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Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Going by when the technology developed I'd say earlier makes more sense than later. Engenerators and mind uploading are matured in the Federation era, as are modosophont models of post scarcity econom... |
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01-24-2023, 11:42 PM |
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Thread: The Sephirotic Empires: Let's Divide the Total Population
Post: RE: The Sephirotic Empires: Let's Divide the Total...
Agreed I don't think we need to state "exclusive" virtuals. It looks confusing here since it implies the virtuals in every other empire are not exclusive. |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-24-2023, 02:00 AM |
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Thread: The Sephirotic Empires: Let's Divide the Total Population
Post: RE: The Sephirotic Empires: Let's Divide the Total...
Crossroads Wrote: (01-20-2023, 05:24 AM)
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The population density of London is not desirable IMO. Mapping sites show that most of London's area (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London) is very... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-21-2023, 12:34 AM |
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Thread: Minor Werewolf update
Post: RE: Minor Werewolf update
sandcastles Wrote: (01-17-2023, 02:58 AM)
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In the arts, actors get criticized for portraying a character different from themselves. This might go to absurd lengths.
A Caucasian actress portrayed ... |
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01-17-2023, 03:05 AM |
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Thread: This Thing Called Virtual Reality
Post: RE: This Thing Called Virtual Reality
Perhaps this is a topic we should split off. I feel like we should be hesitant to say that creating a new sophont is something that is considered frivolous in the terragen sphere. Obviously there woul... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-10-2023, 03:51 AM |
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Thread: Game Concept: Asteroid Defense
Post: RE: Game Concept: Asteroid Defense
Absolutely. In fact this is a pet peeve of mine when it comes to worldbuilding. I think a lot of people, particularly at OA, seem to have this fallacious idea that in order to write about something th... |
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01-10-2023, 02:11 AM |
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Thread: Game Concept: Asteroid Defense
Post: RE: Game Concept: Asteroid Defense
MrOnyx Wrote: (01-09-2023, 12:11 PM)
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So I think I might have a decent synopsis for the Asteroid Defense's history. This isn't final but I at least want to put my ideas out there. I don't when or w... |
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01-09-2023, 11:57 PM |
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Thread: This Thing Called Virtual Reality
Post: RE: This Thing Called Virtual Reality
Drashner1 Wrote: (01-09-2023, 02:39 AM)
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Virchuniverse - Generally, an aggregation or collection of virchworlds of roughly similar physics models (inter-comprehensible to unaltered mindtypes from a... |
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01-09-2023, 03:01 AM |
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Thread: The Sephirotics: Summary of Respective Memetics and Cultures
Post: RE: The Sephirotics: Summary of Respective Memetic...
Thanks for putting this together Crossroads :)
Crossroads Wrote: (01-07-2023, 05:22 PM)
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Caretaker Gods: Biosphere protection, creating biospheres
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The Caretaker gods are an odd one. We’ve t... |
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01-08-2023, 09:30 PM |
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Thread: Ultimate Muscle Tech-Level Mismatch
Post: RE: Ultimate Muscle Tech-Level Mismatch
I forgot about the bolding, that's fine then :) |
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Website and Content Issues
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01-04-2023, 12:24 AM |
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Thread: Ultimate Muscle Tech-Level Mismatch
Post: RE: Ultimate Muscle Tech-Level Mismatch
Ultimate muscle appears to be a spin off of superconductor energy storage technology. The 20MJ/Kg figure and the fact it contracts/expands is the same, plus both were written by Luke who has used the ... |
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01-03-2023, 08:20 PM |
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Thread: Staying hidden in the current era
Post: RE: Staying hidden in the current era
Hiding from detection seems like an ultimately losing game. Even though you could bury a habitat in a planetary crust and hide any radiation someone, somewhere, would have seen your launch and arrival... |
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01-01-2023, 01:27 AM |
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Thread: Hyperpower Discussion
Post: RE: Hyperpower Discussion
By definition none of these are "hyperpowers." The term doesn't seem to be standard in political science and it's more of a sensationalist term, in fact it was coined by a journalist reporting on the ... |
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12-30-2022, 10:43 PM |
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Thread: Sephirotic Empires (rewrite)
Post: RE: Sephirotic Empires (rewrite)
This looks good overall. One thing that jumps out at me is whether we want to keep this line as it is:
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Near the end of the 4th millennium AT, as yet more new empires emerged, the origina... |
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12-28-2022, 10:31 PM |
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Thread: Virtual modosophont population estimates: Should we reduce the uncertainty?
Post: RE: Virtual modosophont population estimates: Shou...
Crossroads Wrote: (12-26-2022, 03:44 AM)
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Yeah I don't see any need or reason to increase the upper limit. At this point my proposal would be to do 300-3000 quintillion for the Sophonts page total,... |
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12-26-2022, 10:26 PM |
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Thread: Virtual modosophont population estimates: Should we reduce the uncertainty?
Post: RE: Virtual modosophont population estimates: Shou...
Two aspects of the uncertainty are the radically different virches that are difficult to map ril concepts on and fast running virches. If you get census data from a system 10 light years off the nexus... |
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12-26-2022, 10:23 PM |
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Thread: Canopus - which empire?
Post: RE: Canopus - which empire?
I think we could do with more independent polities. We draw the sephirotics on maps as having "geographic" boundaries but given the nature of space there could be thousands of non-alined and minor pow... |
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12-22-2022, 06:33 PM |
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Thread: Virtual Reality Topic Created - Please Review
Post: RE: Virtual Reality Topic Created - Please Review
Crossroads Wrote: (12-21-2022, 10:10 AM)
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IIRC the currently-being-discussed idea of "virchuniverse" developed out of this line: "It is estimated that the Cybercosm of the Current Era contains 10^2... |
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12-21-2022, 10:41 AM |
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Thread: Virtual Reality Topic Created - Please Review
Post: RE: Virtual Reality Topic Created - Please Review
Drashner1 Wrote: (12-21-2022, 07:36 AM)
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In all fairness the snapshot doesn't say one way or the other. OTOH given that OA talks in terms of the Cybercosm/virtuality being a specific place/set of p... |
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12-21-2022, 07:59 AM |
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Thread: Virtual Reality Topic Created - Please Review
Post: RE: Virtual Reality Topic Created - Please Review
Crossroads Wrote: (12-21-2022, 07:13 AM)
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Okay, I see where the mixup happened. I was just using a birthday party as one of the examples from this in post 11: "In English we don't really have a cat... |
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