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Thread: Is there an approximate number of the amount of virch worlds?
Post: RE: Is there an approximate number of the amount o...
| I imagine it'd be very difficult to parse out what counts as separate virtual worlds in many cases. Sure, some are distinct simulations, but what about existences that are less based around physics an... |
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Thread: Good Society Jane Austen RPG adapted to OA, one day
Post: RE: Good Society Jane Austen RPG adapted to OA, on...
| Since this has come up again recently, I should finally step in to explain the idea a bit!
Good Society is a diceless, story-based roleplaying game, which can be played with or without a GM. It would... |
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Thread: Proof-reading EG
Post: RE: Proof-reading EG
| In the Highbrows article (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47ed99bea6c67), we've got this sentence: "Multiple redundant brain lobes allow the Highbrows to 'sleep' each region of a Highbrow's brain... |
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Website and Content Issues
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Thread: [split] Adding “oldest person” to the Encyclopedia Galactica
Post: RE: [split] Adding “oldest person” to the Encyclop...
| Also can't forget that there'll be plenty of Terragen individuals unknown to the Sephirotics. I've noticed it's quite likely The World of Forking Paths (https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4e27f79396... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-22-2025, 03:56 PM |
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Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War
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Drashner1 Wrote: (01-15-2025, 08:34 AM)
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What if a major effect of the war was a loss of comms/infrastructure/support (social and physical) from transapients in various places, leading to some amou... |
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01-16-2025, 04:08 PM |
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Thread: A Few More images
Post: RE: A Few More images
| This looks really nice!
The main thing I'd had in mind geographically was that it'd make sense to have had a polar supercontinent during its snowball, but that would've broken up ages ago. I figured ... |
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Art and Visual Media
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Thread: Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
Post: RE: Taxonomy and Xenotaxonomy
| Quick note, "Macryeukaryota" is an out of date term, we just don't have an updated cladogram on the page yet. Macryphyta would fit the point you're making and is in current use. |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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11-28-2024, 05:06 AM |
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Thread: Short draft: AItism (rewrite of AI Aspergers')
Post: RE: Short draft: AItism (rewrite of AI Aspergers')
| I agree with Rynn about not just conflating human and AI mental diversity, and I'm not really keen on applying human terminology in a way that makes real people sound like robots. With that in mind, I... |
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11-02-2024, 03:06 PM |
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Thread: Jovian Creole
Post: RE: Jovian Creole
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MiyuwiAuthor Wrote: (09-21-2024, 03:44 AM)
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Here are some things concerning the Jovian Creole project on the discord that I think should be posted here, so everything can be in one space. First, I ... |
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General Setting Discussion
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09-27-2024, 03:43 PM |
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Thread: Early Anglic pronouns
Post: RE: Early Anglic pronouns
| Pages from later in the setting aren't written in the languages of those time periods anyway but rather are translated into the contemporary English that we're writing in, so it wouldn't matter what p... |
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09-12-2024, 04:51 AM |
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Thread: Early Anglic pronouns
Post: RE: Early Anglic pronouns
| From discussion on Discord, it sounds like there's a preference to focus on gender and gendered pronouns here, so the article would be more about the pronouns being used on the EG rather than about th... |
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09-12-2024, 04:28 AM |
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Thread: Jovian Creole
Post: RE: Jovian Creole
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MacGregor Wrote: (09-11-2024, 09:01 AM)
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Hey everyone! Sorry I didn’t jump in on this earlier. So the names I created are a mash up of several modern languages including Mandarian, Arabic, and yes ... |
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09-11-2024, 10:29 AM |
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Thread: Cosmoamoeba (was: Naturally-evolved space organisms)
Post: RE: Cosmoamoeba (was: Naturally-evolved space orga...
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stevebowers Wrote: (09-10-2024, 01:46 AM)
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I think we'll leave the origin of Cosmoamoeba open by listing all the possible origin stories for these organisms, at least for now. We can change things... |
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09-10-2024, 03:53 PM |
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Thread: Jovian Creole
Post: RE: Jovian Creole
| I am aware that that's the definition given, but I am asking if anyone knows the actual etymology. Is it created from existing Esperanto words, possibly with sound changes? Is it just made up? I am fa... |
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Thread: Cosmoamoeba (was: Naturally-evolved space organisms)
Post: RE: Naturally-evolved space organisms
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Andrew P. Wrote: (09-06-2024, 07:20 AM)
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In addition to the problem of aqueous cells being ruptured by ice crystals due to freezing, another thing to take into consideration here is that proteins a... |
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09-06-2024, 04:25 PM |
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Thread: The Drake-Kolmogorov Equations, or Xeno Numbers Over Time
Post: RE: The Drake-Kolmogorov Equations, or Xeno Number...
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AstroChara Wrote: (09-04-2024, 03:30 PM)
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And there's sooooo many unknowns, too...
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Yeah, would have to be a mix of setting what reasonable assumptions we can and then seeing how the results st... |
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09-06-2024, 03:17 PM |
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Thread: Jovian Creole
Post: RE: Jovian Creole
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Worldtree Wrote: (09-03-2024, 04:14 AM)
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I just want to say I like the name jinvanco *for something* so even if macgregor or the rest of you vote to remove it here, I’d like to put it *somewhere* e... |
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Thread: The Drake-Kolmogorov Equations, or Xeno Numbers Over Time
Post: RE: The Drake-Kolmogorov Equations, or Xeno Number...
| I fully support working to get numbers that include a time dimension, which I've been wanting us to do. It's rather necessary if we want a better idea of postgaians (and intermediate post- levels) and... |
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Thread: Early Anglic pronouns
Post: RE: Early Anglic pronouns
| It's markedly southern, plus AAVE, but I could see it gaining ground as more gender neutral than "you guys," plus AAVE being generally a big driver of innovation in American English.
So I mean, I rea... |
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09-01-2024, 04:09 PM |
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Thread: Early Anglic pronouns
Post: RE: Early Anglic pronouns
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MiyuwiAuthor Wrote: (09-01-2024, 10:09 AM)
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I support "y'all" becoming standardized into the English language. And while we are at it, I feel like it would be useful to add a way to differentiate "... |
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