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dot_Sp0T

Dec 4, 2017 19:09

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Monica Cellio

Nov 29, 2017 17:26

Public service announcement: we know about the insurance spammers; it's a network-wide attack. If any of 'em start posting spam in questions or answers, please spam-flag them back to the stone age as usual. Manually deleting the accounts with spammy profiles is too big a task to do manually.

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sphennings

Nov 27, 2017 16:10

If it's incomprehensible the worldbuliding must be good.

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AndyD273

Oct 2, 2018 15:56

Just please, for the love of worldbuilding, make up better sports than quidditch

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James

Nov 14, 2017 18:53

monkeylords.com/podcast

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AndyD273

Nov 7, 2021 01:46

Granted, it can go too far. I shouldn't be putting more effort into your story than you are, but that's a different matter.

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AndyD273

Nov 7, 2021 01:43

If I'm on and someone pops in and is not demanding, asks nicely, and is grateful, I'd brainstorm ideas. Done it lots of times in the past.

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sphennings

Nov 2, 2021 14:48

So since it always be strictly worse than doing nothing. It's not interesting in any practical sense. Hence rules abuse and artistic expression being the only areas where things of this nature work.

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AndyD273

Sep 10, 2018 15:56

There is one good thing about Hitler; he did kill Hitler.

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ArtOfCode

Feb 24, 2016 17:43

Let us be clear: the word 'penis' is not offensive.

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AndyD273

Aug 16, 2019 20:29

Like the noble wolf, I too like not being killed by my food.

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DaaaahWhoosh

Oct 10, 2017 14:19

back before the Dark Age of James

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kingledion

Aug 22, 2018 14:51

The power of programming sigils compells you, foul bot

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AndyD273

Aug 6, 2019 21:05

But on the bright side, I did find a robotic super soaker turret

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Gilles

Apr 19, 2015 21:07

@cflat You're assuming that we care about your little game. I, for one, don't. What matters to me is that you stop bothering other people. If you can't do it by yourself, I'll help you by suspending your chat account. This is your last warning.

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James

Aug 16, 2018 16:11

Procrastinating is an art. I am a master. If anyone wants to learn...I will teach you later.

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HDE 226868

Aug 15, 2018 15:12

@James See, I was going to say that the anecdote explains a lot. . .

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AndyD273

Aug 14, 2018 18:09

"Is it critical about Trump?"
"No"
"How many people died?"
"1"
"OK, put it on after that bit with the panda, if there is time."

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JavaScriptCoder

Aug 14, 2018 15:45

If anyone's wondering why we had a long discussion about explosives in chat, don't ask

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Kepotx

Aug 14, 2018 12:10

@Secespitus you were right. spoon wars begin

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AndyD273

Aug 9, 2018 15:12

The other two are still lost on the infinite plane of uniform density.

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Ajnatorix Zersolar

Aug 9, 2018 14:03

"pigeons terrorised by flying cannibal spoons"

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Serban Tanasa

Nov 7, 2016 21:48

@here I am not sure discussion of the US election is on topic for the Factory Floor. We're dealing with fantasy after all, whereas the US election has reached a level of unrealism that renders it out of scope for WB

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AndyD273

Aug 8, 2018 14:01

"Grains," said the vegetarian zombie hoard. Farmer Bill aimed his shotgun. The alfalfalypse wasn't happening today.

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Secespitus

Aug 7, 2018 18:23

Additional poison can never hurt when designing a creature/plant.

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Gryphon

Aug 7, 2018 17:10

I check to see what's going on, and see a long discussion about exactly how sharp evergreen needles are.

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Kepotx

Aug 6, 2018 14:20

any sufficiently advanced tee-shirt is indistinguishable from a car

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AndyD273

Aug 3, 2018 19:14

Knowledge whale: a filter feeder in the information oceans.

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Secespitus

Aug 31, 2017 20:21

@MichaelKjörling @James The post says to help welcome you, soo: Welcome to WorldBuilding.SE! If you have a moment please take the tour and visit the help center to learn more about the site. Have fun! ;)

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James

Aug 30, 2017 13:55

If you are interested/able please consider donating for hurricane Relief: nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/…

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Universe Factory

Jul 25, 2018 03:19

Universe Factory - Medium: Golden Sails, Part 4

posted on July 20, 2018 by gryphon

This is the fourth part of a five-part series. The first part is here, the second part is here, the third part is here, and the fifth part is coming soon. This is part of a set of stories exploring the world of Quenaunor. The previous story is here, and the first story is here. Stanor staggered to his feet, bleeding badly from multiple cuts caused by flying chunks of the deck and pieces that ha…

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Mithrandir24601

Aug 21, 2017 18:35

Mods, feel free to delete this, but I feel it's worth mentioning as 1. I'm involved here and 2. it's relevant for the chat sessions that may or may not happen: I'm doing an AMA on Physics' chat (the hbar) tomorrow at 8pm UTC (9pm UK time) - physics.meta.stackexchange.com/q/10085/114272

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James

Jul 18, 2018 14:11

@FoxElemental You've been promoted from groveler to minion.

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AndyD273

Oct 10, 2016 18:12

@DaaaahWhoosh Yeah, show me someone that is truly selfless, and I'll ask them for $20

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AndyD273

Jul 17, 2018 18:23

"Well she's not sick any more."
"Oh, she's feeling better?"
"No, she died."

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Ash

Jul 17, 2018 17:55

@AndyD273 Kelvin, when zero really means zero.

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AndyD273

Jul 17, 2018 16:44

@Aify if(question.toLower.contains("what if")){burnWithFire();}

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Green

Feb 28, 2023 18:54

@redfrogcrab Um, I'm not sure I can make the decision for you. It would depend on what feel you want for the story.

AndyD273

Jul 11, 2018 16:27

@MikeNichols Yeah, there are a few people who feel it is their god given duty to close questions as quickly and efficiently as possible. If they could snap their fingers and make most of the questions turn to dust, it wouldn't be fast enough.

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AndyD273

Jul 1, 2019 15:16

@NexTerren I understand. But if we can't nitpick and get overly technical, what are we even doing here?

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Journeyman Geek

Jul 10, 2018 12:50

I might tweet sad dog photos at Joel

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DaaaahWhoosh

Aug 10, 2017 20:43

Adventurers. They ain't right in the head. But when the kingdom needs savin', they're the best we've got.

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Universe Factory

Jul 9, 2018 03:29

Universe Factory - Medium: Overdue — Short fiction from Federated Human Space.

posted on July 09, 2018 by Ash

“Boss, I think we’re a mite overdue.” “Mmm?” “Articulate as ever.” “What?” I could tell how engaged the captain was by how many syllables I was getting out of him. Jumps affected him oddly; he needed some time to reboot. Whole words meant I could proceed with actual information. “Even if we are way off beam, and it looks like we are, final fixes are coming up now. Oh crap… Anyway something fair…

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AndyD273

Jul 3, 2018 18:31

Ah, cool. The current mods are pretty good, so not losing one is nice.

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Feeds

Jun 21, 2019 14:30

Gotta feel kind of bad for nation-state hackers who spend years implanting and cultivating some hardware exploit, only to discover the entire target database is already exposed to anyone with a web browser.

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Aify

Jun 28, 2018 16:28

Also, my cat face is pretty much my IRL face when I see questions that need closing. XD

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Nex Terren

Jun 20, 2019 21:19

@AndyD273 "But Biden, I thought you died!" "The Biden you knew, Sanders, did die. I am his long lost twin brother. I actually have been impersonating him for the last few years, but he was the one Clinton poisoned." "But your wife, Jill, has already remarried!" "Say it's not so, Sanders! Who was it?!" "It was I." "How could you?!" "It was true love!"

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Secespitus

Jun 26, 2018 18:14

@Gryphon The "real-world questions" debate? Give me some context about what you are building (Book? Game? ...) and why you need help from people with experience in building fictional worlds (Why is Wikipedia not enough?) and I am fine with a lot. But I am not fine with this being used as an excuse to ask anything that comes to your mind just because there could be a fictional world that is exactly like ours and where your character has the exact same problem with programming that you do.

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Worldbuilding Meta

Jun 25, 2018 20:20

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Q: 2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

Worldbuilding Stack Exchange is newly scheduled for an election starting next week, July 2nd. In connection with that election, as we've done in previous elections, we will be hosting a Q&A here for candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the cand...

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AndyD273

Jun 7, 2019 16:11

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