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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I liked the story about the "very high" runes and so I found a source. Apparently, the writing was "Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up".

[–] bangsnooter 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Souls players have been around for centuries.

Try finger but hole

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Best use of a time machine ever, carve that in ancient Norse runes for future people to find.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah, go further back and carve next to all kinds of fossils the word "dog"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Finally, we'll know where the word came from!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Especially the trilobytes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thing is, unless we first found it way later, people would just think they're referencing the runes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

"Nooo, we were trying to spread the meme, not destroy it!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Do it next to something only discovered within the last few years

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

Attaboy Tholfir

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Kolbein must've been so proud.