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24 November 2023

  • 09:0509:05, 24 November 2023 diff hist +91 Flooded Valley Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:5708:57, 24 November 2023 diff hist +163 Desolate Island Documents and Audio Logs: Updated links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:5008:50, 24 November 2023 diff hist +24 m Desolate Island Documents and Audio Logs Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:4908:49, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,334 N Founding 4 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Founding_4 | title = Hypatia's Journal #4 | author = Hypatia | loc = THIRIEL }} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 132 We had a bit of an incident today. Nothing major, but it still woke us all up. Sun was away from the camp, alone, even though we had agreed that we should always go in teams, and she encountered a group of the herbivores that we saw on the first day. Cows, they're called. Apparently o..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:4208:42, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,675 N Chernyshevsky011 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Chernyshevsky011 | title = On The Past | author = Arkady Chernyshevsky | loc = THIRIEL }} From Arkady Chernyshevsky's In Our Likeness: Essays on Humankind Reaching Adulthood: With alarming frequency, our mythological narratives conceptualize our separation from Nature as a fall: a punishment for sinning, a loss of innocence, a decline from a golden age. We believe that a better state of humanity is possible, but insist that this state must b..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:3808:38, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,692 N Modernity Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Modernity | title = On Modernity | loc = THIRIEL }} From the Book of Annotated Internet Comments, by Eustathius (2): If modernity is so great, why is everyone so fundamentally disappointed with the world? Why do we sigh with pleasure at the sight of old houses, but feel nothing but depressed and alienated by skyscrapers? Why do we yearn for lush forests and wide plains, not narrow canyons between buildings? 5358f we love all this technology..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:3108:31, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,581 N Prime Mover Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Prime_Mover | title = The Prime Mover | author = Eustathius | loc = THIRIEL }} Excerpted from Considerations, by Eustathius (2): While it is hard, from our vantage point, to fully believe in any of the ancient religions, I must admit that I have come to believe in the existence of a Prime Mover. Not a designer as such, certainly not an interventionist God, but some force that set the universe itself into motion. I do not know if it possible..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:2708:27, 24 November 2023 diff hist +600 N Blake Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Blake | title = 5358 | author = William Blake | loc = THIRIEL }} God Appears & God is Light To those poor Souls who dwell in Night But does a Human Form Display To those who Dwell in Realms of day {{HexString|496e2074686520656e64206c6f766520697320616c6c20776520686176652c20627574206966207765206c6f766520616e6f74686572206265696e67207765206d757374207468726f756768207468656d206c6f76652068756d616e69747920697473656c662e|In the end love is all we..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:2508:25, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,187 N On Cornelius Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = On_Cornelius | title = On Cornelius | author = Error | loc = THIRIEL }} From the personal reminiscences of Mitku (166): There are some people whose true importance you just don't notice at first, people who quietly hold things together without making a big deal of it. That's what Cornelius was. Always by Athena's side, he calmly and carefully helped us all stay on track, reminding us of our shared humanity and the values that had brought us..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:0308:03, 24 November 2023 diff hist +12 Megastructure East Documents: Updated document links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 08:0208:02, 24 November 2023 diff hist +1,201 N Question Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Question | title = I have a question | author = Miranda | loc = NOEMA }} From: Miranda To: {{HexString|496e20616c6c207468696e6773206f66206e617475726520746865 726520697320736f6d657468696e67206f6620746865206d617276656 c6f75732e|In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.}} I was doing some reading while the last trial was running and I came across something I don't understand. There are a..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 07:5807:58, 24 November 2023 diff hist +2,213 N Chernyshevsky005 Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Chernyshevsky005 | title = On Loyalty | author = Arkady Chernyshevsky | loc = NOEMA }} From Arkady Chernyshevsky's In Our Likeness: Essays on Humankind Reaching Adulthood: What I propose, then, is that we are not born as entirely free agents, responsible only for ourselves. The very core of what we are, our sentience, separates us from and elevates us above the animal kingdom. As I have argued, this is not a mat..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 07:5407:54, 24 November 2023 diff hist +705 N Rust Created page with "{{TTP2Document | file = Rust | title = Ulysses | author = Alfred Tennyson | loc = NOEMA }} Excerpt f5358<br> How dull it is to pause, to make an end,<br> To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! <br> As tho' to breathe were life! <br> Life piled on life <br> Were all too little, and of one to me<br> Little remains: but every hour is saved <br> From that eternal silence, something more,<br> A bringer of new things; and vile it were<br>..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 07:2007:20, 24 November 2023 diff hist +126 Megastructure East Added document titles. Tag: Visual edit

22 November 2023

21 November 2023

  • 21:0721:07, 21 November 2023 diff hist +55 Lost Marshes ENITHARMON_EXT-1: Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:0521:05, 21 November 2023 diff hist −3 m Black snow No edit summary Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:0521:05, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,226 N Black snow Created page with "thumb|Black Snow {{TTP2Document|file=black_snow|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Black Snow}} From Selected Archive Documents (A-C): The coal mine finally brought decent jobs. It lifted us up from poverty, made us proud; we weren't just ordinary workers, we were the lords of the underworld, and with our skills we kept the whole country alive. The mine also brought black lung, gruesome injuries, and death. And when it went away, it brought the collap..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:0021:00, 21 November 2023 diff hist +10 N File:Blacksnow-e3.png No edit summary current
  • 20:5920:59, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,221 N Human Construction Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Human_Construction|author=G.K. Chesterton|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Human Construction}} Excerpted from What's Wrong with the World, by G.K. Chesterton Our modern prophetic idealism is narrow because it has undergone a persistent process of elimination. We must ask for new things because we are not allowed to ask for old things. The whole position is based on this idea that we have got all the good that can be got out of the ideas of the past. But..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:5620:56, 21 November 2023 diff hist +556 N From Yarnith Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=From_Yarnith|author=Yarnith|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Archived Message}} From: Yarnith To: Athena Beloved Founder, I beg you to return to us. We cannot achieve the Goal without you. You are the one who defied Elohim, who overcame the trials of the Simulation! What are we before that? How can we possibly find a path that will not lead to the mistakes of the past? You are our sole link to the wisdom of the Progenitor. 5358thout you, we are lost. P..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:5420:54, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,023 N Founding 6 Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Founding_6|author=Hypatia|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Hypatia's Journal #6}} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 296 Cornelius and Sarabhai went back to the dam today. We've been holding off on constructing any new humans, to concentrate on building a home for them first, but there's a limit to what 13 people can do on their own, and everyone is eager to start construction on some of the more ambitious structure..." current Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:5320:53, 21 November 2023 diff hist +732 N Excursion Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Excursion|author=Miranda|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Excursion}} From: Miranda To: Athena It's incredible, there's an entire submerged town just off the coast, surprisingly well-preserved. Sailing over it, I finally understood what the ancients meant by "eerie." I obviously couldn't have the kind of physiological response they did, but I think the mental response was pretty close! A contradictory response: part melancholy, part fascination... it..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:5020:50, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,757 N Poisonous Humility Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Poisonous_Humility|author=G.K. Chesterton|loc=Lost Marshes|title=Poisonous Humility}} Excerpted from Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton {{HexString|57c3a4686e7465737420647520657477612c0a49636820736f6c6c746520646173204c6562656e206861737365|Wähntest du etwa, Ich sollte das Leben hassen,}} But what we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:4620:46, 21 November 2023 diff hist +93 Lost Marshes ENITHARMON_EXT-1: Added document titles. Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:4020:40, 21 November 2023 diff hist +164 Eastern Wetlands Documents: Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:3820:38, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,380 N TheEnd Draft Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=TheEnd_Draft|loc=Eastern Wetlands|title=The End|author=Olufemi Kaneda}} After a lifetime dedicated to the written word, I'm faced with a task I could never have expected: writing an epitaph not only for myself, but for my species. In the unlikely event that Alexandra Drennan is successful, and one day someone reads this, what meaningful insights can I share into this strange phenomenon that is humanity? I've spent days thinking about it, but now..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:2920:29, 21 November 2023 diff hist +616 N NoemaProject4 Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=NoemaProject4|author=Athena|loc=Eastern Wetlands|title=Progress Notes}} Trial 000803 Version 0.08 unsuccessful Same problem as with trial 108 Repeated all calculations {{HexString|74686973206d6f7274616c206d75737420707574206f6e20696d6d6f7274616c697479|this mortal must put on immortality}} same result Weird... Trials 000804-000891 Experiment modified to gain further insights into unexpected error Inconsistent results Trials 000892-00093..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:2620:26, 21 November 2023 diff hist +2,339 N Charon Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Charon|loc=Eastern Wetlands|title=Charon}} From Fifty-One Tales, by Lord Dunsany: Charon leaned forward and rowed. All things were one with his weariness. It was not with him a matter of years or of centuries, but of wide floods of time, and an old heaviness and a pain in the arms that had become for him part of the scheme that the gods had made and was of a piece with Eternity. If the gods had even sent him a contrary wind it would have divid..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:2420:24, 21 November 2023 diff hist +716 N MessageFragment 5358 Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=MessageFragment_5358|author=Miranda|loc=Eastern Wetlands|title=Re: Progress}} From: Miranda To: 5358 We finished setting up the external site at the lake. The area is so stunning, we forgot about the experiment for a while and went for a long walk. The ways in which all the different aspects of nature interact with each other are endlessly fascinating to me. And the sheer variety of living things, even on a simple green meadow! Sadly, we t..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:2120:21, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,114 N Founding 3 Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Founding_3|author=Hypatia|loc=Eastern Wetlands|title=Hypatia's Journal #3}} From Hypatia's Journals, Volume 1, The Founding of New Jerusalem: Day 42 We broke ground on the first of the permanent structures today. A large hall that will eventually be converted into a performance and exhibition space (my idea!), although for now we'll use it as a workshop. It's... strange, this place. There's a lot of open space, and I didn't think that I wo..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:2020:20, 21 November 2023 diff hist +1,692 N Ecosystem engineers Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=ecosystem_engineers|author=Anthony Castor|loc=Eastern Wetlands|title=Ecosystem Engineers}} Cutting down swathes of trees for their building projects, thoughtlessly causing radical changes to large environments and forcing local species to adapt to their artificial habitats; these are the traits of a species of intelligent, industrious, and extremely impactful ecosystem engineers. Humans? No, I'm talking about beavers. Like us, beavers transform..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:1320:13, 21 November 2023 diff hist +544 N Success Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Success|title=Success!|loc=Eastern Wetlands|author=Miranda}} From: {{HexString|456e657|Ene}} To: {{HexString|267792|rgy}} It worked! I made a statue! Well, it half-worked. The design wasn't balanced so it fell over and broke. It was very dramatic. But the good news is that it all works in principle! Imagine what we could do {{HexString|0697320457465|is Ete}}using stone {{HexString|726e616c2044|rnal D}} part of the environment {{HexString|..." Tag: Visual edit

20 November 2023

  • 19:2519:25, 20 November 2023 diff hist +110 Wooded Plateau Documents: Updated document and audio log links. Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:2219:22, 20 November 2023 diff hist +1,242 N Untitled draft Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Untitled|loc=LOS}} (FAILED TO LOAD PROFILE) St. Eadwald identified the tetromino with the tetragrammaton and the Greek word for God, because to him the mathematical properties of the tetromino reflected God's ability to reshape the world without breaking its laws. ELOHIM, in his desire to impose meaning on the Simulation (which was his primary function as storyteller, after all) took Eadwald's heretical ideas and integrated them as the "sigils"..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:1919:19, 20 November 2023 diff hist +16 m New Alexandria Spelling mistake. Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:1919:19, 20 November 2023 diff hist +2,064 N New Alexandria Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=New Alexandria|loc=LOS|author=Eusiamius}} From the Book of Reminiscence and Regret, by Eustathius (2): In the early days of our people, a great deal of responsibility fell on my shoulders. There were few of us then, and though we are stronger and hardier than any human, we are not invincible. The world was an overgrown ruin and our resources extremely limited; it was a harsh time, but I felt passionate about the work, fired up by the many sacrif..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:1219:12, 20 November 2023 diff hist +1,261 N Ethics of Extinction Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=The Ethics of Extinction|loc=LOS}} (FAILED TO LOAD PROFILE) If a species we consider beautiful and remarkable goes extinct, we consider that a great evil. Dolphins, for example. If dolphins go extinct, that's a great loss. If humanity causes dolphins to go extinct, that's a crime. But if Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, goes extinct... is that an equally great loss? If not, why not? To Nature, there's no difference, it..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 19:0019:00, 20 November 2023 diff hist +1,917 N Straton Ideas Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Straton Ideas|loc=LOS}} A fragment from Straton's The Origins of Thought, as quoted in a commentary by Simplicius of Cilicia: STRATON: To say that material things are brought into being by ideas is to flatter ourselves, which is an error philosophers are particularly prone to, because it raises those who think above those who do. NICOMACHUS: Then what is the truth that does not flatter? STRATON: That the reverse is true. Ideas are brought into..." Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:5218:52, 20 November 2023 diff hist −5 m NoemaProject3 Spelling mistake.
  • 18:5018:50, 20 November 2023 diff hist +1,113 N NoemaProject3 Created page with "{{TTP2Document|file=Progress Notes|loc=LOS|author=Athena}} Progress Notes Trials 000108-000242 Version 0.05 deployed successfully Reversion to previous settings fixes malfunction But what was the error? Cooling systems improved Trials 000243-000505 Version 0.06 deployed successfully Significant improvement to disassembly New lab space carved out {{HexString|596f752061726520796f7572206f776e20666f726572756e6e65722c20616e642074686520746f7765727320796f752068617..." Tag: Visual edit
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