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My current rabbit hole has been the world building stack exchange (http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/) which is (os
by octo_t 10y ago
My current rabbit hole has been the world building stack exchange (http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/ http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/) which is (ostensibly) for writers working out scientific or historical justifications for the worlds they invent.
Some of the thought that goes into answers is really cool. Good ones from recently are:
- http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59175/what-kind-of-weapons-could-squirrels-use http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59175/what-...
- http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59171/is-this-alternate-history-plausible-hard-sci-fi-realistic-history http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/59171/is-th...
- http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58745/standardisation-of-time-in-a-ftl-universe http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58745/stand...
- mathw 10y agoI used to love it, but I do feel that the quality of the questions has dropped significantly since it started. There are now many people trying to find a justification for their pet plot idea, or trying to have the community fix the gaping hole in their universe. That said, there are some amazing answers, well thought out and well researched, and I love some of the questions about cultural impacts of technological or biological speculation.
- sethrin 10y agoI have to say, that last is a particularly bad question. Asking about the spacetime interval between two points has an answer. Asking about the spacetime interval between two points when you have some unspecified magic which can shorten that interval can only be answered by asking the parent what type of magic he was thinking of and how it works.