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@Riot - Progress Day - Hold on. Back up. You can't be serious. Are you? 'CAUSE I'M NOT BUYIN' IT!!!!

Voidac·12/2/2016, 8:53:42 AM·27 votes·2,686 views

> "She reaches under her bed for the chamber pot..."

So you're telling me that despite their vast advances in magic/technology as well as knowing full-well how to harness steam/electricity, working metal and stone into fine detail, using "gunpowder and metal sticks", creating telescopic instruments, cranes, clocktowers, ARTIFICIAL GODDAMN HEARTS, what I'm assuming are aqua-ducts in the background of the long Piltover picture, all with an expert knowledge of masonry (HOW TO BUILD A CITY IN A CANYON FOR DUMMIES), knowledge of complex mechanical machinery like gyroscopes and shit, WHATEVER THE LIVING FUCK ELSE THEY INVENTED...

After all that. You really expect me to believe these jerks didn't have a shitter? They have SEWERS but not a SHITTER???

LET ME EDUMACATE YA GODDANG FOOLS: http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-invented-the-flush-toilet

I'm sorry, this just doesn't sit right with me. Next you're gonna tell me the closest thing they have to a space program is Pantheon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

They have all this civilization and technology but haven't made any hygienic advancements outside of the goddamn chamber pot? Yeah, they were used up into the early 20th century, but I'd expect them in old castles and shit, not in the goddamned City of PROGRESS.

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Trekkorm12/2/2016, 9:48:12 AM24 votes

{quoted}

I'm sorry, this just doesn't sit right with me. Next you're gonna tell me the closest thing they have to a space program is Pantheon.

I cant

I just cant

Sherogarth12/2/2016, 9:56:15 AM18 votes

There is one thing you need to remember - Pitover is a City of Progress... for wealthy.

Im sure that rich clans do have a "shittiers" in thier mansions. But for an "poor apprenta" here is only a chute: "Tamara locks her door and pauses on her way down the stairs to empty her chamber pot in the boarding house’s central chute for the disposal of night-soil. She used to wonder where it ended up, before realizing that shit only ever flows downward. Somewhere below in Zaun, there’s a garden that likely blooms like no other."

Edit: This is the quote we all needed: "shit only ever flows downward" - Riot Games 2016, Progress Day

Ralanr12/2/2016, 12:36:11 PM3 votes

I found it pretty funny. I imagine it makes sense for the lower class.

So every champion that poops uses a chamber pot.

Chromatic Eagle12/2/2016, 5:27:11 PM2 votes

Now I'm stuck wondering how every champion goes to the bathroom, or if they even need to.

333lom12/2/2016, 1:43:48 PM2 votes

THIS! I was just about to say this, you beat me to it! They have robots, but they don't have a proper flush toilet?! I have no willing suspension of disbelief here.

The only way we could possibly explain this, but this is a stretch, is that only the rich clans in Piltover have tech. Ehm, no, not even this actually. The small engineers in the Progress Day story made their own inventions, even though they were from faraway places.

Also, horse-drawn cars, next to Vi? It's incoherent. The levels of complexity don't match, and this is a sore spot.

Hyrum Graff12/2/2016, 8:51:48 PM1 votes

Take that piece, replace "Piltover" with "Silicon Valley".

The MechE12/2/2016, 10:47:26 PM1 votes

Did you notice they don't shower either?

Tesla Effect12/3/2016, 3:48:49 PM1 votes

Just goes to show you how far from progressive the city actually is.

SarcasticShepard12/2/2016, 9:59:59 AM1 votes

Its implied that all this scientific progress is being done in the name of profit, so they probably don't care about things like that or actual toilets are just for the peasants. Though I'd guess its probably the first thing, since it appears that Piltover cares more about the flashy tech.

Basically, they're the less-sleek and lower tech version of the Corpus.

GreenLore12/2/2016, 12:11:16 PM1 votes

I imagine that the poor don't get toilets,the rich liklely have them.

ThePartyLeader12/2/2016, 3:56:37 PM1 votes

To be fair. Very few people sit right on a chamber pot.

KoKoboto12/2/2016, 5:40:20 PM1 votes

Yeah I was like "WTF" as well but than figured it's because they're poor. Also when they put the pot in cubbies to be cleaned out I was just like ughuhghugh

ForgivenSoul12/2/2016, 9:02:01 AM1 votes

{quoted} I'm sorry, this just doesn't sit right with me. Next you're gonna tell me the closest thing they have to a space program is Pantheon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

well... i mean why do you think Pantheon can fly so high? he wanted to destroy the moon and the heretics with it :^)

https://i.imgur.com/FwPjyT6h.jpg

Psyonity12/3/2016, 10:59:40 AM

I'm fairly sure some champions don't actually need to poop, like: Robots: Blitzcrank Orianna Stones (and trees): Galio Malphite Maokai Not entirely animalistic (anymore): Fiddlesticks Hecarim Ivern Kalista Karthus Kassadin Mordekaiser Nocturne Thresh Urgot Velkoz Zac AurelionSol Azir Soraka Anivia Bard Kindred (and probably more)

Champions like Shyvana can better sell their poop, because dragon poop is quite valuable in most lores.

And some probably are used to shit under a tree (or rock): Alistar Fizz Gnar KogMaw Rammus TahmKench Twitch

I can imagine most mages to just let their shit disappear (or transform): Annie Lux Janna Lux Lulu Ryze

And some need to really watch out when pooping: (poop can make a nice bomb)