What's wild to me is that people didn't used to distinguish blue from green
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Nah. Those are just the same words in a different language. It's like how most peoples' name for their own culture/nation/tribe or whatever is just "People" in their own language.
And features like River Avon, or Glendale.
One "puzzle" room was made entirely of fully cracked glass, meaning the player could only step on a given tile once. This doesn't really vibe with my given understanding that tiles only cracked further when idling on them, but maybe that last crack was special? I also seem to remember preparing glass tiles as traps by cracking them to a certain extent. Dream logic, I dunno.
The trinket I was using was unrelated, something to do with plants but I don't remember it at all clearly.
Imagining a fantasy setting where elves, dwarves, orcs and whatnot are just continually baffled by humans eating the most vile toxic things.
Salsa? You mean a mix of a hemolytic poison (onions), a cardiotoxin (tomatoes), and a nerve agent (chili peppers)? Eaten with corn chips dusted with a lethal amount of salt, and washed down with a cup full of neurotoxin (iced tea)?
Stay the fuck away from me because clearly you are the vile spawn of some incomprehensible eldritch god
Sure, fuck up some innocent trucker's day, and possibly take his life too.
Oh hey, did you know that being involved in an accident while holding a commercial driver's license is one of the few times that a US Citizen has no presumption of innocence in the criminal justice system?
The bar that must be cleared is not "are you at fault" but instead "could you have done anything to prevent this"
So you say another driver crossed the median and plowed into you, head on? Well, if you happen to be driving a car and were in your own lane, you're completely in the clear.
If you were driving a truck, WELL!
Does anybody think you maybe had enough time to see it coming and swerve to avoid it?
Hm, did you really spend enough time inspecting your truck that morning? If you had taken 20 minutes instead of 15 to kick your tires and check your fluids and lights, you know you wouldn't have been there when that car lost control...
In fact, let's pull up your entire logbook history and see if we can find any indication that you've never once in your life made a single mistake. Shows a tendency toward carelessness, that does.
Yeah, we think you could have done better. Enjoy your civil and criminal penalties for something you had absolutely no control over.
Think about that when you see those giant "INJURED BY A TRUCK? CALL OUR LAW FIRM!" Billboards all over every metro area.
Oh you think that's bullshit?
I was legally parked along the curb in front of a warehouse, waiting in line to check in. A guy riding a motorcycle at well over twice the speed limit came around the curve, lost control and hit the back of my trailer.
He sued ME. His lawyer argued that I should have known better than to park on that part of the curb where sight would be limited by the curve for other traffic on the road.
Rather than fight it in court, my insurance just settled with him.
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