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SE Census - Favorite Projects; LAST ONE, I SWEAR!
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Topic Started: May 23 2018, 10:43 PM (1,114 Views)
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Abacaba
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Jun 14 2018, 12:35 AM
Post #31
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My favorite projects are (in no particular order): Serina, Diyu, Geometroids, Settlers From The Deep, Ishtar, Solais, Cinder, Lance that Pierced the Stars, and Wodnoria.
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About Me I will often say things that are irrelevant, jar the ongoing discussion, seem rude, or are just plain wrong. I'm not good at integrating into communities. I don't do well in many text-based situations due to the speed and the fact that I like to quintuple check what I write. I like to quintuple check everything and often refrain from saying things due to worry. I like eating lemons whole (except the peel).
Obligatory Quotes Wait so it won't just vaporize the atmosphere? -Zorcuspine
Geese are crustaceans -Tet
They get rid of their children by exploding their eyes. -Inceptis
THE CORGODILE -Mr. Sir
Dentists use their Secret Tooth Powers to obtain forbidden knowledge and blackmail the world governments. -Mr Mysterio
THE OPABINIA HAVE ESCAPED AND ARE SCOOPING PEOPLES EYES OUT! -ÐK
I've said it before and I'll say it again: We're in the middle of a vast maelstrom of interstellar warfare, unaware of the currents of destruction around us. What we pick up are short emergency bursts. Something out there is plunging our galaxy into chaos and all we can do is listen to the scraps we can detect, oblivious to the carnage that is threatening to consume all life in our universe.
I choose to believe. -Flisch
Spec Dreidel 2D World Project Project concepts Hermes: Planet with 3:2 spin-orbit resonance. Tumble: Planet with 90º axial tilt. Horseshoe: Planet in horseshoe orbit around a binary star. Lagrange: Planet in Lagrange point of a binary star. Not Tatooine: Planet in orbit around a red dwarf in orbit around a sun-like star, tidally locked to the dwarf. Plant Planet: Earth without animals, and the various ways plants and fungi evolve without pressure from them. Bigworld: An infinite expanse of nutrient-filled air, without gravity. Life expands out from a single point, devouring everything. 2D World: A 2D world with realistic inverse distance forces. What.: Life in a pulsar planet, and how it deals with the absolute hideousness of the environment. Horizons: Life and physics in an extremely hyperbolic universe. Inspired by Greg Egan's Orthogonal trilogy. Newton: A universe with Newtonian physics. Lamarckia: A world where, somehow, Lamarckism works. Endless: The world is flat, and all the many consequences. Flung: Life in a less hostile version of space. Alternis Vita: Building a 2 dimensional cell from the ground up, and exploring complex regulatory shorthands. Skyless: Water world with no magnetic field and little atmosphere, and how life has managed to make the most of this. Expansion: The evolution of artificial intelligence as it spreads across the Local Group. The World is Flat: Society and evolution on a horosphere
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LittleLazyLass
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Jun 16 2018, 06:00 PM
Post #32
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Proud quilt in a bag
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Since I've recently started reading it again from the start in addition to catching up on all the updates on behind on, and because though it's been invoked but not really explained yet, I'll take this opportunity to talk about Serina. Me and Sheather don't always get along perfectly, but I'm consistently left in awe at his writing and spec abilities. His work has certainly me been an inspiration for me to continue to flesh out my own project ideas (but don't hold your breath), and I've already given one of his COM entries the honour of my favorite piece of speculative evolution over in the favorite spec creature census. Anyway, I'm here today to say something similar about Serina - it's my favorite spec project ever. On forum, off forum, whatever. Dixon, Steiner? Their work just isn't the same. Serina demonstrate an understanding of evolution and ecological dynamics above just about any other project the forum has seen, and it truly separates itself from creature design in how fully its organisms must be viewed in the lens of their evolution.
It's not just the super derived postbirds that make the project tick though, even just reading the Hypostecene content shows something above the level of most spec work. It constructs a logical yet interesting ecology that makes perfect sense given the situation, and then moves forward with it in a great demonstration of cause and effect. Than as time marches on the project moves on to more and more derived animals, but because of the sequential nature of the project, a march through time, it never stops feeling grounded. As IIGS said upthread, it feels real, despite how divergent its life can be. The success isn't all tied to the logic, though. As I've remarked a few times in the thread, creativity is very much at play here too. Not just in the pure abberance of some creatures, either One of my favorite examples remains the archangels. I'll repeat my past words about them:
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I really love how this creature nails balancing familiarity with creativity and uniqueness. Quadrupedal birds are a tired concept, but instead of just using it to re-create dinosaurs and force birds to be other animals, we switch right back to looking at the implication it has for birds doing what birds do best - flying. It's a surprisingly unexplored area, to my knowledge. Additionally, these things show clear inspiration from pterosaurs in multiple ways, but the first thing we do is focus on a lineage that's gone and done something pterosaurs never did, to our knowledge - become grazing herbivores. It's taking familiar ideas yet making sure to not only stand out from good execution, but original takes on those ideas. All these things, of course, only work so well as they do thanks to a great writing style. Many projects run into hurdles with multiple time periods (or even just the one) as they struggle to make a world feel full and fleshed out, and just trip over a lack of focus. In any given one time (in-universe), Serina really isn't that fleshed out either, but everything feels deliberate and connected in a way that it doesn't give off that unfocused feel. We're not here to explore every inch of a planet, but to see the evolutionary story of this world.
If by some small chance you haven't read it yet, I give it my highest recommendation.
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You like me (Unlike) I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
Me  Forum user Uncanny Gemstar drew what is supposed to be a me. Thanks! Spoiler: click to toggle As they walk in, they're greeted by a small, poorly kept pathway leading to a poorly constructed Japanese-style gate. Behind this, a small field made up of corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, among other plants is contrasted by large piles of books, as well as a few rather out of place looking laptops. Off in the corner, a small woman, with long, striped, and strikingly colorful socks, no shoes, unremarkable denim shorts, a large, fancy black coat, arm warmers, glasses, a tuque, and somewhat unkempt, mid-length blue-and-pink-streaked red hair, is rummaging through a trash bin, located behind a sign saying "employees only". She continues this for a while (walking behind a wall to change her outfit now and then), until one of her visitors coughs. Startled, she looks up, apologizes, and grabs a handful of textbooks and novels before daintily running off to join them. What, you want me to tell you what these mean? Predenterra The (Lost) Lost World The Standing World Read First Clarifications on my sex and genderSorry if I come off as rude, I don't put much thought into word choice sometimes. I'm also super prone to editing my posts, sometimes multiple times, in the minutes following posting. For the love of god, take my posts from my earlier days on the forum with a grain of salt. I was not particularly knowledgeable or mature back then. Some of them are so cringe-worthy I can't even bring myself to look at them. Words Maybe Great Words - Words To Spec By
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It would have to be something extremely alien, pushing the limits of our imagination. But those are always my favorite kinds of life. ~~The Words of The Xenologist
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Ignorance is never insulting if you're willing to learn, we're all ignorant about most things. ~~The Words of Lamna
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Yeah, and even if you don't agree with creationists on that concept, that doesn't mean they can't be decent people. I have friends who are creationist (possibly even young earth) that I get along with fine in general life. I don't think they're right of course, but that doesn't make them intellectual degenerates. ~~The Words of forbidden3
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Are you saying what I think you're saying?
Sheather bathes in cum?
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When I first saw that picture, I thought you were dissecting a condom.
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All hail Robo-Stalin.
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Seems like everything in this project is now dead.
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Seagulls are pretty much trees, right?
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We all must finish chapters of our lives to go on to the next. Sometime this means leaving behind versions of ourselves that don't want to die.
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For April fool's, we had to make an orgasm that resembled a human foot.
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He was a skater birb, she said tweet you later birb
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Funny, isn't it, that our world needs Clark Kent a lot more than Superman.
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Even though he is our creator, that does not afford him the right to take our lives on a whim. But that is the thinking of a homs. He is a god. Such morals cannot apply to gods. So you think we should just shut up and die?! If that is the fate decided by a god. You are mistaken if you think we will simply accept such a fate and wait to die. We'll never stop fighting. Not till the end. To Zanza, the outcome is the same. Thus your logic is flawed.
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When freaky aliens give you lemons, make freaky alien lemonade.
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But Souls are delicious. They're like bacon - they taste good on anything. But if you eat them, you completely remove them from existence! They can't move on or... or be reincarnated! Huh. I never really gave it much thought. Besides, what do you mean by reincarnation anyway? You know, being reborn as someone or something else. Which means different body, different memories, different experiences, yes? So isn't being reborn as "something else" the same as being "removed from existence"? I... I... eating souls isn't right! That depends on your definition of "right". All living things survive by eating other living things. So what? You're a god. You should be above all that! Gods are above living things, which doesn't necessarily mean we care about them.
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Ragnar
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Jun 17 2018, 12:46 PM
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Good evening!
Personally, I mainly praise Diyu, Settlers from the Deep, Serina, Solais, Cinder and Sunrise on Illion, among others.
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