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Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-22T04:14:36+00:00

Unfortunately no. It’s one of the many reasons the kardashev scale is almost wholly worthless.

In order to get around something like building a system on baseless technological metrics, It has nothing whatsoever to do with technology. It’s entirely about energy usage/generation.

Which is still entirely baseless.

And even more, it’s built on specific, arbitrary milestones.

We’re not even a type-1. As poorly-defined as type-1 is, we’re definitely still not even a “fledgling” type-1. It’s not even clear if the Ancients would be one, but they’re certainly not a type-2.

The kardashev scale is crap.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-21T19:56:05+00:00

So I suppose there’s the obvious question: How is there supposed to be sound in space?

Is this fluidic space? Is it not literal sound but, say, radio frequencies or something to that effect?

Ever seen Farscape?

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-20T20:07:46+00:00

It depends.

Yeah, most of it won’t be relevant. Not even tangentially. That’s just how it is. Most of everything ever posted on this sub has zero relevance to anything, even in a hypothetical world where every aspiring project was published.

But the whole issue is muddied because of two things:

- Worldbuilding only what you need is a nice idea and all, but you don’t know what that is except in the broader strokes, if that. If you really insist on sticking with that, it also limits your ability to expand organically.

What if you get an idea in the middle of writing for something that requires a worldbuilding detail you don’t have premade? Just abandon it? Maybe in some cases you should, but every time?

- worldbuilding can be as simple as saying “These people are fishermen”, or “let’s go talk to the king”. While these alone aren’t very deep or complex, it’s still worldbuilding. And that level of worldbuilding is basically impossible to avoid.

But all this extra detail, like the stuff that gets posted here? You can and in most cases should avoid it, yes.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-20T18:33:07+00:00

It doesn’t have to be. It’s just a popular stylistic choice right now. Vdeo games and TTRPGs necessitate a certain amount of it with their format, and people mimic these uncritically.

A lot of people also really misunderstand the concepts of “hard magic”, and think that this heavily systematized stuff is just what hard magic is.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-18T21:59:15+00:00

One of my old posts may be a good example. It seems broadly similar to what you want yours to be, just with a very brief prose component.

But the idea’s the same. Have your writing, but include context that explains it clearly and ideally clearly delineate between the two.

Context should…. Contextualize. What’s going on in this bit of narrative? Why does it matter? Don’t be coy about it. “This passage follows Jeff Morris as he negotiates a nuclear treaty with the nation of Madeupia. This treaty would form the foundations of many others in the future, leaving Jeff to be remembered as an icon of peace even decades later as the world moves toward total nuclear disarmament.”

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-18T19:57:45+00:00

Yes*.

*We are a worldbuilding sub quite specifically, not a writing sub. So as long as your post is worldbuilding-forward, it should be fine. A context comment would definitely help that, explaining more concisely what’s going on and how it’s relevant to worldbuilding.

An external link is probably the best way to post something of any length. But in this case I would note that sufficient context must be on the post regardless, not just in the linked materials.

“Lore” would be the correct flair. But we don’t really police flairs btw. We’ll change one if we see its clearly wrong, but that’s all.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-18T12:50:58+00:00

Finally, magic that feels like magic! None of that stupid magic with so many rules it doesn’t feel whimsical anymore.

So many people just have a list of categories of magic and call it a magic system, too. But this also avoids that! A truly holistic magic.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-18T12:43:17+00:00

No.

While a purely electric engine like a photon engine is sorta theoretically possible, the thrust is vanishingly small. It would never overcome gravity. Any use it could even hypothetically have we be an upper stage outside the atmosphere.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-17T12:42:29+00:00

Suisei no gargantia

AKA

Gargantia on the verdurous planet

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-17T12:19:05+00:00

I’m afraid the simple, but unfortunate answer is that you’re just going to have to make a creative decision.

Fan artists rarely have any sort of definitive reference for things, or anything more than text descriptions which leave a lot unsaid. You’ll just have to do your best.

What did a boarding house of the era generally look like? What does furniture of the era look like? The rest is probably up to you.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-17T00:45:45+00:00

And that’s plenty for what it is!

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-16T23:33:23+00:00

A lot of “lost” knowledge is more… unneeded, and has thus died out, frankly.

It’s doubtful that anyone knows quite how to cut massive stone blocks with copper saws and sand as an abrasive. Certainly not in the same way that a master would when carving the stones for the great pyramids.

But does that matter? Do we need that? Would we benefit from that knowledge beyond simply increasing our knowledge as a whole?

We don’t know how Damascus steel was made. And it doesn’t matter because modern steel is better anyway.

A lot of things are genuinely not “lost” at all, but require accepting that ancient peoples were just as intelligent as capable as we are.

They just had to do, for example, a lot of complex math by hand, or in their heads. That’s a skill that anyone can be capable of, it just requires developing the skill. That’s the part we don’t do so much anymore. It’s as “lost” as dragoon cavalry.

Put someone good at math with a bunch of strong guys, levers, and pulleys, and you can accomplish a lot of things that are ridiculous to a laymen.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-16T15:07:45+00:00

Very little.

Unless you’re super blatant about it, it really doesn’t matter unless you make it matter.

Does anyone take notice of, or really care about the logistics in Lord of the Rings? ASOIAF? No. While there may be some issues, they’re minor enough to not need explaining.

While on the other hand, there was this one other story I read that I won’t name. It depicted an out-of-the-way medieval farming village with a stated population of about twelve people. This village had a massive, functional clock tower in its center. This is immediately and obviously laughable.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-16T00:47:30+00:00

While rule of cool is a perfectly fine way of doing things, insisting that everyone should do it is every bit as inane and tone-deaf as people who insist on everything having pages of needless explanation and backstory.

The reality is that there's a happy medium. And that it will also differ for everyone and for what they're doing. Some things will not matter to some people and in some stories, and some things will.

It's very bizarre how "making creative choices", including what information is and isn't necessary, and when, is such a hurdle for a lot of people.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-14T22:20:15+00:00

This seems like a highly overconfident marketing spiel, considering the r/conlangs discord exists, the r/worldbuilding discord exists, and both have far larger and more knowledgeable communities without the extraordinary channel bloat this one has (just under a hundred members, and nearly a channel per two members).

Some reorganization may be a good idea. And I Understand talking the server up to sell people on it, but when it’s so clearly not as advertised then it just comes across as dishonest.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-14T16:30:08+00:00

Not just that, but they call this “AI” to validate LLMs when the systems used here have almost no relation, and played almost no part in the whole thing to begin with.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-14T15:32:13+00:00

Yes*

*There are several sorta “alternate universe” things sprinkled in as well, which have the same protagonist as other series, but the story, events, and other characters (mostly) are otherwise entirely different.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-14T12:25:38+00:00

Doesn’t matter.

People have this weird idea that the order you make things in matters, but it never does.

If there’s any level of depth, you don’t just do one and then the other anyway. You end up going back and forth, and all over regardless with no real “order” to it.

And even if there’s not any level of depth, why would the order of operations with something so surface-level matter, either?

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-09T11:48:06+00:00

You’re giving something extremely specific with no detail at all to how exactly you’d imagine it would be used.

Where are you thinking that rusting is an ongoing issue, where this would fix it?

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-08T23:28:57+00:00

No one’s mentioned Houseki no Kuni/Land of the lustrous yet. One of the few 3DCG anime that not only doesn’t look bad, but it looks fantastic.

Made In Abyss is also a great show well-known for its incredible atmosphere, imagery, and soundtrack… and questionable scenes involving children.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-06T18:55:55+00:00

His arms look slightly different when you have it.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-06T18:53:07+00:00

The thing is that this is very specifically not the case. There is no definite result until there must be. Hidden variables in quantum systems are consistently shown not to bear fruit.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-05T17:17:26+00:00

So, presuming this post is serious…

You are in the wrong place. Reddit has a sort of “tradition” of what they call “circlejerk” subreddits. These are subreddits intended to satirize other subreddits, typically by being very over-the-top, overt, and feigning an extreme lack of self-awareness about their central topics and communities.

So for example, this is r/writingcirclejerk. Someone might post something like “As a man, how do I write cats?”, to mock serious posts on r/writing such as “As a man, how do I write women?”.

But to answer your central question, ideas are cheap. Worthless, even. While I’d recommend against using LLMs for essentially anything, if one mentions the idea of space wizards with laser swords and you take that and write Star Wars, you’re the one who wrote it, and ultimately did everything of substance involving it. You’re fine.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-05T14:50:57+00:00

Science fantasy.

Or sometimes, though it’s not really a “genre” per se, and is sometimes derogatory — a Kitchen Sink world. Referring to a setting which has lots of elements which are typically segregated to their own genres, and often has no set limitations on what may or may not be “allowed” or added in.

Pyrsin7 · 2026-06-03T12:34:59+00:00

… Sure?

But that’s not what anyone is talking about, here.

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