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- Tue Aug 01, 2023 11:34 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 223: Most Fortunate!
- Replies: 45
- Views: 226983
Re: Page 223: Most Fortunate!
Wouldn't Human speech also be a bit different considering this is hundreds of years into the future? I don't think anyone speaks the same way we did in the 19th or 20th century, not just in English but likely every language from Hindi to Arabic to Chinese. Alex might have some sort of accent compar...
- Wed May 31, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 220: Clearing the Path
- Replies: 84
- Views: 320978
Re: Page 220: Clearing the Path
It also can't be understated how useful Earth could be as a staging area. The potential resources in the asteroid belt alone make it valuable from an industrial standpoint. As someone who spent time and thought-effort on coming up with ways humanity could be helpful after first reading Outsider, I'...
- Wed Nov 02, 2022 12:29 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 218: The Volunteer
- Replies: 67
- Views: 99975
Re: Page 218: The Volunteer
Maybe it's just me being weird, but I'm looking at the girders in the picture and thinking the way they're oriented is to resist a single direction of force ... I would expect structural girders to be triangular in cross-section and laid out as tesselating triangles. Something like this: https://ww...
- Wed Nov 02, 2022 1:24 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 218: The Volunteer
- Replies: 67
- Views: 99975
Re: Page 218: The Volunteer
Its interesting to me that the hangar seems fairly not-crazy looking and incorporates things like fairly run of the mill girders. It always annoyed me when basic strong geometric shapes were not used by aliens and they instead went for weird organic shapes that would be either impossible or incredi...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 9:16 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 208: All aboard!!!
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19864
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:17 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 205: What does kKt mean?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13542
Re: Page 205: What does kKt mean?
Cannot afford to be like real life always. For example if the Deathstar ACTUALLY used security cameras I doubt Luke, Han, Chewie and the bots would ever have escaped off it. Darth Vader wanted them to escape, because he'd put a tracking device on the Millenium Falcon in order to find the Rebel base...
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:12 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 203: Watch this!!!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20267
Re: Page 203: Watch this!!!
I know this may sound like a really strange question... butttttttt.... Why does Fireblade's (pressure suit/environmental suit/armor/vac-suit) not cover her hair? Everyone else is wearing an enclosed helmet, or does she just have plumage attached to the helmet to resemble her hair? Just wondering if...
- Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:01 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 203: Watch this!!!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20267
Re: Page 203: Watch this!!!
I know this may sound like a really strange question... butttttttt.... Why does Fireblade's (pressure suit/environmental suit/armor/vac-suit) not cover her hair? Everyone else is wearing an enclosed helmet, or does she just have plumage attached to the helmet to resemble her hair? Just wondering if...
- Fri Jun 04, 2021 1:32 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 202: WHY?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 30364
Re: Page 202: WHY?
Alex and crew hijack the Umiak cruiser, turn it toward the Jump Point, and accelerate like hell, pursued by a bunch of Umiak warships
Barsam Courier: "Are we still supposed to pick you guys up or what?"
Alex: "Change of plan! LEG IT!"
Barsam Courier: "Are we still supposed to pick you guys up or what?"
Alex: "Change of plan! LEG IT!"
- Fri May 07, 2021 11:07 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 198: Beated!
- Replies: 40
- Views: 34190
Re: Page 198: Beated!
IRL pilots will use the rudder of an aircraft to yaw back and forth a bit "wagging the tail" when in view of another plane, like waving to each other. This is sometimes done to indicate a problem when a radio is unavailable, or it can just be a friendly acknowledgement. "They're waggleling!" -- Bat...
- Mon Apr 05, 2021 2:45 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Page 194: partial functionality
- Replies: 62
- Views: 35044
Re: Page 194: partial functionality
Plot twist: The Construct wasn't saying the Loroi are secretly evil.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 12:55 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How humanity can affect the war, by turning the moon into a deathstar.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 52387
Re: How humanity can affect the war, by turning the moon into a deathstar.
Going back to the original point of the thread... Even if humanity could turn the Moon into a deathstar, that wouldn't affect the war. It could only defend Earth. It can't invade the Umiak, and it can't defend the Loroi. The only way it could affect the war is by being such a drain on resources that...
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:36 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How humanity can affect the war, by turning the moon into a deathstar.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 52387
Re: How humanity can affect the war, by turning the moon into a deathstar.
Come now, we're not Hiigarans.spacewhale wrote: ↑Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:01 amand of course they'd go out of their way to steal every bit of technological shininess they could from any greater power, and make iterative improvements.
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:27 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How humanity can affect the war, by turning the moon into a deathstar.
- Replies: 169
- Views: 52387
Re: How humanity can affect the war, by turning the moon into a deathstar.
We've been all up and down this tree before. https://well-of-souls.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2409&p=34761#p34761 Also, the "Humans proposed this in the 1960's at TL6, but it never occurred to the aliens before and they're at TL11" is perhaps one of the dumbest tropes in science fiction. Fun, t...
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:10 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Pages 185-186: Really Weird Dreams!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 15518
Re: Pages 185-186: Really Weird Dreams!
i dont know why but my first thought was "poor korin, that kitty did no harm"... I think this is ether a premonition, or memories of one of the lorai. The ruins to the left remind me of our human ferroconcrete skyscrapers. Loroi architecture we have seen so far looks round and organic. I am leaning...
- Tue May 26, 2020 11:03 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
- Replies: 224
- Views: 91362
Re: How to Make Mecha Work in a realish setting
You are moving the goalpost a bit there. Those are hardly the kind of mechs that the thread title or Discord is referring to unless you wish to take the borderline facetious stance that non combat worthy prototypes somehow count. One of the links is broken at the time that I write this reply, and t...
- Mon May 11, 2020 3:55 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider 181: Foot-in-Mouth Disease
- Replies: 23
- Views: 12561
- Thu Mar 19, 2020 10:20 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: 174-175: Got milk?
- Replies: 137
- Views: 72116
Re: 174-175: Got milk?
By that you imply that only Europeans and Americans have the moral standards that enable "human-like intellect". :shock: EW! :( I so hope that was a joke. Not wanting to discuss this any further, just in case it was not :( Firstly, I don't imply, I'm explicit. European and american moral standards ...
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:07 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: 174-175: Got milk?
- Replies: 137
- Views: 72116
Re: 174-175: Got milk?
Yeah some things once set, aren't going away easily even if the reason that they were originally selected for is no longer relevant. Hell, humans still have an appendix, despite the frequent problems that those can have. Apparently the appendix is important as part of our immune system, and as a re...
- Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:24 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: 174-175: Got milk?
- Replies: 137
- Views: 72116
Re: 174-175: Got milk?
By the way, what about squids and octopuses? More manipulators than humans with very fine control. Or the small rodents (like rats and mice) or squirrels? They look so cute when they handle seeds and nuts with their little hands... Well, like I said, cephalopods would be good candidates were it not...