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Ah, aeroplanes! The great trains of the sky, with their linked cars and engine crews shoveling coal into their eternally-hungry furnaces. And someday we shall replace that elegant but limited system of sky-rails with a well-maintained interstate system, and everyone will be able to fly the aerial highways -- the skyways, if you will -- in their own ( Read more... ) -
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Completely random event on an IRC channel around which I have been hanging lately.
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Setting idea: a world where the sun goes through a monthly full/new cycle like the moon. Why? Because it's a gods-damn fantasy world, that's why. What's more important is the effects, such as serious planetary cooling. If dealing with stunted and malnourished plant life, that strongly implies the sun cycle is a relatively new thing on the ( Read more... ) -
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So, a number of years ago I read "The Rivan Codex," a companion book to the Belgariad and Mallorean fantasy series by David Eddings. Eddings spent a fair few pages talking about writing, and one of his pieces of advice early on was for any aspiring author to throw away the first million words of their writing ( Read more... ) -
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Setting idea: a science fiction setting, an off-world colony on a planet that was mineral rich but biologically poor, and with an extremely hostile surface environment. For the first few centuries of the colony's life, it was well-supported by human society, exchanging vast mineral wealth for food and anything else they could not produce readily in ( Read more... ) -
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I'm fairly certain I can say, without any exaggeration, that if one day just over five years ago had gone a little different, I'd almost certainly be married right now. Like, 90% chance, once that one-day-five-years-ago hurdle is cleared ( Read more... ) -
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Oh, Chaotic Neutral, how I missed playing you. Maybe I'll enjoy playing you some in real-life, too. -
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So. The fundamental problem with my current nocturnal habits is that I spend a lot of time thinking with nothing and nobody to bounce my ideas off of. And bouncing ideas around is the best way for me to make them comprehensible, because it forces them through somebody else's filter and requires me to see how other people see the same idea. So. ( Read more... ) -
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I say we make honey our currency. It never spoils, is a popular consumable to help keep down inflation, more can be produced to help keep a control of deflation... Let's just nationalize honey-making and replace the Treasury and mints with giant fields of bees. (Note: I am not serious ( Read more... ) -
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Another "tongue-in-cheek" Truth & Justice power, or perhaps a signature stunt for the Weather Control power. Anyway ( Read more... )