So we have rings Ring 1 (1 is in the middle) This ring has a diameter of about 200 miles. At this range things got real real bad. The land that was here was completely gone, either ejected in...

That's a good one.

Green

@James Thanks! And, yeah, I really like that one too.

James

Q: Medieval politics with fantasy races - Round 2

Previous discussion: Medieval politics with fantasy races In the question above I was focused primarily on how having various fantasy races would impact a traditional medieval monarchy. Unfortunately the idea of a monarchy in this situation seems to be less and less plausible the more I ponder...

government fantasy-races

Also good

Q: Forest rebels and the animal brigade

So you are rebel, your name is Norn, and you are hidden away in a lovely forest swarming with all kinds of little critters, in the middle kingdom where the king and his formidable military are hunting you and would like nothing more than to decapitate you and every one of your rebel buddies...th...

science-based warfare fauna tactics

and this

Green

Can you imagine trying to eat food laced with skunk musk? Even in the tiniest of fractions?

James

@Green uh...what? I mean no, but why are you asking?

Green

> Skunks. Oh my, skunks. Skunks are the ideal area denial weapon. There is nothing smellier in the world that skunk musk. Train them to spray enemy combatants or enemy food supplies.

It's from the forest rebels question.

Thanks @James

James

6:30 PM

@Green I had to go re-read that. Your answer and @CortAmmon 's are both excellent.

Green

@James I'm so glad he's started using Chat.

Green

6:58 PM

WBers are terrifying people. Reading through Cort's answer....wow.

James

7:08 PM