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Generative AI trained on 2D images doesn't understand the context of a 3D world, which is why it's especially bad at symmetry and objects which pass in front of or behind each other. And it has no persistence of memory, so if you try to create a sequence of images (for animation or sequential art) ...

Generative AI trained on 2D images doesn't understand the context of a 3D world, which is why it's especially bad at symmetry and objects which pass in front of or behind each other. And it has no persistence of memory, so if you try to create a sequence of images (for animation or sequential art) e...

Telepathic techniques only affect the conscious mind of a target, not its physical body (which includes memory). So a Mizol can't edit or erase memories, but she can temporarily affect access to memory (causing the target to temporarily forget or overlook something obvious), and suggest untrue thin...

Hardtrooper knitting attachment: standard If every Brittish Tank can have the equipment needed for making tea standard issue in every war since WW1 (yes, I know it was unitentionaly in the first one but thats what inspired it), then the Bugs can have their Knitting kits. Do they produce their own s...

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Wed Dec 20, 2023 3:56 pm

Can Farseers be male or female?

The Farseers deployed aboard ship are exclusively female, because the duty is hazardous. There are males (notably the Nedatan Timadi) that have similar capabilities, but they are used domestically in a safer way.

This seems more a technical question than a Loroi related one, but since it pertains Loroi tech and communication, are digital transmissions within a star system instantaneous regardless of distance? Or is there a delay? I.e. As I understand it, it would take about thirteen minutes to transmit a di...

Question: Do Loroi space-suits have any sort of (emergency) thruster system, as something to have in case personnel get ejected from a ship/station by anything from battle damage to accident? The TCA suits that we see in Chapter 1 have what look to be thruster packs on the back, but I don't see any...

Hardtrooper knitting attachment: standard

A blaster would be a beam emitter and some kind of power cell; I think ideally you'd want to have power cells that don't easily explode. I think you could rig a blaster so that it overloads and fails, but I doubt it would explode in an efficient or predictable manner that would make it useful as a "...

Heh... because conversations about knitting or whittling are SO exciting...

A small arms blaster would be designed to be fired in atmosphere, so I don't see that being a problem. Oxygen accelerates combustion but it doesn't itself burn. The most obvious danger in using higher power settings on a blaster is the risk of missing your intended target and having the shot go thr...

A small arms blaster would be designed to be fired in atmosphere, so I don't see that being a problem. Oxygen accelerates combustion but it doesn't itself burn. The most obvious danger in using higher power settings on a blaster is the risk of missing your intended target and having the shot go thro...

"The added wrinkle is that telepathy offers unique ways to intimidate and coerce others in ways that may be undetectable to third parties." Even when the third parties themselves are telepathic? I would think that this opportunity gives the adults an unparalleled level of discipline and control. Te...

Well, I am aware of research that indicates that when we decide to move our arm, the signal to do so originates outside of the pre-frontal cortex (where conscious thought takes place). The motor signal actually arrives at the arm a fraction of a second *before* we consciously think the decision to ...

Well, I am aware of research that indicates that when we decide to move our arm, the signal to do so originates outside of the pre-frontal cortex (where conscious thought takes place). The motor signal actually arrives at the arm a fraction of a second *before* we consciously think the decision to ...

In the Loroi tradition, customizations to uniform or vehicles are considered to represent a sort of medal or citation, and so can only be done with permission. Since they are a symbol of prestige, such markings tend not to be comical or frivolous. Examples in the comic are the crescent moon insignia...

The Loroi seem to have a history of endless bloodshed and struggled to establish rules and laws meant to keep their people in check. How often do Loroi youth get into interpersonal fights? Do adults allow the youth to 'vent' their aggressions and frustrations? At what point do adults intervene to b...

Instructions are technically symbols in the linguistic sense. Usually its kindof opaque to a human since it tends to unroll into an excessively long sequence compared to the 'code' but its not a total abortion of a translation from one to the other, you can comprehend machine code. Its kindof limit...

Even computer programming has it's own language, without it you cannot program anything Computer code isn't the best example, since it consists of instructions to a computer rather than what linguists would call a language for communicating information. The machine code that's executed on a compute...

Telepathy is non-verbal; it doesn't use words. There is no relationship between Trade and telepathy. Telepathy is not just "mental speaking." If that were the case, then telepathy would be useless for reading the thoughts of aliens who don't speak Trade. Loroi babies do start to learn telepathy in t...