Greetings. We are Professor Zik-Chil. We come from Athas, where we serve as the Priests of Change for the insectinoid species known as the Tohr-Kreen. Using our mastery of Life-Shaping, we have escaped the confines of the Crimson Sphere, and explored the many worlds that populate Arcane Space. We have now discovered this world, this Earth, and have become fascinated with it and it's creatures. We will discuss a number of topics relating to our explorations of Arcane Space, and in return explore this strange realm and it's technologies, and these things you humans call fandoms.
Currently (actually legitimately) sobbing because I looked up the etymology of the word "Mama" because I was curious and there isn't really one
It appears in so, so many different languages all across the globe, languages that have little else in common
beyond that, it's thought that it's origin is polygenesis rather than all stemming from some single root word—that maybe it's instinctive as opposed to taught.
It's thought to predate written language
From a language development standpoint, "mm," a voiced bilabial nasal, and "ah", a low back vowel, are two of, if not the two, earliest sounds humans make when we learn to speak
"Mama" being one of the very oldest words there is
makes sense. the first person a human child has any real degree of experience with and dependence on is their mother, it would make sense for a species that possesses the ability to communicate via sounds to have a biologically ingrained sound to request attention from their mother that is distinct enough to be recognizable and pleasant enough on the ears so as to not invoke annoyance. especially since, unlike many other mammals such as cats, humans have very little in terms of other ingrained instincts and are essentially helpless during the first couple years of their lives.
some extra character options in case you want to add more explicitly Christian elements to your Pathfinder games, largely focusing on the branches of Apostolic Christianity (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Coptic Christianity and so on), though options for other denominations are available in the Feats section. Also includes angels and demons, and a new "prayer" skill.
I intend to write up and produce a superhero-themed book (mostly generator rex and ben 10 inspired) soonish, so if you liked this at all but want to play something less overtly religious in nature stay tuned. I just happened to finish this first.
My brother in Christ, I don't know how to tell you this but there are no good Catholics, we all suck at being Catholic. Except Mary of course, Mary does it right.
I am not doing my two (2) finals on account of, and I quote, “I’m just so done”. In the future, please pick one assignment and have that be it. I also kindly request that you stop leaving students alone and/or in the rain. Finally, it would mean a lot to me if you listened to opinions other than your own. Thank you for your time.
We could be persuaded to remove one of the essays if you provided us with fresh elf meat, as we are very hungry right now. As for leaving students in the rain, we thought humans like rain? Our home planet gets so very little.
great. wake up in the morning, eat an elf, teach a class on xenobiology and lifeshaping, eat another elf, get into bed, bite off a male tohr-kreen's head, and go to sleep.
Copper can be used for many rudimentary applications. As a Human, all I have are primitive applications. I would like some of this high grade copper for my Human applications!
Should I pay with cash, credit, check, or war bonds?
is it just me, or has Star Trek aged particularly badly as a franchise? I’m not talking technobabble; I’ll give most pre-1970s shows a pass for bad science, since they were really doing their best, and some of my favorite shows use the exact same bad science. I’m talking about it’s tone. I used to like it a lot, but now it just feels really smug and pretentious. “look at how MY secular values have produced a SPACE UTOPIA! All because we have abandoned SUPERSTITION for SCIENCE!”. give me a break.
it somehow manages to be both grossly ethnocentric in it’s embrace of western values while at the same time completely dismissive of the culture that those values sprung from. it is unabashed worship of modernism, a philosophy that died 2 decades ago because of how shallow and meaningless it was (only to be replaced with post-modernism which is arguably worse). with the notable exception of the inclusion of the Ferengi there seems to be no real effort to question or critique the philosophy, or even add a little nuance to it. it never makes any attempt to address the societal ills that resulted from modernism and secularism. it is the storytelling equivalent of drinking mayonnaise.
say what you will about Star Wars, but at least it took 2 REALLY BAD movies to ruin it for me (I still maintain the Force Awakens had some potential). but all it took to ruin star trek for me was getting a bachelor’s degree in the social sciences (history, leaning heavily toward anthropology) to see how full of shit it really is.
scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple
the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!