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kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

According to wiki, in ancient Greek they would be called Δωδεκαθλος, (dodekathlos) and they were the (self-imposed?) punishment for Herakles's deeds, killing his own family... Has your conworld, conmyths, conreligion or conphilosophy anything similar to these labours? Has any of them such a (heroic) character in any of their stories? Do they think it's fiction or reality?
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eldin raigmore · Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 7:00 pm Post subject:

Would someone who did all those be a dodecathlete?
Any chance the dodecathlon could become an Olympic event?

There are biathletes and triathletes and pentathletes and decathletes; this says there are also tetrathletes, heptathletes, octathletes, tetradecathletes, and icosathletes.
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eldin raigmore · Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 5:07 pm Post subject:

kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

I'm surprised to see how easy this turned out to be a very good example of OT hehehe...

Maybe they should just kill any monster like Medusa, the Minotaur, etc.
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kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

Lately I started staring at Pacman as it were a suspicious game... I mean, it lets me think Pacman itself is actually a depiction of the Minotaur and the ghosts nothing else than his sacrificial victims... I'm not the first person who think this might be possible, anyone who has played any Japanese game might already know they've made several videogames based on Indoeuropean mythology, a more recent example would be Final Fantasy with the characters like Ifrit, Odin, Titan among many others...

Of course, some people will say that the ghosts or monsters are the evil guys there, but if Pacman dies, the game ends. I guess that's because it finally met a Theseus who could get rid of the maze real monster. If Pacman kills a ghost, it can still eat another one if it want to and this actually resembles the way the Minotaur treated his "guests"...
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kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

Are you sure it won't become a spam bot at some point?
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In that case, would it lure people in it's Labyrinth of Spam&Death instead of spamming everywhere else?

eldin raigmore · Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:00 pm Post subject:

kyonides · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 301

But how could they make sure the contenders won't die while trying to hunt the Minotaurbot or the Medusabot or anything else?
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Tolkien_Freak · Posted: Tue May 25, 2010 2:14 am Post subject:

Perhaps the culture wouldn't mind - they might consider death a proper reward for failure.

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eldin raigmore · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:08 pm Post subject:

At what point will we be, and how close are we to being, ready to present this idea to the International Olympic Commission?
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