The Factory Floor

@AndyD273 I have nightmares that start with Andy saying, "I have a theory..." see also: "I have an idea"

@AjnatorixZersolar Or even a non-random person. That's my response when I walk in here every morning.

Science is really weird.

@James your father, yada yada, hamster, yada, elder berries, yada yada, NI

@James fyi, they've posted the new removal and reinstatement processes. There are serious flaws. I shan't be submitting to the reinstatement process as written. They need to instead reverse the faulty decision, made with zero due process, to remove me.

Always make an external backup before casting eldritch summoning rituals.

Only on Worldbuilding could I have an edit summary of "Discussed giant space lasers". Gotta love this site.

dear god, did we just graduate?

Apparently the moderator feedback this time was just used for the public sugarcoating - and disregarded for the stuff that was posted on Meta. Good job, SE! That's how you make people feel like they are being heard and not exploited...

How the heck is someone supposed to know if I'm intentionally avoiding using pronouns, or just not using them cause I normally wouldn't in that situation?

@Gryphon That's fair, though I hear everything is cooler if you put the word quantum in front of it. Quantum telescope. I rest my case.

@dot_Sp0T I mean James, Steward of WB, Crusher of Dreams, Lord of the Factory Floor, First of his name, snorter of beverages

If we can't even laugh at the insanity of the situation, what's the point of being here.

@NexTerren An impossible limbo for sure.

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lol. I leave for five minutes and see all this. Love this place.

@AndyD273 You are weird. Even for Factory Floor standards ;)

You can't ask for story ideas here, but you come away with plenty of them :)

@HDE226868 Cool. Gotta do my part to get it to -1000

>I no longer see much hope for change. The last statement from SE is pretty much doubling down on their mistakes. I find it extremely disappointing how SE essentially engineered a shitstorm, and the persons at the center of it have to bear the consequences. They pretty much threw a well-regarded moderator under the bus, and they also drag other involved users into this, who are exactly the vulnerable persons they claim to protect with this.

They (the company) have outdone themselves this time.

So they have time to mess the theme up, but don't have time to ship out the swag we were promised so very long ago?

@James, Steward of WB, Crusher of Dreams, Lord of The Factory Floor, First of his name.

@Bellerophon It's like Checkovs gun. If you explain something in a story, it should be important to the story at some point.

@JDługosz a Bureaucracy will never ban paper, it's a vital tool that allows the ever expanding Bureaucracy to expand to meet the needs of the ever expanding Bureaucracy

Is that stand up comedy? If so good sir, you ought to find yourself a seat

@DaaaahWhoosh I wrote a query that sorts by lowest voted questions. That's how I view World Building!

One shouldn't get punished for scrutinizing a question and trying to improve it over bashing out quick cheap answers

Hey @RedactedRedacted, I might recommend not posting so many images in chat. They're a little disruptive, and you've been asked to stop before.

’cause a “verbose guide to concise writing” is just too ironic.

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Don't know if I did already share it, but here's some quality creative content: youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E

@EnigmaMaitreya I see it as a bunch of high-rep people who've been around a long time and know the ins-and-outs pretty well, voting to close a question that doesn't fit well on the site as defined by heavily discussed criteria.

I think you'll find that writing compelling action scenes has little to do with your worldbuilding but how you present the conflict to the audience.

You say that the runes are volatile when applied to organic matter, what does that mean in practice? If I place a rune on something does it blow up immediately or slowly fade out over a year? Do you need to just create the shape of a rune for it to work, or is there something extra that is needed to turn it from a shape, to something imbued with power?

You haven't really given us much to go on in terms of what can and cannot be done via magic in your setting. You've provided some flavor surrounding it, runes give you a programmatic interface for interacting with magic. But you don't describe the boundaries, and limitations.

This isn't a function of your magic system per-se. It's a function of what you've already prepped the readers to expect. You can do this explicitly by info dumping, the rules of magic onto them, and hope that their interpretation of what is and isn't permitted matches your own, when spells that apply those rules are used. Or you could show instead of tell, and demonstrate someone's powers earlier in the story, or have the magic mentioned in conversation.

I'm a fan of 'the chat must flow, and if it needs another room later, we can move it' :D

ok those stars were unnecessary but, heh.

@JoeBloggs Human: "But FTL is impossible! The math proves it!" Alien with a blank eyed stare: "Well, I guess I'll just go home then..."

@James Had my official graduation, not a student anymore. So pretty good. How was your weekend?

Anyone who asks for help isn't intruding. Ever.