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    Thread: List of articles with AI generated/assisted images
Post: RE: List of articles with AI generated/assisted im...

I think a non robot image would be good to emphasise that these aren't physical machines, but I appreciate all the contributions so far. The AI ones at least could be used for inspiration.
Rynn Art and Visual Media 157 2,834 08-20-2025, 11:10 PM
    Thread: List of articles with AI generated/assisted images
Post: RE: List of articles with AI generated/assisted im...

Could we maybe get a new image for the vot article that isn't AI? Something that seems more like a neural network? For a pivotal technology I'm not a huge fan of the presentation of breasted robots. ...
Rynn Art and Visual Media 157 2,834 08-20-2025, 12:28 AM
    Thread: Amalgam and Aloof
Post: RE: Amalgam and Aloof

The starspark is the more plausible version of the idea, using exotic matter that can survive "lithobreaking" into a star. The spore method in Amalgam/Aloof is more like smashing a rock into an ocean ...
Rynn Books, Games, Movies, and TV 9 3,467 08-14-2025, 06:19 PM
    Thread: Removal: Baseline Hyperdependency Syndrome
Post: RE: Removal: Baseline Hyperdependency Syndrome

I agree with Prox that we should consider our realistic capacity. This article would need a full rewrite to work and by getting rid of it now we solve the problem. In the future anyone could still wri...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 21 287 03-22-2025, 08:14 AM
  -Published In The EG Thread: Removal: Baseline Hyperdependency Syndrome
Post: Removal: Baseline Hyperdependency Syndrome

Any objections to removing this article? https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4609cb45b0004 It's from 2001 and gives people the impression that it's a widespread problem that modosophonts in OA ...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 21 287 03-22-2025, 02:04 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Liam Wrote: (03-18-2025, 07:21 AM) -- Since OA tech is presumably capable of (i) making organic or inorganic implants with the same functionality in most cases, (ii) creating organic or inorganic bod...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 293 3,723 03-22-2025, 01:58 AM
    Thread: Updates to Old Clade Terminology
Post: RE: Updates to Old Clade Terminology

Overall I think we're getting closer. Just have a few comments. Liam Wrote: (03-16-2025, 03:27 AM) -- Infomorph classes Virtual: Infomorphs which primarily live inside and interact with virtual worl...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 293 3,723 03-17-2025, 09:50 PM
    Thread: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Virus and the late Fed Inner Sphere
Post: RE: Lyra Co-operative - developing the Sophoncy Vi...

Short on time but just want to point out there are lot of formatting issues starting in this thread with quoting. This makes it difficult to read and results in increasingly long posts which will even...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 31 533 03-04-2025, 01:29 AM
    Thread: Is there an approximate number of the amount of virch worlds?
Post: RE: Is there an approximate number of the amount o...

Drashner1 Wrote: (02-28-2025, 11:42 PM) -- If we go with this approach - that virches are more like websites in terms of how many there are, but the apparent scale of any given virch is...flexible......
Rynn General Setting Discussion 48 621 03-01-2025, 06:27 AM
    Thread: Is there an approximate number of the amount of virch worlds?
Post: RE: Is there an approximate number of the amount o...

Short on time but yeah I think scale isn't the best thing to measure. It seems to have the baked in assumption that the entire of a virch would be modelled to the same degree of fidelity, no matter wh...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 48 621 02-28-2025, 02:20 AM
    Thread: Is there an approximate number of the amount of virch worlds?
Post: RE: Is there an approximate number of the amount o...

ProxCenBound Wrote: (02-26-2025, 08:11 AM) -- We should probably clarify this somewhat in the text. I also thought it was saying that 10^6 of the virches are imitating (at whatever fidelity) the 'rea...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 48 621 02-26-2025, 09:40 AM
    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) -- Overall looks good to me. A minor wordsmithing suggestion: The second sentence of the last paragraph uses 'interactions' twice in the same sentence. Suggest...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 124 02-01-2025, 06:56 AM
    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...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 4 68 02-01-2025, 06:38 AM
    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...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 124 01-30-2025, 06:22 AM
  -Published In The EG 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...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 7 124 01-29-2025, 07:55 AM
    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...
Rynn Suggestion Box - OA website 5 5,138 01-20-2025, 09:30 PM
    Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-17-2025, 11:42 PM) -- 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...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 23 343 01-20-2025, 09:25 PM
    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...
Rynn Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 30 490 01-17-2025, 08:18 PM
    Thread: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels
Post: RE: Standardizing System/Planet Data Panels

Drashner1 Wrote: (01-16-2025, 12:33 PM) -- 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...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 23 343 01-17-2025, 08:10 PM
    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...
Rynn General Setting Discussion 23 343 01-16-2025, 06:35 AM