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Lurker since 2019 and member starting now - MoldedDark - 07-27-2024
I am MoldedDark. I came across this website roughly 5 years ago.
I absolutely love it, but I have a few questions. On Discord, I have been talking about how to reform the Transapient S1 article to be like current lore by removing decimals. Who are specialists about this kind of lore I can talk with?
Also, how much is remembered of the 21st century by Y11K?
RE: Lurker since 2019 and member starting now - Drashner1 - 07-27-2024
Hi There - Welcome to OA!
Please feel free to join in on any discussions that grab your interest or to start new ones if there's something you'd like to talk about that we aren't currently. Also, please feel free to ask any questions/raise any concerns you might have about the setting or project (which you're already doing here, of course, but we like to make it clear that that's ok to do.
).Regarding your questions below:
(07-27-2024, 06:53 AM)MoldedDark Wrote: I am MoldedDark. I came across this website roughly 5 years ago.
I absolutely love it, but I have a few questions. On Discord, I have been talking about how to reform the Transapient S1 article to be like current lore by removing decimals. Who are specialists about this kind of lore I can talk with?
I just skimmed the Transapient S1 article before responding to your post and I'm not clear on what decimals you're referring to. The only decimals I'm seeing in the article are part of the data panel discussing S1 processing and storage capabilities and those are due to the numbers being written in SI units (aka scientific notation), a RL system.
What other decimals are you referring to?
Also, I authored the most recent major update of the article in 2017 and am one of the longest serving members of OA community (been here since 2001 or so), so I am probably about as special a specialist as you're going to get on this subject.
What would you like to discuss?
(07-27-2024, 06:53 AM)MoldedDark Wrote: Also, how much is remembered of the 21st century by Y11K?
Very little - probably little more than we in the 21st century remember of ancient Mesopotamia. On the one hand 21st century civ maintains lots of records and databases. OTOH much of that is in volatile storage or is otherwise quite temporary in nature. Also, the Technocalypse and related disasters and sabotage destroyed or corrupted a lot of data and information over and above the impact of time. Beyond all of that there is simply the fact that our 21st century civ and its people are seen as utterly unimportant and irrelevant by the vast majority of Terragen civilization. They care about it to the same degree that the average person in RL cares about the exact location where humans came down from the trees or first figured out fire or how to knap flint - which is to say they couldn't care less.
Hope this helps,
Todd
RE: Lurker since 2019 and member starting now - MoldedDark - 07-27-2024
(07-27-2024, 07:29 AM)Drashner1 Wrote: What would you like to discuss?
People there were talking about how the decimals on the images representing transapient intelligence types and the lore for tribeminds corresponding to that were outdated compared to general "steps" now. I would like to help fix that.