Kristopher

Re: "Needler" -- sci fi projectile weapon So does that work as an Adder or Advantage or something you stick in a compound power?

Re: The Singularity?

Re: "Needler" -- sci fi projectile weapon "Piercing"?

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Re: The Singularity? The ability to hold a conversation that doesn't make me want to gouge my brain out is a must in anyone I'd be spending that much time with.

Re: Stun Damage and Armor For the typical superheroic setting, you won't see so much BODY damage get through defenses, that's fairly a typical result.

Re: Looking for a technobabble Term When looking at the ruins of an alien civilization, you'd probably need a massive team, even larger than the teams that work on human archaeological sites. You need xenoarchaeologists, xenoanthropologists, xenobiologists, xenobotonists, xeno...

Re: The Singularity? If we're going to go off into an NGD tangent, someone should start a new thread there and post a link to it here, so we can avoid a complete derail.

Re: Martian avalanche caught in the act Thank you, Nyrath.

Re: A couple of brain cells connected... One of the species/cultures in my fantasy setting uses rockets to good effect to maintain their independence, maybe even existence, in the face of multiple hostile powers.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition I've been planning on getting K5 as soon as it comes out, and the preview confirms what I was already thinking.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition Yes.

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition Tell your printers that I don't like to be kept waiting, damnit.

Re: Looking for a technobabble Term Beaten to my answer.

So another player in the science fiction game wants a "needler" -- a weapon that fires a burst of small shards of crystalized drug or poison. It won't penetrate much, but if it does, it delivers a heavy dose to the target. How would you build this concept?

Re: The Singularity? It's a shame that the brain eater got him.

Re: The Singularity? I would ask "what does 10000 times smarter actually mean?", and point out that power line running into the facility where the AI is located.

Re: The Singularity? For me, it comes down to something more simple: technolnogy exists to serve peoople. If people feel they can't keep up, they'll just not buy or use the latest thing.

Re: The Singularity? You mean in terms of electrical power? Well, part of it's increased efficiency, supposedly, along with new sources. Eventually, you get to the "all the power of an entire sun is captured and used" level. Not sure how much stock in I put in Kardeshev's work. Another aspect of the Singularity is "nanotech". Of course, the nanotech of science fiction is often just another name for magic, as the little buggers seem to run without needing power or generating any waste heat.

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Re: The Singularity? Well, you see, all those really smart computers are going to make all the development faster and faster, including developing faster computers, which will make the development faster, which will make the development faster, which will...

Re: The Singularity? I would point them instead to the lukewarm uptake of Blu-Ray as a counter-example.

Re: The Singularity? The problem isn't with the general concept, the problem is that it's supposed to happen all at once, and hasn't happened yet. It's that capital "S", and the true believers, and the fervor.

Re: Lessons from Byzantium I wouldn't defend that proposition with a twelve-foot gedankenexperimentpol. I do not, however, think that Ottoman Empire was the spiritual heir of the Roman Empire. Different beasts.

Re: Lessons from Byzantium From another thread, we're probably looking at sol-type systems almost 20 LY apart on average, and not all of those with fully habitable worlds.