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he could just randomize all the eyes and mouths of all characters
maybe the hairstyles, with some simple changes: black people can be dark ginger tone or the blonde would be brownish
and hispanics would have black hair mixed to any of it

or a whole set of new hairstyles for each race, so your face would be a combination of sprites and the hairs random from your race hair pallet

I think the asymptotic filter clearing for each generation would be good, assuming that someone within earshot of you speaks the other language when you are < 3 years old.

We have frequencies for all clusters already, so we can flip some kind of weighted coin for each filtered cluster and clear the filter at random.  Then next generation, we can repeat that process for the remaining filters that are left, etc.

This will allow "accents" that fade over time, across generations.

The other option is to clear the filters for clusters you actually hear as a baby.... but this would motivate some very unnatural player speech behavior, going up to the foreign baby and trying to recite phrases that use every possible cluster, "HEY BABY, THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG." and so on.  Maybe this is cool?  Kinda like school, or an early-intervention ESL program.

Anything you actually hear as a baby could "stick" in your brain, and you'd be able to understand similar words forever.  But if you never hear weird words like "CZAR," you won't ever understand them during your lifetime.  Not sure what happens to the children in the next generation.  Do they start with their parent's partial filter and go from there?  Most likely, no more of their filter would be cleared, though I guess over the long haul, it would eventually all get cleared, just by chance, across generations.

I think this is a big part of the situation.   If you play OHOL repeatedly for days, weeks, months, years ....  you will experience thousands of unique individual lives.   But every one of those lives will not be precious and extraordinary.    Most of those lives will be similar, even repetitive, maybe boring.    The first time you make compost, it is a fun and interesting challenge because you are learning a new skill and gaining mastery over an important job that is helpful to the village.   The five hundredth time you spend your life making compost, it just feels like drudgery and you'd probably rather be doing something else, but the village needs dirt and no one else was willing to do the job.  If your only major accomplishment in that life was "made a lot of dirt piles", you probably won't look back on your memories of that life and feel nostalgic. 

Likewise, the first time you are the last person left alive in a village or the first time you are the victim of a random act of violence or the first time your baby dies in your arms will feel significant and terrible.   But the third time it happens, it will start to feel familiar.  The thirtieth time it happens it will have become routine.   And the three hundredth time you deal with one of these personal tragedies it will have become almost inconsequential.    As a new player, you will probably care about each life much more deeply than a veteran player, because each life will bring with it many new experiences.   Many things will happen to you for the very first time.  Everything is fresh and new.    But if you have been playing life after life, you might get to a point where you don't want to play in early villages anymore, because they are all pretty much the same.     Or you might reach a point where you don't want to deal with hectic big-city life, because they are messy and full of griefers.   Each life is technically a different experience, but if you play enough, each life is pretty much the same ... it follows the same path from start to finish.    The lives that really stick with you later are those rare lives where you experience something special or unique.    And that just isn't possible every single time you play.    Some lives are going to be too short.  Other lives are going to be too mundane and uneventful.    And still other lives will be too similar to your previous lives.

Imagine if you only got 3 lives per hour or something.

Shrine is interesting.

The problem is, it would take a while for people to build it, and then you get born elsewhere in the mean time.

There were two players who did it more than 100 times.... in 24 hours.  That's a lot of dead babies for one dumpster.

And there's one person who SIDs 138 times, and ended up being Eve 76 times in one day.