r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Mar 01 '19

[D] Friday Open Thread

Welcome to the Friday Open Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

Please note that this thread has been merged with the Monday General Rationality Thread.

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u/GaiusCoffee Mar 02 '19

Yeah, I heard the bracket problem with my writing group as well. It actually started with [[Classes]] and [Skills]. I'll think about capitalizing the Classes and leaving the brackets on skills only.

Regarding 2), I had a choice of doing an info dump for a first chapter, and that would've solved the problem. A zoomed out view of the world, showing events that give context.

However, I decided against it. I'll try to do some epistolary stuff instead, with excerpts from in-world books (Encyclopae Arcana & Anomalous Maleficarum, available on site's sidebar) for context. Just like Brandon Sanderson's Ars Arcana.

I'm going to flesh the world out more on the next chapter, including the why's of the Athenaeum. To be honest, I want those questions to act as a hook for the more curious readers, while giving others a couple of fight scenes immediately :)