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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| I’m finally getting around to writing the next draft, which will finish the history section. After this it should mostly be editing from here on out, I don’t intend to add any more new ideas into the ... |
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11-12-2022, 12:59 PM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
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10-15-2022, 06:27 AM |
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Thread: Population size projections
Post: RE: Population size projections
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Drashner1 Wrote: (10-01-2022, 03:33 AM)
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Sophonts attempting massive replication get classified as Blights and stomped or confined to single systems until they either correct their behavior or burn... |
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10-01-2022, 04:02 AM |
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Thread: Is there room for big new empires?
Post: RE: Is there room for big new empires?
| Yeah, we don’t go into details on the Virch very often (for pretty logical reasons)
But there are…..A LOT more people in Virch then out of it so you could write about a super huge major political p... |
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Thread: Population size projections
Post: RE: Population size projections
| I do find the tiny populations a bit contrived to be honest.
Even if 9/10 civilizations have virtually no population growth, it’s totally feasible for even a relatively minor/low tech organization ... |
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10-01-2022, 02:58 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| 1A. Alright, I will take that into consideration. I think it’ll tie back to earlier references of predators, and otherwise hostile actors in the All-Web. It’s not full on survival of the fittest, but ... |
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ThatOneGuy33 |
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09-25-2022, 06:28 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| I understand, I’m ok with the article still having a while to go, and I am enjoying writing it. I was just a bit frustrated when I wrote that. I have ADHD, and sometimes wanting to write and actually ... |
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ThatOneGuy33 |
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09-24-2022, 04:30 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| I’m planning on reworking the article sometime in the next couple of days (hopefully this will be the last major draft, as time goes on it’s been harder and harder to get the motivation to write the a... |
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ThatOneGuy33 |
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09-23-2022, 06:49 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| It does help!
Progress is still very slow, despite my best efforts I haven’t been able to hyperfocus on this like I was initially so getting the motivation is difficult.
That said I will take al... |
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ThatOneGuy33 |
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08-21-2022, 04:59 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| I’m starting to work on this again. Am going to post the current document in its entirety. All feedback is welcome.
Note that the formatting is still a bit weird. The notes section at the beginning... |
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ThatOneGuy33 |
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08-13-2022, 04:09 AM |
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Thread: Goo, nanite, nano and similar terms
Post: RE: Goo, nanite, nano and similar terms
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Drashner1 Wrote: (07-09-2022, 01:10 AM)
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ThatOneGuy33 Wrote: (07-09-2022, 12:30 AM)
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As a side note, utility fog is most certainly a magic fairy dust situation. In particular, I remember a threa... |
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ThatOneGuy33 |
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07-11-2022, 01:45 AM |
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Thread: Goo, nanite, nano and similar terms
Post: RE: Goo, nanite, nano and similar terms
| I’m all for a rework of nanotech once the clade rewrite is done.
As mentioned, khaki and blue goo are mentioned all over the place, but I think that replacing khaki goo with “military sporetech” an... |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
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Drashner1 Wrote: (07-06-2022, 01:11 AM)
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1. Given how much of Sephirotic civ isn't human at all, or may have started out human way back when but have since re-engineered themselves into something v... |
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07-06-2022, 04:19 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| Another major inspiration was the vex from destiny.
In that game, they first seem like your bog-standard killer robots, but eventually you find out that the “robots” are mechs being piloted by a li... |
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06-29-2022, 12:10 PM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
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syzithryx Wrote: (06-29-2022, 08:17 AM)
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This is fantastic. It reminds me a lot of my own vision for what the future should be. Particularly the "Tyranny of Mortality" and "Tyranny of Objectivity",... |
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06-29-2022, 08:41 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| I’m working on the history section right now. This will be the last section in the main article, only because it’s already getting obnoxiously long. Smaller articles going into more detail about say, ... |
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ThatOneGuy33 |
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06-26-2022, 12:59 PM |
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Thread: Prepping for an Interstellar Journey
Post: RE: Prepping for an Interstellar Journey
| Besides what the actual traveler needs to do, I think considering what happens after they leave could be interesting.
For example, if you’re in a society with a concept of personal/private property... |
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06-22-2022, 12:44 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| Terminology
The inhabitants of the All-Web have psychologies which can vary greatly from the human baseline. In order to aid any near-baseline readers, this section will define various terms used t... |
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06-19-2022, 09:14 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| Quick question for you guys.
Would you prefer doing the article all at once, or piece by piece?
Personally, I prefer that latter. It gives my stupid ADHD brain the immediate feedback that makes ... |
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ThatOneGuy33 |
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06-19-2022, 07:06 AM |
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Thread: Cyborgs, Bioborgs,Synanoborgs, and why the Clade system makes no god d*mend sense.
Post: RE: Cyborgs, Bioborgs,Synanoborgs, and why the Cla...
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Dfleymmes1134 Wrote: (06-19-2022, 05:32 AM)
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Yes the discussion of these topics had been fairly spread out across many forum discussions, mostly, so i imagine it’s hard to find- thank you for posti... |
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