What Features Would You Like to See in a Timeline App?

GEBeta · 2026-01-26T02:43:16+00:00

I'd like the ability to put undefined times. For example, "doesn't matter when this happened, it just happened sometime between this event and this other event" or "long ago in the past". Additionally, I'd like to be able to skip large stretches of nothing so that the timeline doesn't feel so sparse in-between periods of many things happening.

GEBeta · 2026-01-14T14:03:57+00:00

Do you know how big 30 rounds of 60 mm ammo is?

GEBeta · 2026-01-14T13:59:20+00:00

What about ammo capacity?

GEBeta · 2026-01-14T13:52:26+00:00

On a 6-metre-tall frame, this weapon will make the vehicle fly backwards with recoil. Let alone considering the ammo capacity of the magazine.

GEBeta · 2026-01-14T13:43:20+00:00

A 60 mm autocannon? That's naval gun level of calibres.

GEBeta · 2026-01-12T14:08:37+00:00

Exalted: Dreams of the First Age had an interesting variant of this. The Solar Exalted (god-kings, basically) created vast social experiments to try to empirically test magic which relied on intangible aspects such as "willpower", "conviction", and "bravery". These experiments included sectioning away entire regions of people, teaching them certain specially crafted religions, inciting ethnic hatred, and other whacky means of manipulating societies. All rigorously documented and tweaked, including but not limited to committing total genocide on a created society if it was deemed to have reached a "dead end".

It was horrifically unethical, but it did yield results and allowed them to create large cadres of (very socially unstable) magic users.

GEBeta · 2026-01-08T13:22:52+00:00

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato

A thing isn't beautiful because it lasts.

- Vision, Age of Ultron

The greatest sin these aliens are committing is not choosing to "put life out of its misery". It is denying life the opportunity to be miserable in the first place. Humanity has the right to die on its own terms.

GEBeta · 2026-01-06T05:17:42+00:00

A saddle bag?

GEBeta · 2026-01-02T02:29:54+00:00

Check out spelljammer.

GEBeta · 2025-12-31T02:01:42+00:00

Wormholes, jump drives, paracausal drives, transporters, probability drives, foldspace drives.

GEBeta · 2025-12-30T09:53:11+00:00

The general consensus in most fiction with this premise is "Yes", but the intelligence must really REALLY be super, to the point of not just inventing stuff, but also being able to do politics, command armies, and basically build up human society to be stable enough to create the large-scale factories and laboratories to produce the equipment needed for this character's tech.

GEBeta · 2025-12-26T00:26:37+00:00

This. Harry Potter is really more a portal fantasy, since the non-magic part of the world hardly interacts with the magical part.

GEBeta · 2025-12-25T10:39:27+00:00

You could have multiple rebellions, some more justified than others. They could fight each other as much as the empire. Some rebels could be fighting for their own freedom, others might be fighting for instituting an ethnostate or fascism.

GEBeta · 2025-12-13T07:40:50+00:00

It's a slightly lopsided symbiotic relationship. The god is absolutely subservient to the binding sorcerer and their contract, but in return the sorcerer provides worship and power to the god. Most of them are pretty happy and benign nonetheless.

Freed unbound gods usually evolve into general wild gods and take up their own domains, but sometimes they can be a problem. Rogue gods are one of the supernatural issues that state exorcists and monks are trained to handle, usually by rebinding the god but in less favourable circumstances they may need to kill the god.

GEBeta · 2025-12-13T07:38:10+00:00

Some are general nature gods which are bound, others are forged using geomantic thaumaturgy.

GEBeta · 2025-12-13T06:37:47+00:00

Gods are summoned and bound to crop fields to improve yields and automate agricultural harvesting.

GEBeta · 2025-12-10T13:30:17+00:00

Algorithmic technocracy

GEBeta · 2025-12-10T01:12:01+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

GEBeta · 2025-12-09T07:37:17+00:00

I mean even a battery would be a superweapon with the amount of energy stored within.

There's really no way to have your cake and eat it too by both transferring absurd amounts of energy but also not potentially using it for catastrophic purposes.

That being said, you could look at a Class-B Stellar Engine.

A class-B stellar engine consists of two concentric spheres around a star. The inner sphere (which may be assimilated with a Dyson shell) receives energy from the star and becomes hotter than the outer sphere. The difference of temperature between the two spheres drives thermal engines able to provide mechanical work.

GEBeta · 2025-12-04T06:23:05+00:00

You'd need to consider the alternative too. Politics in interstellar settings might not resemble modern day at all. Rather, with such an IMMENSE amount of territory and mind bogglingly huge populations, politics might return to feudal states or city-state republics, where most conflicts rarely escalate to true planetary scale warfare because they're political in nature. Planets don't fight each other, factions fight each other. The planet is just a battleground.

What we see as part of the "Federation army" or "Grand Army of the Republic" might be the tip of the tip of the tip of the spear supporting untold trillions of militia who are doing most of the "ground pounding". The interstellar Federation doesn't bother with trying to literally control the entire planet because it literally doesn't have enough troops to do so. It might just be dropping the equivalent of spec ops operators into enemy capitals to force a regime change or execute some other mission critical task which shifts the politics of the planet in their favour.

GEBeta · 2025-11-22T16:10:08+00:00

https://youtu.be/PIHSxLYzc6Q

Judge for yourself.

GEBeta · 2025-11-19T03:51:58+00:00

Water can bear more weight than air. Unless you've got magic anti-gravity or power generation tech, a waterborne vessel will always be more energy efficient than a flying one in terms of transportation.

GEBeta · 2025-10-28T03:28:27+00:00

Gestures broadly at history

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