Hello. I’m Ouri Maler, or “sun tzu” on some other forums; turning 29 in August.
I don’t exactly remember when I started thinking of myself as a rationalist, but I know the core of my pro-science, pro-logic worldview was formed between the age of 8 and 10. For many years, I planned to be a physicist. In college, I studied to become a roboticist. And since that hasn’t entirely panned out, I’m currently struggling to get employed as a programmer. I also write as a hobby, and I do try to reconstruct rationalism in my current urban fantasy story, “Saga of Soul”.
Less Wrong has been on my “to check one of these days” list for a few years. It came to my attention again recently when Mr. Yudowsky recommended Saga of Soul on Facebook, prompting me to marathon HPatMoR over the past few days. I finished yesterday, and figured it was time to join the community and see what’ll come of it.
Oh hey, I have encountered this thing in the past and I think you have interacted with one of my beta readers and you promoted my friend Emily’s Kickstarter. Hi!
Goldmage is stalled due to plothole. (Basically, I thought I could write about goldmagic without doing any math, and this doesn’t seem to be the case.) I don’t have an ETA on fixing it. Elcenia is not suffering from that specific problem but my life in general is being eaten by a freeform roleplay thing I am doing that leaves me with this tendency to open story files, stare at them, and then close them.
Well, it’s your call. But for what it’s worth, I enjoyed HtTtHnT when it was running (particularly how the protagonists handled the loss of their secret identities).
Luminosity sounds like an interesting idea, though I’ll confess I’ve never read any of the Twilight books...
Hello. I’m Ouri Maler, or “sun tzu” on some other forums; turning 29 in August.
I don’t exactly remember when I started thinking of myself as a rationalist, but I know the core of my pro-science, pro-logic worldview was formed between the age of 8 and 10. For many years, I planned to be a physicist. In college, I studied to become a roboticist. And since that hasn’t entirely panned out, I’m currently struggling to get employed as a programmer. I also write as a hobby, and I do try to reconstruct rationalism in my current urban fantasy story, “Saga of Soul”.
Less Wrong has been on my “to check one of these days” list for a few years. It came to my attention again recently when Mr. Yudowsky recommended Saga of Soul on Facebook, prompting me to marathon HPatMoR over the past few days. I finished yesterday, and figured it was time to join the community and see what’ll come of it.
Oh hey, I have encountered this thing in the past and I think you have interacted with one of my beta readers and you promoted my friend Emily’s Kickstarter. Hi!
Hello! Unless I’m mistaken, you’re the author of Hi to Tsuki to Hoshi no Tama? I used to read that.
I am, yes, but I now consider all the webcomics I used to do embarrassing and would rather steer you towards my more recent prose, like Luminosity.
Speaking of your recent prose, what’s the update schedule on Goldmage?
Goldmage is stalled due to plothole. (Basically, I thought I could write about goldmagic without doing any math, and this doesn’t seem to be the case.) I don’t have an ETA on fixing it. Elcenia is not suffering from that specific problem but my life in general is being eaten by a freeform roleplay thing I am doing that leaves me with this tendency to open story files, stare at them, and then close them.
Damn, that’s too bad. I really thought it was a clever idea. And to end on a cliffhanger! Sigh.
I haven’t actually decided to abandon the story, it just needs math to happen and a significant part of my brain wants the math to happen via magic.
I… understand? A significant part of my brain always wants math to happen via magic.
Sometimes it does! Sort of.
Well, it’s your call. But for what it’s worth, I enjoyed HtTtHnT when it was running (particularly how the protagonists handled the loss of their secret identities).
Luminosity sounds like an interesting idea, though I’ll confess I’ve never read any of the Twilight books...
Well, you could always try reading the first few chapters and stop if you don’t like it >:D
Luminosity requires no knowledge of nor affection for canon Twilight.
Oh hey, welcome! Any magical girl who takes the time to view the Earth from space has my vote, but you already know that.
Thank you! And thanks again for the link—I got around 250% as many unique views in the 48 following hours as I had in the entire preceding month.