Yes, pain tolerance is hard to nail down. What one person feels is debilitating, another might think of as a minor annoyance. Come to think of it, that may be why I find ibuprofen to be superior to o… (View Post)

As an aside, how is Moldavia doing? Or Croatia? Mongolia? Those are land-locked countries not involved with finance and resource poor. Edit: Central African Republic and South Sudan are examples in A… (View Post)

In real life I would have a thief scout out the entire dungeon, note the patrols and the timing of them, observe the denizens' tendencies, see who the leaders are and their strengths and weaknesses, … (View Post)

Again, you're looking at things from your perspective only. The reason for colonialism was not to help the countries that were colonized. It may have helped some of them but certainly not all. It did… (View Post)

Compared to the other schools of thought at the time they WERE geniuses. They weren't perfect by any means but they were at least able to compromise. Too bad that's seen as a weakness nowadays. A har… (View Post)