Tasks / Specialization Is For Insects
Heinlein said that "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."
Demonstrate your ability to do at least eleven.
1 to 10 players
45 points
Level 3
Created by teucer
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Seconded! To proof that we are at least half-human.
I'd be willing to attempt to prove I could do all *but* three.
I'm fairly certain I can perform all but two.
I can probably conn a ship, but I don't know how strong any building I design may be.
I was thinking something along those lines guys. I was thinking I could do all but one, and that one I could even do, but wouldn't be able to post my proof if I did it, so what's the point?
Ah, but can you demonstrate it? Comforting the dying is hard to arrange for a praxis, and I'm not interested in butchering a hog or posting a posthumous praxis. That leaves setting a bone as the hardest, but I'm not yet ruling it out.
Yeah, the theory is that you ought to be able to do way more than three of them - in fact, Heinlein would want you to do all of them - but doing more would have to be worth more than fifteen points.
(And hey, if you do lots of them, you will certainly get votes.)
Also, planning an invasion would be a tricky one to prove you'd done at all well... unless Starcraft counts.
I'm up for the challenge is what I'm saying.
Besides dying gallantly, none of this really necessitates grandeur: awhile back some friends and I "designed a building," of sorts, in the biome style. We needed to remove a willow-tree from our garden, and so conserved the young shoots, newly grown during that spring, for later planting. If you arrange them in a circle, and water them well, they will grow fast enough that you can control their upward growth and into intertwining patterns, making a small hut that is just spacious enough for, say, two or three people. It looks primitive but suffices for protection from the summer sun. Anyway, it's designing a building, not actually constructing one.
Analyze this new problem: Somebody make us a new doorhengeious clubhouse that will give us a place to chill together again, while you're at it.
I'll even cooperate and take orders in building a wall of it.
Slightly more specific. Hadn't seen your comment.
Theirs at least one that I don't want to do just yet.
Doing them is easy, proving it is not.
If it wasn't for the resizing you could see it is a list of the things in the task, [link]
This list has been on my wall for a while now.
Is that pink dog getting ready to chop hay?
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