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Trope-a-Day: Everything Is Online

Everything Is Online: Played entirely straight, including just about every piece of technology you can think of – infrastructure, houses, vehicles, appliances, even the simplest packaging will h… more →

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Trope-a-Day: Everything Is Online — 1 comment

Alistair Young wrote 6 days ago: Everything Is Online: Played entirely straight, including just about every piece of technology you c … more →

Tags: networking, IIP, v-Tags, Dataweave, Everything Is Online

Trope-a-Day: Every Device Is A Swiss Army Knife / Magic Tool

Alistair Young wrote 1 week ago: NO, IT IS NOT AN OMNI-TOOL. WRONG UNIVERSE, DAMMIT. Every Device Is A Swiss Army Knife/Magic Tool: T … more →

Tags: nanofac, nanolathe, Every Device Is A Swiss Army Knife, Magic Tool, vector effector, There IS an app for that!

Trope-a-Day: Every Bullet is a Tracer — 1 comment

Alistair Young wrote 1 week ago: Every Bullet Is A Tracer: Justified for non-slugguns, inasmuch as modern slugthrowers kick their tin … more →

Tags: Guns, Every Bullet is a Tracer

Trope-a-Day: Even Evil Has Standards — 1 comment

Alistair Young wrote 1 week ago: Even Evil Has Standards: Not in general played any straighter than it is in reality – the dumb and b … more →

Tags: Morality, Evil, mélith, choice-theft, Even Evil Has Standards, Space Pirates, pirates

Trope-a-Day: Eternal Prohibition

Alistair Young wrote 1 week ago: Eternal Prohibition: Averted, because no-one in the Empire would consider it reasonable to ban anyth … more →

Tags: drugs, hedonic pharmaceuticals, Eternal Prohibition, Prohibition, Pharmaceuticals, Recreational Chemistry, Nootropics, mnemotropins, Fruity Oaty Bar

Trope-a-Day: Eternal English

Alistair Young wrote 1 week ago: Eternal English: Let me put it this way: immortality plays merry hell with linguistic drift.  (So do … more →

Tags: language, Linguistics, Eternal English

Trope-a-Day: Eternal Engine

Alistair Young wrote 1 week ago: Eternal Engine: Quite a few of the Empire’s – and other advanced civilizations – l … more →

Tags: autofacs, Eternal Engine, Qerach

Trope-a-Day: Equal-Opportunity Evil

Alistair Young wrote 1 week ago: Equal-Opportunity Evil: Most Renegades, at least the ones that aren’t actually crazy.  While t … more →

Tags: Evil, renegades, Equal opportunities, Equal-Opportunity Evil, Bigotry

Trope-a-Day: Enforced Cold War — 1 comment

Alistair Young wrote 2 weeks ago: Enforced Cold War: A lot of them, in various places in the Worlds.  The Great Powers with seats on t … more →

Tags: War, Great Powers, Cold War, Enforced Cold War, brushfire wars

Trope-a-Day: Energy Weapons

Alistair Young wrote 1 month ago: Energy Weapons: Present, even if by and large Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better and therefore much mor … more →

Tags: Vector Control, grasers, plasma lances, electrolasers, Energy Weapons, Lasers, stunners, algetics

Trope-a-Day: Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better — 1 comment

Alistair Young wrote 1 month ago: Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: For most things, yes.  It’s not that they don’t have pe … more →

Tags: Guns, electrolasers, Energy Weapons, Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better, slugthrowers, Lasers, stunners, blinding lasers

Trope-a-Day: Energy Economy

Alistair Young wrote 1 month ago: Energy Economy: While the esteyn is not a pure energy currency (it remains, in our terms, a fiat cur … more →

Tags: Currency, nanofac, Cornucopias, esteyn, energy economy, fiat currency, Energy, computational cycles, feedstock

Trope-a-Day: Enemy Civil War

Alistair Young wrote 1 month ago: Enemy Civil War: Given the Empire’s preference for deviousness and indirection, not to mention … more →

Tags: Stratarchy of Indirection and Subtlety, Enemy Civil War, Civil War

Trope-a-Day: Encyclopedia Exposita

Alistair Young wrote 1 month ago: Encyclopedia Exposita: I never could resist doing this, and I have so many metafictional books to ch … more →

Tags: Encyclopedia Exposita

Trope-a-Day: Empathic Environment

Alistair Young wrote 1 month ago: Empathic Environment: Much of the Empire has one of these, one way or another.  On a  small scale, t … more →

Tags: eldraeic transcend, "house brain", genius loci, City Manager, Planai, Empathic Environment, pathetic fallacy

Trope-a-Day: Genius Loci — 1 comment

Alistair Young wrote 1 month ago: (‘Bout time I got back to these, I think.) Genius Loci: Quite a lot of them, from the simple u … more →

Tags: mechanimism, eldraeic transcend, Archai, Animism, "house brain", genius loci, City Manager, Planai

But I Don't Need One For This!

Alistair Young wrote 2 months ago: “Be advised that, following the recent series of incidents involving Imperial tourists, the Hi … more →

Tags: Writing #2, fic-a-day, Vehicles, Licensing

Trope-a-Day: Emotions vs. Stoicism — 1 comment

Alistair Young wrote 3 months ago: Emotions vs. Stoicism: Mastering talcoríëf (literally cold-mindedness; metaphorically, cool reason a … more →

Tags: talcoríëf, stiff upper lip, Emotions vs. Stoicism

Trope-a-Day: Emergency Transformation

Alistair Young wrote 3 months ago: Emergency Transformation: This is another thing that tends to happen a lot – not so much for t … more →

Tags: transhumanism, Uploading, mindcasting, reinstantiation, Emergency Transformation, biochauvinism


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