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You know, it's fun, on the internet, watching how there's always somebody, somewhere, waking up to face a brand new day.

It's not so much fun being able to track it by their immediate first post of 'why, LJ, whyyyyy? *rage fists* '



Today I failed at wake up. I mean, I did, then I couldn't think of anything to do, and went back to stare at the ceiling. All day.
I should maybe do something about that.

Also, is it me, or is the internet quieter nowadays?
It's probably me, as in, the same thing that made all the mailing lists go quiet and me still be on them, everyone probably went to a different technology.
Or it could be me, as in, I'm as annoying on the computer as in real life.

I really need to think of something to do.
I decided to have a week of actual holiday up to Christmas, but right now I'm thinking of doing my essay simply because I can't think of anything else.
Only I know going back to studying the text about the Holocaust is... really not a holiday spirit kind of a thing.

Sports. And space colonies.

Started researching rugby, on account of not remembering much more than the bits with the crunching.
Ended up discovering there are dwarf basketball teams.
Also that, however much I think I'm fine with disability and difference, I still crack up LOL at the idea of dwarf basketball.

... *facepalm*

I'm poking around for ideas to go with my not-stargate colony world. Because I'm very bored.
I wrote that one of the guys played rugby. So, okay, what does that do to his thinking? ( Read more... )

I'd like making teams on lower point cost characters. Like, if you start off with Hero, or even Superhero, with the epic skills and the being the best in the world, it says something about the best humans can be, but it also says that best is Not You. I want to make a team of people who are clearly not the best in the world, not epic standout Hero double doctorate geniuses or special ops dudes. They're just regular people, some with a degree and a special interest, some just looking for a job. And then the story you say is, the best humans can be is what you get when you add this all together. Any of us can contribute to this best. We are highly social, we can make teams, and they are stronger than their parts.

It's just if I'm doing that I also have to find enemies and problems that won't completely flatten any individual part. Without breaking a sweat. Which is tricky.

I'm kind of saying I liked the Scoobies better when they were still in high school. But I'm not saying it because they were teenagers then. Just they were people who found themselves in huge epic events, not huge epic people. ( Read more... )

I also keep going back to the comedy idea that they announce their discoveries to the world via organising a SF con. It's perfectly logical, from a certain angle. And then, of course, they discover the stone circle actually needs to recharge after a certain number of uses, and they have a whole SF convention of people, and no way of sending them home. Because stranding a lost family or a lost military ship is relatively tidy and convenient. But a lost con? Imagine the civilisation they'd develop.

... *blinks* ...

... possibilities...