DrHobo

Gonna give a big ol' +1 here. It's always great having Ramos on command, a real problem solver and a hell of an engineer!

This is because of that blob, yeah? +1, sure with power more things can be done up/down there.

Yeah I've been out a lot so not had much time, probably best to close this app and I'll get another written up, hopefully in the next few days! I've copied everything, including your pointers to a text file

+1, it's a husky and I love them. Actually want to help-intent that icon already, I'm sure if emotional support animals are a thing then yeah.

Thanks! I actually had to go off to Edinburgh so been gone for like a week now, haven't really had the chance to advertise it but will be on through the week. I wasn't too sure if they'd need more matter to grow or if the radiation would just keep it alive, and yeah you're right a supernova would probably totally wreck everything. Actually did a space science course in Aberdeen a few years ago, mainly about Near Earth Asteroids and how much rocks are just floating about but yeah a supernova would be a bit much, I just liked the name Sassy and tried to fit one in. Maybe a supernova in another solar system, could have caused the shockwave to throw the rock away because it would totally destroy the solar system it was in. Yeah it was suppose to be shady frontiersfolk that found and adopted, I guess my backstory is a bit of a mess. Tried to do it like ripping off a bandaid and just getting it done, seemed fine at the time but looking back it can totally do with getting fixed up. The scale off space is incredibly vast, the chances of hitting a derelict would be incredible but thought it would make a better story if it was abandoned cause of radiation leaks. I will have to figure out their emotions a bit more as well. I'll get to rewriting the story with a lot of help from your feedback, [mention]Neinbox[/mention]. It's greatly appreciated, dionea are pretty much the oddest species but definitely want to get to know them more! Thank you [mention]Doxxmedearly[/mention] as well, definitely encouraged me to get this right!

+1. Actually can't believe you haven't been here longer but yeah. Miss Fortune and Myrz are great characters and I'm sure I've had run ins with others! Doxx seems like an ace player and look forward to seeing them as HoP

Other than Jawdat, the other cats names are just familiar, 3 more familiar than the other 2. I mean look at those names, I couldn't even pronounce them if I tried but yeah, I've had a fair few good rounds as command staff with Jawdat and also as other members of crew, especially as security where Jawdat was a good leader in rev rounds and the like. The cat crew all kinda keep to their own but I haven't had any problems with them but they act like the cool cats I expect them to be. Yeah I probably should have written more, but I didn't really know Jackboot had lost their whitelist seeing as this app was only made like 2 days ago. It's Jackboot's damn Power Rangers gif, hypnotizes me everytime. I dunno how often I've ended up staring at it.

Skills actually do get enforced, and people do get bwoinked for it like someone deconstructing a reinforced wall with no construction skill. As much as this could be a good idea, I think a trait system like goon but less meme-y would be better and a skill system is going to end up a mess. Some character's I play are geniuses, some just average folks earning a wage, and some are totally useless that if they hadn't fallen through the cracks would be fired for incompetence. Maybe instead of a skill system, just a better management of it by tagging various actions with skills to alert mods and admin if someone is doing something they don't have the skills for rather than nerf the actual actions.

BYOND Key: DrHobo2k15 Character Names: Joe Anders, Frank Chaplin, Jack Chaplin, Joel Chaplin, Jim Fresco, JOEBOT, Ka'Akaix'Ziim Zo'ra, David McCarthy, Ariik Nuemann, Za'Akaix'Zaar Zo'ra, Thomas Chang, and last but not least Jesse Neilsson. I do have and have played other characters but they're either rarely played or one-off. Species you are applying to play: Dionaea What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): NA Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yeah, I've gone over it a fair few times over the last year or so. Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question Why do you wish to play this specific race: I love playing vaurca and adopting the speech of them as an alien race, as well as their culture. Dionae are a species that I've been meaning to whitelist for a while now. I've enjoyed seeing dionae characters about the station and their lore is probably the most alien and mysterious which has really drawn me to them. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Well they aren't really a complete organism but rather a kind of democracy of internal nymphs, they may be as old as time or fresh out a patch of dirt. Unlike most of my human characters, they don't swear but seem to speak slowly and purposefully like the Entfolk from LOTRs or some sort of rock golems. Also as well as the need to eat, they are dependent on light and radiation. Language is absorbed by nymphs through blood, which is quite strange. They predominantly rely on logic as formed individuals but as nymphs can be a lot cheekier due to how nymphs are more animal like. Pronouns are a weird one, so guess I'm sticking to the whole gender neutral, them or they etc. Most importantly, they are an incredibly respectful race and treat each other as equals. Character Name: Silence After Supernova Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs Far beyond the frontier, Silence was just a seed caught in an asteroid belt of a dieing sun on a rock far too small and pathetic to really prosper growth. So the seed sat, dormant for an untold amount of time before the final stages of the star's life. A great cosmic explosive decimated the solar system but threw it's pitiful rock across the vastness of space to where the supernova was almost no longer felt as the great force it had been, in an area dominated by the Frontier Confederation. It is within this space that the seed found it's fertile soil, if you will, to grow. That soil being a free-floating derelict ship hit by the small asteroid, where the seed soon formed a nymph pod fed by the leaking radiation of the ship's engine. The nymph wandered the darkness of the ship and devoured what it found; old rations, trash, dust particles, eventually gaining enough biomass to replicate and merge into a relatively small worker of only 3 nymphs. Unknowning of any known language other than the natural orchestra of rootsong. Silence was alone with themself for a long time before the derelict was eventually found by scavengers, who adopted the strange being that mimicked them, and found a home with the frontiersfolk. It was a while before Silence picked up the gutterspeak they spoke and understood, however the scavengers were poor and saw the creature as a way out of their own rut. They took Silence to Xanu Prime where they sold him for just over a thousand credits. Their new owner was sympathetic to Silence, an aging engineer who lived alone for most of his later years being isolated from their own family. They taught Silence how to repair machines and ships, but in time they passed away and left Silence with his modest home and business. It wasn't long before Silence was called to register citizenship and taxed on the old mechanics business but people were for the most part friendly and didn't cause problems for them. However during this time, his home and business was burgled leaving Silence with almost nothing, a Nanotrasen employee who had their ship serviced while visiting Xanu, saw Silence on the streets and offered them work as a mechanic. Before long, Silence was employed as an engineering apprentice and was enrolled to formally study engineering at Hongsun Park Institute sponsored by a Nanotrasen grant. Upon completion of a bachelors degree, they were assigned to various off-world stations and have found themselves aboard the Aurora. What do you like about this character? Silence After Supernova, as the name implies, isn't much of a talker. They largely communicate by gesturing. Their whole life has just been one big drift from place to place driven by calamity, which actually makes them quite sad to have lost all the people they have met so far with almost a sense of abandonment by the strange human creatures that adopted them. So a quiet but depressive frontier dionea, slowly trudging about repairing the station is something I can see myself getting into. How would you rate your role-playing ability? I can really get into various characters, to the point I'm gesturing at my laptop as I'd imagine them behaving. I might not be so fast with emoting but yeah I try, even though sometimes I wish I had a thesaurus next to me. Keeping track of who knows who while playing different people is also fun because characters should have different relationships and beliefs that shouldn't reflect me as an OOC person but as the actual fleshed out character. I'll admit after a fair few rounds I can get sloppy but there's very few that don't. Notes: Silence, Sas or Sassy is the kinda nicknames I'd be going for, as folk get to know them better.

Yeah that. +1

Yeah I'm with SatinsPriest; in pharmacology and medicinal chemistry, it's synergy which is important in a lot of treatments. Treating pain for example uses mixes such as paracetamol-codeine, paracetamol-ibuprofen, which are faster and more effective than using them individually. They should work better together so keloderm is fine. Her points are actually spot on with the blood thinners and antidepressants, this isn't a bug.

Wooo! Hell yeah! <3

I've got to say as someone never out of science (well yeah I do get around as a load of other characters to ) but Kanza was well on their way to a great scientist and how they're still an assistant even though they keep getting vetted to a fully fledged scientist, is probably just time; I've seen them afraid to go to the sub-level firing range after the Lii'dra and hide in lockers when science was attacked, hell I've seen them play pain and fear that have actually had the character develop a soft spot in my heart where I do become concerned if they get hurt which is pretty hard to form a character bond like that. I was Ariik that round, yeah I had a feeling (when we were getting shot by the turrets in the AI core) the warden and Kanza was going to have some sort of rebellion against our new pirate overlords because she thought I'd been kidnapped. Kanza has done a load of weapons development and testing while in research in the most endearing way and when she gets brave it's adorable (like when we all kitted her out with force gloves, an energy glaive and shield because it was cute as hell), anyway I think I'm getting sidetracked and laughing to myself about all those times fondly, but in science, we aren't some sorta paramilitary, we're just nerds with pretty dangerous toys. I never told her to comply with the raiders and I'm sure the warden was going to rope her into being some sort of resistance, which was obviously going to be a suicide mission and when I was grabbed by Shiro I could hear them talking about cutting off "the assistant's arm" and the like over their radio. So I knew something bad was going down and she was dead before we made it back. This kinda nerd rage bravado seems to be a bit of a learning curve for the vast majority of science mains, that I've even made, and more often than not it comes down to a plasma cutter. Hell, I did get bwoinked by Alb or Abo when an IPC had Sukhoi at gunpoint, sec were with me outside the conference room and I had a plasma cutter as well, though that was kinda to shoot at meddling drones who kept stealing shit while the AI, stationbound and IPCs all went rogue, but after the IPC shot Suhkoi I fired at them and chased them before getting Sukhoi out of rage for shooting my trapson in the face. Now I do feel they didn't get the whole bond we'd developed as characters but that's ok, they filter through hundreds of characters and the rules are there to set limits of how far we'd go, it's not like death is really that much of an emotional issue when there's cloning and advanced future medicine so first and foremost stick to your own character. This kinda warning sticks with you, and sure as hell would it stick with Voyd, especially since it's been brought to the forums, that you have to respect the staff because if it wasn't for them dedicating their time then we wouldn't have any of this, they are not some sort of tyrants here to ruin the fun. We all fuck up but there's no point clinging to it when we have, ShameOnTurtles is a neutral bystander watching over everyone and not trying to shit on you. Kanza would be sorely missed in research, Voyd you need to just take this into your stride and learn from it. It's a real shame this escalated to a job ban when it seems like an aberrant round that got out of hand for them, which especially seems to happen after a few consecutive rounds. I can imagine (and see) Voyd being incredibly upset about this as they've really became a feature in the research lab and to just all out lose their place there is a fair shock to the system after so long and so much, but sometimes things go haywire and you have to accept and apologize rather than kick-off. I actually really hope this can be resolved without it being a permanent ban, I really don't think Kanza or Voyd has a track record or anything for stepping out of line but y'all would know better. Sorry if I got a bit ranty along the way.

God damn you, Coalf. Lost the game.

This actually done on most other servers I've played on, and yeah it's better for organizing things in chemistry so +1

I'm with Resi, where'd I go to get Wetskrell? -1 Seriously the adult section isn't that bad. After reading a load... er… some of the materials, I don't see what the big deal is. It ain't exactly WGW.

Yeah, I'm all for this. No organic wants to be bossed around by a machine, especially the Skrell, and I don't think they really have the creativity to really work as RDs or the empathy to work as CMOs. As for IPC HoS, I don't think they'd form the same bonds with their subordinates as they would an organic, and with CEs I don't think folks would trust machines to make sure machines were fully functioning. I would imagine HoPs and IAAs to be a job that NT would assign them, since they're just data-crunching bureaucrats and administrators which would then send back the data to organics at the head office to then sort through, but that would give NT a cold face and be bad for public image. Totally +1 to this, sorry toasters but it's gotta be done.

Yeah actually for the xenosciences, chemistry is pretty important for anything more than your basic stuff (can't separate stuff in a grinder). In lowpop extendong rounds or even busy shifts, it can be an absolute pain to not get into the materials lab. So I'm either for giving xenobiologists access or atleast giving them a ChemMaster. +1

Well Tim is a great roboticist, and Shard is a good AI. Overall I think AIMMO is good at the RPs so gonna give 'em my +1. Probably dealt with IPCs far more than I have so reckon you'd be make a good engineer.

Oh wow, I'm the first to give feedback? Well defo a +1; Richter is kickass, the vaurca are great and I think I've met Romeo Patton before but that was a while ago. Talon the bouncer barkeep sounds like a hoot as well!

So my ex's mother died and after I was late to the funeral (having come back from Glasgow seeing Insane Clown Posse), she dumped me. My actual laptop broke a fair while ago so was just using her's, probably a contributing factor to the break up was my SS13 addiction. Anyway, I went on a spirtual journey (literally just spent a month or so getting wasted or as we called it, following the way of the Sesh Goblin) and will be getting a new laptop soon! Fear not for I have not abandoned y'all. <3 Infact I may install byond on the Russian girl's computer that I've been seeing now, but dunno if it's good enough to run. :/ Oh lawdy how I've missed y'all. OwO

Ok, I'm sorry I can be really, really bad for overcomplicating stuff but fear not I'll try again! Forget about alloys and all that or Feynman diagrams, just the principle of positronic computing. When it says about matter-antimatter not being used for obvious reasons, that's not actually true cause PET brain scanners use the principle on a daily basis in hospitals all over the world and even bananas emit tiny, tiny amounts of positrons. So they could work with a "positron-emitting radionuclide" (I didn't choose the name, it's just science) which would work like the crystal in a modern computer processor except it produces gamma rays from the electrons coming from the power cell, so that could be a little thing in the CPU, a PER crystal. Those gamma rays could be used where you say it uses of channels of electrons like electricity and form those neural pathways probably a lot more efficiently than electrons (in a sci-fi future defo, but could actually be feasible one day), it would just be channels of gamma rays like electricity. That's what the protective casing could stop from escaping and protect IPCs from radstorms. The only change I'm suggesting is the start of Components to change electrons to gamma-rays from a PER crystal, and the History with "Gamma Cubes" etc instead of the electron equivalent. 500 years of electronics is far too long and positronics is good. It's good science! Don't fear the positron! Also there's nothing wrong with giving folks a real science taste to go and spend a few hours learning practical and theoretical physics, I'm sure there are plenty folk that play do.

Wait (OwO wat dis), where's this subforum? Is it publicly visible? Is this a necropost?! I totally got whitelisted, I want in on this.

Right I absolutely love this application (it's beautiful and sets a good example for future applications) and it really got me thinking but here's the but, actually positron-emission tomography is an example of how matter-antimatter annihilation isn't all that dangerous or bad, and can be incredibly useful! I don't think you should all out abandon the idea of actual positrons being used in it, as when it's powered (with electrons) it just produces a couple gamma rays which could then interfere with other gamma rays, which interact with others, and others (possibly making some kind of ultracomplex Feynman diagram of wave-particle interactions as the basis for computation). Instead of electron pathways, I'd think include a positron-emitting radionuclide of some kind (maybe vary on personality complexity: Radium, Iridium, Radium-Iridium, Iridium-Phoron?) in the CPU which works kinda like a crystal processor clock and have the gamma-rays directed like neural pathways in the positronic pathway layer (would call it a matrix or matrix layer as well cause computational matrices and it sounds cool). The protective casing would be some lead-tungsten superalloy or the like to prevent it leaking and any heat build up. "Guided Electron Processing Module" and "Electron Coding Cube" could be "Guided Gamma Processing Module" and "Gamma Coding Cube". Electrons are so passé anyway As for Cake's response which is a good question, Muncorn is right that AI before would have been trivial compared to then but also as it uses pathways to replicate computational processes like a brain doesn't necessarily make it intelligent much like the petri dish neural networks we have now, they in no way produce a conscious entity on their own as is. It would still take a fair while to learn how to properly utilize simpler functions and the like before more increasingly intelligent algorithms would be developed, and 73 years seems like a good amount of time. tl;dr +1 but please keep positronic brains positronic!