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by Blackwing
Fri Nov 22, 2013 2:41 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Forgive me if thisis a stupid question.
Replies: 6
Views: 12406

Re: Forgive me if thisis a stupid question.

Do we know anything more by this point?

Initial news was optimistic (well... relatively speaking) for O1 members, did that hold up?
by Blackwing
Sat Sep 14, 2013 3:35 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Challenge: make me a new religion
Replies: 5
Views: 10694

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...
by Blackwing
Tue Jul 23, 2013 2:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Long Abscence Thread.
Replies: 275
Views: 208523

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.
by Blackwing
Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:22 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Long Abscence Thread.
Replies: 275
Views: 208523

Re: Long Abscence Thread.

Arty wrote:Phew. Suppose this counts as a record for Longest Absence?
I beg to differ. (Dun-dun-duuuuun).

So yeah. Hiya all.
by Blackwing
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...
by Blackwing
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.
by Blackwing
Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:40 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Heretic's thought bin
Replies: 39
Views: 35769

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.
by Blackwing
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...
by Blackwing
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...
by Blackwing
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...
by Blackwing
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.
by Blackwing
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?
by Blackwing
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...
by Blackwing
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...
by Blackwing
Sat Aug 20, 2011 2:12 pm
Forum: Loaded Dice
Topic: Faster-than-Light Technology
Replies: 2
Views: 9017

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...
by Blackwing
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...
by Blackwing
Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:51 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Magister is Clueless About Astrobiology
Replies: 5
Views: 6543

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...
by Blackwing
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...
by Blackwing
Fri May 13, 2011 1:33 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Societal implications of suspended animation
Replies: 7
Views: 6827

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...
by Blackwing
Wed May 11, 2011 1:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Societal implications of suspended animation
Replies: 7
Views: 6827

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...
by Blackwing
Mon May 02, 2011 3:50 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Societal implications of suspended animation
Replies: 7
Views: 6827

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...
by Blackwing
Tue Dec 21, 2010 4:27 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
Replies: 78
Views: 48867

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...
by Blackwing
Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:04 am
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
Replies: 78
Views: 48867

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. ...
by Blackwing
Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:42 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
Replies: 78
Views: 48867

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...
by Blackwing
Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:09 pm
Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
Topic: Thought Experiment: A Realistic/Hard SF Galactic Empire
Replies: 78
Views: 48867

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...