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- Tue May 07, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
- Replies: 20
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Re: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
Oldest Sophisticated tool that is Found . There is likely older tools, that have not been shaped or prepared for tool use. Just regular stick and stones that are thrown away after use. And about evolutions, I did simplified the progress a lot, in my earlier posts. Random mutations is one thing, anot...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
- Replies: 20
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Re: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
If you mean as rope, that is big jump forward. Let say that instead of having hole in ground for nest, they start building elevated nests. This requires or provides following evolutions: - Upright position to work in front of them. - Limbs to grab and manipulate things. - Ability recognize and produ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 12:11 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2025
Re: Off Topic: Lets Make a Scifi/Fantasy Race, Reptilian
For intelligent race, the most important is transfer of knowledge. This can be done by imitation, "opportunity training", like bringing half dead prey to predator and finally by language. These do favor quality of descendants instead of quantity, so it is likely that the cultured alien have small nu...
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 9:12 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 220: Clearing the Path
- Replies: 84
- Views: 320976
Re: Page 220: Clearing the Path
Umiak are not very similar to Earth insects, but it's probably true of almost any species that you could find some chemical or drug that will incapacitate or kill them but not you. Reminded me "ancient" scifi book of humans entering another moon/planet covered by ice/water. One of the scientist was...
- Wed May 17, 2023 3:38 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 220: Clearing the Path
- Replies: 84
- Views: 320976
Re: Page 220: Clearing the Path
Good but I just noticed that Alex doesn't have a backpack. Since this Umiak ship has been depressurized he wouldn't have more breathable air then what is in his helmet. I quess the helmet breaks the carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon. It just needs a small powersource and scifi tech. But the que...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 11:16 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider Universe and Domesticating Animals
- Replies: 15
- Views: 47443
Re: Outsider Universe and Domesticating Animals
I believe that every social alien is potential to have pets or other domestic/symbiotic creatures to provide some interaction as well other produce (be that nourishment, work force, communication, hygiene, guard, etc). Though I do think that common scifi trope of bioengineered "Flintstones" is utter...
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:42 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider Universe and Domesticating Animals
- Replies: 15
- Views: 47443
Re: Outsider Universe and Domesticating Animals
Very interesting topic, but as a scifi setting I m surprised that nobody has said anything about domesticated sentients. In some sense, loroi themselves fills this role, though they have lost their ancient masters. Loroi might also treat some of another races in their union as "animals" or "pets", t...
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:05 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How Do You Adapt Outsider Space Battles To Film/TV?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16273
Re: How Do You Adapt Outsider Space Battles To Film/TV?
Make it look more like submarine stories than usual scifi. Space is shown sparily and it is usually boring. Black space with distant stars Pilot face Pilot looking intensively and some proximity sensor noise Then the hair and some small items are moving by g-forces even with inertia dampeners as pil...
- Wed Nov 09, 2022 7:33 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 218: The Volunteer
- Replies: 67
- Views: 99975
Re: Page 218: The Volunteer
I would like to add my word about sabotaging of the lifesupport. Imagine being responsible of such a system and you find out that someone flushed space-ink-cassette from toilet. - If you can stop the filter inflow within 10 minutes, the ship can survive without water 2 days when you scrub the pipes ...
- Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:59 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider humor thread
- Replies: 188
- Views: 866622
Re: Outsider humor thread
Thank you. Now I m always thinking this is where her name comes from.
- Wed Sep 07, 2022 7:17 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: AI art.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 46571
Re: AI art.
Protip: ask an AI to draw itself. I dont remember exact wording, but I asked Midjourney to draw something like "Message on paper in big letters written in English." https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/769911262687133710/1014538128737960017/unknown.png The first one gave quite interesting view ho...
- Wed Aug 24, 2022 2:02 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Males.... You May Cry In Defeat Once Loroi Females Watch This Video
- Replies: 23
- Views: 26736
Re: Loroi Males.... You May Cry In Defeat Once Loroi Females Watch This Video
Forgot answer earlier, but I think that to loroi, human males are as manly, as female russian weightlifter from 1980, with beard and smoking a cuban cigar, is feminine to us. Though while we look ugly to them, the loroi crew have been long in space and might have eyes of medieval seaman watching man...
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:24 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 217: Where is Cloud?
- Replies: 89
- Views: 113924
Re: Page 217: Where is Cloud?
Jardin is having a culture shock. Being killed in accident or enemy is one thing, to being killed to sell their disquise was just not comprehensible. Now I also understand the page 206 : "There is only dead bodies here. Just like at previous room." Though I knew it, I did not comprehend it before. W...
- Fri Apr 29, 2022 5:54 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Loroi Are Theoretically Possible To Create.... Using Real Science!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 13367
Re: Loroi Are Theoretically Possible To Create.... Using Real Science!
Hemocyanin (Cu) transport oxygen better than hemoglobin (Fe) in low temperatures, while in our comfort area hemoglobin is better. But it is possible that actual loroi use another, still unknown copper based chemical. About brain computer, it is unnecessary. You only need radio-oscillator controlled ...
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 4:34 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 215: About to Jump? Take drugs!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 48356
Re: Page 215: About to Jump? Take drugs!
On the matter of the mentioned vibrations during jump. Is this something that happens despite your tech level or equipment within the Outsider setting? I can imagine that human jump technology might be cruder then what the Loroi and Umiak use, so the latter might be able to have easier transitions ...
- Tue Mar 22, 2022 1:05 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36618
- Mon Mar 07, 2022 1:29 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36618
Re: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
Instead of videogame, got idea for Outsider themed card game. The deck got 4 cards of each caste and one umiak. Played by rules of "happy families".
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 1:40 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36618
Re: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
Cute... sadly with the Umiak exoskeletons are not capable of much in the way of expression. Perhaps that is why they chit chat so much with each other. If you were a Umiak you would have to tell your fellow Umiak if how you felt since they would have no way of knowing by just looking at you as you ...
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:20 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36618
Re: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
If I had few friends capable of doing art and code, I could build a tower defense game. The planets you protect, build you resources, that you use to build your defense lines. The umiaks come from few jump points toward your planets. Your "towers" arent just stationary targets, but some are ships th...
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:06 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36618
Re: If You Made An Outsider-based Video Game How Would You Do It?
Game where you must write words faster and faster. The difficulty levels are: Beryl (Easy) 4-5 lettered words Tempo (Medium) 5-7 lettered words Fireblade (Challenging) 6-9 lettered words Stillstorm (Difficult) 7+ lettered words Kikitik-27 (Nightmare/Umiak) foreign words growing in length In the game...