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Quirky Town: Outside the arcologies, they’re all quirky towns, just about. Most of them, as you might expect, were founded by people with ideas. And then the people with ideas had memetics to help reinforce community and the local idea, which then gets to interact with the cast of
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(Alternate words: none.) The zeppelin’s motors whispered as it drifted slowly away through the dusty butterscotch sky, the setting sun glinting off its outriggers. Lumenna hung just above the horizon, casting long shadows on the ruddy dunes, while Súnáris shone bright near the zenith. And I shivered in the
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Precrime Arrest: Well, while this sort of thing is easy enough to do with behavioral analysis software and ubiquitous computing and AI monitoring and all the other appurtenances of Citizen Oversight, obviously you can’t arrest people before the crime, having a great and tremendous respect for free will and
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(Alternate words: Project and pornography. You may or may not get something for the latter one eventually.) Antíär Steamweaver, Scalar Space Project, Resplendent Exponential Vector, to Daphne Asamis, Polycosmic Chic of Delphys, greeting. Thank you for your enquiry of the 6th, and permit me please to say how gratifying the
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Our Nudity is Different: Oh, boy. Well, it’s a little complicated, given the sheer number of species involved. The chapter of the Common Social Protocol (that consensus standard of basic etiquette that imposes on everyone as equally as possible) that covers this is thereby unfortunately long. The CSP, of
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(Alternate words: Opinions. Also Odin, but I can’t do anything with that one because, sorry, wrong universe. I’ll let one of my many hypothetical panting fanfic writers do the crossover with The Mighty Thor…) Local Grid Duty Expediter BAVK-41 was running another satisfactory self-check when the transformer exploded.
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Nom de Guerre: Played straight with attributive names (see: Overly Long Name), with particular reference to the use of a field-name and/or a foe-name, which are literal noms de guerre.
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(Alternate words: None. No words, that is, not literally “none”.) normal (n.): 1. conforming to an average (mean), or to a common type (mode); 2. (pej.) mediocre; 3. … Visitors to the Empire and culturally-related regions should take particular note of the second, pejorative meaning of the word “normal”. In a
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Meaningful Name: What attributive names are supposed to be, both the self-chosen and the awarded, and what a lot of the subsidiary components of a full name are: persona, patronymic, matronymic, locative, generation, clade, mindstyle, associations, etc. (See also: Luke Nounverber, Names to Run Away From Really Fast (upcoming), Name
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(Alternate words: Museum, marathon.) Mass. What is mass? Mass is annoying. It takes up space even when it serves no purpose. It is never where it is needed. If you have too much of it in one place, physics stops working properly and starts acting all weird. Mass is slow.
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Today’s question: Given the importance the eldrae place on free will and freedom of action, what’s their take on the idea of weakness of will? Well, let’s ask, shall we? parabulia: A family of mental dysfunctions manifesting as deficiency of qalasír. Sufferers manifest decreased energy, inability to
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Laser Blade: Dear gods, no. Firstly and perhaps most importantly, light does not work that way. Most specifically, it does not stop. Apart from that, you could try and fake it with a hot plasma bottle – if you want a melee weapon that sets everything around it, including you, on