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  • It’s dragon sickness. Seriously. In all of high fantasy, there is exactly one dragon that has more than $1,000,000,000, when the story or setting was created. His name is Smaug. That gigantic pile of good and treasure amounts to somewhere between $10,000,000,000 - $15,000,000,000. In every other story or game, all the dragons (except of maybe one single Red dragon) have less than $1,000,000,000 in gold. (Admittedly the price of gold isn’t helping here)

    RAW: all other types of dragons have less wealth than Red Ancient Wyrms. A Red Ancient Wyrm will have between 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 gold pieces worth of wealth. We’ll assume they are a Philistine, and all their wealth is in gold. That means that one single Red Wyrm per world might have somewhere around 500,000 oz of gold. Currently that much gold would be worth just over 2 billion dollars, but again that is the extreme statistical outlier of the literal greediest and most evil type of dragon.

    Edit: oh and the worst part? The billionaires don’t have an excuse. If the evil dragons don’t hoard and eat their wealth just before they die, Tiamat / Thakisis will kill their soul. They literally take it with them. Our billionaires have no such rules governing them, they’re just mentally ill.

    Edit 2: I’m aware that shadowrun exists. That’s not high fantasy.



  • If I’ve done the hours of prep, pre-cooking, par-cooking, and cleanup that’s required to have those ingredients ready to go, yes everything at Taco Bell takes less than 5 minutes to get ready. If I’m hosting or catering a party that effort is worth it. If I’m the only one eating it, it isn’t as all I’m tasting are the mistakes I may have made.

    Edit: also having worked at every major fast food chain, I also know that Taco Bell is the least likely to have a food safety issue, such as E. Coli, or listeria.




  • I’m 6’3", or 193 cm. I have a friend who is 4’11", or 150 cm, and also has been a black belt in Shaolin since I met him when we were late teens in university. One day he was giving me a ride, when we were in our early 20s. I got into his van, looked down, and said, “Oh neat! You have a Jo Staff!”

    He looked at me confused, then looked down, and said, “No, that’s my Bo Staff.”

    I looked at it again, and said, “Not for me it isn’t.”

    He looked defeated, and replied, “One man’s Bo should never be another man’s Jo. You’re too tall!”