The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
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Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
Also modernity has the problem that it places humans/humanoids in an unacceptable position of strength. I like conworlds in which humans yet have to fear things other than themselves.
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Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
Eh, I prefer human-only conworlds myself. Different strokes for different folks.
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Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
I'm tired of human-only conworlds. I'd enjoy much more alien-only conworlds, where the aliens aren't just humans with a different name a second pair of arms.Chagen wrote:Eh, I prefer human-only conworlds myself. Different strokes for different folks.
Yeah.
Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
Its exceedingly difficult to pull, tho... I've tried and failed a few times.
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Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
I still say your gas-giant one is incredibly awesome and I tip my hat to you for taking on such a mammoth task and producing something as good as you did.Torque wrote:Its exceedingly difficult to pull, tho... I've tried and failed a few times.
Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
Well thank you, man.
I've tried to make another stab at it but haven't yet found the inspiration. someday, though, I'll be developing the small flying parasitic gliders that are gonna be the replacement for humans, but I'd need to work on more ecology, and that'd require me to learn a WHOLE bunch of shit. Plus, I'm trying really hard to get my head around technology in a world of nothing but air.
I've tried to make another stab at it but haven't yet found the inspiration. someday, though, I'll be developing the small flying parasitic gliders that are gonna be the replacement for humans, but I'd need to work on more ecology, and that'd require me to learn a WHOLE bunch of shit. Plus, I'm trying really hard to get my head around technology in a world of nothing but air.
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Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
I think such technology would have to be strictly organic in nature. After all, there's nothing else.
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That sounds like an awesome challenge. When the politicians of that people promise pie in the sky, they actually can deliver.Torque wrote:I've tried to make another stab at it but haven't yet found the inspiration. someday, though, I'll be developing the small flying parasitic gliders that are gonna be the replacement for humans, but I'd need to work on more ecology, and that'd require me to learn a WHOLE bunch of shit. Plus, I'm trying really hard to get my head around technology in a world of nothing but air.
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Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
Well, my humans in my conworld have slightly more advanced than ours technology (that is to say, they had awesome future tech and lost most of it to time and limited resources). The other, indigenous, cultures were mostly lower tech than the humans, though some individuals have eagerly adopted high-tech gadgets and others are either suspicious or not interested. The result is that most of my conlangs are for cultures who may well carry a stone knife on one hip and a smartphone on the other.
With this arrangement, I have learned that imagining future tech is hard. I would rather spend that time conworlding, conlanging, and writing about my conworld and its inhabitants.
With this arrangement, I have learned that imagining future tech is hard. I would rather spend that time conworlding, conlanging, and writing about my conworld and its inhabitants.
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Re: The rarity of modern-day conworlds confuses me.
Sure, but organic technology isn't biotech: we work wood as if it were for all intents and purposes inorganic. these dudes would have horn, shell, bone, tooth, wood and other such materials to work. Not stone, naturally... they wouldn't have a lot of metals available, I guess.KathAveara wrote:I think such technology would have to be strictly organic in nature. After all, there's nothing else.
They would probably promise pie in the ground, a wonderful realm where its literally impossible to fall and be crushed by pressure, it never rains upwards, and there's water and dirt as far as the eye can see.prettydragoon wrote:That sounds like an awesome challenge. When the politicians of that people promise pie in the sky, they actually can deliver.Torque wrote:I've tried to make another stab at it but haven't yet found the inspiration. someday, though, I'll be developing the small flying parasitic gliders that are gonna be the replacement for humans, but I'd need to work on more ecology, and that'd require me to learn a WHOLE bunch of shit. Plus, I'm trying really hard to get my head around technology in a world of nothing but air.