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Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.

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Posts by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A If someone had vibration based superpowers how would their powers react underwater

enough vibrational force to cause nation wide earthquakes ... how would affect water It is probably impossible to move water around to the point where it would shake the land and cause widespread ...

posted 9d ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta Home Improvement: Is it necessary to expand acronyms like OSB?

Some amount of jargon specific to the site domain is expected and necessary. However, "home improvement" is very broad and not a specialized niche. You don't go to college to get a degree in Home...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A What's the least traumatic way to integrate resurrected historical humans into modern society?

several billion That's going to take some serious 'splainin. We already have too many people on this planet, and the number is still growing. You're going to have to provide a really good reason...

posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A Would it make sense for an entity who can control tangible and/or intangible materials be able to manipulate electricity but not light?

Your psionic energy make little sense as we currently understand physics. Since you're making up the rules, it can do whatever you want. You are in effect asking "When I totally ignore the laws o...

posted 2mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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