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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Giants_Citizen_Kabuto_Box_Cover.jpg The blue Sea Reapers of Giants: Citizen Kabuto are militant, magical/elemental, dictatorial, regenerate while under water, serve a reigning matriarch, and, of course, Planet Moon initially conceived the Sea Reaper sin...

A google search has taught me that in Marvel's Thor movie (which I have never seen), Frost Giants are blue. But in Marvel's comics, it varies. Also I learned that Marvel changed Laufey from Loki's otherwise undistinguished mother into a male king of all frost giants for some reason (I don't follow s...

In the sci-fi webcomic The End, by Ran and Cory Brown, there are two distinct groups of humanlike aliens. The most fleshed-out of the setting's aliens, the Fiah, are not actually naturally humanlike, but rather avian-looking fellows who have been artificially altered to resemble humans. However, thi...

I thought I had something, but after a few dozen pages on a vague google search it turned out I was just thinking of the Vineans. Anyways, if bit players like the Bolians count, how about these guys? http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100201232047/memoryalpha/en/images/b/bb/Ikatika.jpg They alw...

Fancy thinking the Bieber is something you can hunt and kill! With these words, Golding lays bare the concept at the heart of his classic work The Lord of the Flies . It shares something in common with the concept of the Eternal Recurrence , and with Campbell's conception of the Monomyth; the notio...

And I disagree with this. You postulate that Lotai would make a umiak completely non-umiak. Which is bollocks. Here's how I see it. You have a brain. This brain creates a certain pattern. This pattern is called the "mind," and this "mind," just by virtue of existing as that pattern, has a signal to...

Um, please tell me that you not just confused "PC" and "politeness"? PC is anything else than that, moreover it is the most perfidious venom ever trickled into human society IMHO. Follow the path "Language determines Thinking, Thinking determines Action" and you get the picture. :ugeek: ;) Fun fact...

Well, perhaps it's not quite what you'd mean by "political correctness," but the use of the word "seems" as a polite form for "is" actually makes a certain amount of sense for taking some of the offensive edge off of speech, to me at least. It looks like a way of putting things so you're always sayi...

Grayhome wrote:And now I once more receive the pleasure of dissecting the lovely words of Sa'ai.

It is odd that someone with no nose should care about what a man smells like.

I have a hard time believing that you guys find this an interesting avenue of discussion. To a huge extent it seems to amount to "why do people like things I don't like, and why don't they like what I like instead?" The main reason there are no girls here is because there are basically no people her...

You're missign the point - if they have the biological know-how to make an engineered species thats immune to telepathy, then they should be abel to make themselves immune. In other words - why bother with humans in the first place? If the lotai is a weapon, why give it to a slave species, but not ...

The reason we don't still have anything of the sort today, even in Australia? Hemocyanin's kinda not the best thing for moving oxygen around. The Loroi only have to contend with part of what makes Earthly hemocyanin terrible (the way its copper bonds with oxygen); amongst the arthropods, their free...

as an interesting side note Emperor, supersedes King, supersedes President on the diplomatic theatre, a Loroi Emperor may have had it made policy that all loroi Empresses be called Emperor, that way the Loroi Empire will never be put at an immediate disadvantage when dealing with another Empire lea...

Sanguinius wrote:What's your point?

...it seemed to me like you asked about the local usage of certain gender-specific titles.
I, in my ignorance, wrote my observations of the conversational usage of those exact gender-specific titles.
Sorry, it won't happen again.

´cause they can´t stand competition with the space-elves? What? Competition over what, exactly? Is this forum offering some fabulous cash reward for pointiest ears? Hey Arioch, why have you made all the Loroi so attractive? Is there some "no plain girls allowed" policy in the Loroi Navy? Hey Arioch...

When I first read that article, I thought, "oh, so Alex's probably going to eat Perrein cuisine and find it appealing and that'll let him find some common ground with, I dunno, Tempo or someone." Now, upon re-reading it, I suddenly remembered what Carboniferous fauna were actually like. Centipedes t...

Even in England, which did have a tradition of female monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I referred to herself as a "prince" when she was talking about her role as head of state. That's interesting, but you aren't (or at least, shouldn't be) writing for an Elizabethan audience, but a modern one, for which t...

"Species" is a useful construct for a lot of purposes and in a lot of contexts, but honestly it becomes far too squishy and nebulous when you're comparing groups as closely related as modern humans, neanderthals, and denisovians. Heck, it arguably breaks down between lions and tigers. It's not reall...

Still wondering about the following: how did the genome of the pre-inbreeded Homo Sapiens looked then (without Neanderthal influences)? I don't have the impression that our Homo Sapiens (or Cro-Magnon if you like) ancestors are considered a different species, despite the lack of Neanderthal genes. ...

Solemn, are you consumping some halucogenic sustances ? I can very honestly say I have never in my entire life comsumped any halucogenic sustances. Whales? Waht the hell are you on about? Sorry, I thought that was clear. There was a movie once involving a race of telepathic space elves and a myster...