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I keep forgetting that happened, largely because I have absolutely no idea what it does in this setting aside from superluminal communication.

As current methods of recycling are really energy intensive, I'm assuming that energy is either much, much cheaper in the future, or recycling is far, far more energy efficient.

Somewhat relevant to our interests, although far too optimistic for our setting. http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/09/ ... index.html

Asking the guy questions just to savage him about his prior mistakes is obnoxious, and it's really only appropriate to be obnoxious to other people who are also on the boards and on board with our culture of dickery. Ask him how he'd revise his GNS model in light of the weaknesses or strengths it's ...

Be reasonable. We have the technology to denature plastics back in to raw hydrocarbon right now, and our landfills are fucking crammed to the rafters with the stuff. That technology is only going to get better, and the one thing that I presume there isn't a shortage of in this setting is raw energy,...

"Earth's teat has run dry, so now we gonna eat the meat."

Agreed. That fucker is chock-full of rare earths.

The enemy cleric is an NPC.

It's possible that almost all of the landfill-extraction has already been done, leaving most humans with essentially no useful purpose to fulfill in the global economy.

This IS the beginning of the space-age; with cheap automated production and maturing space-based logistics, it seems like it's only a matter of decades until people start seriously strip mining the asteroid belts and low-g moons of the gas giants for raw materials. That would do a lot to alleviate t...

Technically, making and selling roleplaying games also falls under the 'entertainment industry', so... we all fall on that list. Here's a question: what's the situation in the future regarding the price of housing, food, water, medical care, communications, and entertainment? Currently, even super p...

It seems to me that one of the most obvious routes for any underclass to take is to smash and ruin as many critical labor-saving devices as possible, in order to create work for them to be paid to do. Also, I imagine the number of people with children in this world is so low as to approach Children ...

Plus, employee onboarding, training, and orientation can be enhanced by augmented reality / virtual reality / direct cranial stimulation. Okay, so let's go back a step. What sort of jobs exist in this economy? Because that's a pretty critical question when examining how plausible this Just-In-Time E...

There's a difference between a natural process and a surgical procedure. Both of these processes are a result of human decisions. You can elect not to have sex, having sex is the result of a human decision, and the creation and consequential failure to implant of an embryo is thus the result of a h...

Okay, so it's not that 30% of the population which is _actively pursuing employment_ has employment. It's that 30% of the population, period, has employment? I'd make that more clear.

Fucking RaptorTech and their ridiculous business model! Let's burn their house down!

Well, yeah, they basically buy the book before you make it, possibly with special bonuses attached. It's not like they're just giving you the money. You have to provide the product after.

How much money are we talking about? Several thousand dollars. Art costs money on a per-picture basis, there's really no way around that. Printing, editing, and distribution cost money too. Even counting the writing as free because I'd do it anyway, we§re looking at a capitalization of like eight t...

Yes, definitely. However, regardless of what comes up finance-wise, I'm interested. I realize that my attempt to offer up work for the War! project fell through, but I have actual experience editing actual work now.

The Vocational Augmentations section is haunting for anyone who's struggled through college. Excellent work.

Do you have an editor for this, by the way? I just wrapped up a gig working on the sequel to Weapons of the Gods, and I'm a big fan of your work.

Endovior has the right approach. This is going to require expensive infrastructural magical items or rituals, or at the minimum it's going to require a lot of extradimensional slave labor conjured by your local wizard or druid.

Human Revolution has been absolutely rocking me with delight.

I don't believe there is one. Autohypnosis is definitely ripe for a feat, though; it's a weird skill that doesn't fit that elegantly in to the system, very niche, and a feat can give it a proper purpose.

Don't forget hospitals overrun by Patient Zero.

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:All else: Thanks. That's what lead to the avatar change, I'm trying my damnedest to be as positive as I can in hopes that it will mean more positive results, and I can't think of anything more positive than ponies. It's very hard, but I am trying my damnedest.

Rainboom that shit, my man.