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It took me a while to find this thread–its forum had been bumped to the next page by all the Spammer forums. But here it is; hopefully it will get seen now.

The Game Ideas Unlimited series did a subseries on […]

I didn’t see your bump until after I had edited it. See? Every rule has exceptions.

And about editing and deleting posts after someone replies. I totally understand why you’re not supposed to do that. […]

Interesting.

Actually, you had already bumped it, such that as fast as I could bump it all I saw was your “bump”; then you edited your “bump” to reply after I my bump appeared.

But that’s all […]

I had already bumped it and replied to it.

(Doing Therapy)

Yeah, I make a response with which I’m really pleased, and the forum software hides it.

Bump, as they say.

–M. J. Young

Everything goes full-circle with you, doesn’t it?

(Doing Therapy)

Or it could be argued that since the owners were abandoning their property in their attempt to escape the station, they no longer had a claim to it. No willpower check. That could be argued, right?

It certainly […]

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A story I’ve just been told from a reliable source.

When Winston Churchill heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor, he broke open a bottle of champagne and said “We’ve won the war. America is […]

Or it could be argued that since the owners were abandoning their property in their attempt to escape the station, they no longer had a claim to it. No willpower check. That could be argued, right?

I posted […]

I would give you a hard time about looting the station.

In order for you to take something with you that you stole, you would have to beat the rightful owner in a will power check. You might argue that the […]

I totally believe in the Multiverse concept. You could almost say I claim this game as my religion. (Don’t worry MJ, I hardly think you’re a god) I keep thinking that there has to be a world where a […]

It has been a while, but once again a Spammer has brought back to mind an article from some years back–this one, Game Ideas Unlimited: Architecture, discussing why buildings all seem the same today and why they […]

Magehammer recently assassinated a man he had never before seen because the man hurt someone Magehammer met for about 10 minutes.

Why did he assassinate the guy? Because Magehammer was the only one powerful […]

Thank you. This helps.

Nikolaj, this is one of those times in which you have to remember that it’s a game. If you were trying to devise a machine that really did this, you would be entering into a realm of scientific work that […]

absolutely, actually.

By the way, I just found out through wikipedia that this has really been a scientific study for many years and that there are various branches to it.

Yesterday I found some stuff about […]

No, I don’t.

I just have heard some stories of people who invented something, and went to the patent office only to find someone else they did not know had put in a patent for something similar a half day […]

I’ll look into predictability then. Do you know any sites I can reference for that? Or do you perhaps know a few names of scientists or theories that I can look up?

The more you believe in the right people in the right place, the less you believe in predictability.

However, you can simply go with a theory you’re not agreeing with. A lot of SF writers use FTL that way.

I guess that’s what Aasimov hinted at too when in the trilogy it is said that the Mule was never expected (A mutation causing a ridiculously overpowered psychic individual) in the calculations that foundation had […]