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Is this poll pointless?

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Morgan_ said:
The "great filter" not being an extinction event, but a tech/civilization reset is such a fun concept. It's why I gravitated to tabletop Numenera so much. Theres so many things you can do with that setting.
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I watched a video last night on the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter. Interesting stuff.

I do believe there is other life in the universe. However, humanity will be extinct long before we are advanced enough to find proof.
 
alec said:
There was at least one ancient, highly advanced civilization which had spread all over the world, traces of which can be found in megalithic structures, but this civilization disappeared due to a catastrophic event around 12000 B.C., the same period a shitload of animals went extinct.
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I could believe it. Well, depends on what you mean by "highly advanced." I don't think they were making plastics and other stupid chemicals that literally have no foreseeable way to break down, but they were likely doing things on a level we don't reasonably expect them to. The giant structures that seemed hard as fuck to build (Giza Pyramids, Incan Walls in Cusco, Peru) and the things we've found like the Baghdad Battery and the Antikythera Mechanism. People have been smarter for far longer than we give them credit for even if there wasn't a "highly advanced civilization" in 12,000 B.C. There is the whole Bronze Age collapse that we know of, there could have been more before then too. We've been estimated to have been around for 300,000 years and yet the Kish tablet is dated for around 3500–2900 B.C. so we're missing about 295,000 years of the modern human not having records that were able to stay intact to today if we exclude cave paintings. About 50,000 years ago we have what's our oldest cave painting and being generous we still haven't even gotten into the first two-thirds of our existence as we are as Homo sapiens.

I doubt they would have made giant underwater telecommunication cables or gone to the Moon, but they were not stupid either. Hell, I don't really think the modern human's life changed drastically until VERY recently. Think about how long we likely cultivated crops and raised livestock. Around 11,000-12,000 years ago or so? That's something that was pretty average, especially globally, for people in the 1800s A.D. No microwave, no TV, no refridgerator, no lights, no indoor toilet, maybe no indoor plumbing, no hot shower on demand, no dishwasher, no internet, no TikTok, and no hot chip.

alec you better be grateful for the modern world, you'd be smelling the most foul assholes ever back in the 1800s. But I guess the feet were mighty dirty too so maybe that'd be a blessing for you.
 
CrimsonRose said:
I watched a video last night on the Fermi Paradox and the Great Filter. Interesting stuff.
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I like this one. Bathe her and bring her to my quarters.

@SquidWard
Exactly. 300,000 years of time. Enough time for everything that was achieved to have disappeared again except for a few exceptional things and stories. Not talking about any alien or exotic technologies, but some stuff, like the giant structures all over the world and sites like Gobleki Tepe just scream 'You do not know the full story'.
 
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alec said:
I like this one. Bathe her and bring her to my quarters.

@SquidWard
Exactly. 300,000 years of time. Enough time for everything that was achieved to have disappeared again except for a few exceptional things and stories. Not talking about any alien or exotic technologies, but some stuff, like the giant structures all over the world and sites like Gobleki Tepe just scream 'You do not know the full story'.
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Probably more like a dungeon. ;-)
 
alec said:
I like this one. Bathe her and bring her to my quarters.
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Is that a quote from Stargate?


@topic, Prey (2006) is the #2 best FPS that I have played, (behind Monolith's Blood).
The remaining top five are all Build Engine games.
 
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R.Graves said:
Facist is nothing more than a word used to dehumanize others to justify violence. I cringe every time I see it used.

Also gatekeeping is based if fallout was gatekept better it wouldn't be in shambles.
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might be a good time to leave the internet and go to the real world. There's fascists there, I'm afraid. If someone is a fascist, I'll call them that. And hope that they get fucked.
 
Morgan_ said:
The "great filter" not being an extinction event, but a tech/civilization reset is such a fun concept. It's why I gravitated to tabletop Numenera so much. Theres so many things you can do with that setting.
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I love the setting too, but all of my attempts to actually start campaigns in Numenera have failed because you really need a group which is interested and dedicated to the very unique nature of the system itself (combat doesn't net XP) and Numenera itself, and that can be a hard task.
Most of the tabletop people start and end with Dungeons and Dragons or some similar Tolkineseque fantasy system (i.e. Pathfinder), and Numenera is just too...weird.

There's basically a huge setting learning curve as pretty much everything is quite unique both in names, appereances and abitlities.

Show a dragon to any tabletop player, regardless of the system or a setting, and they will have a rough idea of what that creature does.
Show any random Numenera monster and pretty much everyone is confused. Of course, it's the DMs job to help people approach this, but it doesn't always work, especially when you lack a good reference point.
 
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