Do we know anything more by this point?
Initial news was optimistic (well... relatively speaking) for O1 members, did that hold up?
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- Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Forgive me if thisis a stupid question.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12410
- Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:35 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Challenge: make me a new religion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10699
Re: Challenge: make me a new religion
Honestly, the reason why this never got any replies is probably that the request is nigh-impossible. 'Cause those four traits are pretty much the things that set Christianity/Islam apart from all the other religions on the globe. Even Judaism, their closest relative, doesn't have two of those traits...
- Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:47 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Long Abscence Thread.
- Replies: 275
- Views: 208551
Re: Long Abscence Thread.
I can only assume it was something like that.
I remember thinking to myself 'Hmm. I wonder what ever happened to O1'
... And then I realized I could just come here and find out.
I remember thinking to myself 'Hmm. I wonder what ever happened to O1'
... And then I realized I could just come here and find out.
- Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Long Abscence Thread.
- Replies: 275
- Views: 208551
Re: Long Abscence Thread.
I beg to differ. (Dun-dun-duuuuun).Arty wrote:Phew. Suppose this counts as a record for Longest Absence?
So yeah. Hiya all.
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:50 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: It's been a while, old friends
- Replies: 38
- Views: 26735
Re: It's been a while, old friends
I'm still around, still lurking. And still trying to figure out what to do with my new storyline. Though I'm starting to think that my problem is pacing, I had one chapter where all the initial main characters get to know each other and all that and then straight on to business. Maybe I should exten...
- Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:03 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: Secret Santa '11 -- Anyone? Hello there... Anyone?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13949
Re: Secret Santa '11 -- Anyone? Hello there... Anyone?
I feel quite a bit less bad about being so busy right now. Will post when I have time, now off to the furniture shop.
- Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:40 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Heretic's thought bin
- Replies: 39
- Views: 35781
Re: Heretic's thought bin
I hope you're not using one of the versions where your character can die during character creation.
Else you might end up with a cast of corpses. Although that could be interesting.
Else you might end up with a cast of corpses. Although that could be interesting.
- Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:24 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Akinator, the game that reads your mind!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9435
Re: Akinator, the game that reads your mind!
Akinator is incapable of distinguishing Real!Constantine from Neo!Constantine. Hence Akinator expected me to answer 'yes' to the question 'Does he live in the US?' (unless I'm so far behind in reading the comics that he's back in the US now) and 'yes' to the question 'Does he have black hair?'. Akin...
- Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:31 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: What Is Burning? (40K - Nurglite Propaganda)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8326
Re: What Is Burning? (40K - Nurglite Propaganda)
The funniest thing of all is that for all Tzeentch's pretension at being a Chess master who always manages his plans in such a way that something ends up to his advantage... Nurgle possesses that most important quality which he shares only with select beings such as Charlie Sheen: Winning. Think abo...
- Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:50 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: What Is Burning? (40K - Nurglite Propaganda)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8326
Re: What Is Burning? (40K - Nurglite Propaganda)
The only problem here as I see it is that Nurgle is the Chaos God of Decay... And Rebirth . While Decay is an important part of Nurgle's work, he also preserves those who carry his plagues willingly and while many servants of Nurgle turn to him out of fear of their inevitable death and decay, they a...
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:42 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: Secret Santa '11 -- Anyone? Hello there... Anyone?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13949
Re: Secret Santa '11 -- Anyone? Hello there... Anyone?
Is it still 'Your take on their universe(s)'? It's been a while since I participated.
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Who would you choose to rule your nation?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7071
Re: Who would you choose to rule your nation?
Czernobog wrote: THE ARTIST = Hitler
THE FAILED PRIEST = Rasputin?
THE REVOLUTIONARY = Robespierre
THE SCIENTIST = Mao?
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 1:59 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: Secret Santa '11 -- Anyone? Hello there... Anyone?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13949
Re: Secret Santa '11 -- Anyone? Hello there... Anyone?
Count me in. I'm aware I still haven't done that LD story start. I'm still not happy with how info-dumpy it is and I'm writing further chapters to see where I can introduce certain info into the story more naturally and which background bits of knowledge are essential for the reader to understand la...
- Sat Sep 03, 2011 12:30 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Working on Loaded Dice again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4405
Re: Working on Loaded Dice again
I have to say it's a bit harder than I thought. I know the story I want to tell, so to speak, and I know how it goes down. But I'm still having some difficulty cutting down on the exposition. Most of my drafts for the first chapter I pretty much rejected for being too 'infodumpy'. But still, I'm get...
- Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:12 pm
- Forum: Loaded Dice
- Topic: Faster-than-Light Technology
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9024
Re: Faster-than-Light Technology
Writer's note: What really happened. In the bit above (which I wrote over two years ago and damnit that's far too long because there was still more), the narrative ends at the disaster which disrupted the Desert Wind. Now people who remember the previous iteration of Loaded Dice may remember that W...
- Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:20 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Working on Loaded Dice again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4405
Working on Loaded Dice again
I just realised that it's been almost a year since I last did any work on LD outside of my own head. This despite the fact that I've been toying with a story set in the LD universe for longer that than that. A large part of this is the result of me not having had a laptop for a while (a computer, ye...
- Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:51 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Magister is Clueless About Astrobiology
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6544
Re: Magister is Clueless About Astrobiology
Keep in mind that there's nothing strictly wrong with humanoid aliens (operative part of that being human oid as in 'sorta like humans' rather than just humans with added/changed bits). This is due to a lovely little thing called convergent evolution. That is to say: creatures that serve similar bio...
- Fri May 13, 2011 2:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Just to clarify any possible confusion...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3820
Re: Just to clarify any possible confusion...
While it is true what Mobius say, Omniverse has been, in a way, greatly helped by 'second chances'. Not just the switch from OZ to O1 or from SCII.org to OZ, but also the second chance for AP who used to be an annoying little spammer until a certain Mod talked to him and decided to give him a second...
- Fri May 13, 2011 1:33 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Societal implications of suspended animation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6828
Re: Societal implications of suspended animation
Yup, it's visible :P My statement about the time someone can be kept is based on how long macroscopic organic tissue structures (like skin or random tissue samples) can be kept. I've seen a couple people claim the time is a lot shorter based on how long donor organs can be kept, but these people for...
- Wed May 11, 2011 1:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Societal implications of suspended animation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6828
Re: Societal implications of suspended animation
Bit of a late reply here, but: You could... But revival requires several liters of that person's own blood (or a sufficiently similar composition of blood) to 'flush' the cryopreservation fluids and a very significant recovery period while the body heals. This rather limits the usefulness of suspend...
- Mon May 02, 2011 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Societal implications of suspended animation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6828
Re: Societal implications of suspended animation
Suspended animation is grossly overrated. The longest we can keep a body frozen without permanent damage at the moment is about 50 years (which is already an increase from 20 years ago) and as of yet, that looks to be the maximum. The reason why it's just about the maximum is that even if you do rep...
- Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:27 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
- Replies: 78
- Views: 48868
Re: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
At any rate, point is that the Science in Science Fiction is there to help the story, not define it. If you want to write a story about an Interstellar Empire, you're inevitably going to have to throw some part of scientific plausibility out the window. If you want to write a story about mankind's n...
- Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:04 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
- Replies: 78
- Views: 48868
Re: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
The difference being that if Time Dilation affects the passage of time itself rather than the experiencing of time, it's possible to travel through time with some of the wonkier effects of Time Dilation and relativistic speed, while if it only affects the reference frame of the affected, you can't. ...
- Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:42 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
- Replies: 78
- Views: 48868
Re: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
No it doesn't. From Wikipedia, this one sentence explains it reasonably well: "It can be illustrated by supposing that two observers are in motion relative to each other, or differently situated with regard to nearby gravitational masses. They each carry a clock of identical construction and f...
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:09 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
- Replies: 78
- Views: 48868
Re: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
Nah. Destructionator, in your last few posts at least, you keep telling me I'm wrong, you keep failing to say why I'm wrong. Either your grasp of physics is so far beyond mine that I am indeed dead wrong to such an extent to where it's no longer possible to correct my mistakes or you've stopped bein...