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- Wed Nov 08, 2023 2:35 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 223: Most Fortunate!
- Replies: 45
- Views: 222230
Re: Page 223: Most Fortunate!
I'm sure Arioch is working on it, though quite possibly he's got Other Life Things(tm) going on as well. Happens. Go (re-)read the archives. ;) Updates will come when they come, you can see there's been long dry spells before, even from the home page dates. I do enjoy it when we get a bunch of updat...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 7:11 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Inevitable Best Endings Versus Endings That Could Have Mutiple Good Endings...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 59719
Re: Inevitable Best Endings Versus Endings That Could Have Mutiple Good Endings...
A lot of details in Outsider have changed since I posted the first pages in 2001, but not the ending. Outsider isn't Shakespeare, but it tells a specific story. Details, hmm? (Side-eye at the About page, and the 107-page chapter 2... Q: How long is this comic going to be? A: The story as currently ...
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 2:38 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 222: Take Care What You Choose For Cover
- Replies: 120
- Views: 729078
Re: Page 222: Take Care What You Choose For Cover
Yeah, like me. *I* don't react well to bullets!
- Wed Jun 14, 2023 12:33 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 221: Big realizations and Big Doors
- Replies: 27
- Views: 107403
Re: Page 221: Big realizations and Big Doors
Seems like it might make for some possibly fatal (for Alex) jump-scares of the Loroi if Alex does get separated from Beryl or the Loroi otherwise lose track of him, no? Or maybe they can still sense he's there (and certainly I'd think he would 'read' as non-Umiak), just nothing more than a presence....
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 4:19 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6280
- Views: 5043148
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
I am honestly not sure how exactly loroi industry as it is described (some sort of Medieval guild and caste system combination) can produce complex machinery, it requires millions of individuals and huge amount R&D even for relatively minor things today, on their tech level situation should get eve...
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:03 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off-Topic: Gaming
- Replies: 37
- Views: 76398
Re: Off-Topic: Gaming
Dwarf Fortress just released on Steam today...
--Mithramuse
--Mithramuse
- Wed Nov 30, 2022 1:55 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: What Is Your Favorite Comicbook Character and Why?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 22481
Re: What Is Your Favorite Comicbook Character and Why?
{snip} And thus my title went from "End-of-Line Measurement Control Services Engineer" to "End-of-Line Measurement Control Services and Static Discharge Prevention Engineer". Awesome. But a raise would've been better. It resulted in our fab becoming the only one on the site to pass all requirements...
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 3:40 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Are We Gods Or Will We Become Like The Soia?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 24819
Re: Are We Gods Or Will We Become Like The Soia?
I love the Resident Evil reference in the interview portion.
Lots of societal effects from anything like this, to be sure, none of which are touched upon. Though the restoration of function in eyes would be quite useful, for example, rather than doing surgery.
Lots of societal effects from anything like this, to be sure, none of which are touched upon. Though the restoration of function in eyes would be quite useful, for example, rather than doing surgery.
- Tue Nov 15, 2022 7:00 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: A Revelation Or Two I Had On Scifi Spaceflight
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3525
Re: A Revelation Or Two I Had On Scifi Spaceflight
Alternately, try https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/.Demarquis wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 2:28 amI think you just rediscovered the "Rocket Equation" (https://www.planetary.org/articles/2017 ... ion-part-1). See also (https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stat ... yanny.html)
--Mithramuse
- Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:35 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: AI art.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 45752
Re: AI art.
This is certainly getting attention and discussion in multiple places; for one example I've run into, see "https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2022/08/28/ai-art-and-its-current-limitations/". Largely seems to agree with the discussion so far, though doesn't touch on the question of where the ima...
- Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:30 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Umiak/misc. races question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 764
- Views: 594069
Re: Miscellaneous Umiak/misc. races question-and-answer thread
Yes, they reconned it in one of the 'Fleet of Worlds' books, written with Edward M. Lerner. Basically they reached the conclusion that the Puppeteers were purposefully paying the 'blackmail' money even when not really needed because it might throw people off the trail... something like that. --Mithr...
- Thu Apr 07, 2022 3:39 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
- Replies: 128
- Views: 210463
Re: Page 214: Ready for boarding action!
Here, have dogs barking laid over top instead.Mercy Machine wrote: ↑Thu Apr 07, 2022 3:45 am"Ride of the Valkyries" (like a lot of late '60s pop music used in Vietnam War movies/TV) is kind of ruined for me because my brain superimposes helicopter sounds over the music...
--Mithramuse
- Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:23 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Substitute Alex For Other Well Known Scifi Human Characters... Do They Do Better Or Worse?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 39528
- Mon Nov 15, 2021 3:34 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6280
- Views: 5043148
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Real space combat would probably be very boring, from a dramatic standpoint. Spacecraft so far away from each other that they are mutually invisible to the naked eye fire laser beams at each others, beams that are also invisible because that's the entire point of lasers, the light is coherent and d...
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 12:45 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 212: Pucker factor nine point five
- Replies: 40
- Views: 21826
Re: Page 212: Pucker factor nine point five
My question - Alex must know that Humanity is practically useless for combat against any of this crew, so what has Humanity got to offer? A mystery and a prophecy - Might the Umiak have any interest in Humanity? I think it's pretty well been stated that the Umiak's interest in humanity would be sla...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 2:29 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 211: Grand Theft Umiak Cruiser
- Replies: 123
- Views: 81010
Re: Page 211: Grand Theft Umiak Cruiser
I myself got a chuckle when someone told me the ending involves the war ending somehow and Alex introducing the Loroi to ice cream without yelling them the ingredients until after... as minor payback for all the hardship they put him through. And honestly, that's as good an ending as any for me. Na...
- Fri Aug 06, 2021 5:43 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Terran question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 1204
- Views: 1188741
- Mon Aug 02, 2021 6:21 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: 210 Far-sensing?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 95162
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:17 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 209: Damn bugs and their chatter! Putting Alex to sleep!
- Replies: 111
- Views: 48281
Re: Page 209: Damn bugs and their chatter! Putting Alex to sleep!
Regarding Beryl, note that Alex says he 'sees' the Loroi. So whatever this input is, it could be his brain is processing it as thought it were from his eyes - kind of like when you are in a truly dark room (or a cave, say) and wave your hand in front of your face. There's no light, you can't actuall...
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 1:34 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: The Death Of The Heavy Scifi Battleship
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14100
Re: The Death Of The Heavy Scifi Battleship
The Mote books are good for that, but the Langston Field is the big defense there, as far as Bamax's postulates go anyway. The increased surface area of a larger ship gives more area to absorb and store kinetic energy, thus more protection (so long as, say, you aren't trying to fly through an atmosp...