Well LennyRiMi1, your little battle with the mosquito suddenly sounds reminiscent of that little scene with 'George Kaplan' Roger Thornhill with the crop duster biplane in North by North-West, seeing as you're where I was at Sheraton Düsseldorf Airport Hotel, my current advice is, don't lounge too much to the left of the building...

@ThoRD, As I said, without psionics there is no difference, by localised mutation or raw energy harnessed from far realm energy absorption from the bending of the space/time continuum construction of the fabric of reality's plane, however every now and then this leakage of the fabric leads to influential manipulation and trickles down into the plane. Most people never knew for a long time, it was a very late almost decadent epiphany, hence the now altered living gate.

If psionics is removed, then individuals are not fundamentally different. Mutation and energy harnessing become environmental, not internal.
The “bending of the space/time continuum” is stress fractures in a plane. Now and then those fractures leak influence downward. Most exist in a stable layer and never perceive deeper architecture until decay, excess, or crisis exposes it.

Con't: Though revelation comes late in a civilisation’s lifespan (what you'd call 'decadent'), when 'manipulation' replaces 'discovery'. And the Living Gate is no longer merely a passage but a transformed organism or system that mediates between planes, after much exposure to those leaks.
So essentually the contrast becomes:

Early era: Reality is assumed solid.
Middle era: Anomalies are exploited.
Late era: The plane itself becomes programmable.

So the “gate” stops being a doorway and essentually becomes an interface.
With this you'd effectively have a cosmology of emergent power, where influence flows downward from structural failure rather than upward from conscious intent.

@FLK, Women/girls have almost always been the 'limiting factor' of reproduction in general anyway even before it gets to the point she has intercourse with a male, but even then when/if she does, there's always still the chance she won't be able to get impregnated even if she wants to be.

The fact they are the limiting factor of reproduction is just an evolutionary behavioural trait that evolved that way on their native biological nature, i.e., every female is limited in the sense their reproductive ability is a timed opportunity, because obviously even when they do get pregnant, the cost of this means she needs to dedicate 9 months of her life (and a good few years after) towards the interests of the baby, 9 months is the best part of a year, so it's not like a female can just mass produce babies on the regular overnight, a good amount of that time takes real long term investment and commitment.

Con't 2: So this is why women tend to be more choosy on who they sleep with or are intimate with, seeing it as a big investment, while a man doesn't really lose anything by comparison given the same scenario, as one man alone can just endlessly impregnate significantly more women compared to a woman who is less choosy and generally more on the promiscuous side with men. So every woman basically counted when it came to their reproductive capabilities from ancient times, as they were limited in this area and therefore it meant scarcity, and of course, scarcity increases value in economic terms.

Con't 3: It effectively meant every woman basically mattered when it came to their existence in this area for the sustainment of society along strategically sociopolitical lines, it was their biggest trump card compared to men, which has also contributed to this saying of women essentually being 'human beings' - meaning their very being, just existing has value alone, while a man is more a 'human doing' in comparison - because men evolved more along utilitarian lines, and were more geared towards and judged more on their abilities, what they can do, what they offer to society and bring to the table etc.

If women ever felt 'objectified' for their sexuality whether they invited it or not, this could be a valid critique in fairness, while for men, the equivalent of that would be one of appliance, that a man really has to work on their value to be a credit to begin with, otherwise they are basically seen as a useless appliance.

Con't 4: Therefore men won't be treated as an object if they fail in life, but as an appliance that can no longer work effectively as their value is reflected more in their utilitarianism.

It always brought to mind that old scene after the intro and opening of Game of Death (1978) with Hugh O'Brien's character Steiner to Billy Low "A man has got to have all of his parts to make it". ~ https://youtu.be/pzO29tEnYzk?si=koQNr9-JAeYESRp3

As a man's utilitarianism is ultimately their source of power and prestige, their currency of getting by, the manifold of potential relies on it, they can't effectively get by without it, the one who coined that old adage of 'actions speak louder than words' no doubt would have based that sentiment on some man.
Alt: https://youtu.be/8EtruBl1mpQ?si=XOOZidYdWmt9R2sg

Con't 5: Even the most intellectually capable philosophers and thinkers of times past no doubt will have come to this realisation at some point, but even they had to accept (especially for their time), that their intelligence was not something that could be commoditised, what they had was not some trinket that could be traded with the rest of the world to get by, kind of ironic now given the evolving landscape of AI technology in recent years, whereby intelligence is now becoming commoditised.
So now and back then especially, they had to find ways to translate their grandest insights into a more consumable medium of the day for easier digestible consumption for the masses.

@Microprose, The 'Euphoria' ended quickly for Portugal, the Bulgarian people will learn this in the next 4 to 5 weeks. Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Czechia all saw the trap, but the French? Nope. Of all people, they should have seen this a mile off. It would explain why European leaders now want a new game over a tête-a-tête with Russia, providing the makings of a new 'unifying force' whilst excusing the inevitable economic decline for the period, i.e., "you must destroy the standard of living of your population until they are so poor that they become competitive again".

Con't: Though January 1st 1999 sealed the fate to come, effectively it was November 9th 1989 when the wall came down that the drama began. Chancellor Kohl was about to do a U-turn on the monetarist stance of France and his own foreign minister, but then the ego struck for Kohl, with 'German reunification', at all costs, by the time the monetary union was all but settled, yet his actions were not appreciated by the other European leaders. To accomplish reunification, Kohl had to ultimately cave in and abandon the economist approach to monetary union in favour of the disastrous monetarist one ~ https://youtu.be/-XpExJgWcHg?si=Gj0xpMoX-l4SW01Y

Seeing as you tend to steer in that general direction, we can take it back to Cú Chulainn of Ulster, long before the 3rd Scottish settlement into Ulster in 1607 which was facilitated by the magnate Sir Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim.
Cú Chulainn was trained by the ancient Scottish warrior Scáthach of the Fortress of Shadows in Scotland, again, another clear distinction and there was no mistake Scáthach was Scottish even as early as 200 BC, which was when the first of three major waves of Scots came to Ulster.

The next occured in the 3rd century AD, around the same period known as the Barbarian Conspiracy (which was also followed by a period known officially as 'The Groans of the Britons', an appeal from the Southern British for Roman help against the Scot/Picts of the North), where they appealled directly to the Roman general Flavius Autius (though Gildas called him "Agitius" in particular).

Con't: This was also the reason the Angles, Jutes and Saxons were actually invited to proto-England, they did not come as invaders, they were actually invited, as hired mercenaries for protection, this is the reason they came to be in proto-England in the first place following Roman abandonment of the British isles altogether, before they stayed and took over and merged as one people and became the modern English - same people in all but name.
Although, unlike in England, the term 'Saxon' (which also shares a loose root with Scot via the ancient 'Saka') wasn't generally baked into the term 'Angle' (early form of English) in Scotland to the same degree, hence the term 'Sassenach' in Albannach.

Con't 2: Of course, this was at a time the term 'Pict' was also still in use for the Kingdom of Alba (the root seat of the Scottish nation, hence the town of Arbroath is considered the birthplace of the Scottish nation itself), though term 'Pict' was put upon the early people of Scotland by the Roman writer Eumenius and consigned to record for the first time in the year 297 AD when he wrote a congratulatory letter to Tacitus in reference to Agricola, it was recorded no earlier than this year and naturally gradually died out with the change of language and the collapse of the Roman empire.

@Polomis27, That's my exact point, we already know there wouldn't have been any Gaels/Scots in Ireland from the North at that time, not merely on Ptolemy's account, but even down to basic manners, because the old native Hiberni/Irish customary greeting of 'nipple sucking' (akin to the handshake in Scotland) was a custom alien to the Scots then. People get into this argument with me and then end up indirectly agreeing with me without even realising it and end up wrecking their own argument.
And by the way, even Dr. Tyrone Bowes of Ireland now agrees, after 15 years of initial denialism, that the Scots/Gaels did indeed start in Scotland then a smaller branch of them ventured into what is now Ulster to the North of Ireland, based on his earlier academic talk this year after much research, see here at 23:30 ~ https://youtu.be/ZQ9xANuF03Q?si=eHLneJFkda71AEBm

Then where is your rhetoric? Though I'd take particular issue with the title 'Gaelic', particularly in your seeming attempt to present it as an interchangeable term with 'Irish'. The modern understanding of the term 'Gael' (as you understand it), which is nowadays used more as a 'collective' and 'inclusive' term rather than a 'singular' and 'interchangeable' term for just the Scots alone, didn't start to be widely used prior to 1774, prior to that it's definition used to be synonymous with the word 'Scottis' in medieval English, so not Hiberni or 'Irish' as it has since come to be Anglicised as within the English language.

Con't: 'Irish' essentually became a 16th century papist name imposed on the island of Hibernia by Pope Leo X within the 16th century, the historic pre-16th century Irish were known as 'Hiberni' in the Latin language - the Lingua-Franca of this era.

So all Gaels were Scots, a Scottish tribe but not all Scottish tribes were Gaels of course (akin to how the term 'Pict' came to be a name placed over the people of Scotland on record by the Roman writer - Eumenius in the year 297 AD), and this understanding goes back to Ammianus Marcellinus's own oldest recorded mention of the Scots of Scotland in the year 360 AD - incidentally, at a time they still were not recorded as having settled land in Ulster.

Con't: What you call Scots-Gàidhlig is 'Albannach' in its own tongue, which effectively means Scottish, as Albannach relates to the word Alba (Scotland), which itself relates to the island of Great Britain's oldest and most ancient name - 'Albion'.

Irish-Gaeilge is 'Èirennach' (Irish) in its own language, Eirennach is not as mutually intelligible with Albannach as some people pretend it is, it has no more similarity than Scots does with English, the reason why is because Albannach is far more the conservative language of the two - having retained most of its ancient forms and changed very little over time, whereas Eirennach (Irish) has evolved and changed a lot over the past thousand years or so.

Con't: Either way though, the word 'Gael' has more to do with France than either Scotland or Ireland, despite what some writers believe, it does relate etymologically to 'Gaul' - which was the name of proto-France during the Pax Romana.
As does the Greco form 'Galatia'.
Even the 'Gall' part of the word means 'foreign'.

In fact it was the Roman - Tacitus himself who believed that the southern Britons (pre-Anglo-Saxon, proto-English in all but name) were partly related to the Gauls - it was from this view of his that modern historians came up with the idea that Britons started as a wave of Celts migrating from Gaul. Even though the word Gaul itself comes from Weidhala (proto Indo-European for 'forest people').

Con't: So its entry into common English in 1774: "of or pertaining to the Gaels" (meaning originally in English: the Scottish); 1775 as a noun, language of the Scottish; earlier Gathelik (1590s), from Gael (Scottish Gaidheal; see Gael) + -ic.
Even the Galloway district in southwestern Scotland (Medieval Latin: 'Gallovidia'), is equivalent to the Welsh form 'Gallwyddel', even to the Irish the term they used - 'Gallgaidhil' literally meant "foreign Gaels," and meaning there "a stranger, a foreigner," especially an Englishman. Related: Gallovidian, which is from the Latin form of the name. The adjective 'Galwegian' is also on analogy of 'Norwegian'.

Con't: Even the term 'Donegal' in Ulster in Northern Ireland, in the Irish form 'Dun na nⁿGall' literally means "fort of the foreigners".
So yes, the Irish very much did view the Scots as foreigners and therefore not similar to Irish, even if they spoke a language akin to what the Ulstermen spoke.

John Mctaggart's 1824 and 1876 'Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia' also supports this and emphasises the common parlance even of that time.

Norrie McTavish, How was it ethnic cleansing? The Highland clearances was an exclusively Scottish affair, unlike Culloden which was a British-wide affair with even English Jacobites fighting against red coat Williamite Scots, with the Roman born 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' far from being a representation of the Scottish clans of old (as he's often erroneously romanticised as in media and entertainment productions akin to Brigadoon).

He was actually in reality a representation of the Itilo-Polish, Spanish-Polish international Catholic community, who also used the support of foreign Catholic non-British forces, a research of his full name would give you a clue of what their intention was with him.

As for the Highland clearances, again, it was a fuedalistic way of life, before the industrial revolution, there was very little in the way of option besides laboured work, many Scots were attracted to the industrial revolution and the emergence of high quality education.

Though it resulted in significant parts of the highlands being depopulated compared to the way it once was 1,000 years ago, but there wasn't much to do in the way of business unless you were a fuedalistic landlord or a factor, and it struggled to compete with the rise of capitalist industrialisation,

With Scots the likes of Adam Smith and David Hume becoming the new successful Scots, spearheading a new Scottish Enlightenment, a Scottish intellectual movement that hadn't been so influential since the days of the Culdees, and many highlander Scots became part of that in industrial Scotland after the highland clearances.

Back on Culloden itself, If not for the fact the Williamites won, the Scottish Protestant reformation most likely would have been reversed, the 1688 Glorious Revolution would be undone, and there would likely never have been such a thing as the Scottish Enlightenment, which vastly improved society on every level it shone upon, including Scotland and Scottish society itself, as well as modernising the world with the industrial revolution, the Scottish Enlightenment being the engine of that.

As for games. It doesnt get too better after dc en ps2. Games died that day

And the bible told of his coming
Isa 29.12

The prophet mohammed cpuldnt read and made islam

There once was a servant who didn't know how to read. The day came where his master asked him to read something for her, to which he replied, "I'm sorry my lady, I can't read." That reply immediately got him fired.

So he went out on the streets looking for a tea house to relax and accept the bad news. When he couldn't find any, he reckoned he probably wasn't the only one to wish there was a tea house in his small town, so he opened up his own.

It really picked up, so he built many more, and became rich in the process.
One day, his accountant asked him to review a piece of document, to which he replied he didn't know how to read.

The accountant, who couldn't believe his ears, said: : "If you became a millionaire without even knowing how to read, just imagine where you would be if you could read."
"Oh I know exactly where I would be", the rich man replied. "I would be a servant".

~The end~

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Hengjin is binding force that twists and turns. There is horizontal when starting, horizontal when rising, and horizontal when falling; horizontal when the foot is in, and horizontal when the foot is retreating .Hengjin of the whole is the innate horizontal force. TChi is “Zhou Jin of the whole”. One dantian in the whole body via internal J-seals, that is, one TChi in the whole. It also uses the function of VR and virtual spirit to become extremely good. Stickiness. Chest and waist advance and retreat to step, this is the work of perfecting. Pneumatic is rush, refers to the movement between each, even if it does not move, the enemy quickly hits, touching the bones, just like the iron bone, the iron wall, the whole is like leather (the taller), this sturdy fist to stab your opponent, you can hurt it just a little closer. Absolute strength is Cunjin.

Shaking. Anxious. Cold. Cold. Crisp strength. The main source of extreme strength is the sharp turning of the tail and the accumulation of dantian Qi, and the trembling is in the hips. The principle of turning waves is very simple. The strength of waves hitting the shore is very strong, but its source of strength It is not on the surface, but the movement that originated at the bottom of the sea, which is actively transformed into the middle layer of the ocean, and then acts on the surface. This is the reason. Cun Jin is not just a foreigner who uses the root of the palm to sink and hurt people, but to use softness. The palm of the person is full of strength and pure spirit, and it can shake, tremble and fall. The higher is the division of strength, the J-Seal is more pure, the slight tremor does not see the violent shape, and the fall is more wonderful, so it is sticky trembling.

Qi people are skilled w/ vertical strength because the qi sinks to the foot, force of stepping on the ground comes from the spine and hit the hands strength, the person who physically exerts is skilled at horizontal strength, the internal Qi enters and exits the dantian, penetrates the hands and feet, and the dantian Jin is central strength. The belt, hands, and feet are united, which is physical strength. Once hands and body strength is horizontal, the opponent's hand breaks, rolling in like a python, hand strength can't resist waist strength.

Advantage of jin is to eat too much, as waist is thicker than the hand, additional advantage of jin is that it is intended first, it can produce vertical jin, meaning qi has sinked enough, and the gun can be run off the ground with the sound of the gun. Shen, you must first sink and accumulate energy before you can run out. Using horizontal force to break the momentum. Using vertical force to attack the enemy is like a firecracker. And if the horizontal force encounters obstacles, you can't do it, just turn around. If you enter the horizontal force again, another silk-wound force is developed.

One, the inner strength in the fist is the spirit of dispersing people outside, using the rules in the fist, moving the hands, feet and body, moving in the middle and using the inverse, retracting into the dantian, interacting with the dantian, from nothing, from the slightest it's from the fictitious and the real, both gradually accumulated. The purpose is nothing more than shrinking in motion, so that the qi is unified into the dantian. The cultivation of internal strength is the sect, and the alt form is not sought. The law must retain in simple form. Nei Jia Ming Jin. Dark Jin. Hua Jin rises with the fullness of the Qi machine, from the meter Jin to the Chi Jin, and then to the Cun Jin, and the whole body is one breath. The natural power of self-expression.

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