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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #29355 on: March 20, 2013, 02:59:32 pm »

There is a Jedi "centre" around here. They get into the local press once in a while when they get refused entry to places for not removing thier hoods, assuming the law protects religions that have 100% been made up as a work of fiction (as opposed to ones that are only very probably made up). One of them got beaten up by an intruder to the "centre" who was dressed as Darth Maul, and elected not to press charges on the grounds that it was his natural enemy.
Props you must give to one who suffers for faith does.



I think the longest branch goes back to an Imperial prince-bishop in the Reichsabteien of Fulda, circa 800AD.
It of course goes without saying that you are planning on doing a Paradox Megacampaign starting with this person when The Old Gods comes out.
Sadly, I don't think he held land. His title was Graf im Fulda, which translates as "Count in Fulda" rather than "of Fulda". Since it was an Imperial landhold, he could be a local noble who administered the region but did not have de jure title to it.

If he's listed though (even as a local baron of some kind), I'm totally playing him. All Hail the mighty von Lutere Reich!
Fun fact: said noble is also the progenitor of Martin Luther, who is therefore my umpteenth cousin many times removed.


My ex-wife is descended from some of the Mayflower colonists, from some Anglo-Scottish border reaver nobles, and on one branch, some minor English nobles that predated the Norman Conquest.  :o
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« Reply #29356 on: March 20, 2013, 03:01:02 pm »

Isn't everyone related to everyone anyways?
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« Reply #29357 on: March 20, 2013, 03:02:50 pm »

Sort of. After a certain point mutation renders it impossible to link different people together genetically, which is why the species isn't self-destructing from incest.
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« Reply #29358 on: March 20, 2013, 03:08:35 pm »

Sort of. After a certain point mutation renders it impossible to link different people together genetically, which is why the species isn't self-destructing from incest.
Not really. Humans are all pretty genetically similar. That's why they look and act just about the same.
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« Reply #29359 on: March 20, 2013, 03:15:03 pm »

Sort of. After a certain point mutation renders it impossible to link different people together genetically, which is why the species isn't self-destructing from incest.
Not really. Humans are all pretty genetically similar. That's why they look and act just about the same.
Obviously I am talking about the part that changes, not the part that doesn't.
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« Reply #29360 on: March 20, 2013, 03:17:04 pm »

'Dad: Matthew.
Me: What.
Dad: Shut up.
Me: No, you shut up
Dad: No, you shut up
Me: No. You shut up!
Dad: No. You're an onion!
Me: No y..what?'
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« Reply #29361 on: March 20, 2013, 03:29:00 pm »

'Dad: Matthew.
Me: What.
Dad: Shut up.
Me: No, you shut up
Dad: No, you shut up
Me: No. You shut up!
Dad: No. You're an onion!
Me: No y..what?'

Yep you got layers and they all STINK!
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« Reply #29362 on: March 20, 2013, 03:32:19 pm »

And cutting you into pieces makes me cry.
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« Reply #29363 on: March 20, 2013, 03:46:33 pm »

'Dad: Matthew.
Me: What.
Dad: Shut up.
Me: No, you shut up
Dad: No, you shut up
Me: No. You shut up!
Dad: No. You're an onion!
Me: No y..what?'
Dad WIN. He has mastered the koan argument.
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« Reply #29364 on: March 20, 2013, 03:48:14 pm »

It threw me off completely. I had to take several seconds just to compute what had just happened.
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« Reply #29365 on: March 20, 2013, 04:06:07 pm »

Your dad is an awesome person, that's what happened.
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« Reply #29366 on: March 20, 2013, 04:56:43 pm »

I just realised the reason why everyone and their mother has a noble or other important person in their lineage somewhere: they were the ones with the best chances of getting their offspring to prosper. It's just statistics.
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« Reply #29367 on: March 20, 2013, 05:04:45 pm »

Maybe it's just because there are enough nobles or important people to go around.
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« Reply #29368 on: March 20, 2013, 05:09:32 pm »

Has a lot more to do with the massive amount of philandering they did. Their genetic lines go everywhere because they kinda' screwed everyone in a fifty mile radius of wherever they settled down, and more or less fucked their way around the countryside when they went traveling.

You don't get the kind of spread they get from improved offspring conditions, in this case. You get it from having a lot more of them. A bastard at every way station and two in the capital, if you will.
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« Reply #29369 on: March 20, 2013, 05:56:46 pm »

And people will say "I have a noble ancestor" rather than "All my ancestors except one were unknown peasants"
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