10-09-2015, 10:52 AM | #81 |
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Re: Odious Personal Habits
I think we're discovering that some of these OPH might get mitigators for Not Amongst Own Kind.
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10-09-2015, 11:29 AM | #82 |
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10-09-2015, 01:38 PM | #83 | |
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Re: Odious Personal Habits
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A conscientious scientist. Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!" And sent him off to distant jungles. Camped on a tropic riverside, One day he missed his loving bride. She had, the guide informed him later, Been eaten by an alligator. Professor Twist could not but smile. "You mean," said he, "a crocodile." (Ogden Nash)
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10-09-2015, 01:41 PM | #84 | |
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10-09-2015, 01:42 PM | #85 | |
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You also have people doing the "argument from etymology." Since 'decimate' originally meant 'killing every tenth man', it should not be used when any other percentage is killed. Words change Languages change But one thing I ween Will never change Whining over young men's speech
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10-09-2015, 03:10 PM | #86 |
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Re: Odious Personal Habits
Cannibalism amongst spiders doesn't have that mitigator. It just results in very anti-social interactions. Other species don't really care about the spider cannibalism though. Cannibalism for an otherwise sentient species which doesn't also include "eats any sentient" would be an unusual case, and I think OPH might apply.
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10-09-2015, 03:42 PM | #87 |
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Re: Odious Personal Habits
As per Social Engineering a reference society should be set and the values for a social disadvantage sould be based on how the reference society reacts. Thus elves are pretty and orcs are ugly when the reference society is human, even though elves and orcs don't really react like that within their own societies. The same applies to OPHs. Dark Trolls who insist on eating their defeated foes have an OPH even though other Dark Trolls are fine with it, as long as that is how the reference society reacts.
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10-09-2015, 04:27 PM | #88 | |
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10-09-2015, 08:06 PM | #89 |
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Re: Odious Personal Habits
My own view of OPH would be roughly this:
-5: People will stay in your presence, but will have obvious signs of disgust. -10: People will try to remove themselves from your presence as soon as possible. (A plausible one for the punster habit, actually.) -15: People will try to remove you from their presence as soon as possible. (i.e., institutionalization or something similar.)
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10-09-2015, 08:18 PM | #90 |
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Re: Odious Personal Habits
Alternatively "own kind" could subsume the OPH within a Social Stigma already possessed("Why do I care if the Whatevers want to eat each other; fewer the better I say").
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