[MasterNuke]

void rant() {
Ok... I think I know why the RPish kingdoms became so dull... starting with Dustari.

Dustari is dull because they're not striving to gain more power by taking over other nations. (Loss of Power Hunger)

Zormite is dull because they're not striving to gain more power by taking over other nations. (Loss of desire for amphibious assimilation)

Pirates is dull because they don't do anything a pirate does at all! (Loss of pirateness)

Forest is dull because they seem to no longer care about nature/war/domination. (loss of Nature's Justice/whatever fantasy race'ish warfare/domination of non-Forest people)

Samurai is dull because they don't care about their culture being diminished. (Loss of Samurai Spirit)

}

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