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I really don't like how nomadic peoples are portrayed as extremely barbaric and primitive compared to their sedentary counterparts. I am now back on this forum to talk about my love of Eurasian steppe peoples who weren't even necessarily nomadic. Many of these people lived as a semi-sedentary...

Pretty sure this has been somewhat common since at least the Bronze age.

Was the public restroom clean? Or was it a really public restroom?

This is some of the most tame shit I've seen from a discord screenshot. No actual pedophilia or plausible terrorist manifesto.

Writing often touches into deeper philosophical thought, which is sometimes the message writers try to express in their works. But I'm going to be honest, the various methods of immortality really isn't that deep. We aren't touching into the possible effects of immortality on the human psyche...

Meta stories require good authors to not end up seeming stupid, cringe, and convoluted.

Idk how it is in the Philippines, but from where I come from nothing happens. Most people know that police officers setting up weirdly placed roadblocks and demanding tolls is just extortion. But if we report them or bring it to the court of law, case gets lost in a pile of paperwork or...