"Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction".
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The following year she was exiled to Mars, where she grew an extra boob
Fittingly enough, this is called the Square-Cube law
There's a similar story about CS Lewis that's much older. I originally saw it in some print source, but this (unsourced) quick Google copy-paste gives the gist:
One day, Lewis and a friend were walking down the road and came upon a street person who reached out to them for help. While his friend kept walking, Lewis stopped and proceeded to empty his wallet. When they resumed their journey, his friend asked, "What are you doing giving him your money like that? Don't you know he's just going to go squander all that on ale?" Lewis paused and replied, "That's all I was going to do with it."
Obviously it's funnier when a comedian says it, just thought it was interesting that the general idea has been around for a while. Probably as long as there's been booze and beggars tbh.
"Time (Billions of years)" - Checks out
maybe it should be 1d2 then - can only deal 4 points of damage on a crit
Weird - I'm seeing that now too. But I wasn't at the time that I copy and pasted the links, and you can see from the other replies around 8 hours ago that other people were also seeing a site hosting edited versions of xkcd comics. I guess it has suddenly changed, after years of being up, in the few hours after I posted it? I have no idea what happened there.
I could have sworn there was an xkcdsw exactly like that, but there doesn't seem to be. Some of them are a bit happier though
E.g. http://xkcdsw.com/3968 , http://xkcdsw.com/2485 , and others if you click "browse by source" at the bottom and search for "spirit"
He's talking about the belgariad/malloreon, by David Eddings. It seems like he may not have read the second paragraph mentioning the death gate cycle, hence the confusion.
The Belgariad is a series of 5 books, and the Malloreon is a sequel series which is also 5 books.
I remember being very interested in them back in the early 2010s, but progress has been very slow. They're more or less at the same point now as they were then, as far as I can tell, apart from minor updates. It's hard to be sure though because their site updates so rarely. I clicked through to it just now and there were some machine pages talking about what they hope to accomplish in 2014, and others being proud of their progress so far in 2018. It's hard to tell exactly where they're at when their site is so inconsistently updated.
If there's a source showing a clearer and more complete picture of their status I'd love to see it, as I do find the idea interesting.
Well you can start here, then spend a few decades reading and thinking about it, and get back to us when you've figured it out