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@coolboymew Also, the witches would be 100% alien and I'm not talking about human-looking aliens.

@coolboymew Oh yeah, I forgot, but they would take the place of the Jedi in my science fantasy universe.

Star Wars popularized wizards in space. I think we should also have witches in space. We can have alien witches flying between planets on their broom sticks.

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Gas Giant planets can have floating islands or even continents in them, kind of like the main setting of Skies of Arcadia.

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Another idea I had (which was already used in the Disney movie, Treasure Planet) is to have wooden ships flying between planets and stars. If certain alien species are capable of magic, then they can achieve low-tech space travel.

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I have a lot of ideas when it comes to worldbuilding. I have always been a fan of science fantasy (combining both tropes from sci-fi and fantasy), but I feel like most works haven't embraced both genres to their fullest potential. The original Phantasy Star series is probably the closest because they weren't afraid to actually call magic "magic" instead of "the force" like in Star Wars.

I plan on using these ideas for my dream game (or series), but I'm posting these worldbuilding concepts anyway just in case I never get to creating the game, and I just don't care if other people use these ideas. They most likely have already been done before (in fact I know some of these ideas have been done before). I'm using AI to generate these concepts because I suck at drawing.

Anyway let's begin. First off, I think alien worlds should combine both ancient technology, futuristic technology, and everything in between. Technological progress isn't a linear path, so you shouldn't assume that aliens go through the same technological progression as we do. They might be flying interstellar ships, but they might also still be wielding swords and bows. So you can have spaceships flying over medieval style villages or even mudhuts. Star Wars has basically already popularized this, so this should be a no-brainer, but you can always take it a step further. For example, replace lightsabers with steel swords while still having space travel.

@icedquinn The only practical use I think would be good for DeltaChat is as a more user-friendly alternative to PGP/GPG encrypted email, given that a lot of people reportedly have difficult time setting up PGP keys for their email.

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i have mostly one complaint about nostr (the type codes) but otherwise idk. it seems fine as a screaming in to the void mechanism?

XMPP not too bad its okay. would take a bit of bullshit to make stuff for but eh.

deltachat is whatever. had nobody to chat with. might still play with webxdc.

email i would just change smtp to handle binary files properly. the biggest ass with deltachat is all the fucking overhead through encryption and base64 encoding vs. if we just transmitted binary like we should be doing. dunno what kind of herculean efforts it would take to get binary smtp in the wild.

anyway idk
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what if we made a nostr relay and client

idk probly bad
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Recording episode 100 of my podcast tonight

Not doing anything special, but damn 100 episodes what a milestone lol
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A leaked order shows the UK demands that Apple provide a backdoor into *all encrypted user data* (including outside the UK) washingtonpost.com/technology/

Proprietary software makes such a demand possible. Reject proprietary software, embrace FOSS and open hardware, while we still can.

@ptiloukstudios Bullying the furry, just like they are morally obligated to do.

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Remember. Computer companies think you are massively retarded and cannot think for yourself, therefore you need your OS to act as a nanny.

Microsoft does this.
Apple does this.
This mentality has even infected open source projects, like GNOME or Wayland.

IT people are suffering from an enormous God complex that needs to be eradicated as soon as possible, otherwise we all will end up worse and worse every year.

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