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Thread: Xmas Imgs
Post: RE: Xmas Imgs
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MacGregor |
Art and Visual Media
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11-19-2025, 09:10 AM |
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Thread: Oceanus Ultimata (update)
Post: RE: Oceanus Ultimata (update)
| Great article! Thanks for updating it. |
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MacGregor |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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11-19-2025, 09:06 AM |
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Thread: Internet War (brief rewrite)
Post: RE: Internet War (brief rewrite)
| Yeah, we could just delete it but I like your draft. My only suggestion is to delete the reference to an “Antarctica-Kerguelen War or the Four Seas War.” Having that included here but not elsewhere in... |
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MacGregor |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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11-14-2025, 01:56 AM |
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Thread: Children of Ruin
Post: RE: Children of Ruin
| Glad you’re liking it. Which do you prefer Children of Ruin or the first book? |
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MacGregor |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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09-23-2025, 09:21 AM |
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Thread: The Prefect
Post: The Prefect
| Hey y’all, just finished The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds. It’s the first in his Tom Dreyfus trilogy. I really liked it. Honestly it might be the most assessable of his works that I’ve read. As with a... |
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MacGregor |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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09-13-2025, 07:50 AM |
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Thread: Blindsight
Post: RE: Blindsight
| Glad y’all liked it. I’d say that I didn’t dislike it. I think I suffered from going in with to high of expectations. I had seen Blindsight on a few lists of the “best sci-fi books you haven’t read.” ... |
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MacGregor |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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05-01-2025, 11:39 AM |
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Thread: K2-18b life?
Post: RE: K2-18b life?
| So I’ll confess having only read the news articles when this came out and some YouTube videos I thought the case for life was stronger. But from what y’all are saying this is most likely bunk? |
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MacGregor |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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04-30-2025, 09:23 AM |
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Thread: Blindsight
Post: Blindsight
| Hey y’all, I recently finished the book Blindsight by Peter Watts. This is apparently a favorite of some and is billed as a gritty hard sci-fi novel. I had rather complicated thoughts on it. Anyone el... |
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MacGregor |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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04-30-2025, 09:16 AM |
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Thread: EG - Solsys: Additions
Post: RE: EG - Solsys: Additions
| I like this! Yeah, the entries for the Solsys article should not include any history, only their current situation. However, if we decide to also add standalone articles, a a single collective article... |
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MacGregor |
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04-29-2025, 09:02 PM |
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Thread: Children of Memory
Post: RE: Children of Memory
| Glad you’re reading it. Yeah, I will admit the agrarian/rural setting is a common trope many sci-fi series eventually visit (The expanse: season 4, Star Trek: Insurrection, etc.). IMO I think this oft... |
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MacGregor |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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03-05-2025, 10:03 AM |
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Thread: Suggested Bufos, Bufies update
Post: RE: Suggested Bufos, Bufies update
| Good idea to expand this article. So are we treating the term bufos (Anura) as a general term for all frog provolves or as a specific lineage? Even if we don’t include a detailed history when do we th... |
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MacGregor |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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02-28-2025, 07:44 PM |
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Thread: Children of Memory
Post: Children of Memory
| Hey everyone, I just finished Children of Memory the third book in the Children of Time series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Anyone else read it? I can’t recommend these books enough. Very smart and well wri... |
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MacGregor |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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02-15-2025, 08:42 PM |
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Thread: Teacups
Post: RE: Teacups
| Good article. Keep it up. One thing though, the “First Federation of Hu and AI” should read Federation of Sophonts or just First Federation. |
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MacGregor |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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11-16-2024, 11:37 AM |
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Thread: House of Suns
Post: House of Suns
| I just finished House if Suns by Alistair Reynolds. An awesome book! Lots of OA similar themes IMO. Anyone else read it? |
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MacGregor |
Books, Games, Movies, and TV
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11-02-2024, 10:46 AM |
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Thread: Groombridge 34
Post: RE: Groombridge 34
| Hey, I noticed that in the Perseus Pirates article it mentions the planet Fuxi. However it is not mentioned in the new Howling Skies article. Can someone fix it? I don’t care which way it goes. Cheers... |
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MacGregor |
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10-08-2024, 04:57 AM |
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Thread: Types of Government update
Post: RE: Types of Government update
| Important topic, I think it is certainly worth our time to update this article. I think a partial list is best. No need to put every government type or aspect but a list of OA relevant themes should w... |
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MacGregor |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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09-19-2024, 10:09 PM |
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Thread: The Fargate article; updates in progress
Post: RE: The Fargate article; updates in progress
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MacGregor |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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09-15-2024, 10:18 AM |
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Thread: Jovian Creole
Post: RE: Jovian Creole
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TSSL Wrote: (09-11-2024, 10:29 AM)
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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 language... |
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MacGregor |
General Setting Discussion
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09-14-2024, 08:57 AM |
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Thread: Jovian Creole
Post: RE: Jovian Creole
| 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 some Esperanto. I don’t have a problem with ... |
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MacGregor |
General Setting Discussion
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09-11-2024, 09:01 AM |
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Thread: Archailect-Creationism
Post: RE: Archailect-Creationism
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MacGregor |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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09-11-2024, 08:40 AM |
