Shugilis At Work: ALL revealed!!!

[kk7]

They spend hours flourishing their alien-twisted biologies and unearthly cuisines at us!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAdE27t99mg

It's a terrible, but quite understandable mistake: I mean the first letter, right? But the Vilani had nothing to do with the poor innocent Sumerians -- it was the Swedish Menace all along!!!!

Clearly a "race" which, as we know is canonical, will erase all sophont if not all sentient if not all life period on a planet if it seems awkward to Assimmillatte Asssimmmilllattte etc (tm); those aliens we know from Traveller can easily be recognized as those RIGHT IN OUR MIDST who deal with defenseless food commodities through hatred, knife attack, repeated body blows, and overwhelming disrespect.

Their predilection for peeling root vegetables, including the "argu", by scrubbing them against the hairiest parts of their low-caste "underlings" of the same sex, only lends to the unsavory character of these INFILTRATORS.

Not only that, dear friends. In this both provocative and shameless video series, the "noble" (sic!!!) performer, Niklas[tiebr], repeatedly and openly demonstrates psionic powers -- with no sign of shame -- in his melting of butter through his shocking channeling of inhuman rage -- that is rage purified for the destruction of the TRUE CHILDREN OF EARTH!!!!

K.

 

[Cryton]

This is one wickedly humorous post....but only if you check out the link.

Nice job.

Cryton

 

[Enoki]

Isn't that what you get on some 30 year old Far Trader who's "steward" has a skill level of 1 and doubles as the ship's security guard...?

 

[kk7]

Apologies for the garbled writing/editing of the original post -- I was racing a migraine, and largely failed Unfortunately, I left out the key revelation: the secret processes of the the shugiili caste, allowing "human" (well, Vilani) consumption of Vlandian food, was simply this: "Pre-dinner mayonnaise. It's good for me!"

Seriously, though, yes, I think most Traveller games could be bettered by a ship's steward of this type. In fact, I'd argue it was the intent of the game -- why else would stats and rules for broadswords and axes have been built into it forty years ago?

 

[maksimsmelchak]

*** Has anyone ever read about the processes that go into making Cassava an edible foodstuff? Or how corn has developed over the years? ***

Corn used to be thought of as exclusively animal fodder, before they bred cultivars that we could digest without heavy chemical treatment, preparation, or processing. Very Shugiliii!

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

 

[kk7]

Corn used to be thought of as exclusively animal fodder, before they bred cultivars that we could digest without heavy chemical treatment, preparation, or processing.

I think you're massively confusing the (indeed murky & mysterious) domestication/engineering of maize with the attitude of some European elite classes held for a few generations.

Wait, sorry, I seemed to have been being serious there!

Maize probably is what the ancient Vilani brought to Earth -- not the Sumerian language

 

[maksimsmelchak]

I think you're massively confusing the (indeed murky & mysterious) domestication/engineering of maize with the attitude of some European elite classes held for a few generations. Maize probably is what the ancient Vilani brought to Earth -- not the Sumerian language

I used the common name. Would love to hear more of what you have to say on the subject.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

 

[kk7]

I used the common name. Would love to hear more of what you have to say on the subject.

Sorry, I don't mean to make a nomenclature fight! It's just that I do still run across native-English-speakers for whom "corn" clearly means "graminoid crops, grassy and seedy", and not [the thing bestowed on us by our glacial-age Vilani patrons which is frelling awesone].

Otherwise, erm, which part of the subject?

That maize was fit only for consumption by animals or chattel? -- well, no, perfectly normal Old-World people were growing it to eat by tbe early 1530s, without flinching or gagging.

That, later, elites were pissing on people who ate maize seems to me like how they pissed on people who ate oats and turnips.

 

[maksimsmelchak]

Sorry, I don't mean to make a nomenclature fight! It's just that I do still run across native-English-speakers for whom "corn" clearly means "graminoid crops, grassy and seedy", and not [the thing bestowed on us by our glacial-age Vilani patrons which is frelling awesome].

Otherwise, erm, which part of the subject?

That maize was fit only for consumption by animals or chattel? -- well, no, perfectly normal Old-World people were growing it to eat by tbe early 1530s, without flinching or gagging.

That, later, elites were pissing on people who ate maize seems to me like how they pissed on people who ate oats and turnips.

Ok. Please tell us about Corn AKA Maize AKA whatever other distinction you'd like to parse... Tell us what is special and Vilani about it, please.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

 

[kk7]

Ok. Please tell us about Corn AKA Maize AKA whatever other distinction you'd like to parse... Tell us what is special and Vilani about it, please.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

Apologies for the delay in replying! And apologies for my disinclination to play your game. Or, if you sincerely didn't get the joke, I don't see how anyone here benefits from attempted explanations of it.

 

[maksimsmelchak]

Apologies for the delay in replying! And apologies for my disinclination to play your game. Or, if you sincerely didn't get the joke, I don't see how anyone here benefits from attempted explanations of it.

Ok. The whole tie-in is that the early maize /corn/etc. was processed in a way similar to Vilani background story.

No worries. No games intended. Just took the writing at face value.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.