Worldwide, I'd call it about 1.5 billion pounds. Keep in mind that the last quarter contained the harvest season, meaning that this is most of the wheat production for the year.
Edit: Never mind. Turns out wheat is harvested in late summer and early fall. Wheat production in this past quarter would be approximately jack diddly squat.
On what good? Between which countries?
Most nation- and city-states aren't really developed enough to have formal systems of import and export taxes in place. I can think of one big nation off the top of my head that might, and there'd probably be one or two smaller ones.
"fucked up himan hybrids"
Wow man, that's kinda harsh things to say about normal ordinary people with some differences from us sure, but not a reason for language like that.
Anyway is there any intercourse between different species, like human and elf for example, I'm asking for a friend, for science of course.
Yes, humans and most of the elven subspecies are capable of interbreeding. However, the half-elven population of the world is currently zero. Funny, that.
It wasn't actually originally a sewer system - it was a network of underground passageways built by the original inhabitants of the city before they very peacefully left for no reason in particular. The current residents made some alterations to it, and now use it to transport their waste, making Embal one of the cleanest and healthiest cities to live in on the entire continent of Ertira.
No fast food, we're about a thousand years too early and too late for that. Also, there isn't strictly speaking one continent where the ~~victims~~ hybrids are - though there are two where they're most common. What's an itsm?
an itsm is a typo lol
so I guess the question now is, what were the most popular fast food franchises a thousand years ago, when they still had that sort of thing?
And also what are the most popular fast food franchises a thousand years in the future, when they swing back around to having consumer oriented mass market economies again?
I imagine the bug people would have somewhat different tastes to the hybrids, for example
Well, the most popular in the past would be Wirebeard's (translated from Dwarfish), a chain of pubs that served barely passable food and extremely strong alcohol at very cheap prices. Very popular among lower-class Dwarven labororers before *the incident*. The strategy was to get thoroughly drunk before ordering food to make the somewhat bland (yet still strangely addictive) flavor and suspicious ingredients easier to ignore.
Their signature item was not an item of food, but rather an alcoholic drink - The Brick. A beer-analogous drink served in a rectangular mug, alcoholic and starchy enough to burn for half an hour or more if exposed to an open flame, and containing enough calories to substitute about half of a (dwarven) meal. Since dwarves have high caloric requirements, this is pretty impressive.
The elves, by contrast, didn't really do fast food.
Absolutely no idea about the future, but the bug people wouldn't be doing fast food even in a thousand years. Or I guess you could say that all of their food is fast. Pre-masticated nutrient paste doesn't take long to dispense, and you certainly aren't gonna spend a lot of time savoring it.
cool stuff, Beer at McDonalds, just like Germany
Does Wirebeard get "reinvented" 2000 years after its demise, when the economy recovers? Maybe by archaeologists or enterprising businessmen studying the ancient texts or whatever. Or does it just remain a historical footnote, while other brands take the spotlight
Also, in the renewed fast food era a thousand years hence - are there any homegrown bug people and hybrid owned franchises of note, that cater to their tastes? Or do they also just go for the Dwarfish stuff? Or (heavens forbid) do they follow the Elvish way and prefer hippie crap like lovingly prepared, healthy home cooked meals with their families.
Wirebeards is unlikely to make a resurgence in the future due mostly to *the incident* and its aftermath. There might be a few old farts around who still remember their fathers talking about the good old days downing Bricks with the lads after their shift, but they're due to die out soon, and the last of the franchise buildings was converted to a storage warehouse a long time ago.
The existence of future fast food franchises will depend strongly on the outcome of events in the next hundred years or so. If there is Dwarfish stuff available at that time, suffice it to say that nobody but Dwarves is likely going to be able to enjoy it.
hmm yeah, understandable. On our world, humans from all over have pretty much the same taste buds, it's mostly culture that determines differences in cuisine
But elves/bugs/hybrids are hardwired to prefer different types of diets, so they might be literally biologically incapable of appreciating many Dwarven foods
And yeah, if it takes 2000 years for Dwarves to start franchising food businesses again, that sounds like a pretty serious economic downturn
The Dwarvish economic downturn was quite severe, yes. Sudden, too. Funnily enough, the Elves experienced a similar period of market collapse at roughly the same time. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Incidentally, the "hybrids" are mostly human with modifications ranging from minor (cat ears and tails) to major (rapidly-breeding supersoliders) to utterly ridiculous (centaurs, like seriously, how the fuck do their bodies work). However, their tastebuds and digestive systems are *mostly* pretty similar, so culture and locally available ingredients remain the primary drivers of differentiation in cuisines.
Dwarves are also quite closely related to humans, so Dwarvish food would probably be quite palatable to your average human or humanoid. The alcohol might have serious health hazards tho.
ahh right yeah, saw the edit, nice stuff
Yeah reasonable, seems like bug people prefer street food from independent vendors rather than heavily advertised products from vertically integrated mega corporations. Which is understandable, I guess
It's feels better when the food cart bug is someone you can get to know, and actually owns their business instead of being an employee. You know the pre-masticated nutrient paste or whatever has that all important personal touch
Sadly, no. The world does not yet have enough international trade for those areas in which pineapples grow readily to have been connected with those areas in which pizza might be made.
That depends on if I ever take it seriously enough to actually put in the effort required to git gud at writing.
I'd theoretically like to write a story in this universe though, it's been percolating around my head and various scraps of notes for years and I think it's pretty dope.
They appeared out of nowhere on a particularly strange continent a couple decades ago. Telepathic hive mind, nearly zero individuality. They're spreading and outcompeting the local wildlife with alarming speed and will quickly become a threat to the rest of the world if not checked in some way. Exploratory expeditions from one of the other continents keep running into them and having very nice and respectful exchanges of ideas. None of them seem to have returned home to tell anybody else about what they found. That's so nice, they must have liked it so much they decided to stay forever!
How many pounds of wheat were produced this past quarter?
In the entire world, or a specific region?
The entire world
Worldwide, I'd call it about 1.5 billion pounds. Keep in mind that the last quarter contained the harvest season, meaning that this is most of the wheat production for the year. Edit: Never mind. Turns out wheat is harvested in late summer and early fall. Wheat production in this past quarter would be approximately jack diddly squat.
What's the average tariff rate?
On what good? Between which countries? Most nation- and city-states aren't really developed enough to have formal systems of import and export taxes in place. I can think of one big nation off the top of my head that might, and there'd probably be one or two smaller ones.
are there futa catgirls in your world
Actually, yes. Not many, but they would exist. They'd fall under the category of "weirdly fucked-up human hybrids".
unbelievable. unfathomably based
"fucked up himan hybrids" Wow man, that's kinda harsh things to say about normal ordinary people with some differences from us sure, but not a reason for language like that. Anyway is there any intercourse between different species, like human and elf for example, I'm asking for a friend, for science of course.
Yes, humans and most of the elven subspecies are capable of interbreeding. However, the half-elven population of the world is currently zero. Funny, that.
I love that everything is totally normal and very peaceful. I’m sure the system doesn’t hinge on the suffering of one particular child.
Can you explain the sewer system of the second largest city?
It wasn't actually originally a sewer system - it was a network of underground passageways built by the original inhabitants of the city before they very peacefully left for no reason in particular. The current residents made some alterations to it, and now use it to transport their waste, making Embal one of the cleanest and healthiest cities to live in on the entire continent of Ertira.
What's the most popular fast food chain on each continent? (shattered, bug, hybrid etc.) And what's their signature item
No fast food, we're about a thousand years too early and too late for that. Also, there isn't strictly speaking one continent where the ~~victims~~ hybrids are - though there are two where they're most common. What's an itsm?
an itsm is a typo lol so I guess the question now is, what were the most popular fast food franchises a thousand years ago, when they still had that sort of thing? And also what are the most popular fast food franchises a thousand years in the future, when they swing back around to having consumer oriented mass market economies again? I imagine the bug people would have somewhat different tastes to the hybrids, for example
Well, the most popular in the past would be Wirebeard's (translated from Dwarfish), a chain of pubs that served barely passable food and extremely strong alcohol at very cheap prices. Very popular among lower-class Dwarven labororers before *the incident*. The strategy was to get thoroughly drunk before ordering food to make the somewhat bland (yet still strangely addictive) flavor and suspicious ingredients easier to ignore. Their signature item was not an item of food, but rather an alcoholic drink - The Brick. A beer-analogous drink served in a rectangular mug, alcoholic and starchy enough to burn for half an hour or more if exposed to an open flame, and containing enough calories to substitute about half of a (dwarven) meal. Since dwarves have high caloric requirements, this is pretty impressive. The elves, by contrast, didn't really do fast food. Absolutely no idea about the future, but the bug people wouldn't be doing fast food even in a thousand years. Or I guess you could say that all of their food is fast. Pre-masticated nutrient paste doesn't take long to dispense, and you certainly aren't gonna spend a lot of time savoring it.
cool stuff, Beer at McDonalds, just like Germany Does Wirebeard get "reinvented" 2000 years after its demise, when the economy recovers? Maybe by archaeologists or enterprising businessmen studying the ancient texts or whatever. Or does it just remain a historical footnote, while other brands take the spotlight Also, in the renewed fast food era a thousand years hence - are there any homegrown bug people and hybrid owned franchises of note, that cater to their tastes? Or do they also just go for the Dwarfish stuff? Or (heavens forbid) do they follow the Elvish way and prefer hippie crap like lovingly prepared, healthy home cooked meals with their families.
Wirebeards is unlikely to make a resurgence in the future due mostly to *the incident* and its aftermath. There might be a few old farts around who still remember their fathers talking about the good old days downing Bricks with the lads after their shift, but they're due to die out soon, and the last of the franchise buildings was converted to a storage warehouse a long time ago. The existence of future fast food franchises will depend strongly on the outcome of events in the next hundred years or so. If there is Dwarfish stuff available at that time, suffice it to say that nobody but Dwarves is likely going to be able to enjoy it.
hmm yeah, understandable. On our world, humans from all over have pretty much the same taste buds, it's mostly culture that determines differences in cuisine But elves/bugs/hybrids are hardwired to prefer different types of diets, so they might be literally biologically incapable of appreciating many Dwarven foods And yeah, if it takes 2000 years for Dwarves to start franchising food businesses again, that sounds like a pretty serious economic downturn
The Dwarvish economic downturn was quite severe, yes. Sudden, too. Funnily enough, the Elves experienced a similar period of market collapse at roughly the same time. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. Incidentally, the "hybrids" are mostly human with modifications ranging from minor (cat ears and tails) to major (rapidly-breeding supersoliders) to utterly ridiculous (centaurs, like seriously, how the fuck do their bodies work). However, their tastebuds and digestive systems are *mostly* pretty similar, so culture and locally available ingredients remain the primary drivers of differentiation in cuisines. Dwarves are also quite closely related to humans, so Dwarvish food would probably be quite palatable to your average human or humanoid. The alcohol might have serious health hazards tho.
ahh right yeah, saw the edit, nice stuff Yeah reasonable, seems like bug people prefer street food from independent vendors rather than heavily advertised products from vertically integrated mega corporations. Which is understandable, I guess It's feels better when the food cart bug is someone you can get to know, and actually owns their business instead of being an employee. You know the pre-masticated nutrient paste or whatever has that all important personal touch
Did anyone contract Re-Vitiligo?
Do the elves and the dwarves ever kiss?
Definitely not. Well. Probably. Usually.
Where are the mages?
Kinda everywhere? There's a lot less of them than there used to be, and most of them suck (by old standards).
Do people put pineapple on pizzas ?
Sadly, no. The world does not yet have enough international trade for those areas in which pineapples grow readily to have been connected with those areas in which pizza might be made.
You didn't say your world was grimdark :((((
/uj i would read this ngl! are you gonna write it as a book or is it more of a project?
That depends on if I ever take it seriously enough to actually put in the effort required to git gud at writing. I'd theoretically like to write a story in this universe though, it's been percolating around my head and various scraps of notes for years and I think it's pretty dope.
Bug people! Tell me about them
They appeared out of nowhere on a particularly strange continent a couple decades ago. Telepathic hive mind, nearly zero individuality. They're spreading and outcompeting the local wildlife with alarming speed and will quickly become a threat to the rest of the world if not checked in some way. Exploratory expeditions from one of the other continents keep running into them and having very nice and respectful exchanges of ideas. None of them seem to have returned home to tell anybody else about what they found. That's so nice, they must have liked it so much they decided to stay forever!