Ragitsu

Teaser for Thanos?

"It's a plant."

Iron pyrite mine, more like it.

Iron pyrite mine, more like it.

Iron pyrite mine, more like it.

Those are fine, but I think we should at least agree on "sound in space"; otherwise, we will be at an impasse .
 
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He should be facing charges, not just criticism.

Plus it's a Christmas movie!

A cream, injection or possibly even a pill--
 
something that works systemically to simply turn off the follicles.  Re-dose every X amount of time to stay hairless; follicles begin to slowly reactivate after you stop taking the medicine.
 
Get really technical, and the compound affects pubic hair without affecting terminal or vellus hair, though career spacers may prefer (or may even be required) to be completely hairless to reduce the workload on the filtering systems.
 
Anyway, at least have a concoction that doesn't affect terminal hair, if only because not every player is envisioning a bald character.
 
 

One method I've read/seen in a few sci-fi stories is ultrasound, or even more exotic vibratory energies, to pulverize hair follicles down to their roots. This doesn't seem like a great stretch -- medicine already uses targeted sound bursts for things like breaking up internal calcifications.

A quantum portal that the hirsute individual can walk through, passing them to another universe but leaving the undesired hair behind.  
 
(Yes, it's Extradimensional Movement, to "the dimension where a particular patch of hair is gone.")

A lightsaber and a very steady hand..?
 

Darn!  Now I have to get an entirely new set of price quotes.

I hope you use locally-sourced lumber and recycled metal.

Imagine a setting where lengthy/lengthier names are reserved for the common folk (because there are so very many of them) and shorter names like "Joe" are used by an aristocracy/gerontocracy.

While there are sneering elitists and bigots among the elves, I'd say that those elves are the minority, not the majority.
 
I think the more prominent elven attitude is not so much that other races are beneath them, it's that elves are adults and those other races are children. Adults don't actively look down on children; they just know that they've got more experience and wisdom with kids, and that in general, they know better than the kids do what's best for them.
 
Remember, elves do have good reason to be stuck on themselves: they're one of the oldest races; they were blessed with extreme longevity; on average, even an ugly elf is more fair than a human; they've got innate abilities other races don't have; and magic flows thru them in a way no other race can even understand.
 
Given that they were one of the first races in the Realms, and how elves are barely entering adulthood when a similarly-aged human is old and grey, it's only natural for them to see themselves in a paternal role.
 
Sure, they've still made some epic blunders, but in general, their hearts are in the right place.

You haven't been around the internet enough. Watto is eerily close to how racists tend to portray the stereotypical greedy Jew out to get your money.

We did it!

"What is hatred if not a poison? What is bitterness if not an acid?"