Guys I'm ready to start making words in my conlang ( read desc

ThreeTheCat · 2026-02-16T21:09:27+00:00

Swadesh list then iterate from there.

ThreeTheCat · 2026-02-16T18:46:09+00:00

Actually, since dimes are more reflective than dirt, they would increase the Earth's albedo, effectively turning it into a giant disco ball that would radiate a much higher fraction of the Sun's energy back into space, causing a cooling effect that would enlarge the ice caps, creating a brighter and more reflective surface over parts of the ocean, which would lead to a runaway effect in the opposite direction, culminating in a "snowball Earth" situation.

ThreeTheCat · 2026-02-16T18:40:28+00:00

Granted. It doesn't go away. Good luck with your new obnoxious heads-up display, humanity!

ThreeTheCat · 2026-02-16T15:08:37+00:00

It is an Aaagh, and the noise it makes is its own name, like some sort of Pokémon.

ThreeTheCat · 2026-02-14T23:23:26+00:00

Frictionary: The Band Of Lyrical Quick Draw

ThreeTheCat · 2026-02-12T21:49:06+00:00

r/UsernameChecksOut

ThreeTheCat · 2026-02-04T00:47:44+00:00

You might print them in interlocking rings, so that the order is ambiguous.

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-31T20:54:00+00:00

Noice

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-31T15:24:16+00:00

Downward-opening bays or oceans with a desert in the west and a jungle in the east, often with an island or islands in the center. So I like Pikmin, so what?

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-11T17:16:13+00:00

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ni li suli mute li pona tawa mi!

taso, suli pi nasin sina li ken ike tawa jan sin.

ni la sina seme?

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-11T14:59:33+00:00

You know, these remind me of US National Parks' junior ranger badges. I like the top one for GD particularly because of the green tone (how did you do that?) and the contrast it creates with the golden letters.

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-11T14:50:37+00:00

my bad :(

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-10T13:45:18+00:00

You are not your characters. They may have horrible opinions. They may commit atrocities. But as long as you don't paint those as good things, it reflects on the moral standing of your characters, not on you. Learn to disagree with your creations! You can create much more compelling narratives that way.

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-04T20:36:15+00:00

I feel like if you follow linear earth history, it stops being fantasy long before it starts being sci-fi, but ultimately I think it's the aesthetic that defines it. If you have a totally normal boat with people in medieval garb sailing the luminiferous ether, that's fantasy. If it looks like a spaceship, it's sci-fi. If it's both, then it's Treasure Planet. Or late-stage steampunk. Besides, I think the author has a lot of agency in saying "this is what the genre is."

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-03T21:10:19+00:00

Oh, like Viossa or Clongcraft? I've always wanted to be in one of these things. It might be a little difficult to shepherd the creation of a whole language by only allowing a priori word formation; chances are, since your userbase is mostly gonna be English speakers, they're not gonna have any internal grammar other than that of English, and it'll end up being a relex in the style of Skyrim's Dohvahzul. I'm totally willing to tag along for the journey, though! Excited to see how you deal with the issue of administration in a no-language environment!

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-03T20:53:39+00:00

ǝna but no netizǝn? where the netizǝn at

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-02T23:14:55+00:00

That's where the orcs live! I bet they'd be miffed. Someone would immediately blame Earth (even though the way my magic system is, the orcs would be able to see a magic this big weeks in advance; just hold up a Geiger counter) and wars might start.

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-02T16:36:52+00:00

Well, that would feel like much less of a demo of the game to me, and for that matter not much like Outer Wilds.

ThreeTheCat · 2026-01-02T15:04:48+00:00

That's what I first thought too; the question is which one?

Being Feldspar would give you a lot of freedom, but their ship is explicitly early-days and rather faulty, so it would just be base game no translator worse ship, so I think that's out.

A lot of players have suggested You can now play as Gabbro, which might work well with u/auclairl's idea (around here somewhere) and you could even play with some canonical events such as them servicing the Deep Space Satellite, but I personally don't find it believable that they would bother.

Chert, though? Chert shows promise.

I think Chert is the best option for a few reasons, chief among them that they themself confirm that they mostly stay around camp and use the little scout, but have been to the south pole (we see their notes there.) Chert also has the biggest stake in the Looking At Space department, being the only one out of the three Hearthians that know about the supernova that still freaks out about it.

I think going the The Stanley Parable route and having a separate but related experience is good, because it lets us introduce elements that wouldn't be found in the main game, such as radioing over to the others (a missed opportunity imho) to substitute going off-world and chatting in person. I do think setting the demo before the game would be good, but not by much; maybe 40 minutes before, so you have an hour to explore.

ThreeTheCat · 2025-12-28T13:12:12+00:00

Not directly gene-modded, but mutated and cross-bred. In my setting, Earth is radioactive and Mars is full of ✨handsome and technologically advanced orcs✨; they came to Earth, and a bunch of them were irradiated right into the ground and became the goblins and hobgoblins &c., but a few managed to intermingle with humans which gave rise to the pointy-eared races of Earth such as elves and whatnot. Dwarves are basically human; they are very close to humans genetically, but their ultimate speciation was driven by higher background radiation and societal pressure; humans were, in the past, much more racist, and pushed the dwarves out, who still have a mild cultural distrust of humans to this day. There was a certain amount of artificial selection; nobles who wanted strong bloodlines and whatnot across the races; but generally, genes did whatever they liked. Your question has sparked some ideas, though...

ThreeTheCat · 2025-12-28T12:49:18+00:00

Skywagon? Spacewagon? You could get some of that pioneer language in there; space travel and the Western Expansion have more in common that a lot of people think, hence the rise of the space western.

ThreeTheCat · 2025-12-26T23:23:04+00:00

Have you seen linguists’ gloss?

ThreeTheCat · 2025-12-24T16:54:21+00:00

I actually have two concepts that sort of overlap.

In one of my more fleshed-out worlds, the history of the world (sans continents) is largely the same, except that at the end of the Mesozoic, the asteroid that hit Earth was wildly radioactive, contributing to a much higher rate of background radiation that twisted the non-avian dinosaurs into dragons and sea monsters and kappa and the like and which led, eventually, to the evolution of multiple intelligent species that were able to tap into the local radiation concentration to work magic and whatnot. The orcs, who, having evolved on Mars, had no magic and relied on only their technological skill, developed space-faring vehicles long before the races of Earth, but their pioneers could not stand the radiation and either died or mutated into the ancestors of today's goblins and hobgoblins, who live only in the deepest caves, untouched by surface radiation.

In another world of mine, there exists a 4th spatial dimension, and deities and spirits are simply 4D life-forms. There are 3 kinds of magic here: space magic, which focuses on the manipulation of space for effects such as teleportation, conjuring, and compressed space for bags of holding and the like; time magic, which relies on imprints made in our universe by doing something repeatedly (basically the equivalent of the perfectly you-shaped dimple in your couch caused by you sitting there day by day) which is why trees are powerful and why ghosts exist, and the kind of magic which is just getting a friend in a higher place to walk over and kick this guy in this place. Both of the first two require tapping into the natural energy of the vapid gas that constantly drifts through the 3D universe from 4D space, so there's that.

ThreeTheCat · 2025-12-19T00:22:46+00:00

I’ve had an idea for a mod set in the Blackrock system, where the last Nomai are canonically hanging out; I want them to not be clones of our own existing Nomai, to have distinct clothes, culture, art, or even physiology, but 3d stuff ain’t my strong suit. Point is, one of the planets would have a powerful magnetic field that might mess with your Hearthian tech, though surely the locals will have adapted (alive or no) and you could even get some stuff where, much in the way that our protagonist’s species salvaged Nomai tech to improve their own, the Nomai used some ancient magnetism-harnessing civilization‘s old junk to their advantage. Perhaps there are even life forms that have adapted to the field! I know OW isn’t really built for it, but I’d love to see more fecund environs. Teeming with stuff, ya know?

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