- Sep 2024
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GLP-1 as idea for the Wolf/Bear cross in my Fiction Worldbuilding...
Makes creatures more resilient to food scarcity (might even be useful for the scarcity in summer due to fire rains).
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- Jul 2024
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Armies need to have an efficient supply system in order to survive. Not only for food and stuff, but also medical kits, materials to fix machinery when it breaks down, ammunition, etc.
These are also fantastic ways to add strategic elements to warfare. Taking over enemy supply lines or points can hurt them tremendously while giving yourself a great edge.
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Defense in depth over static defense usually. They both have value, but it depends on usecase.
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In any world where technology on the level of atomic weaponry exists (nuclear bombs), there must either be a reason for why they are not used (such as in Dune), or they should just be used.
A reason could be through universally recognized and obeyed law, or that counters against such weaponry exist, making them useless.
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In futuristic scenarios, armies marching together closely (i.e. massing) is dumb because this makes them an easy target for area damage focused weaponry such as artillery, tanks, etc.
Better to have more spread out formations.
That is, if no technology or magic exists to counter such vehicles, such as mobile shield generators, then it does make sense to walk in a tight formation as centralized command is easier.
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The larger the size of an army, the more autonomy lower-ranking officials need. A centralized command becomes much more difficult when the area over which to fight is enormous.
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Futuristic Armies are in need of efficiency, needing clerks, communication networks, etc. To keep themselves supplied and directed.
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- Dec 2022
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dirt.substack.com dirt.substack.com
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Good stories are of diminishing importance — ironic, given how audiences were traditionally drawn into a world, like that of The Odyssey, by way of a single character’s journey.
There's a Le Guin quote in the piece, on how a world of the story needs to be described in the story, and "that's tricky business". And this quote argues about the diminishing role of narratives. So what takes over their role? I think that, broadly speaking, databases and information: any narrative today quickly gets surrounded with coral-like growth of commentary, reviews, fanfiction, databases of world's details. This has some reference to Johnson's work on database as a modern media form.
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There is a palpable desire to manifest “reality,” however skewed or insular, from one’s own imagination.
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- Jan 2022
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unexpected change in weather conditions in the valley resulted in the aircraft flying into clouds that in turn caused the helicopter’s pilot to experience sudden spatial disorientation —a condition where the pilot loses the ability to correctly interpret aircraft attitude, altitude or airspeed in relation to the Earth or other points of reference— and made him fly into terrain.
Spatial Disorientation
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- Dec 2021
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writersedit.com writersedit.com
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As well as enhancing the reader’s experience, a map is a simple tool for a writer to use when planning, writing and editing their story. It’s a great world-building tool, helping you get a basic grasp of your world’s geography and how its environments can affect characters and their journeys. You can keep your map beside you as a reference while you plan your character’s journey and the obstacles or challenges they may encounter. Having a visual aid like this can help you keep ideas together in one focused area, rather than having to search through a mountain of notes.
- [[Venmurasu MOC]]
- I can build fictional india map for venmurasu using cartography3d software and [[🔌 obsidian leaflet plugin]] obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-leaflet-plugin
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www.mentalfloss.com www.mentalfloss.com
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You can’t show up on Meru and start up the thing unless you have years and years of experience. Climbing and spending time on the mountains is really the only way you can train
Mount Meru
- known as shark's fin
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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city of Arequipa has a significant number of buildings constructed with sillar, resulting in the nickname la ciudad blanca ("the white city").[5]
- legal capital of Peru
- Misti stratovolcano
- my fictitious city like tiruvannamalai will have white buildings made with sillar
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- Aug 2016
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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I wanted to record civil breakdown by degrees ... it's not all at once, it's not, you flip a switch and suddenly people are dog-eat-dog and regard everything in a Darwinian, animalistic way. I think that it starts subtly ... you walk into a restaurant and the maitre d' does not see you to your table, but just waves at it. Or doormen no longer carry groceries for the elderly. It's that little.
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