The Factory Floor

I mean, I think this is yet another great story/world hook to explore. You can defintiely have channelers that can provide energy in quick bursts. That is probably not suitable for long-term spellweavery but it's what you need in the heat of the battle to do some simple-ish but effective casting of, say, fireball or magic missle or whatever. The spells which aren't especially complex - just to the point.

Physicist just suck at naming XD I mean, check any physics book, and you get things like "Lorentz force" or "Stefan-Boltzmann-Constant", "Newton's Law" or "Bernoulli Effect" on one end and "Photoeffect" "Gravitation" and "Law of conservation of Energy" on the other.

Generally, if you want to describe a gravitation scalar field that for some reason allows doing wormhole math, physicists will probably name it after the first researcher that postulated it, or someone that managed to math it out or laid the foundation for it. Or they name it after the phenomenom.

I'd shy away from using real theoretical particles for things they are not clearly related to.

Hopefully that's not a start of a new trend of "How do puritans react to X?"

Save the Robot!

Beware of the leopard.

@AndyD273 I dunno about that... both firefighters and cybersecurity professionals deal with firewalls.

SE really needs to get their act together.

Hey, all. We're having our third moderator election; question collection starts today, and you can nominate yourself in one week. The election itself starts on July 9th, and runs until July 17th. For more information, see meta. There should be an election chat room created soon for all election-y talk, which I hope people will use.

@SerbanTanasa She stood up for correct and sane grammar, and was sacrificed on the alter of progressiveness for her sins against their fringe religion.

There is no difference between the "far-right" and "far-left". Both are racist totalitarians.

And the insane people that were attacking Monica hovering around to jump on everyone else

Hey people (and eldritch abominations): When you are out and about on the site can you help reinforce the new help page information. Primarily asking you to remind old users (and tell new users) to include context and constraints in questions. If you can't vote on them please flag. Its going to be a bit of an adjustment period.

The help center article for on-topic questions has been updated.

@redfrogcrab Do you need a specific system? Does how it work actually influence anything other than technobabble and fluff?

I'm a grammar viking. mispell and pillage and leave a general mess when its all said and done.

@Secespitus Going to the press and in essence calling her trans-phobic was way the hell over the line.

@FutureHistorian I'm going to say this once, as a mod, RO, and user of this room: When people are talking, please do not interrupt. paj28 asked a question or two; people have been discussing it and some side matters. It's annoying when someone keeps interjecting, and just because someone's not saying "Sorry, Future Historian, I don't want to talk about X" doesn't mean that they want to be pinged, or to talk about it.

I think I should start referring to more of my answers as SWAG. With maybe more emphasis on the WAG at times.

@Hosch250 And ironic, since that's the sound you'd make as you murder your parents for giving you such a stupid name...

better that than an xor-easter.

(Daily reminder that you guys are awesome)

Hey all! The rep requirement for meta has been lowered to 1. Please keep an eye out on meta as new posts come in, probably at an increasing rate.

Yes, welcome to chat. Do ignore any howling, bad puns and other strangeness. They're occupational hazards of dropping in here, it seems.

Hey, folks. With my mod hat off, I wanted to announce the full launch of Scientific Speculation. It's a project several of the former WB mods and I have been working on for a couple months, along with ArtOfCode and the folks at Codidact, to make a spin-off non-SE site for essentially non-worldbuilding about questions that go just beyond the realm of current science.

The nominations have begun! Please take all election-related discussion go the 2018 Worldbuilding Moderator Election chat room. Best of luck!

@MonicaCellio I got a new job!

Turns out we got mentioned/featured in an article in The Atlantic:

theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/…

@Hosch250 Yes, your tardiness has been noted in your personal file.

Thanks everybody for a year of great Q&A and blog posts. Looking forward to more in 2018.

@FoxElemental This is the emergency broadcast system. If this were a real emergency, you'd hear lots and lots of screaming.

@FoxElemental Yeah, we don't have room for you. Sorry, we are at capacity, you can wait behind this nice velvet rope.

Do we have a "Greatest Hits" list of the wackiest conversations in here? We should.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the URL sociopaths.stackexchange.com redirects to Worldbuilding.

Data Palooza

Hello chat, next person who looks at this, please star me so it gets more attention. I've spend basically a whole day analyzing voting patterns, and it has become apparent that some voters are casting very many close vote compared to the historical pattern on this site. Is it justified to call them out by name in Meta to suggest that they tone it back on the close votes?

@HDE226868 I look forward to not understanding your answer.

@James Just calling out Israel isn't anti-semitism. Calling out Israel for stuff you'd never call any country that wasn't Israel out for is probably anti-semitic.

@AndyD273 Please don't insult perfectly good dumpster fires by comparing them to Twitter. What did dumpster fires ever do to you?

So I said I'd give SE some time and see where they went. I was planning on giving them until the close of the year to make actual, appreciable forward progress on any of its numerous trip-ups. They haven't, and apparently they've decided to take feedback and hide it and hide discussion. Since this is an actual, appreciable regression, I'll go ahead and head out now. See you guys, I hope you all take care where your lives take you. Good luck in all you do. :)

To everyone: Please stop posting potential sockpuppet candidates in chat.

Congrats @JDługosz!

Google indicates I'm the first person to use the phrase "hornet-like platypus" on the Internet. I feel proud.