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| Topic Started: Aug 21 2013, 08:55 PM (2,939 Views) | |
| Ànraich | Aug 21 2013, 08:55 PM Post #1 |
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L'évolution Spéculative est moi
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The Competitions of the Month and Community Projects sections have been really inactive as of late, and public interest in them seems to have waned. In light of this I have recently started a discussion with the staff about discontinuing these sections, but seeing as it is a community issue it seems appropriate to get the community's opinion first. In this thread you may voice your concerns and express any ideas you have related to the contests and projects. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| Archipithecus | Aug 22 2013, 03:11 AM Post #2 |
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As a newbie, I never got to do them. Seems like a fun idea. |
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| Lycaon | Aug 22 2013, 09:40 AM Post #3 |
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All hail Odin! All hail the Allfather!
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I agree, sounds fun |
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| citrakayah | Aug 22 2013, 10:39 PM Post #4 |
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Well, firstly, I'm not sure whether it's proper to remove something only because people aren't using it. Is it problematic to keep around? People do sometimes post in there. It might also help if there were moderators for the projects that were actually on. Or if we had a new project; I could try running suggestions for Future of the World, which started on the Wikia site, out of that forum. |
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| Ànraich | Aug 22 2013, 11:22 PM Post #5 |
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If you want to start something, a contest or project, go right ahead. Feel free to use an COM idea you have if there isn't one already in progress: first come, first serve. If two end up going at once every month, I'll delete the one that was made second: even if it was only by a second. Fair enough? As for projects, if you have an idea for one by all means make a poll in a thread in which you describe your idea in as much detail as possible. If you don't know how, you may add a poll to an existing topic you created by going to your first post in that thread and clicking on "Append a Poll" near the top of the post. I believe you can also add one at the bottom of the full reply screen. |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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| colddigger | Aug 23 2013, 01:13 AM Post #6 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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So we have permission to start competitions as we like so long as we are the first ones and it makes sense? |
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Oh Fine. Oh hi you! Why don't you go check out the finery that is SGP?? v Don't click v Spoiler: click to toggle | |
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| Zorcuspine | Aug 23 2013, 10:28 AM Post #7 |
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Enjoying our azure blue world
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Frankly the only reason the evolutionary continuum community project died is because all the mods there are inactive. If we could get an active mod there I would be happy to post more stuff |
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| citrakayah | Aug 23 2013, 01:26 PM Post #8 |
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Parasky, could you create a new forum in the community projects called 'Future of the World'? If it needs an administrator, I'll do the job; I have some experience with moving threads around in such, though with vBulletin rather than Zetaboards. |
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| Dragonthunders | Aug 25 2013, 02:46 PM Post #9 |
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then, could go to COM now and make my own contest? |
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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| Lycaon | Aug 25 2013, 03:06 PM Post #10 |
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All hail Odin! All hail the Allfather!
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Yup. |
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| Dragonthunders | Aug 25 2013, 08:46 PM Post #11 |
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great, then I start on Tuesday. by the way, I was watching the subforum earth rewriting, and I wonder if I could become administrator of this |
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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| citrakayah | Aug 30 2013, 10:49 PM Post #12 |
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I'd like to bump this in the event that it has slipped people's minds. |
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| Dragonthunders | Sep 7 2013, 04:47 PM Post #13 |
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where should I put the COM? because in the subforum where I'm not allowed |
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Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier... Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness. My deviantart | |
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| citrakayah | Sep 18 2013, 05:28 PM Post #14 |
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We have established a new forum, which has been primarily designed to hold new projects such as The Future of The World. It is called Saecula Novae, and I encourage people to join. |
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| Adman | Jan 28 2014, 06:20 PM Post #15 |
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Totally not lamna
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Since the traffic to Saecula hasn't been really successful, we should reboot community projects. We should start one right now. |
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Projects and concepts that I have stewing around Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients) Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals. Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day. Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent. Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold. The Park- ??? Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth. World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies. The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems.. | |
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