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[Neonivek]

Does it count as sleep paralysis when you die in a dream, and are then just trapped there, in some grey void, unable to wake up, with an uncomfortable feeling of being unable to move your physical body no matter how hard you try and beginning to panic that you may actually be dead or stuck there forever?

Your body is ALWAYS under sleep paralysis when asleep.

It is possible you were trying to move in real life (in spite dreaming) and felt your real body... Or yeah it could just have been a really bad nightmare.

[Shadowlord]

Does it count as sleep paralysis when you die in a dream, and are then just trapped there, in some grey void, unable to wake up, with an uncomfortable feeling of being unable to move your physical body no matter how hard you try and beginning to panic that you may actually be dead or stuck there forever?

Your body is ALWAYS under sleep paralysis when asleep.

Then how do I go to sleep laying on my side and sometimes wake up laying on my back, ehhh?

[Felissan]

Does it count as sleep paralysis when you die in a dream, and are then just trapped there, in some grey void, unable to wake up, with an uncomfortable feeling of being unable to move your physical body no matter how hard you try and beginning to panic that you may actually be dead or stuck there forever?

Your body is ALWAYS under sleep paralysis when asleep.

Then how do I go to sleep laying on my side and sometimes wake up laying on my back, ehhh?

Gravity

[TheBiggerFish]

Does it count as sleep paralysis when you die in a dream, and are then just trapped there, in some grey void, unable to wake up, with an uncomfortable feeling of being unable to move your physical body no matter how hard you try and beginning to panic that you may actually be dead or stuck there forever?

Your body is ALWAYS under sleep paralysis when asleep.

It is possible you were trying to move in real life (in spite dreaming) and felt your real body... Or yeah it could just have been a really bad nightmare.

No, you really aren't.  Your body can thrash about just fine.

[timferius]

My wife gets sleep paralysis sometimes, always with a hallucination of a firefighter looming over her. I guess that'd be a dream for some...

[Neonivek]

Does it count as sleep paralysis when you die in a dream, and are then just trapped there, in some grey void, unable to wake up, with an uncomfortable feeling of being unable to move your physical body no matter how hard you try and beginning to panic that you may actually be dead or stuck there forever?

Your body is ALWAYS under sleep paralysis when asleep.

It is possible you were trying to move in real life (in spite dreaming) and felt your real body... Or yeah it could just have been a really bad nightmare.

No, you really aren't.  Your body can thrash about just fine.

While asleep your body releases chemicals to limit/prevent itself from moving around. Without it you would be... well.. fully mobile.

Which is possible! Commonly known as sleep walking.

Then how do I go to sleep laying on my side and sometimes wake up laying on my back, ehhh?

Two equally possible situations
1) You managed to do it in spite of sleep paralysis...
or MUCH more likely
2) You woke up while asleep and you didn't notice.

Believe it or not... many people wake up several times while asleep.

[Rolan7]

Why does Age of Empires keep connecting Indians (from India) with woodcutting?
In AoE3 they make villagers with wood instead of food, and a lot of the cards (like "mango grove") are about gathering more wood.  I thought it was just a random thing.
But apparently in the new AoE2 "Rise of the Rajas" expansion, they get all woodcutting upgrades for free.  That's not a coincidence, it must be a reference I'm not getting.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

India is some of the world's most fertile land, so...maybe?

[Baffler]

You would think that would mean better food production though.

What I wonder though, is why there's an expansion coming out for an older installment of a series when the latest one is more than 10 years old.

[Aklyon]

Is it for AoE2 or AoE2HD?

The latter is more recent than AoE3.

[Rolan7]

Fakedit:  I assumed only HD edition got the new India races?

@Baffler
Probably because AoE3 introduced a bunch of weird complicated mechanics that... maybe didn't contribute to competitive gameplay?  Including a level-up system, but...  Eh IDK.  AoE2 has *plenty* of mechanical depth already.  AoE2 has much more of the roots of RTS.  AoE3 simplified a lot and added other, very race-specific things.

Arx could probably explain better.  But basically, I don't think they could have balanced AoE3 well.  Starcraft 1&2 kinda manage it with 3 races, the AoE3 team is dead and has arguably like a dozen races to balance.  And they tried to make every one fairly unique.

Whereas AoE2 survives because it has a loyal, even fanatic playerbase.  And the differences between factions are usually... not minor, but less than in Starcraft or AoE3.

[Shadowlord]

Wasn't AoE3 the one set in America during the "Age of Colonization?" They aren't even the same Indians.

[Rolan7]

You're right about AoE3 being in the age of colonization, versus the European medieval period.  But what do you mean by them not being the same Indians?

[Sheb]

Well, I don't remember India Indians in AoE3.

[Shadowlord]

Aoe3 only contained "Indians" from Continental and Caribbean America, none of whom, at least when I played it, were even playable. (Wikipedia says there was eventually an expansion which added Japanese, Chinese, and actual Indians as playable factions, which I was unaware of)

"Raja," meanwhile, is a monarchical title from India and southeast Asia.

Hope that clears up what I meant.