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  1. "I don't know how things are where you come from, but around here you're going to find that all the laboratories come with a shrine to the God of Science."

    (Whose traditional invocation is "Let me have the clarity to see things as they are.")

    #eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

  2. "One day, you must explain to me exactly how closing to meleé is 'brutish and uncouth', while raining enough razor-sharp shards of cubic gauche nitrogen from the sky to blot out the sun is the quintessence of military elegance."

    #eldraeverse

  3. Today in 'verse history, the launch of the inevitable Admiralty Intelligence prowler

    CS _'); DROP TABLE contacts; --_

    #eldraeverse

  4. At one point in the development of organic/biotech computing devices, it was necessary to provide indicators of their internal state for their operators.

    The resulting bioluminescent demi-fungus was named, inevitably, "blinkenlichen".

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  5. As I migrate more posts on 'verse computing, I observe:

    Those people with buttsticks about "byte" and "nybble" being too silly are going to have to continue to suffer post-contact through "playte", "dynner", "feyst", and "banquyt".

    (Industry-standard word lengths in the seventh millennium are banquyts. Conveniently, this means that IIP addresses are still quadwords.)

    #eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

  6. As I migrate more posts on 'verse computing, I observe:

    Those people with buttsticks about "byte" and "nybble" being too silly are going to have to continue to suffer post-contact through "playte", "dynner", "feyst", and "banquyt".

    (Industry-standard word lengths in the seventh millennium are banquyts. Conveniently, this means that IIP addresses are still quadwords.)

    #eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing

  7. 100. No matter how wearied you are by the incompetent fools surrounding you, you may not spray knowledge-bearing nanites from high-flying aircraft.

    No-one will care that they aren't technically chemtrails.

    - _145 Things Not To Be Done In The Associated Worlds_

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  8. As a writer of relatively firm SF, it should be established that even in the magical ignorance of deep history, the spell components for "fireball" can't be bat guano.

    They're naphtha and white phosphorus.

    #eldraeverse #writing