MS Image-generator belched it up. Took a few rounds of prompts and misadventures
102 2024-10-14 20:11:40
Re: AI for Writing (13 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Sort of unrelated, but I popped a pretty good cover from AI. Won't be using it in the final product, but interesting what the machine saw from a few simple prompts

103 2024-10-13 20:14:06
Re: VQF (46 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I decided to go back-fill the old chapters leading up to the ship. Please ignore
104 2024-10-13 18:56:51
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
More moving parts might not be a good thing
105 2024-10-02 16:36:45
Re: etc (68 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigatio … 024-09-26/
"Laser sword" should be next
106 2024-09-20 02:42:45
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
If he can't sit around, interesting thought. As closer to the Jew side of the spectrum, the lake of fire is instantaneous (read: little suffering). If I understand Catholicism, it's perpetual suffering (read: torture)
107 2024-09-20 02:21:36
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Also, Satan's spirit has very little power to manipulate the physical realm
In this state, does the nature of his environmental condition (eg cold / hot) bother him? Can he sit around for ten thousand years and wait for colonists to show up so he can make a new body?
108 2024-09-20 00:52:33
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Wouldn't Satan build a spaceship and come back? I mean super genius with time on his hands...
109 2024-09-18 21:31:44
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
If Romano in the real timeline sins but this one does not, does he still get into heaven?
If both are perfect, do they both get to heaven? Or are there separate heavens for them to go to?
110 2024-09-18 16:31:27
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Another option is stray from the Bible. I mean, wait, isn't Revelation inerrant? Or is it interpretive? (https://www.missioalliance.org/why-bibl … esnt-work/)
Furthermore, God may simply change his mind like he did after the Flood or in the inception of the NT to replace the OT. Who's to say there won't be some newer testament (3T) down the road?
What I mean is, you're not necessarily shackled to the scripture if you have to make an alternate timeline anyway.
111 2024-09-18 04:26:10
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
In my main series, when K@jo gets into the angels story-world, he immediately looks up God and challenges him to chess, figuring if he can hold his own against the creator of the universe for a few dozen moves, he's on good footing. God proceeds to trounce him in a 1-move checkmate, the impossibility of which turns the board into a thermonuclear chain reaction.
Noting this. Omnipotence is also hard to write
112 2024-09-18 04:16:53
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Problem is, that makes God responsible for the conspiracy and all pain and suffering that stems from it.
Or at least as culpable as the pain & suffering in Job's life. I mean Job got a happy ending, but those sons and daughters that got killed in the process probably weren't as enthused.
113 2024-09-17 23:10:22
Re: VQF (46 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
They're near the end of reading, and I fear the fate of yet another draft has been ascertained. Pity. I thought this one was finally headed out the door.
If I can stick to a firm One-chapter-a-day, it'll take about a month. But I really want to be working on my angel story. Choices, choices.
114 2024-09-16 23:23:18
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Omniscience can be defeated. Perfect omniscience is much harder.
115 2024-09-16 23:22:05
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Pick a different challenge. I, the Holy Spirit, will know who ultimately wins, but the Father no longer will, and he already accepted the challenge
When he accepted the challenge, he already knew the Holy Spirit would wall him off shortly after. He also knew Satan would change his pick, and he knew what the new choice would be
116 2024-09-16 17:48:56
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
(Emphasis mine)
Somehow God already has the ability to do this as I noted above, even though we puny mortals aren't sure how.
...
I don't think I need anyone to explain how it's possible, just observe that God already does this.
Clarification to this: I wasn't saying it is impossible for him to do it. I was saying that the moment he does so, it means he's determined this is a successful outcome
117 2024-09-16 16:59:03
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Had you agreed back then and then now fail, you were never omniscient in the first place.
Once God agrees, he basically instantly wins (or is imperfect and failed to predict the outcome)
118 2024-09-16 16:56:47
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Now the inverse from the villain's perspective:
See, in Narnia, when the lion agrees the villain can go ahead and murder him, it's kinda ludicrous. Who would agree to be murdered?
Any villain worth his evil cackle immediately suspects something's wrong.
Alas, the witch does not, and proceeds to kill the lion, triggering the good guy's trap
119 2024-09-16 16:55:36
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
You have a job interview tomorrow, and your omniscience tells you you got the job. You know if you don't get the job, you'll be shot.
Next day, you find you have blocked off memories of the outcome.
Now, you don't particularly want to get shot, so although you no longer know the outcome, you realize you wouldn't have agreed to an outcome where that was a possibility. It follows that you had agreed to it knowing back then you were going to succeed.
Had you agreed back then and then now fail, you were never omniscient in the first place.
120 2024-09-16 16:47:48
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
It's the solution where God agrees to forget. The very agreement concedes success much as it does in Chronicles of Narnia I
121 2024-09-16 16:29:57
Re: Savior of the Damned (the Connor series) by Dirk B. (1,492 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Unfortunately, this solution creates a plot hole in a plot hole. Maybe you can just brush over it instead?
122 2024-09-15 14:32:20
Re: VQF (46 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
123 2024-09-15 14:00:00
Re: VQF (46 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Actually, chatting with them, I can kinda see why they're using the capitals, since I'm kind of re-purposing an existing word. Unlike City/city or Village/village, niche generally can't refer to a settlement on its own. I should consider coining my own phrase.
124 2024-09-11 01:59:36
Re: VQF (46 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
They're capitalizing "niche" when it's used in the general.
Bob walked back to Redhill Niche. Sally parted ways, headed back to her [N](n)iche.
Just when I thought I had evicted all the capitals in general use, now my head's boiling
125 2024-09-10 23:33:17
Re: VQF (46 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Things aren't going well for Laurie on the other site. They're already uncovered three nasty holes in the plot which only acrobatics will patch. Ignorance was bliss