so matt and verg are totally into it. ideas we came up with:
time travel destination could be random, to help prevent the simple task of wiping off starting armies with a single hero from the future.
when you arrive in the past, your own team treats you as a threat and fights you too… if you […]

last night, the boys were playing heroes of might and magic 2 (voted 6th best pc game of all time in 1997) and - when confronted with situation requiring a much, much larger army - jokingly suggested that in 40 turns from now, i’d just send a massive army back in time: problem solved.
then i […]

here is an idea for a story i thought of when looking out the window at the poor excuse for a winter we have here in mid-january
in the near future, the world is f*cked. the worst fears of global warming have come true. The near exhaustion of the world’s usable supply of oil as well […]

the musings found here are not to be taken as my personal beliefs by any means. uploading the previous post, it dawned on me that i should include a kind of disclaimer.
this is simply a place where i can store my various brainstormings and access them from anywhere… a supplement to my various physical notebooks.
basically, […]

in the vein of permutation city (greg egan) and old man’s war (john scalzi): if the transferral of consciousness between two systems *is* possible, without the creation of a copy (as most would hypothesize) - for example, if consciousness is simply the computations that are being carried out. the fact that they cease to be […]

I have come to the unfortunate realization that a utopian society where all humans are treated with respect etc.
probably a sort of democratic communism. anything but capitalism really. capitalists suck. but back to my point…
a utopia like this has always been an ideal of mine, and i came to the realization today that it will […]