The regular administrative staff are taking a vacation, and in the meantime, Biigoh is taking over. See here for more information.
A notice about Rule 3 regarding sites hosting pirated/unauthorized content has been made. Please see here for details.
Staff is working to deal with the problem of synonymous tags. See here for more information and to suggest tag mergers.
Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com.
Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
One of the things often not acknowledged in the various Gundam series is that is that enhancing your understanding of other people and why they act the way they do…doesn't necessarily lead to peaceful outcomes. Sometimes all it does is make the fights even bloodier or cause conflict where one...
Something about the Vilani feels weird to me, and I think I just figured out why.
The Vilani were described as the intensely hierarchical, rule-bound, bureaucratic, smugly inefficient (dare I say Dilbertese?) imperialists running around Known Space in their really sucky but unfairly successful...
When did the Vilani have their First Contact with the Zhodani?
Because while the Villani may be the more immediate threat to the Terrans the Zhodani may prove to be a more existential threat in the end.
So just out of curiosity, is the formation of the Empire an inevitability, or is it possible that the Terran Confederation will remain as a democratic government instead of collapsing into neofeudalism?
Suppose the MC could build micro-miniaturized nuclear fusion power plants, the smallest of which was only 5 cm in diameter and had an output of over 55 kilowatts per second. What sort of spinoff technologies could the Terran confederation derive from that?
The problem with being a preserver is that you can appear as a preserver of a status quo.
It’s a thin line from being a defender to becoming an enforcer of the status quo
Though it covers many of the same beats , Ganesha’s story is quite different than most of the versions I’ve heard in Hinduism.
I wonder how Murugan’s birth played out here, since as far as I remember not only is Parvati his mother, but so is the River Ganga and six celestial handmaidens.