The CBB

Well, I've already written this one. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/569875958635429910/970956779934588948/taw_cover.png https://books2read.com/u/b6vZEx <- Here it is. sounds cool, tbh. I think something might be wrong with the publisher, the ebook seems, for lack of a better word, to be out...

I like it *though it'd be even cooler if the map was a hex-on-a-sphere, as opposed to a mercator. a few other ideas painting a world unto it, I felt the need to paint features instead of tiles: like, where my mind went was 'okay, where's the land button? it would be more intuitive a model where, say...

I think ours is a descendent from the imperial split, cause the center of ours is more in the balkans than around iran, but it could be wrong.

Jupiter's balls, what wealth of musical insight have I found after going 'I wonder what's up in the cbb'. thank you so much for this thread, and I look forwards to moar. And the chinese are so... writy! I bet their musical history is relatively well documented. The first thing that Westerners tend t...

Man, I'm loving this thread. and yes please do share examples of this or that maqam. there are some things on the web, but it's hard to know which is good and which is fake. As I kind of hinted, in some ways it might actually make more sense to think of Western music as a variation of Middle-Eastern...

Oh, I've been doing this for a while <with very little to show for it, but I guess I do mostly enjoy the process, plus I always procrastinate the documenting. I've made alphabets, syllabaries, calendars, religions, ideologies, most of the regular things I think. I'd like to feel confident enough as ...

You know what could be cool? just make it insanely complex! like, I don't know, say you have longs and short trunkers: you could have a system by which. > long trunkers inherit from other long trunkers unless the son doesn't have a long parent. (it may be taboo, but then again, it's going to happen)...

What we call a 'religion' is not just impulses and rituals, you're right - a 'religion' is usually just a name for a certain way of life, including certain collective ritual gestural language but certainly not limited to it. so mythology, gesture, membership -and position!- into a real or imagined ...

I kind of have a difficult time imagining what's on people's minds when they do all these funny things like praying, taking mythology literally, going to church and the rest of it. If you're serious, then I'd suggest considering it from a Wittgensteinian perspective. The foundation of religion - mu...

I hope I haven't replied to this and forgotten, but at the risk of repeating myself... I think that if anything, my atheism has made me more concerned with religion in my conworlds because, well, I don't understand religion. more importantly than an atheist, what I am that's odd, I think, is sort of...

Well, Torco, I can grossly summarize it by
Anyone who isn’t Trump > Trump

lmao no arguments here

Very true, tbh.

As I Understand Them: * Technocracy is rule by those who have the skills to rule, because they have those skills. * Meritocracy is rule by those who have earned rulership, because they have earned that right. * Timocracy is rule by those who are honored with rulership, because they have performed s...

❓Humans leave for the stars, forget all about Earth, and rediscover it later. I don't think this is bad: Scalzi did it quite well in his Interdependence series (basically FTL rides on weird sciency connections that open and close of their own accord, and so from the perspective of a few world the p...

Ooooh, cool. it makes sense, I suppose, that the fields covered by 'what particular ethnic groups seem to be very good at' and 'what sports there are in the 21th century' line up rather randomly, and so some ethnicities are good at marathons while not being the absolute best endurance runners simply...

Yeah, and this extends to some very particular physical capabilites as well: nilotes are pretty tall and lanky, which is good for some sports, ethiopians (and probably just a specific group of ethiopians, i don't know which) seem to be really good at marathons. certain germanic peoples seem to be ve...

werra looks big enough, so... any kind of culture you want could evolve in it, I think. Okay, not *any*, you're not gonna have a transatlantic slave trade in a single island, but other than that... the interesting question, methinks, is what kind of humans the werra are, and which of the things we u...

Humans who didn’t build homes could find them in e.g. caves etc. They still can and still do. …. So much for homelessness to be our natural state! I mean, sure, in a way, but also: people who live in the way early cave-dwellers lived, for example, would need special legal accomodation under capital...

don't ask a Kerbal space program geek about directions in space, it could get geeky. so in order for a language to be like grammatically changed by space travel the speakers would have to be people *of* space, not just a spacefaring civilization: for most of us, nautical or aeronautical terminology ...

an obvious answer is: horses. a cool answer is: dinosaurs. there actually were two-meter tall predatory birds on earth at one point, and at least some of what they ate was horses: they call them terror birds. they also ate rhinos, elk, deer and probably smaller things too, but those don't require yo...