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Loroi are to a human view point, cold blooded. 27c, would feel cold and slimely to kiss/touch/penetrate. Base thermal conductivity of human flesh is 0.5-1W(m-K), but areas with high blood flow, such as sexual organs act just like "heat pipes" in a computer, and you can see effective conduction abov...

That’s interesting, you can signal a stem cell to turn into an egg and it will just do it. Egg cells are pretty complicated (amongst other things they are massive compared to normal cells, and filled with a bunch of additional machinery, at least in humans) so I mistakenly assumed the cells needed ...

It would in fact be total sci fi to reproduce from just skin cells. It is (as I said) probably not impossible but it would for sure be very complicated. I'm happy that you are just as much in awe of mankind's ingenuity as I am 😅 This was done in japan a few years ago, they reprogrammed skin cells o...

The reason I wrote that was because someone mentioned Loroi have to compete for limited males. Loroi females don't compete for 'limited' males. Females are granted the privilege of an 'encounter' every now and then, as a reward for her accomplishment. If this "privilege" is purely for fun & cultura...

Well, 'just use skin cells lmao' implies that all that is needed is DNA, which is not the case. The egg cell has a whole lot of work to do to set conditions and properly kick off the process so that you get an actual human instead of a teratoma or whatever. Not that it would necessarily be impossib...

Artificial gestation is a lot more difficult than artificial conception. The reproductive system of a sophisticated creature that gives live birth like a human is a very complex machine... the easiest way to replicate it is with another biological system, and that introduces all kinds of additional...

Honestly, a society as advanced as the Loroi should be able to just take skin cells of two people and create a child. Especially because they are in the middle of an attrition war. Science fiction always underestimates biological & social tech advances. Probably it's more difficult to imagine than ...

To be fair, the Loroi are one of those fictional societies that I can actually see *not* researching particularly far in the area of artificial gestation. Their species has the potential to produce as many children 'naturally' as they could possibly want, and most of the traits that they *do* desir...

Honestly, a society as advanced as the Loroi should be able to just take skin cells of two people and create a child. Especially because they are in the middle of an attrition war. Science fiction always underestimates biological & social tech advances. Probably it's more difficult to imagine than j...

I played MoM back in 1995 and still have the discs and the 400+ page player guide. When I heard Slytherin was remaking MoM, I discovered Steam had not only the original MoM v1.31, but a bundle containing it, the player made "Community patch", Servey's "Caster of Magic" revamp, and a further "Caster...

The problem with tech trading is that, at least on higher difficulties, since you're behind in tech all the time, you have to choose technologies based on what nobody else has so you can trade it for other techs, rather than what researching what you yourself most want or need. This is a bit wonky ...

Civ 4 was pre-Steam and so I don't have stats on how long I played it, but I have almost 2000 hours in Civ 5 and a slightly lesser amount in Civ 6, and I suspect either number is much higher than it was for Civ 4. It's my opinion that "unstacking" armies and cities were significant and positive add...

On 10. December, the Master of Magic remake is published & I'll try that. Of course, it's no space game & low budget, but I wasn't very happy with the last civ iterations, either. I'll try it as well. Hopefully, it's as good as the original. To be honest, the original wasn't well balanced. But it w...

It was because all the latest space 4X games (Gal Civ III, Endless Space, MOO CTS) didn't have it. That's all that publishers know... looking at the feature lists and demographics of a title, and not its soul. The "monkey see, monkey do" approach? Ugh, that's a really good way to kill off innovatio...

This is something that Endless Space 2 does pretty well. You can develop each planet in a system, but the production queue is unified for the whole system. I really liked the races in Endless Space 2 ^^ But I had the weird situation that I was conquering other civs & suddenly pirates spawned in my ...

MOO CTS is much more of a third MOO game than MOO 3 was. It's just too bad that it took two annoying elements from MOO 3 anyway, the starlanes and the real-time tactical combat. A new team taking over was not really the problem, the issue was that they were just plain bad. Both in terms of game-mak...

Ah. I do like to play Impossible for the absolutely broken AI race builds. Fill my H-UR planets up with +1Farm, +2Ind, +1Sci Meklars? Don't mind if I do! Let's get some of those SubTer Tolerant Sakkras in for these Toxic worlds, while we're at it! Maybe stuff a few of 'em under those Meklars! Means...

I liked to play on Impossible and found games on anything earlier than Advanced Start to be virtually unwinnable, simply because there was no chance of getting a colony ship out before the AI had a small empire of worlds and plasma cannons. Very interesting to see how the playthrough was adapted in...

  "Researchers Say They Are Close to Reversing Aging" Definitely possible, but could be very simple or very difficult. I would be careful with the words "close" and "reverse". Maybe better "on a good way" and "delay" ^^ "Researchers Say Fusion Reactor Is Very Likely to Work" Nope. Not anytime soon....

I think so... this video below seems to indicate it, and the human desire to stick around rather than accept death is not going anywhere so... if anyone has the will to cheat or even beat death it's humanity. I do not think it will be as simple as taking a pill but I digress. Animals are constraine...