If only there was a way to run this on linux.

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Thanks! I estimate I'm at least 25% of the way through, where the last 75% will be editing and finding beta readers.

I'm still writing, slow and steady lol.

I made a similar thread a year ago if that helps: https://hexbear.net/post/185417

Don't worry about that, my book is overflowing with far less probable happenings.

I think the worst case scenario for Chernobyl was that Eastern Europe would become uninhabitable. I'm not changing the Chernobyl exclusion zone's size though, instead the Chernobyl disaster will be caused by alien infiltrators for the purpose of conjuring a colossal alien demon thing. In my story the USSR is basically the last country on earth that's not secretly controlled by aliens.

No Chernobyl Disaster.

great list, but I'm actually going in the opposite direction on this one.

this is good but I'm probably going to reserve my first post-WWII nuking for Washington DC.

So actually, I just let Stalin die. I think I'll world-build in an explanation that'll make sense naturally in the context of everything else going on, but fundamentally change nothing. The actual change I'm putting in related to Stalin is that the Soviet-sino split actually goes in the opposite direction and the USSR undergoes Restalinisation shortly after the Soviet-sino split. My actual narration is set in the 1980s.

I'm going to need a little more hand-holding on what to do with that, I'm very unfamiliar with the general region.

I had actually thought about this earlier. If I go full vegan-kropotkin-stalinist (with dengist-mao unity characteristics) in chapter one, will that alienate the average reader of books, or is it silly of me to be scared that people who read books would be chuds?

It's a lot to think about, and I have plenty of time to figure out the right amount of power level to reveal in book 1.

this is a really good idea, I will work this in the the fifth to the end paragraph of every chapter.

more than one person disagreed with me

"help, im being brigaded!!!!"

this is revisionism

Probably not lol.

There’s a Hank Green video somewhere where he explains why developing a sperm and egg from the same person’s stem cells and fertilizing the egg with the sperm would be horrifying. As far as I remember, it’s less about the presence of extra chromosomes and more about the sheer amount of information that would be lost. But I assume that the existence of cloning already implies a way to get around this problem.

in the book I'm writing, one alien species solved the extinction risks of managing low population counts in long-separated populations. An example scenario would be, what if 50 members of the species left the galaxy to do crime or weed in another galaxy, then their home galaxy unexpectedly got destroyed. If humans encountered this scenario, and no living populations of humans had more than 500 members, extinction within 1000 years is basically guaranteed. But really, do you want to travel to a galaxy with over 500 other people? Maybe you'd like to go by yourself or with only your parents or three friends. It might not be possible to return home then ask more people to come back with you if you find a great place to hang out so far away.

Anyways, they solved this by genetically engineering themselves so that each individual will have the genetic diversity of 2 million individuals with legacy reproductive organs, in addition to the other obvious genetic engineering ideas like no cancer and live longer. Thus, a single member of the species can perform a sexual construction of a fetus and birth without the historically required partner or external birthing hardware like hospitals.

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In my novel nothing stops any character from learning magic (better thought of as being based on chi but I've not picked a word) but some of the most powerful characters are able to inscribe chi "shortcuts" into people with no chi practice/ skills allowing them to use magical abilities without any formal understanding or awareness of chi.

My notes trouble is that I don't know any application(s) that correctly implements a native desktop app, native mobile app, dark mode, and syncing. Obsidian thinks I'll pay $8/month for an electron app. Right now I'm getting by with just dropbox.