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Episode 8 - Lazy Superpowers
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Jerrica and Janeil build a world in which everyone has some form of supernatural ability. What could be so bad about running super-fast? Putting things off to the last second, naturally!
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Introduction & World-Building Prompt
00:00:17
Speaker
Hey, welcome back to Somewhere Elsewhere. is a world building and actual play podcast. I am Janiel. And I'm Jerrica. And today we're going to be doing a little bit of world building. Well, Jerrica.
00:00:28
Speaker
Yes. What's our prompt for today? Today's prompt is brought to you by Darren. And it is a world in which everyone has superpowers and it makes them extremely lazy.
00:00:44
Speaker
It is a very realistic prompt, I think. Well, basically like off of our actual world, it'd be very, very real and also kind of dangerous. Which, okay, starting from basics, though.
00:01:03
Speaker
Because we're building a world from the ground up.
00:01:07
Speaker
I mean, we don't have to start in the ground. we can start in the sky. Where do these secret powers come from? And when they start? Were people always born
Origins of Superpowers
00:01:16
Speaker
with them? Did these humans in this world always have powers, like even back in like the stone ages?
00:01:23
Speaker
Well, I think for people to become lazy as a society, they'd have to have them for a while now. And it would have to be something that's just not exciting anymore. Right. But like,
00:01:36
Speaker
Would cavemen have superpowers? Would early human ancestors have superpowers? Or if you're really going, like, way fucking back, like, from an evolutionary standpoint, do, like, proto-humans, like, pre-humans have superpowers or do they just come to Earth one day, somehow, do humans discover them and now everyone has superpowers? Do all humans have superpowers? Oh, so we're making them humans then. Well, are you thinking, like, superpower giraffes or something?
00:02:06
Speaker
I'm always thinking about super-powered giraffes, Janelle. We just had an episode about giraffes. And your point is... ah Giraffes are freaking awesome! Especially lightning giraffes that bring rain.
00:02:20
Speaker
But yeah, asking a lot of questions to kind of establish where our... I mean, it's fine if we want to make them human or human-ass. Because I'm thinking, like,
00:02:32
Speaker
When think of superpowers, you think of Superman, like you think of superheroes. Right. My superpower is to fly. My superpower is to levitate things. My superpower is to shoot laser beams out my eyes.
00:02:46
Speaker
And yeah, you have superpowered animals too and comics and what have you. No, we don't. No, we don't. I, listen. Crypto doesn't exist. I'm sorry. Listen, everybody, I'm sorry.
00:02:59
Speaker
You can feel free to come at me. I'm not a fan of crypto.
Discovery and Evolution of Powers
00:03:04
Speaker
I'm just not. It doesn't make any sense. Where did where did a Kryptonian dog come from?
00:03:12
Speaker
People have to have the eat animal p sidekick, the adorable animal sidekick. He has a cape, Jerrica. He's adorable. It just. It's It's silly.
00:03:24
Speaker
I don't like my superheroes silly, I guess. That's why i'm not that big a fan of Plastic Man. You like your' your gritty, dark superheroes? Yeah. I do. would not Well, not too dark, necessarily, but like I want them like serious. They've got... it's it's it's just Anyway.
00:03:43
Speaker
Wasn't there Bat Dog or something, too? Let's not talk about that. We're not bringing up Whatever Bat-Dog or Bat-Mite, we're definitely not bringing up Bat-Mite. And besides, Batman already had an animal sidekick.
00:03:57
Speaker
Robin. but um but sa So, like, Kat, I want to answer my own questions here. gonna, like, throw something out there. Where? Elsewhere? Somewhere? he Thank you.
00:04:12
Speaker
I really want you to... So just to get things started here, what if humans discovered something like, talking about like early humans, like proper humans, but like maybe an early civilization, they discovered something that was like, instead of being our Iron Age, it was like the age of superpowers. we were kind of discovering how to use these abilities.
00:04:34
Speaker
Now, what the origin of this stuff is, we can discuss later on, or we even in the actual play, but think of, like, you know, instead spraying, like, oh, if I put steam in this boiler, it makes this piston move, and now I have an engine.
00:04:48
Speaker
It's them saying, oh, I can warm this water with my hands for some reason. That's fucking cool. How can I use this? And maybe, like, early age, super-powered people were, like, really industrious. Like, yeah, people who can...
00:05:02
Speaker
throw fire for their hands or fly ah can do these things. Like maybe the people who could fly can like deliver mail or something, deliver messages from long distances or like, you know that kind of thing.
00:05:15
Speaker
Like there's practical application. Instead being superheroes, there probably was superheroes, but like when everyone has superpowers.
Diverse Superpowers and Societal Impact
00:05:21
Speaker
So we should decide whether these superpowers are diverse or everyone has the same power or power.
00:05:32
Speaker
I want to go of diversity. How diverse do you want to go? Because... Think of any superpower you think in, like, DC Marvel. Like, I can run fast. I can turn invisible. I can leap great distances. I can... Yes. Okay. Here's why I say this. When you start getting into the X-Men and mutants, you get into some really, like...
00:05:53
Speaker
There are some fucked up ones. Obscure power. Well, okay, so we I guess we we'll go like super obscure, like maybe there's a handful of them, like flight, laser beams, turning invisible, levitating things, turning into animals.
00:06:12
Speaker
Okay. Growing, shrinking. I'm trying to think a whole bunch of things here, like common ones. Like, oh yeah, superheroes. A lot of them can fly. So like mainstream. I can fly. I'm super strong. I'm super fast.
00:06:24
Speaker
Generic superhero abilities. So probably like more DC than Marvel then. Like Justice League more than. yeah you can go that route. Okay, so you got flying, turning invisible.
00:06:39
Speaker
Super strong. Super strong, super fast,
Greek Mythology and Power Dynamics
00:06:43
Speaker
make fire. Are you going to summon lightning or like people who shoot fire from their hands or make water cold or you know freeze or whatever? Yeah, people who can summon lightning or use lightning.
00:06:56
Speaker
Okay. There's your electricians. don't have to worry about lightning. They're zapping themselves at power lines. They just got to go up there and handle it. I feel like we should be writing this down. Yeah, start a list. wish my computer in front of me. I have my phone, but that's like... I am glad that your computer's not in front of you.
00:07:11
Speaker
Do you know why? can see my face. I can see your face. And it makes me happy. So let's get list of superpowers down. And then let's try to figure out like, the origin of these superpowers and kind of win. We don't have to have an exact timeline, but like... ah Maybe use our world as like a template. like Because if these are humans, like we can have a very human-like world.
00:07:33
Speaker
It was just drastically altered because of the presence of superpowers. Well, now, if we're going back far enough, then technology wouldn't really be what it is. No.
00:07:45
Speaker
So do you want to go that route? I mean... Why not? Okay. Because we're world building here where we're taking, like, we're using our early world as a template. But then at some point in history, like, basically this world gonna follow the same template as ours. Same timeline.
00:08:01
Speaker
But now we got superpowers. So that's gotta change everything up. And now we can think of, like, oh, how would our world change if superpowers were discovered in, like, the early or late... What?
00:08:14
Speaker
one's this When's the Iron Age? Like, uh... Or ah industrial age. Industrial age? We're talking, you know, the mid to late 19th century. oh you to go back? War? War?
00:08:28
Speaker
Okay, here's... I had an idea. What if, like, we had, like, medieval superheroes? ah Something cool to ponder, but I don't think that we should do it here.
00:08:39
Speaker
I had a thought about where the powers came from. What if the ancient Greeks, okay? What if The people rose up and killed the Greek gods and stole the powers for themselves.
00:08:53
Speaker
Oh, so you're thinking, like, the superpowers came from slaying gods. Yes. Interesting. The people rose up and killed their gods, and that's how they inherited the powers. and So you have you have a world of actual, like, tangible gods that people went up and say, hey, fuck you, i'm going to take your powers for whatever reason.
00:09:12
Speaker
Or maybe, like, was there, just like, some disagreement between mortals and gods that, like, the mortals somehow slayed, you all the Greek gods? Or maybe, like... I'm trying to think of, like, different pantheons that we have, like, on, like... Oh, there's a lot There's a lot of them.
00:09:28
Speaker
Greek, Norse. Yeah. um You have the Baltic. but You have, like, a lot of similarities. Like, you have, like, your lightning and storm gods and a lot of them, and yeah. So you want to start with Greek, then who would fly? So I was going to do Greek because it's the most universally known. True.
00:09:47
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Just about everybody knows about the Greek myths. You learn it in school. Mm-hmm. Norse has become a lot more known because of Thor, I think.
00:09:57
Speaker
Well, you also have God of War. The recent God War games are all Norse. Yeah, but it's still not as commonly known as the Greeks, right? Greek mythology has influenced almost every story that's ever been told, right? Yeah.
00:10:13
Speaker
In the Western world. Yeah. I know. i was almost thinking like, oh, you want to for a pantheon like you like ancient Egypt, like someone slaying Egyptian gods for their powers? of course We're sticking just with Greek?
00:10:24
Speaker
Is that the origin of? Yeah, so but we can make Greece the or the ancient Greeks as the origin of people. How about that? Okay. Or the Greek equivalent of this world, I guess.
00:10:36
Speaker
Yeah, this isn't Earth. It could be... It could be... Yeah. Listen, I can hear... i can hear people complaining already. I'm not suggesting that... Kill Zeus. He did a lot of terrible things anyway. Well, yeah.
00:10:50
Speaker
I'm not suggesting that... Listen, in our world, everyone came from Africa. We know this. In this world, everyone came from the Mediterranean, okay? Okay.
00:11:03
Speaker
So whenever I say we're using our world as a template, it's just as a baseline. Yeah. we can change that We can change it from there. Especially we're dealing with worlds that are human-like or Earth-like.
00:11:13
Speaker
So, now that we got that established... So now we have to associate gods with powers. Not necessarily. Because here's what I was thinking. Usually gods have multiple powers. True, yeah. You only kind of hear about certain ones. but i think that I feel like they all can do a baseline of things.
00:11:33
Speaker
So, so well let's let put it here, like, ah who would be super strong? Hercules, right? He was a demigod. Demigod, yeah, but are we slaying demigods too? What I'm saying is I don't think there has to be a one-to-one comparison. No, but, like, just for examples, like, to say where some of these powers came from, like,
00:11:52
Speaker
People who fly. people who whatever Whatever gave gods their power. Okay. Whatever source that was. Okay. People consumed it and then everyone had it.
00:12:05
Speaker
Within a couple generations. Okay. Everyone. Okay. the origin of the powers is that... well, they come up for a reason, but, like, the mortals went up to whatever plane the gods dwell in, or did the gods of this world dwell in the same plane? Are they, like, gods walking among mortals?
00:12:21
Speaker
Yeah, I think that's the idea. Well, okay, so we could go, we could do it that way, and there was just this big revolt where they ganged up and killed gods. Or... Or...
00:12:34
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When Gaia...
00:12:37
Speaker
so when gaia gave birth to ah fucking... um Driver of my Greek lore, too. like Yeah, because the Titans came before the gods. Yes.
00:12:52
Speaker
what Whatever started it, instead of making gods and Titans, they may like gave it to humans. We could go that route, or they rose up and killed the god and took care. So basically, instead of gods, in a, like, typical sense, the gods of this world are mortals blessed by Gaia.
00:13:15
Speaker
Sure. Okay. So basically, you have this dude walking around ah Zeus. He's this big, like, head of a city, like, like, Maybe almost dictator-like. So, like, like zeus Zeus was just a dude yeah who could throw lightning, who could throw lightning. Yeah, he was basically, like, the ruler of this city or town, like, this Greek-like town. yeah And I guess there's no demigods then. He just had his son, Hercules. has multiple children, obviously. Being Zeus! um
00:13:46
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But, yeah,
Societal Roles and Infrastructure Changes
00:13:47
Speaker
he's he's just a flesh-and-blood dude. But he's very powerful, literally literally and figuratively. Um, powerful dude. And then society got fed up with his shit and they killed him and all the other gods, quote unquote.
00:14:01
Speaker
Um, the the powerful people in charge of the city. And for some reason when they died, they were able to take their power somehow? Or maybe like that blessing from Gaia was able to spread to the people somehow?
00:14:15
Speaker
Maybe they ate him. It's like, eat this bit of my flesh and then obtain my abilities. Maybe, like, this we're talking early people here. Maybe that's what... makes cannibalistic?
00:14:28
Speaker
Anybody can be cannibalistic.
00:14:33
Speaker
Uh, incidentally, do you know why cannibals don't eat clowns? This is little funny. That took me a
00:14:42
Speaker
Okay. um I mean, I'm okay with the cannibal thing. if you If you're not, we can we can do something. I want something more mystical in a way, since we're already dealing with kind of like magic um and like godly blessings and stuff. um like Maybe Gaia was like the only true god of this world, because she selected these handful of people say, hey...
00:15:08
Speaker
you can have my blessing to have these powers to build society and run it well. And, like, maybe her blessing also made these people live for a really long time. Like, Zeus who was just an old dude when he came to Gaia in the first place, was selected or chosen by Gaia.
00:15:23
Speaker
But because of her powers, he's, like, lived for generations and generations and generations of an age. Like, none of these gods did. None of these selected gods did. But then, like... When Zeus started fucking around, literally, and having children, these people would age and have, like, that that power of his.
00:15:42
Speaker
So, like, you could have this strong jock, Hercules, walking around. um But he's a demigod because he has powers, but he can still age. like I was also thinking that maybe maybe gaia was killed and ka i ah um and then her blood soaked into the earth and from the earth people came and her been fused with her blood and that's how they got powers oh maybe they use their own powers to overthrow the gods or they not have powers before they overthrew them because like if you have
00:16:24
Speaker
Zeus. Flesh and blood Zeus. Like, he can still be killed, he's still flesh and blood, but he does have storm powers. So, like, you would take a lot of people to try overthrow this dude. Okay, okay, okay. What if we have the quote-unquote gods, they'd be the first super-powered people. Yeah.
00:16:41
Speaker
And Gaia sees what happens, they get overthrown, whatever, and it saddens her so much that she cries. And her tears...
00:16:55
Speaker
cover the land and her tears have obviously power in them. So with the survivors of this flood. um I know this is very similar to the last world. Yes. The water and rain.
00:17:10
Speaker
i don't want to typecast myself here, but. You're just very into rainy gods. I guess. Powers. That be one thing. Like, maybe Gaia is still around. Like, she's still watching this superpower world. But, like, now they're all lazy fucks. She's just going to like, oh, shit. what did i What have I done? Like, guess what I made it worse. Oh, okay.
00:17:29
Speaker
Or, she gives it to a small group of people for whatever reason. Mm-hmm. And they go to lead, but then they become corrupt and get overthrown.
00:17:41
Speaker
So she just gives everybody power to equalize it. Oh, see, I was like, you're just like, oh, if everyone's super, none of them are superheroes. Like, like they're all just normal people. That's the new normal is everyone has powers.
00:17:53
Speaker
Okay. Yeah, she equalized everything. I like that. Okay. Whew. Okay, so back to the list, which is where we started. Well, we also had to cover the origin. Like, listen, we're world building here. When we do the actual play, this may or may not come up. But like... Yeah.
00:18:08
Speaker
Okay. So I've got flight, super strength, super speed. Invisible? Invisibility. ah Fire, ice. ah Elemental. Elementals, yeah.
00:18:20
Speaker
um I'm trying to think more like... Do you want to do, like, palm work and, like, turning into animals and shit? I mean, that one seems like effort. Like, if this is a lazy superhero world, what would you turn into an animal for? i guess you can turn a cat to sleep all day.
00:18:34
Speaker
Um, yeah, let's, let's... Like, hell, I want to do that. Those little beds in that cat tree? I want to climb up that cat tree and take a snooze. What if we were cats? Then we could nap all the time together. Yeah.
00:18:46
Speaker
I'll put shape-shifting. Okay. And then... Aminals. You're our, uh... DC Marvel expert. What are superhero powers you think would be... Interesting.
00:18:58
Speaker
Well, I'm the expert now. Okay, and well... Oh, you're more knowledgeable than me. Well... Listen... There's many flavors of nerd. Um... We have, like, the generic ones.
00:19:11
Speaker
There's lot of superheroes that super strong, super fast. They can fly. Uh-huh. quaize Not doing that. I mean, that seems kind of... What would you use it for?
00:19:22
Speaker
Oil pile water from across the room? i don't know. Kill people. Or kill people. yeah like Listen, if you're super strong, you can hulk out and kill people, too. You can kill people by flying and knocking them on the side. I know, but that's not the point of the power, right?
00:19:35
Speaker
But laser eyes is only meant like... It's a dangerous one. i mean, so is fire, but... Invulnerability? god you're gonna do, like, Wolverine slash Deadpool, kind of?
00:19:50
Speaker
Well, I was thinking about Superman, but... Oh, mean, Superman, yeah. I guess, like, super smart isn't a superpower. Like, you have some yes some superheroes that like, oh, like, I put an experiment on myself where I got blasted by gamma rays whatever, and I'm super intelligent.
00:20:06
Speaker
But you do have people that are just wicked smart. That gives me a thing. Plus, in lazy superhero world, I can't imagine, like, a super smart person being, like... I mean, there are super smart people, I bet, but they're probably just like, okay, whatever, nerd.
00:20:22
Speaker
Okay, so, yeah, i agree. um What about stretchy? Like, fuckx oh yeah, like stretchy. Like Mr. Fantastic. That would definitely a lazy thing. Like, if you want, like, if you were thirsty in the middle night and like, oh shit, don't have water in my bed stand, it's like, ugh, and you just reach across the room and snag a water. Okay. Yeah.
00:20:44
Speaker
Dread. That's like the ultimate lady power right there. And then do we want to do telekinetic? Telekinesis? Yes, because I mean I just like float things from across the room.
00:20:55
Speaker
I was thinking like telepathic too, but like going off the like... Okay, I mean, i Okay, we can we can we can do that. Like i said, texting somebody, it's like, hey, you want to come over? Just the thought pumps in your head? Hey, you want to come over? Well, I mean, if... Mental chatting? Yeah.
00:21:15
Speaker
Yeah, then then you wouldn't have to really move. Okay. So that's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Okay, that's good. I think that's good. Yeah.
00:21:26
Speaker
Okay. Listeners, I am sorry if we missed one obvious one. There's got somebody in the Discord saying, what about this one? Yeah. um I'm sorry.
00:21:43
Speaker
We can't get... We're not perfect. No one's perfect. I mean, and and we decided we weren't getting, you know, in into the weeds with, like, some of the mutant powers, like Husk, who can rip her skin off and to reveal ah a different layer of a different material.
00:21:59
Speaker
or Or camouflaging into different people, like, uh... Mystique? Mystique. Yeah. Or fucking, uh... Listen. Mutants get real, like, specific.
00:22:11
Speaker
With their abilities. Okay. Or if you fucking look at Heroes. You ever watched Heroes? I'm not going to talk about the last season, but yeah that was a good show.
00:22:22
Speaker
Janiel brings up the disappointment that was Heroes. Yeah. It was good to start. i agree. I loved it. Yeah. It was good. That wasn't. So we don't talk about it anymore. It was good.
00:22:35
Speaker
And that it wasn't. Exactly. Yep. Um... that's also why was kind of discussing origin, because there's a lot of cool origin stories for certain powers. Like, you have the generic, like, oh, of my experiments failed, and now I have this power. Or, I'm from another planet.
00:22:52
Speaker
Or, you have heroes where it's like, well the fuck it was a fucking eclipse, wasn't it? that ah that Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, I love i love superhero origin stories aren't just, like, science experiment failing or fucking aliens.
00:23:05
Speaker
You know? So, I appreciate that.
00:23:10
Speaker
Okay. So we got these ten abilities. Yes. So let's start... Okay, so, like, we did the whole origin story, so let's fast forward through time a little bit.
00:23:20
Speaker
I imagine when people first got these powers, they were really industrious. Like, they used their powers to do things. Yeah, like... Move mountains, literally. Yeah. And, you know, build...
00:23:34
Speaker
So instead of having like an industrial age where he had machines to go cross country or or even drive you from place to place, you have superpower people that do these things now. i'm Like people fly to their jobs or run really fast their jobs.
00:23:49
Speaker
For the people who don't have those abilities, maybe they do work from home or maybe there there is some vehicles, but like not everyone has them. It's like very limited vehicles in this world. Yeah, that makes sense. So, here's here's a question.
00:24:02
Speaker
Do people have jobs,
Lifestyle and Norms in a Superpowered World
00:24:04
Speaker
or are people jobs? So, like, if you're super strong, that determines what your job is. Yeah, so, like, if you're super strong, you could be doing a multiple thing multitude of things. Like, you could be doing construction. Like, instead of machines doing the heavy lifting, you are doing the heavy lifting. Right. You're pouring concrete. You're lifting beams to build houses.
00:24:26
Speaker
Um... you're doing that kind of shit but like you you also can't run fast or fly so like you would probably take a car to work you're like one of the few people who has a car or a bus maybe there's just like there's just public transportation or maybe the safe shifting people pull carriages that's their job that sucks Some people have a fucking job. and I can imagine like people who like have farms, like they shape-shift into like horses to like tow plows for their own fields. Yeah.
00:25:02
Speaker
So that could be thing. like Being public transportation? Unless unless they're paid well. But... It was just a suggestion. Whip my back harder.
00:25:13
Speaker
but but Listen, Steve, this a lot better if you fucking talk. And didn't enjoy it. And didn't enjoy it. but but Yeah, there would have to be. So, like, there's only, of these, only, like, two are about locomotion. Yeah, you have the people who run fast, they can go to work every day, and then people who fly, they can go anywhere.
00:25:35
Speaker
Yeah. so People who don't don't do those things, like how they travel across country. Like, there will still be planes, I think. There would still be planes, there would still be cars, just not as many of them. There would still be planes, trains, and automobiles. There's not very many of them. ok Okay.
00:25:52
Speaker
What about the people with invisibility? don't think what they're... May spies? Would they be, like, really good sleuths? I guess? Like, okay, let's talk about invisibility for a little bit. This is the power that I'm always like, oh, okay.
00:26:11
Speaker
You're invisible now. I mean, think about in like DC, Marvel, what hey have you. People who turn invisible, they're always used for spy shit. Running away from somebody, turning invisible, no one can see them. That's the point.
00:26:24
Speaker
Sure, but think of the original in the Fantastic Four, the invisible woman. Think about her power. She can turn invisible.
00:26:36
Speaker
That doesn't really help the team out that much. So what did they do? They gave her the ability to cast force fields. True. And, like, the Incredibles is the same thing.
00:26:49
Speaker
Violet. So... i are you saying that the Invisible People do have the ability to make force fields? I'm saying I don't think they should. don't think they should? Strictly Invisibility. Strictly Invisibility. And... I'm saying I don't exactly know...
00:27:06
Speaker
oh This is terrible. What if the invisible people were the people who are in the service industry? How would that work?
00:27:19
Speaker
Nobody want ever wants to really see the hell. So you would just have... Okay, so unless they're wearing special clothing, would you just see like a suit walking around the house? You'd see nothing. They're just like a ghost? They're... they're invisible!
00:27:33
Speaker
So, like, if if you have a fucking butler or a maid handing you some tea, would it just be, like, floating tea? That is what I'm implying, yes. It's terrible because, and like I said, people don't want to see the help.
00:27:47
Speaker
And I mean, by people, I mean rich people. Oh, snob. Yes. So what would be the rich people? Like, the fucking, like, super fast flying or strong people? Okay, well, I mean, we'll have to get into social classes in a second here.
00:28:03
Speaker
But what else would you be good at except for infiltration? Yeah, so that's what that's the first came to my mind is like spying. But like, what if you're not in a situation where there's conflict?
00:28:15
Speaker
True. Then what do you do? Then you're just know normal person. Or even like private investigators, like cops or something. Visible cops? That's terrifying. You fucking invisible cop, like, you get a fucking, um, ticket get in the mail. Akashi's speeding. it's Like, I run super fast! I was supposed to go 500 miles an hour, you asshole!
00:28:34
Speaker
but Speed limit on this, uh, on this road is 300 miles an hour, sir. Okay, I have a proposition. What if we swapped out invisibility for teleportation?
00:28:48
Speaker
Okay, because that did come to my mind earlier when we finished up the list, like, oh, we've got teleportation. I wasn't gonna say anything, though. So yeah, you have three people who can, like, commute to work with their called own powers. People who can just, like... Oh, God, imagine how sweet that would be.
00:29:01
Speaker
Just, like, fucking shower, get dressed, get your breakfast. That's like, oh, I start work in a minute. Pop. And you just pop into your office. I mean, that would be pretty sweet. But, yeah, now we
Telepathy and Social Dynamics
00:29:11
Speaker
have three people out of this ten that can, like... Okay. They can go to work on their own, you ability.
00:29:17
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Okay, yeah, let's do that, because... Invisible cops would be fucking terrifying. Yeah, like, I've always had that problem with invisibility. It's like, not really a productive ability. It would a application, though, because, like, if you're a fucking invisible cop and you're trying to stop a thief and he's robbing a bank, like, all you have to do is just, like, fucking come up behind them, grab their hands, and puff them.
00:29:39
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Whoa, who the fuck's got? But let's remember, Janelle, just like in D&D, just because you're invisible doesn't mean that people don't know where you are. True. What would be sneaky invisible cop? Invisible rogues, man. Just don't wear don't wear any, like, body spray or deodorant. Phone goes off when he's about to cuff a perp.
00:29:57
Speaker
Fuck, Janet, I'm at work. Yeah. ah Oh, here's another thing. Let's get off of the invisible cops and how terrifying that would be. So, like, again, kind of, like, using our our world as sort of a template, would there be any conflicts, and would these conflicts be, like, resolved with, like, superpowers or weapons? like would there be any, like, especially with people do we have invulnerability on the list? Mm-hmm.
00:30:23
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Yeah, especially people are invulnerable, you can't fucking shoot them. So, like, weapons aren't gonna do shit. And then super fast people, they outrun your bullet. And teleportation people, they can just, like, boop, and pop away.
00:30:36
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Right. So, like, I imagine weapons not being very effective in this world at all. Yeah. so like Well, I mean, you've got super speed and someone, like, hamstrings you, then... I know it'd suck.
00:30:50
Speaker
Yeah. But I'd probably blow the other guy's arm off, unless he's a super strong guy. Or if you're, like, a stretchy person. Or the telepath. Fucking... Which I... Teleports in the path of somebody running 700 miles an hour.
00:31:04
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So for telepathy, my thought was to just, you know, mental communication, not controlling people. No, no, no. Just mental stuff. Like mental texting. That's what it is. So sorry, Professor X. Sorry, Jean Grey.
00:31:19
Speaker
Sorry, Emma Frost. We're not. Just mental messaging.
Superpowered Sports and Entertainment
00:31:23
Speaker
Yeah. Yep. Hey, you up? oh
00:31:28
Speaker
Like you're having this like sweet ass dream. your Your buddy just texts you or mentally message you saying, hey, you up? fuck though but But think about it this way, though.
00:31:40
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The telepaths, like, information would flow instantly. yeah. you know They're like your news reporters. They are the internet. Yeah. Like, the yeah, they're the internet, essentially. Because they could all connect to each other and you've got communication and just information is just flowing instantly.
00:31:57
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Imagine like if there's a way to is the way to turn that off or you're just like constantly being bombarded by radio like stations essentially in your head. let's let's say i would say that you should be able to. Okay.
00:32:11
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So everyone everyone has a built-in ability to turn off the radio in their head, essentially. I think everyone has the ability to not have their ability, right? So, i mean, if you can fly, you just don't fly. Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:26
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But, like, for these telepaths, like, when you're broadcasting information, like, oh, there's a fire in the skyscraper today, but, uh, you know, a bunch of flying people saved the day. Flying firefighters saved the day.
00:32:38
Speaker
Like, you can basically turn that off and in your head. Like, you have the ability to, okay, I heard this story this morning. Like... Yeah, I feel like you should be you should be able to, like... put up walls so that you're only theyre your thoughts hearing your thoughts or some yours and someone else's or I think I think it just should be like okay cool so kind of going back to um like fast-forwarding a little bit after power for founded like y'all we have this city and I imagine because of the Greek influence it has Greek style architecture still modern Greek
00:33:15
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You have your stone pillars and you still have your stone buildings and everything, but maybe you have some steel sculptures, iron sculptures that are like Greek-inspired architecture. So I imagine these cities and stuff going up pretty quick because, again, you have people who can fly, lift heavy weights, travel long distances.
00:33:33
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So superpowers have spread really quickly. Society has excelled really quickly. You basically didn't have an industrial age. You had people just fucking doing stuff.
00:33:44
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So, like, fast forward through all these ages that we would normally have with normal people. So now you're just kind of, like, thrusted into... a society that like maybe there's some conflicts going on here and there but generally peaceful like everyone has everyone has the same amount of power different powers oh you run fast too yeah you you all kind of run relatively the same speed like you have really fast track meets with your fast running buddies there's some people are faster than others but yeah like how do sports work
00:34:17
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Yeah,
Daily Life and Ethical Considerations
00:34:18
Speaker
I don't know. Like, oh, we can't have you play this sport because you run too fast. That's your power is to run fast. And you that just doesn't work for soccer man. Unless sports are like each team has a certain amount of these kinds of people. I imagine there must be some sports like ah I'm trying to think of like.
00:34:36
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Like, kind of Quidditch example for, like, Harry Potter, you have a bunch of flying people playing, like, flying soccer. ah But also people who run really fast, like, they might have their own sport, or there could be a sport that the world came up with that each team has a strong guy, a fast guy, a flying guy, a teleportation guy. Like, the they each have, one of each maybe powers, and they do something.
00:35:00
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I mean, it's sports, so it's it involves a ball or something, right? Um... ah but they Name a sport that involves a play piece, right? It's either a puck or a ball or something you hit.
00:35:14
Speaker
I mean, I guess... No, no. A a lot of sports are ball-based. A puck is just a a squished flat ball. Yes. See, a lot of sports involve hitting, kicking, catching, or throwing something. Okay, but, like, think about the Olympics.
00:35:30
Speaker
Yes. Those are all sports, I guess. Even snowboarding. Um... Or athletic sports like running, skiing. Running, jumping. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:43
Speaker
But actual sports you would you would turn a TV on and watch. Hockey. You're kicking a puck around. Soccer. You're kicking a ball around. like Cricket.
00:35:54
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Yeah. So like there's a lot of ball-based sports. I really want to like sort of get into that, but that's a whole tangent. I imagine at the very basic spaces of it, the you do have your standard sports that maybe some people are not allowed to play. Or like, hey, I know you're a fast running guy, but don't run fast here. That's not that's against the rules.
00:36:17
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Like soccer, you can have a bunch of people play that. But just like tone your powers down a little bit. Maybe maybe maybe maybe soccer or football are played by the those who don't have any physical...
00:36:32
Speaker
Like, they they're played by the sheep-shifting people. Yeah. And the stretchy, well. But then, like, if you want to play a sport, there is the all-inclusive sport of this sport ball that on each tee they have one of every Right. Sort of like, you know, the pro-bending where you have one of each. Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:57
Speaker
So basically, like, you develop a strategy to play this game with your team of ten, one person that has each power. Yeah. You know? One person each. Okay. I thought it was Irene that hadn't watched Koro. No.
00:37:11
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But yeah, I imagine, like, you have your individual sports, but then you have, like, the one all-inclusive sport that's, like, a big deal. Like, it's kind of like the Olympics. And people watch this. It's a big deal all over the world. Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:23
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I mean, a lot of sports are a big deal over over the world. Everyone has their hockey team, football team, baseball team, etc. Cricket. Yeah. Again with the cricket.
00:37:34
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Yeah. I just want to put it out there, okay? Cricket's a good sport. there There are lots of countries where cricket's a big deal. Like India. Alright, so like, we have that. So we have this flourishing society.
00:37:49
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But now that it's kind of like flourishing, it's flourishing for a while... A while, now things are just kind of normal. So now things are kind of dipping into the lazy.
00:38:01
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I wouldn't think everyone is lazy, but like as a society, it's probably a lazy society. like you do have You still have your sporty people, your jocks, who are playing sports. They're not lazy.
00:38:13
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But you have your other people, kind of like your average you and me, Whoa, whoa, whoa. woe Average as in we don't play sports. We don't run track.
00:38:24
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We're not firefighters. We're not policemen. Listen.
00:38:29
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The two of us in no way are average, okay? We are above average and unique. As far as like playing sports, none of us would ever do anything of football or basketball or have you. Okay, now.
00:38:43
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Now, now. I think we both have proclivities that might lean towards a sport. I've played basketball. And I love playing volleyball. The average people, not like us, I guess. Yes, not like us. Your average people would just be like, oh, I'm not a firefighter. I'm not a sports person. I'm just going laze around at home, play video games or whatever.
00:39:06
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But because of my powers of telekinesis, I can make myself dinner from across the room and not leave my couch. Right. Yeah. Like the telekinetic people. they're like They're probably lazy as fucks.
00:39:18
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Yeah, they they are laying in bed or on the couch the whole day. Telepatic people are probably the laziest people around. Followed by probably the stretchy people.
00:39:28
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Yes, because it's same thing. They can make dinner from across the room. They just have to stretch your arms over and do it and not leave the couch. And then probably telepaths?
00:39:41
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Maybe. Yeah, because, like, i imagine, like, if they want to talk to people, with base it's just like, hey, like, they basically throw a bean to... Well, yeah, but think about it. They don't have to go to work.
00:39:51
Speaker
No. They can just land home and just open their open their minds to their co-workers and just be like, just sit there and mentally communicate with everybody.
00:40:02
Speaker
And if you mention people, like, even people who fly, like, I can't imagine if he had the ability to fly. ah Again, we had this discussion at some point. How does Superman fly?
00:40:15
Speaker
Is that jet propulsion? He doesn't have wings to flap. Does he just kind of like, push himself somehow? But, like, anyway, it doesn't seem like it takes much effort. But, again, Superman is also very strong. So maybe it does.
00:40:25
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I mean, if you're casting the spell Fly, like, it takes material components and... And spell slots. He has a fucking ton of spell slots, then. So, anyway. That's discussion for another day.
00:40:39
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Like, people who fly, like, they can just... They can just do it. They can go anywhere they want. Oh, you want to go to Hawaii for vacation? Yeah, let's all just book into Hawaii for a nine-hour flight.
00:40:50
Speaker
And just fly to Hawaii. Well, bring their stuff with them, so like I'm sure it might be a little bit of a drag, but... Still, they can just do it. Instead of having to spend the money on a plane ticket, because there's still planes for the people who don't fly or teleport or anything like that, or run super fast. Even if you run super fast, you can't run to Hawaii. Well, unless you run on top of water.
00:41:09
Speaker
That'd be a long run. But here's the thing. Okay, so speaking of effort, are we are we going off of a flash where... He can run super fast, but for a long time because yeah his metabolism is so what's this ridiculously increased. Yeah, like, what's the stamina of these super fast people?
00:41:34
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Like, to get they can can they run for hours? Or after an hour, they're like, oh, God, I need to stop.
00:41:43
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Like, how you have to, like, The average person, if they run a mile, after running a mile, is like, ooh, boy, i need to set I need to sit down. But people who run track for living, they can run miles in a day yeah and just be up to it.
00:41:56
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I think it probably, it maybe it varies by person, but here or here's how they're lazy. They are the procrastinators. oh yeah, because they can just everything done at last second. yeah and Yeah, like literally the last second.
00:42:09
Speaker
Yeah. Like, if they need to get groceries before, you know, their week of work, it's like, oh, can just do it Monday morning. Yeah, so they're just, like, they will chill at home for all but, like, maybe five minutes, and then they'll do everything that they need to do in those five minutes because they can.
00:42:28
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i mentioned the teleportation people were similar. Oh, yeah. Because, like, it's, you're not physically running anywhere. just pop where you need to. Like, yeah, I'll take take take care of that when, you know, 10 minutes before need to be somewhere.
00:42:43
Speaker
So I try to think of, like... But yeah, so yeah, so the teleportation people, like, literally teleport. They don't walk anymore. Yeah, they just... They teleport to the bathroom. They teleport to the kitchen.
00:42:55
Speaker
Those have to be some fat ass people. Like not getting exercise at all. Yeah. They just kind of pop everywhere wherever they want to go. Yeah. Just like I got to pee. I don't want to get up. Bamf.
00:43:07
Speaker
Yep. And now I'm on the toilet. Okay. So I imagine those people had might have a little bit of a weight okay. How are the invulnerable people lazy? mean they're kind of like ordinary people at that point. They're not doing like superpower stuff. like They just can't get hurt.
00:43:25
Speaker
Yeah. So, like, they're just probably not cautious in any way. Yeah. Like, they don't give a shit because they can't get hurt. I can imagine, like, going back to the jobs that people do, the people who are involved, they're, like, stunt people for movies.
00:43:42
Speaker
Or, like, even, like, doing, like, fucking Red Bull shit. Or skydiving. Like, they can't get hurt. So, like, they can just do all this reckless shit for clicks and not get any...
00:43:55
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Well, also, they could do dangerous work, like mining and, you know. Yeah, they can do all that kind of stuff. Yeah, but, like, like like yeah like professional stuntmen. Like, they just get hit or fall from a great height and to say, yeah, I'm good.
00:44:11
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Yeah, people who can fly can sort of do that, too, like. True. So here's the thing about being invulnerable that you kind of don't hear about. um If you can't get hurt, so you stop being careful.
00:44:27
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I think that those people are the most depressed. Oh, yeah, maybe because yeah they don't have feeling like they just because's there's no there's no there's no risk.
00:44:39
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Yeah. Like, they don't bother being careful, like, when they're out hiking, because, like, what is a bear going to do So, I think after a while... This guy's walking around, like, he's, like, a tour guide.
00:44:51
Speaker
And they're like, sir, you're aware of a bear on your ass? And he does that. It's, like, the fifth time this week. Yeah, I think they just... Like, they're they're the firemen that go into the burn burning buildings. Oh, yeah, for sure.
00:45:03
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Yeah. But, like, do they still feel... I don't think they do because Superman, think Superman feels. Well, I would imagine like they feel it, but it's not like, like my face is going to burn off feelings. Like, oh, I feel pain, but like, I'm not, I know not to die from this.
00:45:22
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Because have have some feeling. Like, that's how would like to exist. But we are led to believe that Superman can get shot and be, like, does he feel pain? I don't know if he does. imagine, like, okay, so if he gets shot, like, yeah, like, he's not going to get a wound from it, but, like, fucking getting hit, it's like, ah, that kind hurt.
00:45:40
Speaker
It's not going pierce him or do any damage. It's like getting a, you know, getting little thump to the chest. Like, ooh, ooh, that tickles. So that's that's the version of invulnerability we're going with. that you still feel the pain, you just...
00:45:51
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Maybe not as extensive, and then you're obviously not going to die from it.
Interpersonal Relationships and Economy
00:45:55
Speaker
But if you enter a burning building, you might feel the burning pain, but you're not going to get burns on your skin. You'll feel the heat. So you go you take a you take a chainsaw to your arm. It's not going to cut you, but you'd still... Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt, because if it's not actually... But you'd feel it like... You'd feel You'd feel against the skin, and then like break. it That happens.
00:46:14
Speaker
You'd basically feel something moving against your I guess. Because it only hurts if it breaks the skin. Yeah. And again, like you would feel the heat radiating off the fire when it laps against your skin, but like it's not going to burn you. Okay.
00:46:27
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Yeah, I still think they'd get the most depressed. ah Let's see. Shapeshifters. Are were they lazy? Because they just be cats all day. Listen, yeah, if you have the ability to turn into a cat and sleep all day...
00:46:44
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You turn into a cat. I'm wondering, like, how these lazy people, like, do they still have jobs? They have to get paid, right? Like, i imagine, like, a typical... don't know. if later If you're just a fucking cat, you can go and get food pretty much anywhere. but Like, where are you living? You pay rent.
00:47:01
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Do you? if you're a cat, you don't need... They're like sneaking into somebody's apartment like, oh, kitty, and they put you their apartment, but they don't know you're a fucking shapeshifter.
00:47:13
Speaker
Fucking like this fucking homeless dude is just like, hey, I'm just gonna turn into a cat and live rent free. Or they i mean but they could live in any building or like, and they could live anywhere. Hell, you turn little pigeon and live in the city.
00:47:24
Speaker
And but I imagine like this fucking attack. other This cat attacking a pigeon. Like, hey, wait, Jerry, it's me. Oh, shit. Sorry. about Damn it, man. This is like the fifth time. Okay. Super strength. how How would those people get lazy?
00:47:44
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i mean, you're super strong. So it's just like no one's got to fuck with them. Right. Now, are they super strong people? Are they physically built like the Hulk are they just like very unassuming and they just they can just like pick up a car?
00:47:56
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well I always like the like it could be whatever because there are some characters who have super strength but don't look it like Rogue from the X-Men.
00:48:08
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At one point, ah she was had super strength but she didn't look like she did. I like that too, because, like... Spider-Man has super strength. True. Yeah, so you can look at a person and not know what... You can have this, like, very lean-looking dude who is super strong. Like, he can he can bench a car. No problem.
00:48:28
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I can't imagine how... I guess they kind of like, are tied in with, like, the normal people at that point. Like, the like the invulnerable people. Like, they're super strong and everything, but, like... They just kind of...
00:48:42
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Go about their way because no one's got to tell them, like, no. No one's got to fuck with them. Like, they're just, they're, like, super strong. I guess I can't, I don't want to call them, like, rule breakers.
00:48:52
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Yeah, I don't, I'm not sure how, what would make them lazy. Because they'd still need to, like, eat the and move around and, i don't know.
00:49:07
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I'm just kind of like, for now, we've been like the normal, like the normal people. Like unless they use their powers, they are pretty normal people. Yeah. Yeah. And then the people who can conjure elements.
00:49:22
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Yeah. So like, imagine people who have like fire. They don't have gas or electric bills. They can just fucking heat up shit whenever they want to. Mm-hmm. They might need it for their fridge or freezer because they can't cool shit down. must they Unless they have a roommate that is a nice person. yeah So yeah, imagine like they don't have to have like some utilities in their home because they can just fucking do it themselves.
00:49:48
Speaker
but That's not lazy though. That's doing work. Yeah, kinda. I mean... when Maybe if they have like a beverage, like they always keep it warm, like they just have warm hands. That's not really lazy though. That's doing work.
00:50:02
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I guess to be fair, if you're talking about the telekinetic people, they can make meals from across the room. That's still doing work. Yeah, but the effort is different. Yeah. So guess it's kind of similar to like telekinetic people. are They just like, if they're making dinner, they can heat up their own food.
00:50:20
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. So they don't have to do any cooking. They can just... They can buy TV dinners and just... Just heat up their hands. And see if they were like, don't know what the ice people would do. Oh, you want ice cubes for your beverage? You just put your hand... Maybe put your finger in your beverage or and or around your glass and chill your glass. Yeah, or... Wouldn't help with cooking, though.
00:50:40
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Wouldn't help with cooking. i think I think the ice people would have to put in some more work to survive. They're still lazy somehow, like... Maybe the elemental people... tend to live together. Yeah, so imagine, like, you have roommates, just one of each.
00:50:56
Speaker
Just, like, just kind of do shit together. Like, you just... I'm picturing in my head, like, a stereotypical superhero city, like fucking Gotham, or, you know, like, any anything any big city. Like, it's any... Basically generic big superhero city. But everyone has superpowers, obviously.
00:51:14
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That's very Greek-inspired. Architectural-inspired. So, like, I imagine there's a lot of skyscrapers with... Like, ah with um apartments. There's some houses, but, like, usually it's, like, in these big skyscrapers, you have big apartments. Big, nice apartments. And these apartments, you have multiple people living together, so, like, imagine the elemental people, they might... They might tend to live together because they can have satisfied each other's needs.
00:51:37
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They're lazy collectively. Yeah. Okay, I like that idea. Okay, I think we covered all of them. Yeah. And how they're lazy...
00:51:50
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So I'm trying to think of more examples like ah that kind of like wrap up the world here. um What is society like in general? like You still have people that need to go to work. You still have... You might have some... Are there conflicts? Are there wars? I can't imagine them being like the wars here because, like again, weapons are not going to be... I think there wouldn't be wars because...
00:52:14
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Everyone has powers. Yeah, so it would just be a stalemate every time. Yeah. So, like, you might have your squabbles here there. Like, you still have policemen. Yeah. But, like, the police take care of it. Like, that's that's there's no need for, like, military or whatever. Maybe there was at one point. Well, if everyone's lazy, then is there? Yeah.
00:52:34
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Like, maybe there was military at one point, but now it's just like, eh. If this is truly a lazy world for some reason, people just like ended up just not doing shit, I guess you wouldn't have the pay rent or something. For some reason, your landlord is totally okay with you just living rent-free in this big-ass building.
00:52:50
Speaker
Again, think of a skyscrape. people People were paid to build that skyscrape. So all your heavy lifters, all your flying people, your super-fast people, know, a lot of people putting their superpowers together to make this building.
00:53:03
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So they were all paid to build it. And there's people living in it. So the person who owns the building has to be paid because he paid all his people to build this massive building.
00:53:18
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So like, how does the money work? People still to get their jobs done and everything. People still need to go to work. Imagine what those jobs are. Like you have, you do have your construction and everything for your heavy lifters and flying people or whatever. Would it be like desk jobs anymore?
00:53:39
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I don't see. I don't think so. what would Like, i I think the world would be a lot less complicated. I don't think there would be, like, electronics, because I don't... Why would you need that?
00:53:50
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Well, mean, if you're still building cars. Like, there is still some transportation, so, like, you still have planes, trains, and automobiles and boats. Sure, but those things don't inherently need to be electronic. Yes, they do.
00:54:03
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Like, what's your navigation? How do you know you're flying? How do you control the engines of the plane? I don't know. How did the Wright brothers do it, Janiel? So you have you have very short flights into the ocean. um So your airplane turns into a boat if you're going the Wright brothers route. um So, like, again, going to Hawaii. like you you like in our in our in our world, you book tickets to a big airline and you fly to Hawaii.
00:54:29
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um So, like, would be the same thing in this world because you only have, what, 30% of the population that can rely on their own powers to travel somewhere? But what if the strong people throw you really far?
00:54:44
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Giant slingshot powered plane. Okay, good luck. The flying people will then, like, catch you Well, then are the flying people are not Superman. They're not super strong, too.
00:54:58
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yeah okay. If it was, like, a bunch of supermen and women carrying planes, then, yeah, you wouldn't need... You wouldn't need a functional plane. You just need a big metal tube that these flying people can tow or whatever. Oh, okay. How do you navigate with the telepaths?
00:55:20
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Turn left here. Exactly. yeah Exactly. but
00:55:27
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Exactly. Oh, I know. It's fucking going in the atmosphere. Like, the fucking airplanes keep track of, like, atmospheric, you conditions, too.
Conflict, Peacekeeping, and City Life
00:55:39
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maybe it's not a problem. Okay, so like... the Atmospheric turbulence doesn't exist in this world? So... Well, i we could say that, but okay, so what if planes were not flying machines as they are gliders?
00:55:55
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So yeah, the super strong people will pick it up and th throw, and then from once you're in the air, you can kind of like... You can't you can't glide to Hawaii, Jericho. I'm sorry.
00:56:13
Speaker
But if everyone's lazy, why is anybody going on planes? Well, you want to fucking laze it up in Hawaii. Alright, don't you want to have a lazy beach day in Hawaii?
00:56:25
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Or any faraway tropical place? But if everyone has the idea that everyone lives in paradise, then. there's no inner city people?
00:56:40
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There's no people that have the desire to go on vacation. Somebody's living in this like this this this this Greek New York we made. um I mean, there if if the premise is that everyone's super lazy.
00:56:53
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i know. Yeah. That's true. have to stick to the prompt. but i'm just I'm like me as a world designer. I'm just like, huh, why does somebody want to go on vacation and be lazy? you i That's one of the points of being on vacation is to be lazy.
00:57:08
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Well, like, if you're just so lazy in general you don't want to go on vacation because you're already lazing up in your apartment? Yeah, why would why would you want to go on vacation if you don't actually do anything? there I guess I'm putting myself into this world and saying, if I'm just like being lazy in my very expensive high-rise apartment in this Greek New York, would I just go one day and say, you know what?
00:57:29
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need a change of scenery. like i don't want to fucking do anything, man, but I'm tired of looking at that building across the street. I'm tired of hearing sirens from emergency vehicles all day. i just want to fucking go to Hawaii or go to Florida or go to you know some tropical place.
00:57:45
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Like, away from the city. But I guess that would take work. But, like, you still want to? Would you would still have that, like, ambition one day to just visit a place and be lazy there?
00:57:57
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Not in this world. And I think that anything that needs to be done or maintenance, I think the people at Superspeed do it in the five minutes of their day that they actually do something. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:11
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So they they do everything really quick so that they can get back to being lazy. Things still get done, but, like, it's last minute. Yeah. Yeah, imagine the whole, like, overview of society is that it's lazy, but then you still have your go-getters. Like, you still the occasional people. It's like, you still have, like, your emergency personnel, your first responders. Like, they can't be lazy. First responders for what?
00:58:31
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If no one's doing anything. we have one... so so You only have 1% of the population invulnerable. Yeah, but, like...
00:58:39
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Who's getting hurt laying on their couch?
00:58:43
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True, but like, if you still have go out and get groceries or something, you might get hit by a car or you fall and twist your ankle. You order in. Then who's making the food? They have to deliver it to you.
00:58:55
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The people in the super speed. Yeah, and they can fucking hit a car. Or trip and like, me and trip but there's ni but ok imagine tripping and skinning your knee running at like 100 miles an hour.
00:59:06
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You wouldn't have a knee left. Okay. Somehow the flash is fine. But would there be cars then? If no one's like... No, there would still be cars because there's only 3% of the population that can travel other places in a blink of an eye. but we are disgusted. No one wants to leave.
00:59:24
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How would they work? Why would they need to work? I mean, I guess... See, that the problem, listeners, is that Janelle has a hard time comprehending laziness.
00:59:36
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yeah That's the problem with me. I'm not lazy enough, I guess. um But, ah yeah, I mean, I guess no one's, like, doing anything. No one's, like... But who who grows the food? Who makes the food?
00:59:55
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Again, the people at super speed. They take five minutes out of their day. They take care of crops, feed animals, whatever, blah, blah, blah. So they're the only people that do anything? Yeah.
01:00:07
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they only ah they only do They're the only people that do anything because they have to do it. or Otherwise everyone dies. There's two ways to sustain themselves. Yes. That sucks.
01:00:19
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I imagine if Gaia's still alive she's like what the fuck is all this shit? But like I feel like because of that they they get immunity? Immunity?
01:00:30
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We can pretty much do whatever they want. Like immunity from the wall? Yeah. Or from like If they're the only ones that are doing it. Well, if money doesn't mean anything, like, you like basically, you're like you're not working. Money means nothing. No one's robbing banks.
01:00:45
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No one's robbing each other. ok so maybe maybe we need to define how lazy, because there's different levels of laziness.
01:00:56
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Again, like like, I don't umt really feel comfortable. Like, i don't think society would work if everyone just did nothing. So I guess I'm thinking of laziness like the humans in WALL-E.
01:01:11
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So I was kind of like going that route because initially they're very industrious. They built those big spaceships. They went to space. They built all the robots that took care of Earth and the garbage and everything. But then they're like, oh, it's much easier to live up here and start fresh than go back to a filthy planet we fucked up.
01:01:27
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So like, yeah, they're lazy because they made... all that technology to take everything take care of everything for them but in this world they don't have that they have their own superpowers they're still they still need to do stuff they don't have machines to take care of it for them so they can't be as lazy as the people in wali okay so and i think that's fair as a compromise um okay so we're not quite there maybe it's it's heading that direction And it it's kind of starting to suck.
01:02:00
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Okay. And maybe like no one's there's no sense of urgency anymore. Yeah. Everyone's like just pretty relaxed and chill.
01:02:12
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And I don't think people work very long. An hour a day. Yeah. Yeah. Because they they don't have to. Right. Like. The strong people do all the lifting things, you know, a couple hours in the morning or whatever, and then they're done.
01:02:28
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Right. The speedsters do all the stuff a couple hours and then they're done. Yeah, I think doug people only work like a little bit at a time.
01:02:40
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They have like different shifts. So like at restaurants, you have one speedster who is doing everything at a restaurant for a couple hours and then another one comes in.
01:02:53
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I can't imagine them like them tending to tables and also cooking food that might get a little and nasty. so there's like two of them. One's cooking all the food, prepping all the food. one of them is, like, tending to all the tables and then cleaning things up.
01:03:06
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But... You clean things up, you wash your hands, you go back... I imagine how dry that person's hands must be. Washing their hands a million times a day. Maybe they wear gloves.
01:03:18
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Imagine how much litter comes from those gloves. Maybe the gloves are biodegradable. They're washable gloves. They break down. They're, like, compostable. Yeah.
01:03:29
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Then who's making the combustible gloves? Okay. My point is we're not going to get yeah stuck in the weeds here. yeah like Again, so like the laziness of this world is not like Wally humans lazy.
01:03:42
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They can't be. It can't survive that way because it's ah they don't have the technology to do that. But it's like lazy Sunday every day. Yeah. You do stuff for an hour yeah just to stay, just to sustain yourself.
01:03:58
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And make money. But that's it. Yeah. So, like, tell the people who can teleport aren't doing jobs that, I mean, they're probably like delivery people.
01:04:13
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Like, okay, bamf, here you go, bamf, now I'm back. So imagine because one person can do a lot of shit once, like a teleportation delivery person, like your mail carrier...
01:04:26
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Like, they only work for an hour a day because they can just visit they can just visit a million houses in, like, that hour and be done. Or a speedster, yeah. Or a speedster, yeah. And the telepaths, like, again, the information, they're the ones coordinating everything from their couches.
01:04:44
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or I'm kind of en envisioning, like, have you ever seen a Minority Report? Okay. Okay. Well, I'm just picturing, like, you know, the premise of the movie. Basically, they have people called precogs who can tell, can predict when a crime is going to be committed. And so people can go and prevent it.
01:05:03
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They arrest them before the crime is committed, which, of course, obviously has a lot of moral implications that. the movie explored gotcha but they kind of like all like lay in this like in this like water while they're like doing their thing like sort of they're like floating on like you know in salt water or something ah That's how I was picturing it. But like it could be ever they could be just like on beds just in a circle. It's not like they're experiencing anything while they're actively like doing their thing because they take it There's not enough bandwidth to be like experiencing your own self when you're like doing all this other stuff.
01:05:42
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So like they lay around all day is my point.
01:05:48
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And the telekinetic people can do things from a distance. Right, yeah. Same with the stretchy people. i still think the shapeshifters are probably just all cats at this point. Cats or dogs, yeah.
01:06:02
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Lazy household animals. Mm-hmm. Imagine walking into somebody's apartment and it's just, full of cats and dogs. Which one of you ordered the pizza? That'd be me. Ha ha ha ha but Yeah, so like people only work like a few hours a day and then they spend the rest of the time just relaxing. Okay.
01:06:24
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Okay, I'm uncomfortable with that amount of laziness. i think that I think that works because otherwise society would break down. Yeah. Okay, anything else?
01:06:37
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Well, since we're like i don't know if we want to come up with this now or the actual play the name of the city, but like You want to
Mythological Influence and Cultural Memory
01:06:46
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talk about that? or yeah you see You look like you have an idea.
01:06:50
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No, I'm saying do you want to come up with it now later. We
01:07:00
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can come up with it now. what should What should this city be called? We're going for like a... ah What if it's just called Olympus? I was only thinking something Greek.
01:07:13
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Yeah, Olympus or Olympia or something like that. um Yeah. like this This is like the not the main city of the world, but like a New York, a major city.
01:07:24
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you know maybe this Maybe this city is where like ancient Greek is now. Instead of your...
01:07:38
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instead of your Greek ruins that we have today, we have just this fantastic city. Like, it's, like, basically, this is what Greece is now.
01:07:49
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Yeah. So, like, okay. And that I think then people all migrated, not all maybe, but they migrated to cities, and so, like, and all the cities are pretty much the same. I mean, maybe this is like the major city since this is where like all where all people came from all superpowers came from yeah they mean it could be this is the major city be small yeah it doesn't we don't have to it doesn't have to be huge okay so like if we're really like i know we're going for like greek style and everything but is it truly greek like is the is the lady who the goddess who did all this is she truly named gaia and like there's zeus and everyone um are you are going like an alternate alternate
01:08:28
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earth-like world where we did have all the greek names the greek gods gaia titans what have you were titans people too or the titans titans there were no titans there were all titans ok okay okay Okay, so we could either do that, or we could have, like, okay, Olympus is the Greek city.
01:08:52
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greeky The Mediterranean-inspired city. Then you have Valhalla is, like, the Norse-inspired city. Oh, so you are talking about different people slayed their own gods. like We could do that, or we could just keep it as the one.
01:09:06
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like I think, for this world's sake, keep as the one, because I think... Ooh. That actually might be where conflicts might arise. Like, wars between, like, different mythologies.
01:09:19
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Instead of your different countries, you get different mythologies. Because ah a lot of war is based off religion anyway. Like, your religion sucks, mine's better, and I take you take you people over and claim your land as my own and burn your Bible whatever.
01:09:30
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Yeah, I mean, I think Like, having a world with different patheons and, like, different people who, like, all rose up and killed their own gods for whatever reason. um Because there's no Gaia in Norse. Like, it's... I can't remember who's, like, the all-mother, like... Like, there's a god like that in Norse. Or is it... Oh...
01:09:51
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No. I can't remember that far back in origin mythology. Yeah, it it doesn't... It's not... Some of them kind of correlate, but most of them don't. So, basically, the world was created from the body of Ymir, which is a giant.
01:10:09
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Okay. That's okay. So there's no Gaia, there's Ymir. Okay. So yeah, I wouldn't like... They wouldn't have the same origin as the Greek gods, where Gaia's like, hey, I'm gonna bless you, handful of people, with my power.
01:10:25
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So like, would Norse do the same thing, where it's like Ymir was... Doing the same thing with a bunch of people he pi chose? It could be. But, like, then why would everyone rise up against their gods, quote, quote, and kill them?
01:10:39
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um So I think it's i think we're just gonna stick with one pantheon here. Yeah. And Gaia is, like, the one god of the world, the one goddess of the world. And is Gaia still around in this world? Is she still, like, prayed to?
01:10:55
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Or, like, people kind of forget about her? I think she's God. yeah. Because, like... Oh, yeah. Again, you have a lot of pantheons of our world. No one prays to, like... i I bet you do have people that pray to Zeus or whatever, but not like you would a Christian god or, like, you know, lot of bigger religions. Yeah. legend so So what if, I'm just going to throw this out there. What if Gaia gave the people these powers and, you know, at first everyone was industrious and so she was happy.
01:11:34
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But then as time went on, she like, either she got bored or she... She became lazy herself. She grew tired and went to sleep. And because there was no oversight, that's when things started going downhill.
01:11:49
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Mm-hmm. Okay. So yeah, she's like... It was once a big fucking deal. Like, again, this city... Olympus, we're calling it? I mean, i think it's fine to call it that, but... We'll call it Olympus then. this This major city, this founding city, essentially, of these powers. ah It was once a big deal. Like, hell, like, it's Greek architecture, these buildings.
01:12:12
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um Like, even these big-ass skyscrapers are very heavily Greek-inspired architecture. So, like, for a long time... Gaia and the original gods even were a big deal.
01:12:23
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And the event and but to yeah that that that did all this, you know, killing the gods was a big deal. Um, but then, like, over time, people were getting lazier and lazier and lazier, just kind of like, forgot about all that stuff. But it's still there. Yeah. Like, you still have the architecture, you might still have museums that tell you about this history and mention Gaia. they have They have Greek statues in there of the gods and Gaia.
01:12:48
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Um... i say I should say the goddess and the gods that she'd chosen. But
01:12:57
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but yeah, like people just like they don't go to the museum anymore. do want go to museum? That's just extra work. And that's history. like Why we want to like focus on old stuff? Yeah.
01:13:08
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I also want to say that just because we're basing this off of, like, the ancient Greeks doesn't mean that they're all olive skin people. They're skin colors of all kinds. Yes.
01:13:23
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This is a world that has, like, it's been thousands of years since the powers have first kind of, like, this whole, like, slaying the gods and everything. So, like, it's been a bit. Yeah, je and just like with any world we we build, it's always super inclusive.
01:13:39
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Always. Yes. Such an all-humanoid...
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01:13:44
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Yeah. So, we got queer people of all colors. And I guess some straight people, too.
01:13:51
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Just but the people in the mix. Okay, so, I think... I think we did a pretty good job establishing this world. I i can kind of.
01:14:05
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I can picture it. I don't know if you can. i think I'm good with it. Yeah, because like and if we think about it, like the Greeks and Romans, they were kind of lazy. They ate lying down.
01:14:17
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Right. So like it kind of fits is what I'm saying. Oh, what are people wearing? I imagine it's a mix of modern clothing versus like Greek inspired.
01:14:30
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Again, like you still have that Greek influence even all these years later. So togas don't require much effort. lot of different colored togas, not just white.
01:14:42
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Yeah. We have patterned togas. Which that they all, they weren't all white. I think just they happen to be depicted in art that way. Like if you watch Terculeys and Xena, like there's colors, all kinds of colors. Yeah.
01:14:57
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yeah I think, du think togas is is like drapey dresses. yeah Yeah. Like just yeah flowing garments. in it Yeah. Well, Janelle,
01:15:10
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I can't wait to see how our intrepid traveling friends, ah what they get up to in this world. Intrepid traveling friends sounds like a preschooler show, and it's adorable.
01:15:23
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yeah Like fucking Dora. Yeah. We're the intrepid traveling friends. but um Yeah, I can't wait to find out what happens. um there's I know you can't either. So tune in next time where we do find out what happens in Olympus. Yes.
01:15:44
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01:16:00
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