On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:21 AM, ttrotsky2 <TTrotsky_at_-efITg-lurattMi0_nxwX9DDJtNMF_Jnuw7ukmkGPLiimxMbSeFnqEtZKIti1apVuho2kx88b8TYsTxchyiJ.yahoo.invalid>wrote:
> I'd say they were quite tragic, forced into rigid codes of behaviour by an
> overwhelming fear of death and ageing.
I'd say:
they were born into behaviors that appear, to outsiders, to be an
overwhelming fear of death and aging.
They are callous certainly, and have expunged some of the most uplifting
> parts of the human spirit from their culture,
Woah woah, they haven't expunged anything!
They are born this way.
They are not human beings, but a kind of proto-human being.
and in certain respects one can therefore see them as being "horrible"...
> but "maniacs" just doesn't seem the right word to me.
>
Both horrible and maniacal COULD work, depending upon one's perspective.
--greg
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Greg Stafford
Game Designer
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