I don't want my imagination-children to be unhappy, and, given the lack of some greater plan to justify it beyond "I enjoy it", I'd rather not put them through the kind of stuff that stories are made from.
Now, computer-game or video-game characters…
Having the infinite power of God, without His infinite love, wisdom, and understanding, is a scary thought, especially for the denizens of the world you make.
As for me, I'm more concerned with the implications of creating characters than places,…
The theological implications of making your own world while still being a flawed mortal are concerning to many, especially those who don't believe in deification.
This think-piece from before I was even using the internet is interesting for me in that it has many of the same notions I have, but in opposite directions.
M. John Harrison and I both think that worldbuilding is an effort to excuse or justify the a…
I like how wire-having over-the-ears headphones give a visual indication that you are using headphones and might be listening to something. I like how wire-having in-the-ears headphones do the same, if more subtly. Wireless in-the-ears headphones …
Warlords Battlecry is such a good series.
It tries all sorts of things Starcraft would never dare.
This review basically says a lot of what's been in my head for years.
Planetary radio technician: ?!Spaceship radio technician: !?Both (thinking, translated): I didn't see you, you didn't see me, nobody needs to know.Both: ...Both (internally): *sigh of relief*
First Contact is, of course, always traumatic to any sophont, but it is less so to those who always had to share their world, or who previously did. It's easiest on those whose solar systems have other inhabited planets (in this setting, most inhab…
I like this little sci-fi concept I have in my head that Earth is the only planet to be inhabited by one and only one species of sophont, and humanity thus the only sophont to spent its metaphorical "formative years" in complete isolation.
So, human…
Also, I have just about HAD IT with people complaining about big budget studio animation being disrespected by being remade into live action.
It's is a high-status form, and acknowledging that Live-Action has a higher status doesn't change that. La…
Political essentialism is the only bigotry that is fashionable among my generation. Or, at least, one of the only, and fashionable among the portion of my generation with which I come into contact.
People who would never see racial, national, or re…
YFW you veto what would have been the nation's first law enacting compulsory sterilization, sign the first minimum wage into law in your state, sign laws banning child labor, donate your childhood home that eight generations of your family name live…
Not going to lie, today's low-key a banger. Temperature just right, some choice clouds just vibing in the sky, and I picked up a stick because I liked it.
TIME FLIESdoesn't seem a minutesince the Tyrolean spahad the chess boys in it
All changeDon't you know that when youplay at this levelThere's no ordinary venue
(WAAAAAAAMP VWAMP)
"Scientists are, in general, a dismal bunch. Unloved, unloving, and unlovable. Certainly Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo made few, if any, friends in their adult lives.
There are, of course, exceptions, ones who were good parents. There are also som…