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Thread: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion article
Post: RE: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion articl...
Drashner1 Wrote: (01-30-2025, 11:34 PM)
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Overall looks good to me. A minor wordsmithing suggestion: The second sentence of the last paragraph uses 'interactions' twice in the same sentence. Suggest... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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02-01-2025, 06:56 AM |
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Thread: Warfare article: small edit to fix misinformation
Post: Warfare article: small edit to fix misinformation
The warfare article still has plenty of odd things in it. The repeated myth that modosophonts are totally incapable of running their own societies has come up yet again in the discord as the warfare a... |
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General Setting Discussion
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02-01-2025, 06:38 AM |
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Thread: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion article
Post: RE: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion articl...
Here's my quick attempt to update the passage in question, removing the references to stoned hippies and reworking the major groups to represent three distinct sets of clades and societies.
As the 8... |
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Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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01-30-2025, 06:22 AM |
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Thread: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion article
Post: Children of Gaia in the Great Expulsion article
Just flagging for now and will post a draft over the next few days. On the discord it was pointed out in the GE article the children of Gaia are described as pagans and hippies that get stoned all the... |
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01-29-2025, 07:55 AM |
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Thread: Ideas & Blurts channel on the discord (slowmode)
Post: RE: Ideas & Blurts channel on the discord (slowmod...
I'm interested to hear what others think on this.
Personally I would be against it. The random shower thoughts some people often throw out with no context, and no real care about anyone else engagi... |
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Suggestion Box - OA website
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01-20-2025, 09:30 PM |
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Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Drashner1 Wrote: (01-17-2025, 11:42 PM)
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1) Who or what is pushing these people to think that they need to include hyper-detailed data panels, vast histories, etc. etc?
2) Why are they not liste... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-20-2025, 09:25 PM |
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Thread: John E. Begood (Historical Figure)
Post: RE: John E. Begood (Historical Figure)
I don't know how much we need to be concerned about this, but AI images of dead artists is a very heated and controversial topic right now (living artists too thinking of the Drake AI fiasco with tupa... |
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01-17-2025, 08:18 PM |
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Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Drashner1 Wrote: (01-16-2025, 12:33 PM)
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Having said that, it would perhaps be helpful to see examples of articles that are not as detail oriented in this regard yet still fit the EG. Rynn, you men... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-17-2025, 08:10 PM |
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Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
I don't think any of that needs to be required. I've written articles where the distance from sol, constellation, etc were all irrelevant to the ideas I was trying to convey and the story I was trying... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-16-2025, 06:35 AM |
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Thread: Minor system tweaks that don't require their own thread
Post: RE: Minor system tweaks that don't require their o...
Simply because it came up tonight and I was looking at it I updated the Metropolis Ring City data panel to change the reference to an AI overseer and AI ethos to that of a transap overseer, as part of... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-16-2025, 06:22 AM |
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Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War
Rather than modos fighting or directly being targeted one scary option could be subsumption. In fact this need not apply to only modos but could be all sophonts of lower toposophy than the combatants.... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-16-2025, 06:07 AM |
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Thread: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
Post: RE: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
A simple way of changing the article could be to not say that he's been knocking around unchanged, for 10,000 years, with nothing notable happening to say that there is someone who claims to be this m... |
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Website and Content Issues
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01-16-2025, 05:36 AM |
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Thread: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
Post: RE: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
Another thought on this topic; how do people feel about the Jonathan Daniels article? Currently he is one of the canonically oldest (by calendar) sophont.
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/57ab393b... |
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Website and Content Issues
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01-16-2025, 04:06 AM |
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Thread: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
Post: RE: Adding “oldest person” to the FAQ
Another thing to add which came up before but not today: merging, forking, and prosthetic memories. If 30 year old Alice and Bob merge into Alob how old is Alob? Are they 60? 30? Newborn? All legitima... |
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01-16-2025, 03:09 AM |
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Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
stevebowers Wrote: (01-14-2025, 08:11 AM)
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Luminosity is a very useful quality when describing a star; this sets a limit on the habitable zone, and indicates where solar power can be easily collec... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-14-2025, 08:55 AM |
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Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War
Oh no not at all am I suggesting no suffering or destruction. Nor was I suggesting that no one know about the war. Simply that having it be perfectly outlined exactly what the transapient motivation a... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-14-2025, 06:35 AM |
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Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Ideas for the Version War
I like the idea of mass rewriting as a core part of the conflict. In terms of why populations are getting rewritten I think it's important not to repeat an issue I see with our current war articles. N... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-14-2025, 04:21 AM |
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Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
MiyuwiAuthor Wrote: (01-14-2025, 12:08 AM)
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I think star radius should also be included. Rotation period and temperature could also be included, though you could get a range for temperature from sp... |
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General Setting Discussion
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01-14-2025, 12:52 AM |
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Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Context of the Version War
Drashner1 Wrote: (01-13-2025, 11:49 PM)
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So, taking the easiest part of this first: Totally fine with splitting this off as a new thread.
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Done :)
Almost as easy - There were no S6 involved ... |
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01-14-2025, 12:30 AM |
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Thread: Ideas for the Version War
Post: RE: Context of the Version War
Shall we split this into a new thread? I think it deserves a clean slate and reviving very old threads can make things messy.
I've put a lot of thought into our old war articles and how to encapsulat... |
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General Setting Discussion
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