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johnandrasjaqobis · 10 months ago

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🔮 - Is there a magic system? Explain how it works, 👀 - A piece of lore you’ve been waiting for an excuse to share, for wip(s) of your choice, tell meeee

THANK U FRIEND (wip ask game)

🔮 - No magic system to speak of in either of space things, just a lot of much more advanced tech. The closest things would probably be spacecapades having FTL travel (at least in one system) and discverse having the ability to just upload A Whole Person into a new body

👀 - for spacecapades,, tbh i never remember what lore I've shared around here and what I've just ranted about to my discord friends but. One of their main specializations in tech is minimal loss failsafes. If one part of the underground settlements gets breached, it just fully seals itself from the rest. All large stations have similar measures, as do the dome cities though those are a bit tougher given their size.

and for discverse. it's kinda specific to my boy but there is a glitch with the discs that can do the aforementioned Upload a Whole Person (not the only possible glitch but one of the rarer ones); generally new body means entirely fresh slate, at least depending on the state of said new body. but sometimes someone (Jordan) can have lingering phantom pains from whatever trauma killed them the last time. If he got shot in the shoulder the new shoulder will still hurt for a few days. Most people who have that glitch don't even notice it because they aren't in a line of work that involves frequent violent deaths, so there hasn't been much research on it. Jordan just grits his teeth and deals.

#spacecapades #discverse #i do love my space stuff it's fun i miss writing

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drink-up-dreamers · 5 years ago

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An assortment of first-pass thoughts on season four of The Expanse, in no particular order:

I was prepared not to like it. Platform switches are not often the harbinger of good TV. I ultimately felt ambivalent about it. There are parts that I enjoyed (Miller/Protomolecule, the schisms within the OPA as it started to come into its own as a unified power, the tense peace between the UN and OPA). But mostly, it watched like six episodes stretched into ten.

I am mostly interested in the OPA, but here it felt very thin, like it consisted of Drummer and Ashford, occasionally some other random pirates from Central Casting, and Inaros. I wanted meetings and yelling and communication. I wanted negotiation and people struggling to overcome an entire lifetime of conditioning and socialization in order to embrace a new way forward, with all the stumbling that entails. I do love Drummer’s ability to think and adapt, even though she disappears in the last few episodes.

I appreciated the little glimpses into society on Earth and Mars, which were hinted at but not explored in earlier seasons.

That said, literally everything that happened on Mars could have been cut.

I loved Elvi! She’s smart and thoughtful, saved everyone’s ass, and has just had some sort of weird god-eye experience. I wish she’d had it before the end of the season so we could see the effects, but no luck. Maybe I’ll have to muscle my way through one of the books to find out.

Chrisjen’s plot was terrible. She was isolated with no one to talk to, her husband was recast as an advisor who only vaguely cares about her, and her plot consisted mostly of doing things she didn’t want to do to keep a position she didn’t ask to have. She essentially served as a recipient of information sent to Earth, and had no effect on the course of the season after sending Holden. She could have not been in the season at all, and nothing substantive would have changed.

I didn’t worry about consequences in this season. Problems cropped up (the Barbapiccola losing altitude, the shockwave/tsunami, etc.) and then were solved quickly, or with a minimum of adjustment needed. Maybe Plan A didn’t work, but Plan B did. The Belters didn’t lose their ore. The “good guys” and “bad guys” were really clear. Maybe a few Belters and RCE people died, but it’s not like we knew any of them. Obviously Ashford was going to die, so it was anticlimactic.

Murtry wasn’t frightening. Obviously he was going to lose. There is a good way to do his character, but this isn’t it. I wanted George Hearst from season 3 of Deadwood, and instead I got some guy from Blackwater.

The pacing was all over the map.

It felt like a first draft. The last scene of the last episode should have been the last scene of, like, episode 8. Do something interesting late in the season, not at the absolute end.

Everything inside the structure was so...sci-fi. The neurotoxin-emitting slugs. The blindness. The magical solution to the blindness via anti-cancer meds that of course they could synthesize easily. The lack of conflict or panic. The fact that once again, no one important died by accident or suddenly.

Basically this all boils down to: Not enough mystery or intrigue. Too much action-adventure sci-fi.

All this said, I did enjoy parts of it, and I didn’t hate it. If there’s more, I’ll watch it - I’m already so invested. But if this were the first season, I don’t know if I’d watch more.

#the expanse #the expanse spoilers #the expanse season 4 #spacecapades

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lewonald · 5 years ago

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#bachelorpadroyale #spacecapades #esquivel #popfreak宇都宮

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midnightwinterhawk · 5 years ago

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10/10 would read this space fic

Belated title ask: "Always One Foot On the Ground"

SPACE AU.

There are two kinds of people in the galaxy: those who grew up on planets & space stations, with gravity, and those who grew up on spaceships, with none. (No one ever figured out the tech to make gravity work on ships.) If you grew up without gravity, you can’t spend longer than a few days in gravity because something something biology, organ disintegration, lungs closing up, idk. Folks from planets can spend as much time as they like in no gravity without ill effects.

Clint grew up in space, on a ship with evil circus-types, and then in the SHIELD spaceforce.

Bucky grew up on a moon called Brooklyn, then was kidnapped by evil space Nazis and made to do evil space crimes on their evil spaceship. By the time Steve rescues him, his brain has heavily associated no gravity and being tortured, so he refuses to ever go without gravity again, even for short hops between planets. He settles on the major central planet where SHIELD is based and does planet-based missions for them.

And then he meets Clint. IDK, they both work for SHIELD and there’s a mission that needs a planet-sider and a space-floater, so they work together, kick ass, go to a bar to celebrate, go a bit too far, fuck like bunnies. And then Clint has to go back to space for his health, and Bucky is all sad, but stoic.

They see each other a few other times, and end up fucking for most of them. They exchange the space equivalent of phone numbers and go nuts on Space WhatsApp and Space Skype, getting closer and closer while both clinging to denial that it’s just friendship and fuckbuddying. When they meet up, Clint starts pushing how long he stays in gravity, despite the ill effects on his health.

And then Clint gets captured by space bad guys on a mission and disappears. The Avengers immediately get ready to go after him in the space quinjet that Bucky never goes on, because he stays planet-side all the time, no exceptions, stop asking, Stevie.

Except, this time, it’s Clint. And he has to face facts, he feels a lot more for Clint than just friendship, how can he leave him to be space tortured and not try and rescue him?

So he turns up for the mission, glaring at everyone, goes into space, has minor panic attacks about the lack of gravity and all that, but when they catch up with the ship that captured Clint, all that gets swept away by his determination to get him back.

He fucks up the space bad guys, rescues Clint, and gives him the best classic end-of-movie smooch that he can manage with no gravity. Clint is fairly pleased by the whole thing. Declarations of love are made.

They head back to the main planet where SHIELD is and where Bucky has been living, and Clint comes down for as long as he can before the gravity starts to hurt him. When it’s time for him to go back, Bucky doesn’t want to let him go.

So he goes with him. After all, why does he need one foot on the ground when being with Clint makes him feel like he’s flying?

They live space happily ever after.

#WinterHawk #space escapades #spacecapades?

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1979semifinalist · 6 years ago

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Oh wow, Remy's supportive speech FLOORED ME. Such strange, happy noises escaped me involuntarily and I am so excited for their party!

Thank you! Yeah, I really love this issue and I’m so glad people are responding to it. I think it brings a lot of things to a close nicely while pushing Gambit and Rogue forward and opening up more threads. They got a lot of craziness headed their way...hang onto your butts! ;D

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novossamples · 4 years ago

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Listen/purchase: DukeDOMO - Spacecapades by LOUDHOUSE

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michiopa · 8 years ago

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“Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers.”

@johnandrasjaqobis tagged me because she’s an ass

uhhhh I’m horrible at actually finishing or publishing fics so here goes

1) Tell Me When You Run (Fallout 4, various ships)

So only chapter 1 is published but I have a lot of stuff written and listen, my railroad survivor, Emma, is a mess. She too secretive and falls in love too easily but she’s trying. It’s going to feature all three of Emma’s romantic relationships (which involves polyamory) as well as a generous side helping of Nick/Deacon because I love them.

2) Kiss or Slap (original fic)

A fun lil snapshot of mine and Sarah’s original characters from her spacecapades universe. The characters are all co-workers on a retreat and they play kiss or slap.

3) 15 Messages (Marvel, Steve/Maria)

What is probably the most depressing thing I’ve ever written? I certainly think so at least. A series of voicemails left on Maria Hill’s phone after she dies.

4) Lies (Helix, Sergio/Anana)

lmao the other super angsty thing i wrote because even tho I love Sergio and Anana to pieces they must suffer. Also this was me trying to cope with the not great season 2 canon.

5) Wood and Wildfire (ASOIAF, Rickon/Shireen)

probably my favorite asoiaf thing that i’ve written. it shows its age being one of my very first fics but i still like it.

to tag others let’s go with @draganchitsa @dresupi @jonnmurphy and any other writers that happen to follow me!

#writers meme thing #fic rec i guess

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seanmeverett · 8 years ago

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Get Superhuman Abilities with Biohacking

How people are already implanting tech into their bodies to do things nobody else can

I. Setting the Stage

Unpacking our Superhuman Augmentation thesis, there are two alternative approaches. The first is that we try to mimic ourselves in machines. We build software and robotics that look, feel, and act biologic in nature. The other side of that is changing our own bodies by implanting machinery. We put metal and plastic in our knees and our hips. We put pacemakers in our heart.

For thousands of years, human beings have been augmenting their own bodies. We pierce our ears, paint our faces, and even rip into our flesh to make things bigger (boobs and butts) or smaller (bellies).

We, as a society moved from fat as an aphrodisiac when everyone was poor and emaciated in the middle ages to athletic as an aphrodisiac when everyone is lazy and fat in the current ages.

Humans tend to flip-flop on what’s fashionable as the years go on. But lately we seem to be obsessed with a different kind of augmentation. Disney, Marvel, and Lucasfilms are all profiting from stories of humans with super abilities.

This dude can fly, this dude is super smart, this gal has a laser lasso, and this little green guy has a plasma sword.

We’re obsessed with our phones because they make us feel superhuman. We’re obsessed with lifehacking because we’re trying to make more money, get smarter faster, or become hashtag Instagram models.

Incidentally, it’s also why our population is obsessed with Artificial Intelligence and Augmented or Virtual Reality. Because it lets us live inside a world where we can be superhuman. Like the Holodeck on Star Trek, we all want to get beamed up.

The AirPods improve our hearing while the AR Goggles improve our sight.

But some altruistic individuals have begun moving some of this outer-body technology soft exoskeleton superpowers back inside their bodies.

II. Defining Biohacking

Colloquially referred to as Grinding, it takes the hacker mindset beyond mechanical software and hardware and aims it squarely at their biology. In its most simple terms, you hack your body to get better performance. It sounds weird until you read the two examples I’m about to give you, that you’re likely already doing.

Coffee: You drink it in the morning or the afternoon to “wake up” and feel more productive. You just hacked your biology.

Music: You listen to it while working out to get amped up, during Christmas to get in the spirit, or in a car after work to destress. In every case, you’re hacking your biology. Incidentally, Music as a Control Mechanism is another of our theses.

I bet you never realized you were so cutting edge. This concept is becoming more mainstream as we speak. Remember the Apple Watch’s new Breath mode? That’s also biohacking.

If you take the breathing concept to its logical conclusion, you’ll get into the meditation space. There’s plenty of scientific evidence to back up the positive mental and health benefits of meditation, which we won’t get into here, but rest assured that reducing the constant distraction and interruption caused by obsessively checking our phones is a good thing.

But that’s not so much what this research is about. Where we really need to head is to the place where we’re physically modifying our bodies for superhuman abilities.

For that, we need to delve into the dark corners of the internet.

III. Leveling Up Your Biohack

It’s not for the faint of heart. The first example we’ll share with you is one you may have come across already, originating from a site called Science for the Masses. This is where they lay out procedures and scientific research for modifying their own biological systems.

In this first example, the founder of the site, named Gabriel Licina, attempts to “shine his eyes” like our too fast, too furious friend, Vin Diesel.

The Chronicles of Riddick’s “shine job”

This was nearly two years ago, when they used a cancer treatment chemical, Chlorin e6, dropped into the eyes. The retina absorbs it and aids in the ability for low levels of light to be detected, and therefore let people see better at night.

You can read more about the exact night vision biohacking procedure on their website. Interestingly enough, the experiment worked that night. They used a control subject who hadn’t had his eyes shined to compare and contrast what could and couldn’t be seen. Some people hid behind some trees and the shined eye guy saw them while the control person did not.

Not the most unbiased and large sampled scientific experiment ever made, but it shows the potential, and sets a precedent.

Gabriel Licina attempting to get night vision eyes, just like our superhero movie friends.

What starts as a cool concept in a movie, ultimately turns into a product. Tech will always change, but humans never will.

Another example is to inject an RFID chip into your hand to have a door just open when you get to it, authenticating you as a secure entrant, which would replace a keyring full of keys. Also log into your computer with your hand. You might have noticed the Apple Watch copied this friction removal along with the latest Mac OS.

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IV. Where This Is Headed

There’s an idea at the end of the above video for an NFC chip embedded in your ring finger that will let you share your contact details. Imagine shaking hands with someone new and automatically exchanging contact information as well.

There’s extra-sensory perception like implanting magnets or a compass that lets you feel which direction is north.

The AirPods we put into our ear are using vibrations along our jaw line to send audio vibrations back and forth between the machine and the human. Eventually, as the video alludes to, this will be inside the body, not external pods you stick in and out of your ear.

What’s interesting with the Apple Watch and the AirPods was that both of these products were predicted with Biohacking as Superhuman Augmentation.

We’ve talked previously about infrared vision from contact lenses and about mind-controlled, self-organizing microbots. As these bots become nan0-sized and move into the bloodstream you get things like self-optimizing health where they attack cancer as its growing or deliver nutrients you’re not getting enough of all in hopes of obtaining perfect health.

As we move on to exploration of new worlds where the atmosphere is made entirely of methane or carbon monoxide, we will need to modify ourselves so we thrive in that environment instead of having to wear suits. That’s just about de-risking our ability to live on that planet. If you biology is modified to use Methane as Oxygen, then you don’t have to worry about poking a hole in your space suit. You just go outside and breathe in the warm, pungent smell.

And, taken to its ultimate extreme, what if we evolve ourselves beyond the need to eat food. Sounds silly until you realize plants use photosynthesis to create energy from sunlight and water. Hydrogen and stars are plentiful in the cosmos. That’s a much more efficient food source than having to continually grow crops and animals as we quickly hop from planet to planet and star to star.

Here’s to our future spacecapades.

— Sean