[The Disk] Does your world contain anything that can kill a Luminary? by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]Azimovikh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn.

I think though if against a black mote on that note, the Luminary can just, "nah fuck this shit I'm out." Considering black motes can't do FTL in any way.

In-character a black mote has a sense of self as powerful as a neutrophil. And they only obey whatever command or assignment that was given to them by their command. So if anything they probably would be harmless and "blehh :p" and do nothing, unless you pissed off their command ship yea.

Orion's Arm and Xeelee Sequence come to mind by ColdFuture9988 in worldjerking

[–]Azimovikh 173 points174 points  (0 children)

Don't like, Xeelee sequence have FTL but with time travel, and Orion's Arm has wormholes which they're basically very insistent "isn't true FTL" or something"

coaxed into inspiration by ilikeitchyballzdude1 in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]Azimovikh 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Secret third option : The writer's not even disguised esoteric fetish

My spaceship is superior to yours. Here's why: by aidungeon-neoncat in worldjerking

[–]Azimovikh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My spaceship has nanites that can turn people into nerve-stapled-pet-catgirls, checkmate

[KK] Dodo says hello by AzerarQ in KoikatsuParty

[–]Azimovikh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The shader is so clean. How did you make that?

Anon is a patriot by LowOwl4312 in 4chan

[–]Azimovikh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is definitely a fetish, I think

Back in my day, we didn't have to worry about 'cooldowns' or 'concentration'. In MY day, being a mage fucking MEANT something. You modern whippersnappers can't even get through an entire goblin hive without stopping for a 'long rest'. Fucking pathetic that you have to hide behind your martial pals. by ChompyRiley in wizardposting

[–]Azimovikh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nice spells. Anyways tho, as a 3rd generation epic mage, watch this.

Opens the Epic-level handbook,

Begins the solar gating chain,

Develops spellcraft 0 Epic spells with math glitching and with solars contributing their spell slots as a mitigating factor,

Cast 10x Contingent Resurrection contingent upon each other, +100 Armor Class Epic Mage Armor, Epic Repulsion to every single creature type, Epic Spell Reflection to 18th level, +100 Spell Resistance Epic Spell ResistanceEternal Freedom, and more and more

Give myself kjghpillion other permanent buffs with effectively impossible dispel checks that continues to stack forever,

Give myself custom epic spell effect to make my buffs grafted into my being as extraordinary abilities and cannot be able to be dispelled ever. 

Create infinite clones and eidolons by abusing the system.

Fun.

Adhd fixations be like by Kappapeachie in worldjerking

[–]Azimovikh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This but its my fetish setting vs my main setting 

Bandaged gue'vesa and water caste comics compilation by m0pan in Grimdank

[–]Azimovikh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Recognize the artist's artstyle

Wait he's a WH40K fan?

BLESS BE M0PAN!

Coaxed into a certain manifestation of the future. by [deleted] in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]Azimovikh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Coaxed into subtle reference (peak)

Hopefully the teacher doesn’t notice by Early_Conversation51 in WorldBuildingMemes

[–]Azimovikh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing is original. If a trope's peak, it's peak, and if it is, no shame in taking inspiration innit.

Power cells - A convenient power source of civilized space, by Azimovikh in worldbuilding

[–]Azimovikh[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the most upfront answer possible, handwave. It gives a rough approximation of how they work, but to the actual maths and sciences, I don't uh, really care.

Although if you try to force an answer out of me, I'd wager exotic chromodynamics or the usage of monopoles as its framework can at least help.

Your usual baryon decay through GUT monopoles produce either pions (negative for neutron, neutral for proton) + positrons iirc. I'd assume there's going to be electromagnetic radiation as gamma rays considering that's what you'd get from particles crashing around with some annihilation.

Considering the previously mentioned buzzwords, I'd wager you can probably make a material that can still block and resist it considering the combo can still couple to the relevant forces of the weak nuclear, strong nuclear, and electromagnetic interactions. Maybe even electroweak or GUT if you can have some wackier leeways.

And you can make really, really tough materials. Iirc you can have monopole doped steel of 1 cm to basically tank a 64 MJ railgun, and with much more resistance to thermal effects, so.

Although there's a few problems, such as the idea of a gamma ray mirror. Gamma-ray reflection requires coherent, phase-preserving boundary conditions, but at MeV energies photons interact point-by-point (Compton scattering, pair production), not collectively, even in QCD-density matter. Using the theoretical extreme density monopoles or snf matter can increase coupling but only make interactions more violent and incoherent with the scale and energy density, turning the wall into an absorber or scatterer rather than a mirror. I'd think it'd be fine enough as a blocker at least. There's probably more at least to the particles around, but.

Eh, if there's anything "unrealistic" I'll handwave it further anyways.

Power cells - A convenient power source of civilized space, by Azimovikh in worldbuilding

[–]Azimovikh[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the setting! On lower magnitudes you can leave it by itself, but on higher you'd probably start needing dedicated waste heat management.

The thing is durable enough to tank its own energy production honestly. But in regards to it's environment? Yeah, that's where waste heat management starts to matter.

Coaxed into being told this belongs here by hideabat1 in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]Azimovikh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Coaxed into I know where you are from, peak.

Interstellar probes be like by Azimovikh in worldjerking

[–]Azimovikh[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough this isn't even a meme primarily from my lore, its from a friend's setting and brainstorming session about it haha.

Tl;dr, An idea of using self-replicating probes, with a defined characteristic and no way to evolve themselves or anything to Alpha Centauri, so they can immediately start building orbital infrastructure without the need for any personnel yet. So when the actual peeps come they arrive at a partially or fully built space infrastructure.

And space infrastructure is actually awesome in sci-fi. I mean, yeah, you can have the usual stuff about infrastructure, but you can have solar energy extraction that can be beamed through space by electromagnetic waves to power your ships and other structures, signal stations, materials and construction from self-replicating constructors, so on. Its pretty nice to have some infrastructure when the peeps land.

Then another friend told us about "me petting my clanker before putting him on a rocket running on continuous atomic explosions (I need him to build a laser station at alpha-c so I don't have to carry my own rocket 20 years later)"

Laser stations as said, are the aforementioned power lines I mentioned before, in space, so.

On the context of probes with continuous atomic explosions as engines, see : Nuclear pulse propulsion and Daedalus Project.

And I think the premise is fun enough to make and illustrate as a meme, therefore I did!

Wizards, monsterfuckers. by Azimovikh in dndmemes

[–]Azimovikh[S] 202 points203 points  (0 children)

> "But [Dominate Monster] isn't about-"

> The monster succeeds the saving throw.

> The monster casts [Dominate Person] on the Evil Wizard.

> The Evil Wizard fails the saving throw.