ASTA

Fires of Anuria(Reboot)

Maybe.

Arena Chat Thread

Looking for someone to oblige me in a mech fight. Fist full of titanium alloy to the face, anyone?

@Gun

What tier?

Time's a Changing - a Steampunk NRP set in a Psuedo-Earth

So how long is this one going to last?

Civil Space (More Space NRPs)

Why are GMs the only players accorded the opportunity to operate major nations?

Welcome to the beginning!- A post-apocalyptic NRP

"Look at the time, when the war happened it's a very modernistic world, so there are not laser rifles or anything like that."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2551219/Lockheed-Martin-reveals-portable-LASER-weapon-used-the.html

http://www.popsci.com/chinas-new-exoskeletons-not-just-call-duty-or-tom-cruise-anymore

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/raytheon-xos-2-exoskeleton-us/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/02/06/the-pentagons-electromagnetic-rail-gun-makes-its-public-debut/

All technologies drummed up in the early 21st century (though powered exoskeletons date back to 1965 with General Electrics 'Hardiman' exoskeleton system).

2052 would most certainly have handheld laser weapons.

People in this section really need to understand what sort of fire they're playing with when they seek to create a "modern" RP set in the 2050s and 2060s.

Seriously, 2052 is a post-singularity date in some futurist and intellectual circles.

Ashes to Ashes, a freeform Sci-Fi Fantasy NRP. (Always Accepting)

Species balance!

@WilsonTurner

Completely irrelevant in a universe where powered exoskeletons, gene therapy, artificial wombs, particle rifles, and hypervelocity slug throwers exist.

The Intergalactic Collision of Entities (ICE) - A roleplay of science fiction.

Planets outside a liquid water zone that don't have an atmosphere, but may be ideal in size and resources, would have to have dozens of terraformers constantly going to keep the planet stable, with a stable global climate. Again, it puts a bit more emphasis on strategy- controlling terraformers means essentially controlling the planet's surface.

Realistically, this would only apply to (certain) organic lifeforms. Depending on their respective technological standings, post-singularity nations are likely to disregard preemptive terraforming entirely because a forgiving planetary atmosphere isn't necessary for their hardened synthetic bodies to function properly. Some species might opt to construct their metropolitan centers deep below a world's surface.

And then there are fleet-bound and station-bound factions to consider.

Honestly Wilson, the rules that you're peddling here aren't exactly compatible with a universe where dyson shells, gravity generators, positron cannons, exawatt pulse grasers, and relativistic railguns exist.

What you want is a science fiction RP where Project Orion became the standard after the Korean War and superluminal travel was discovered during the Gulf War.

HamburgerHelper: The glove comes off

Why do you give me the shits?

Radical Feminism, Misandry & the Rise of MGTOW

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Damn dude, like, did your school have any books printed after 1900? All of this pseudo-darwinism was thrown out before your Great-Grandma was born. Like, the 300 years or so that western society developed liberalism isn't enough time for us to somehow become genetically liberal. This isn't genetics, its cultural patterns, and those are too fluid to be explained by genetics.

@Vilageidiotx

I don't remember behavioral genetics being discredited.

If anything, it's gained momentum. Exponential growth in technological innovation tends to accelerate the frequency of groundbreaking discoveries, not retard it.

This isn't genetics, its cultural patterns, and those are too fluid to be explained by genetics.

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The cultural makeup of various human civilizations and societies are, in many ways, diametric manifestations of their native population's collective psychological profile. The overt cultural and administrative texture of Japan, for example, differs from that of Jordan's because the Yamato people are measurably dissimilar to Arabs when it comes to a distinctive assortment of psychological attributes. Both are subsets of the encompassing human species, but they've evolved in different geographical locales over the course of several thousand years.

Culture influences genetics; genetics influences culture.

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So I could kill off everyone who opposes homosexuality, which would eventually wipe out the "homos ewwwwwww" gene, and that would be morally acceptable because I'm a more fit creature, which I've demonstrated by murdering millions?

What if I killed everyone but five hundred people whom I like for arbitrary reasons. Are those five hundred superior beings to everyone who died because they're still alive? What if they're all obese, drooling idiots? Are they still superior?

@Keyguyperson

You know, you could've just skipped to the point and evoked Godwin's Law by comparing me to Hitler.

Radical Feminism, Misandry & the Rise of MGTOW

@VilageidiotxBut the fact of the matter is that these are issues that exist independent of an abrasive capitalist ideology, they aren't just symptoms of systematic economic inequalities. They are cancers in their own right, the divide between races and genders in America and the world, but have historical and socio-cultural origins that need to be addressed. That isn't to say that they aren't exacerbated by economic problems, because they are, but in the same vein, the opposite could also be said about social issues worsening economic issues.

By saying that we need to stop focusing on social issues and turn our gaze to the REAL problem that is the capitalist forces of evil, you fall victim to the same problem you accuse me of. You're oversimplifying the issue by splitting it into something that is starkly black and white. You're just swapping the (real) patriarchy with the classism that is the source of evil behind everything.

Trans*people are systematically denied recognition under the law as their gender, homeless people are pushed out of cities and forced further into their situation instead of being offered help, more black men go to prison to fuel the prison industrial complex, Big Pharma fights to get Obamacare repealed, women are still vocationally, socially, and culturally seen as inferior to men, instead of just different, we continue to drone strike the Middle East despite right-wing terrorism being the bigger domestic problem, and conditions on plantations worsen annually while DC does nothing about it. These are complex problems, and no single one really exists independent of the other. It really won't do to try fixing them with ignoring any aspect of them, be it social of economic.

Clearly the real problem here is the state. You should maybe consider becoming an anarchist.

@Darcs

Inequality does not, cannot, and will not exist. Empirical and analytical evidence decrees that humans are inherently unequal. Social stratification is principally founded on the disparities in cognitive capability, emotional stability, and physiological prowess that can be plainly perceived in any given human population.

@Vilageidiotx okay we actually completely agree on most things in this argument, I see where it is we differ now



ALSO;

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I actually disagree. I think the internet provides a unique opportunity for people to organize and significantly improve each others lives. Maybe I'm an optimist for thinking a more globalized society is a good thing, I don't know.

@Darcs

This will only yield comparatively fruitful results in only a paltry integer of societies across the globe. Said societies are comprised of non-clannish peoples that have a distinctive penchant for exhibiting affective empathy.

There is a fundamental genetic reason why the lion's share of the world's most progressive and liberal civilizations are Western and Northern European states. Collectively, they spent about 800 years cleansing the alleles of their more violent and psychopathic members from their genetic pool and marrying outside of their immediate kinship circles.

The degree of kin-selection matters. Genes matter. Mating patterns matter.

Being dominated by clannish peoples (with the Middle East being quite known for engaging in cousin marriage), I don't see the Middle East or Africa suddenly accepting that homosexuality is normal, that transgender people deserve a safe space in the contemporary world, and that women need to be unshackled from the potent, malevolent grip of patriarchy.

If you want them to embrace your egalitarian philosophy and its keystone principles, you're going to have to radically genetically engineer them to be something that they are clearly not.

To give you an idea of what you're up against, homophobia is apparently hereditary:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2292426/

The rest can be attributed to environment, but since a people determines the environment that they reside within, you might be looking at a self-created echo chamber that reinforces homophobia.