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But it doesn't have to end there.
而這個過程可以實現永無止境。
This is really exciting.
這是令人非常激動的。
According to Herodotus, after 18 years the famine wasn't getting better,so the king decided they would play one final dice game.
據希羅多德所著，在18年后大饑荒沒有任何改善、變好的跡象，因此，國王決定全國人玩最后一次骰子游戲。
They divided the entire kingdom in half.
他把全國人平均分成兩組。
They played one dice game,and the winners of that game got to go on an epic adventure.
他們一起玩一場骰子游戲，游戲的勝利一方將會踏上冒險的遠征行程。
They would leave Lydia,and they would go out in search of a new place to live,leaving behind just enough people to survive on the resources that were available,and hopefully to take their civilization somewhere else where they could thrive.
他們將會離開Lydia，去尋找一個新地方居住，留下來的人則可以用現存的資源度過饑荒，離開的人則肩負著傳播、興旺文明的重擔。
Now, this sounds crazy, right?
這聽起來很瘋狂，難道不是嗎？
But recently, DNA evidence has shown that the Etruscans,who then led to the Roman Empire,actually share the same DNA as the ancient Lydians.
不過，最近DNA證據顯示羅馬帝國的祖先—伊楚利亞人和古利迪亞人擁有相同的基因。
And so, recently, scientists have suggested that Herodotus'crazy story is actually true.
最近科學家們發現，希羅多德的瘋狂故事在歷史上確有其事。
And geologists have found evidence of a global cooling that lasted for nearly 20 years that could have explained the famine.
地質學家也尋找到了證據表明地球上曾經有過長達20年的全球降溫，這就可以解釋這次大饑荒的由來了。
So, this crazy story might be true.
因此，這個看似瘋狂的故事興許是真的。
They might have actually saved their culture by playing games,escaping to games for 18 years,and then been so inspired,and knew so much about how to come together with games,that they actually saved the entire civilization that way.
他們通過玩游戲保留了他們的文化，并且在游戲中躲避現實長達18年最終得以流傳下來，他們早就參悟出了如何通過游戲把人聚到一起，也正是通過這種方式拯救了整個文明。
Okay, we can do that.
我們也可以通過這種方式做到。
We've been playing Warcraft since 1994.
人們從1994年開始就在玩魔獸了。
That was the first real-time strategy game from the World of Warcraft series. That was 16 years ago.
這是魔獸世界系列里的第一款實時的戰略游戲，而這就是16年前的事情。
They played dice games for 18 years,we've been playing Warcraft for 16 years.
古人玩骰子游戲長達18年，我們則玩魔獸16年。
I say we are ready for our own epic game.
所以我斷言，我們已經準備好去接受一個能改變我們生活的游戲了。
Now, they had half the civilization go off in search of a new world,so that's where I get my 21 billion hours a week of game-play from.
古人通過所掌握的二分之一的文明去尋找新世界，而我們現在則有每周長達210億小時的玩游戲時間。
