How would you influence a primitive tribe, if they set you up as their ruler?

[HorsesandMOARGaloar 300]

Say, you ended up on an island, where a primitive tribe takes you as their prisoner. After some incident, you either kill over overthrow their king, and the tribe's members consider you as their next ruler.

How would you rule that tribe? Would you:

• Bring your culture to modernise the tribe, and host diplomatic relations with your home country?
• Preserve the tribe's culture and traditions, and also encourage them to write so they can preserve their knowledge?
• Preserve the tribe's culture, but gradually enact reforms to eliminate worse practices (such as slavery, cannibalism, and ritual murder) and modernise the tribe?

 

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Also, would you introduce that pony show to the tribe as well, so they would include it in their entertainment and their mythology (until Hasbro finds out and takes action)?

 

[FizzyGreen 909]

Preserve the tribe's culture, but gradually enact reforms to eliminate worse practices (such as slavery, cannibalism, and ritual murder) and modernise the tribe.

I would also teach them morals friendship and with that, you guessed it, introduce the colorful horses to demonstrate it.

[HorsesandMOARGaloar 300]

29 minutes ago, FizzyGreen said:

Preserve the tribe's culture, but gradually enact reforms to eliminate worse practices (such as slavery, cannibalism, and ritual murder) and modernise the tribe.

I would also teach them morals friendship and with that, you guessed it, introduce the colorful horses to demonstrate it.

It would be fun to see how will they adapt the strange bright creatures into their folklore, perhaps create new and amusing stories of their encounters with the tribes' heroes and characters, until Hasbro does something -- what will you do when the latter occurs, when Hasbro's agents arrive from their ships or aircraft?

And regarding the bad side of the fandom? Perhaps they should not become fanatics.

Edited August 27, 2017 by HorsesandMOARGaloar

[Once In A Blue Moon 895]

I have this amusing image of my tribe learning group theory, Bayesian statistics and how to solve linear differential equations before they invented the wheel.

Perhaps a situation best avoided.

[FizzyGreen 909]

58 minutes ago, HorsesandMOARGaloar said:

It would be fun to see how will they adapt the strange bright creatures into their folklore, perhaps create new and amusing stories of their encounters with the tribes' heroes and characters, until Hasbro does something -- what will you do when the latter occurs, when Hasbro's agents arrive from their ships or aircraft?

And regarding the bad side of the fandom? Perhaps they should not become fanatics.

Oh well, of course i would've thought of that before because you told me about it.

Before they would come near us, i would speak to them and tell them that it is for a non-commercial use, at least not in a valid currency.

Like "i givv u tu socks four treee poni drowing".

 

About the "bad side", well. I don't see any, and if they are to pose wrong interpretations of the pones, i would write something like bible, which will be idiot proof.

Edited August 27, 2017 by FizzyGreen

[Yakamaru 3,127]

What language do they speak? If they speak a language I know, then it could turn into a real fun adventure.

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I'd turn it into a cult. A fun cult. And further down the road, a religion. HATS OPTIONAL!

[FizzyGreen 909]

5 minutes ago, Yakamaru said:

What language do they speak? If they speak a language I know, then it could turn into a real fun adventure.

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I'd turn it into a cult. A fun cult. And further down the road, a religion. HATS OPTIONAL!

Include microtransactions like in tf2

[Yakamaru 3,127]

Just now, FizzyGreen said:

Include microtransactions like in tf2

Heh.

Nah, I'd turn it into the most powerful shitposting island nation on the planet.

[FizzyGreen 909]

Just now, Yakamaru said:

Heh.

Nah, I'd turn it into the most powerful shitposting island nation on the planet.

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once 4chan manifests as a nation, no normal internet troll will stand a chance against your army.

[Bricks_Ahoy 860]

If a tribe member disobeyed he would be forced to step on LEGO Bricks. Also, they would grow onions. Oh, and they would watch ponies 24/7. 

[FizzyGreen 909]

8 minutes ago, SpiBaz said:

If a tribe member disobeyed he would be forced to step on LEGO Bricks. Also, they would grow onions. Oh, and they would watch ponies 24/7. 

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[Yakamaru 3,127]

4 minutes ago, FizzyGreen said:

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once 4chan manifests as a nation, no normal internet troll will stand a chance against your army.

Lawl. People on 4chan just want to be left alone to their shit. The only way you'd be able to get them to move would be through promises of Cheetos, soda, a good internet speed and the First Amendment.

Seriously though. I'd turn the tribe into a powerful Democratic island nation over time. With free speech embedded at the core. A real powerhouse of a nation.

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,440]

I would improve them. First of all, our national anthem would be Hungry Like the Wolf. The national food would be fries cuatro queso dos fritos. And I would show them that you can make a zipline from the kitchen to the living room for the sole purpose of bringing you snacks while you watch The Shining. 

Also, I would paint these walls.