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The quote OP posted is from 1957, which was 69 years ago. If my math is mathing right, 69 > 20.
Do you think this shit started on October 7th 2023?
Man, that one was super easy.
If I'm outside my house, I'm not scrolling through social feeds. I don't need the doombox to follow me everywhere I go.
The other human beat me to the punch, but I would strongly suggest you check out the Townsends video series on it. Dude made 4 entire videos about the stuff. It's a very deep dive. Like, so deep you get the bends if you come to the surface too quickly. I love Tasting History, but when it comes to pemmican specifically, the Townsends did it better.
I've come up with a few, but I'll just talk about my favorite race in my world.
There is a small continent (Tah) located in the tropical/subtropical zone of my planet where the only humanoids are a turtle-based race known as the Tahween. They are known for their slow movements, long lifespan (average life expectancy is 340 Sun Cycles, which are roughly equivalent to years, but consist of ten 44-day "months"), and wisdom. They are extremely hostile to outsiders, and very few of them ever leave their home continent. Those who do choose to leave are forbidden from returning. While they are not very good at physical combat, their wisdom allows them to harness powerful water magic and earth magic to defend their homeland. Luckily, they do not use this magic for wars of aggression, since they are isolationist and do not wish to expand their territory/sphere of influence.
Their government is entirely based on who is the strongest wizard. If you want to be the Lord Wizard, you must defeat the current one to get the throne. If the Lord Wizard dies of natural causes/accident without being defeated, a tournament is held to determine who gets the throne. Their economy is basically what we would call perfect communism on Earth. Everyone contributes what they can, and everyone receives what they need. Their diet mostly consists of leaves and fruits, they will occasionally eat a small animal if the opportunity presents itself, but they don't actively seek out meat. The concept of marriage is entirely foreign to them, they do not form romantic bonds. During their mating season, it's basically a free for all. They are known to mate with multiple partners during each Vibrancy (their equivalent of our "Spring"), and they often choose an entirely different set of mating partners every Sun Cycle.
As far as religion/mythos, they believe that Tah Ara (similar to Gaia, the spirit of the planet) created them from water, leaves, soil, and a bit of magic. They abhor physical violence, as they feel it is disrespectful to Tah Ara's creation. As far as the afterlife, that's not something they buy into. They believe that the materials/energy that make up an individual are not inherently theirs, and are recycled to create new life. They have no concept of a soul, a Heaven, or a Hell.
Their staunch isolationism is a result of an attempted invasion by the Thaug (a humanoid, Rhinoceros-based race, think Rocksteady from TMNT) that took place 2408 Sun Cycles ago. The Thaug are an aggressive Imperialist race, who seek to control as much territory as possible, and only respect power. That invasion/war led to a third of all Tahween being killed or captured, but in the end, they were able to repel the invading force. As a result, the Tahween take a similar stance as the Sentinelese do on Earth, "stay the heck away from us or we will kill you before you can manage to say "hello".
I don't want to spoil anything for people reading this exchange, but if you search the phrase "[REDACTED] Heaven slang" you'll see that it totally fits.
I'm kicking myself for blanking on the one between wart and Heaven. Used two bolts and then the answer was so obvious I was mad at my brain.
It's a server I created for my Guild Wars 2 guild. Most of us have been playing the game for 10+ years, so when I started the server, we already had a small pool of members built in. My guild grew to the point that we needed to make a second guild, since we hit the player limit ingame. Then we needed to make another guild for the same reason, and so on. I currently control 8 guilds ingame, between my two main accounts (each account can be in a total of 6 guilds, so I have to switch to my alt account to run the other two guilds).
We are mainly focused on training new players on how to succeed in Raid encouters, Dungeons, and other PVE content. So we get a lot of new people joining the guild/server to learn. We don't require people to join our guild to play with us or join our discord server, sometimes we run with PUGs (MMORPG speak for strangers) in our Raid party, and when we do we send them the link to join our server, since voice chat makes it easier to communicate quickly. Once they're a member of the server, they usually stay, though some leave the server once we are done with the Raid.
I also get approached by new-ish players ingame, because they see the guild tag above my head and know our reputation for helping newbies. So I invite them to the server/guild if they want some guidance.
We started out with 34 people, and as of last night, we have 616 members. We've had a few people leave, and I've had to ban a few people for behavioral issues (we do not tolerate any -ism or -phobia in our space). But we've grown a lot, and built a positive and supportive community along the way. We've even had a few IRL meetups for folks who are able to attend. The last one was in Vegas, and 41 people showed up. We had a blast.
And as we all know, people in the middle of a mental health crisis always act logically and make good decisions.