Sandbox Discussions

[PlainDealingVillain]

Did she learn this onscreen in a past thread? I feel like I must have missed something.

[Diaeresis]

we're skipping over a bit of stuff in the main continuity so we can do this thread. it is going to have happened onscreen, but hasn't yet. as it were.

thrawn is really exciting so i think we're perfectly justified in this.

[Aestrix]

Plus nailing the plot down is kind of hard. We know in broad strokes what happens on Illum, but there's a lot of moving parts to figure out, and writing about Thrawn is easier, and also fantastic because Thrawn is very exciting. Better to have a slightly timeskipped thread that'll hopefully motivate my slightly unhelpful head into helping fill in the gaps later than no thread at all.

[PlainDealingVillain]

Oh, OK. Thrawn is indeed good and exciting. I may be the only one confused but noting "(There has been a timeskip before this thread)" in the top of the post would have prevented that confusion.

[Nemo]

"Golf simulators are terrible," says Cam. "They simulate golf. Why would anyone want to do that?"

What they're simulating is the fraction of the game where stuff happens. Actual golf is even worse. It is an essential part of the game to walk between points A and B, according to the PGA Tour arguing before the actual Supreme Court.

[DanielH]

Two things:

1. Can people try to remember to mark threads as on hiatus when appropriate (and renounce resumed threads)? It would badge things easier for people who want to keep track of some threads without logging in.
2. In See No Evil, the translator is useful but what I really want from it is the materials science that must have gone in to the case.

[Alicorn]

Frequently a hiatus is "let's see if we think of anything" followed by a week of not thinking of anything. It's not trivial to remember to think of hiatusing at that point and there's often not a bright line at which it's obvious enough that nothing will be thought of even if it occurs to one to ask the question.

[pedromvilar]

I've been using hiatus to mean "this thread hasn't reached an unambiguous ending and may or may not be picked up in the future should something new ever come up," so basically as a mix of "temporarily paused" and "(at least temporarily) dropped".

[Kappa]

I periodically go through my Tags Owed page and hiatus everything that I haven't touched in over a month, but my sense of time is a disaster so I am not remotely reliable about this.

[Moriwen]

I am constantly in the situation of "I have six threads I haven't tagged in two weeks, but I'm going to tag this afternoon -- wait, no, my professor just gave us another homework assignment." So I'm never planning to hiatus them, and they could get picked back up at any moment, it's just sometimes a while between posts.

(And then it feels ridiculous to re-announce them just because I finally got around to making one more post, and now it could be two hours or two weeks before I have time to write another.)