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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chrisling" data-source="post: 399284" data-attributes="member: 6816">Doc Strangmonkey,Well, the thing is I found I was discussing one or two things with four different people.  Some of them were pretty far afield of the original subject at all -- I was going to have to say, for instance, that China was actually conquered by multiple barbarian societies (the Khitain, Mongol and Manchus are the ones that leap immediately to mind) but to do that I'd have to start giving attributation from sources.  Ditto with the whole Aztec conquest thing.  Not to mention the budding discussion on dwarvish socialism!  Plus debunking the myths of elvish and dwarvish superiority in culture and battle, all for my love of orcs.  I realized that I would either have to start being way more selective and essentially ignore good points, which I didn't want to do, or concede defeat, which has the added bonus of giving me more time to work on my offline game.All of these are subjects I have some knowledge of and am interested in discussion . . . just not all at the same time.  Fret not.  I'm thinking of starting a post on fantasy racism.  Maybe that can keep you drawn in.  I'll do my best to ruin your geek time.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>