Recent content by Jim Starluck

Well, that was... hectic. The repeated "sun exploding" statement reminded me of There's No Time to Explain.

The phrase "you dun goofed" feels wholly insufficient here. Guess Catherine's capabilities constituted an Outside Context Problem to Path to Victory.

So... two questions remain uncertain about the Democratic nomination: 1 - Do the Dem leadership realize that Biden is going to get annihilated by Trump in November, or are they so far in denial that they're building pyramids? I'm mostly thinking the former, and that they have no problem losing...

This is indeed the kind of thing that I want to do. I've also been toying with the idea of not having any, or many, polities of the kind you see in so much sci-fi; that is, the terrestrial nation-state IN SPAAAAAAAAACE! Where you have many planets in many star systems, one of which is the...

Here's a blurb intro I had written up previously: That's the opening conflict, but once it's settled things move on from there. "Protag faction" depends at what point in time you're talking. Things change over the course of the timeline. At the current end point, it's the second incarnation...

My friends, I come to you asking for help. For many, many years now I have been developing an original sci-fi space-opera setting. And yes, I'm aware that like 90% of the SB/SV/SC community has one of their own, but mine is near and dear to my heart. I have not yet done anything truly great...

Covered this in the very next two paragraphs: It is not that every company always chooses the most profitable option -- and in retrospect I probably could've worded that more clearly. It's that there is a strong selection bias for companies that do. A company that shys away from...

This is a brief run-down of what I have come to believe is driving the majority of the economic hardship in the world right now, and the chief thing that needs to be overcome. Within the existing economic paradigm, the majority of all production -- and when I say "production" I refer to the...

I kinda feel like the sheer number of people running may help Bernie. Almost none of them match him on policy, so they can only really dilute the liberal/centrist votes among themselves.

Specifically, some of her videos can be taken to say that the chief determination of gender is what other people perceive you as, rather than what you feel you are. This is considered rather offensive by trans people who are not "passing," i.e. appearing as their self-experienced gender in the...

I find then entertaining and informative, but I can understand that she has some Questionable Takes from certain perspectives.

Bernie or bust. Nobody else is quite on his level, in terms of policy and commitment. Warren is closest, but even she's said she's explicitly a capitalist.