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SE Census - Favorite Spec Scenario; IT'S THE BIG ONE-O
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Topic Started: May 23 2018, 10:39 PM (975 Views)
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GlarnBoudin
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May 26 2018, 09:36 PM
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- LittleLazyLass
- May 25 2018, 10:44 PM
Big shock on this one, but I absolutely love the premises of Cornucopia and the Library. An infinite world can have extremely interesting implications, and it makes an open group project far easier to make feasible. Meanwhile, the individual premises throw normal mundane animals into situations with variables so completely alien to earth environments that you end up with stuff unlike that any other scenario could've possibly created. The harvesters, though cheap movie monsters at first glance, are something that opens up so many possibilities when it comes to working around them. Cornucopia works as well as it does because of the presence of them.
The Library takes this a step further makes the whole world itself nothing alike anything anybody else has ever specced with - while at the same there being so mundane and familiar, merely an old-fashioned library. Additionally, both have limited list of entrants, which breeds creativity to work with what you have. Sheatheria hits similar notes, with its varied and limited entrants and bizarre world that creates environments unlike anywhere or anywhen on earth; but I'm much less familiar with it, so I cna't say quite as much.
I know some people just see alternate universe as some lesser form of spec, just trying to cheat its way through the constraints of science, but I am firm when I say it's easily my favorite field of speculative evolution. Speaking of, I've just started a writing a new Cornucopia entry. Stay tuned! Holy shit, it's.... genuinely heartwarming to see praise like that for my little farm world. Thank you so much!
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This is a serious argument over whether or not some long dead animal is in any way similar to a group of modern animals that they are descended from! THIS. IS. SEWIOUS. Lamna: Obvious typo, I'm never going to be popular in Belgium. Trex841: Interesting point. Valid counterpoint. Self-obsessed psychotic rant. Parasky: No ties. Begin genetically modifying crows until we have organisms that roughly resemble those in the competition, and then have them fight to the death to see who wins this competition. Alternatively, Cephalian and SabrWolf could fight to the death. But at the end of the day something will be fighting to the death for my amusement to determine the winner. Yellowdrakex: Is it alright to have an irrational fear of gliding snakes? They're snakes. FROM ABOVE. Kamineigh: See, you wouldn't be in this mess if you began a bloody revolution every time your leaders showed to unsatisfactory. Zihuatanejo: Somewhere in heaven, a very groggy, very confused angel has just woken up and is trying to figure out why a boisterous Australian man is poking it with a stick. Komodo: I'm sorry but in what alternative universe would thousands of zebras be sent back in time by some sort of illegal time travel group to change history and preparing them by making gigantic working animatronic allosaurs? Seriously, why? Parasky: Maybe y'all should move to America, where you can flex your freedom muscles. Sir Spookums: It's a game about children catching super powered monsters, stuffing them in tiny balls, and battling other strangers' monsters. What about that makes sense in regards to anything, mister Kam? Des Orages: Yi qi. Just when you think you've seen it all, nature screws us over once more. Kaminiegh: This is clearly an inaccurate statement. I'd never challenge the authority of an admin... Unless Paraksytron stubbed his toe and fell over. THEN I, STARSCREIGHM, WILL BECOME THE NEW LEADER OF OF THE DE-SPECU-CONS! Dragon: Is normal a good word to use for describing any of us? Velociraptor: I once dreamed I was trying to steal a flamingo. The flamingo was oddly calm about the whole situation. Kaminiegh: THAT'S IT, I'M KINKSHAMING. Flashman63: In its 4,600 year history, men from all eras, places and classes have been entering into the Library: from the ancient bearded sages of Sumeria and Chaldea, to the sober-minded Academics and Zoologists of the Victorian era, to the great warlord Cletus, an inbred hillbilly who just happened to be carrying his AR-15 around his County's Strip-Mall library. OctoSharktasaurus: Well, uh, it's a pseudo-tripedal, terrestrial subcontinental Madagascan Beaked Whale... Is that not obvious? It literally says it blatantly. Holben: Did you not add lamb's blood to your fruit juice and the crushed bones of an englishman to your salsa? It's not authentic if you don't. Kaminiegh: Shut up, Hybrid, stop ruining my chances of time-travelling and getting some Neanderthal tail! Mr Mysterio: Except maybe Canada. If ever there was a country that was hiding secret reserves of powerful alien technology, it's probably mine. HangingThief: If you answered mainly "yes," you are most likely a salamander. Unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell these days. Monster: In vaguely related news, I've developed a fear of my sewing machine. WHAT ARE YOU STRANGE NEEDLEBEAST Mynxi: He sowed the seed, I merely pissed on it and saw what grew. Beetleboy: The moral of the story: never trust a catfish. Parasky: Speaking of original, note to self: write erotic classical Chinese literature fan fiction Bromance of the Three Kingdoms under pseudonym Tuck Chingle. Little: Starting playing DND, took all of an hour of gameplay until a yuri love-triangle was initiated. And no, it was not my fault. Corecin: If this is your first time with a lesbian love triangle in a DnD game than you don't even have to specify that you're starting out. Octo: Oh no now Little will enlighten with the deep and complex subject that is hentai lore. Beetleboy: It shows what kind of person I am that I'm seeking crush advice on a forum about creating fictional organisms. Corecin: I am not in the mood for looking up yuri because then the FBI agent monitoring my computer will judge me with reckless abandon. Blue_Komrade: Excuse me sir I am going to have to see if you have your membership card to the Misanthrope Club. Parasky: Ultimately, by the miracle of microbiology and biochemistry, I have accidentally added an additional month to my brew and created a Bavarian style hefeweizen rather than the American style wheat beer I planned, despite technically not having the correct ingredients. However because I wrote down what I did wrong its not a mistake it's actually science. Rebirth: I can't be the only one curious about what would happen if you spayed and neutered a male antechinus before it reached sexual maturity. Ebervalius: Laws? What kind of spooky cuckery is that? Parasky: Ah see, but that's just the thing, you thought that I thought that you thought that I had said you hadn't read it, when really I had said that you had said that you thought that I thought that you hadn't read it. So really it's Flisch's fault.
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Abacaba
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Jun 14 2018, 12:52 AM
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I'm personally fond of the concept of infinite-world projects. I'm not sure if it's really been done justice yet (not to bash on the infinite world projects out there, there have been fantastic ones, but infinity is hard to do justice.) An infinite world where groups rarely go wholly extinct and there's an ever-expanding frontier of life, with more diversity than can possibly be comprehended in the interior, would be quite interesting.
I also like terraformed world projects which introduce limited numbers of species, because they allow for exploring areas and morphologies one couldn't otherwise. Serina is the most notable example, but Uncanny's Dogworld and Lance that Pierced the Stars and IIGS's Punga are both cool too, if younger and so less derived.
Of course, I also like projects which are built from the bottom up using entirely alien physics. I really am hoping more people start making those, there's a lot of untapped potential there.
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Ragnar
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Jun 17 2018, 01:42 PM
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Good evening!
First and foremost, I am inclined to xenobiology projects in which complex multicellular life is in the process of achieving its first large evolutionary leaps, such as terrestrial expansion, evolution of aerial locomotion, endothermy, development of complex social structures, pack hunting, sapience and others. I do not intend to cause confusion, as evolution is by no means a linear progression towards ever-increasing complexity, but the idea that extraterrestrial life is making its first tentative steps, like our ancestors did, right before our very eyes invokes a sense of life on Earth being part of something larger than itself, a sense of pure wonder and awe.
In addition, I prefer future evolution scenarios which concentrate on the Earth's far future (~200 myfn+), as the eventual deterioration of this planet's inner workings will certainly pose a challenging environment for organisms to come, creating ecosystems and sculpting forms unlike anything seen before.
As for alternative evolution, I show preference to projects which centre on the Paleozoic and early Mesozoic, as any base organisms subject to the hypothetical scenario have the potential to produce unique descendants.
I do not have much experience on the subject of alternate universes, although a universe with other dimensions or laws of physics seems exceptionally interesting.
Kind Regards, Ragnar
Edited by Ragnar, Jun 17 2018, 01:44 PM.
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