The most iconic of Middle-earth questions:
Who or what was Tom Bombadil?
Was he an elf? Was he akin to Gandalf, and one of the wizardly stock? Was he something… else?
The man "judging" (offering them the choice of exile or death) the rich and the police brought in front of him in The Dark Knight Rises looked very familiar. Have we seen him before?
In communities discussing written s*f*, I've often found the following terminology:
Speculative fiction, or sf, is anything that asks “what if?”: stories about the future, fantasy, alternate history, etc.
Science fiction is a subset of sf, usually for stories being set in the author's conceivab...
@Wipqozn My dog in this fight is that question. I've been trying to get a reasonable resolution to that question for months. When GR gets removed, first meta question is going to be to request an unlock on that.
In Ye Olde Reach days, it used to be a favorite pastime of mine (in the campaign/firefight especially) to kill the gunner on an enemy wraith, stun it with an overcharged plasma pistol shot, and then jump on. Once stuck to the hood, if you punch the wraith just enough you can kill the driver and ...
I am planning on creating a village, but I am wondering if I can influence them to spread around a little bit more.
Now I have a small temporary village set up, where I have 4 houses and about 10 villagers. All the 10 villagers always cramp around in 1 single house.
Can I make it so they use m...
I wonder whether anyone has written a novel set in a universe where P=NP, in the event that there is more than one, which was the first?
In this universe all problems that could be verified in polynomial time (NP) (given the solution) could also be solved in polynomial time (P).
@Wipqozn Yes yes. Every time one of my answers that I spent a lot of time on gets highly upvoted and then I see another that is just pure idle speculation but also gets highly upvoted, my self-esteem dies a little inside
The most iconic of Middle-earth questions:
Who or what was Tom Bombadil?
Was he an elf? Was he akin to Gandalf, and one of the wizardly stock? Was he something… else?
In communities discussing written s*f*, I've often found the following terminology:
Speculative fiction, or sf, is anything that asks “what if?”: stories about the future, fantasy, alternate history, etc.
Science fiction is a subset of sf, usually for stories being set in the author's conceivab...
I am planning on creating a village, but I am wondering if I can influence them to spread around a little bit more.
Now I have a small temporary village set up, where I have 4 houses and about 10 villagers. All the 10 villagers always cramp around in 1 single house.
Can I make it so they use m...
I wonder whether anyone has written a novel set in a universe where P=NP, in the event that there is more than one, which was the first?
In this universe all problems that could be verified in polynomial time (NP) (given the solution) could also be solved in polynomial time (P).
