The issue with logging in with email addresses has been resolved.
Due to issues with external spam filters, QQ is currently unable to send any mail to Microsoft E-mail addresses. This includes any account at live.com, hotmail.com or msn.com.
Signing up to the forum with one of these addresses will result in your verification E-mail never arriving. For best results, please use a different E-mail provider for your QQ address.
For prospective new members, a word of warning: don't use common names like Dennis, Simon, or Kenny if you decide to create an account. Spammers have used them all before you and gotten those names flagged in the anti-spam databases. Your account registration will be rejected because of it.
Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
(14:00 UTC)
The sleek graphic resolved on screens across the globe: "Global Insights Forum Presents: The Avalon Economy – Resources, Realities, and Riddles."
Below the title, three video feeds faded in. Center screen was Elias Vance, a seasoned science...
Monday, September 13th, 2021
(10:03 JST / 01:03 UTC) Tanaka Precision Manufacturing, Osaka, Japan
The rhythmic clang of the power press section echoed through the cavernous main floor of Tanaka Precision Manufacturing, a familiar industrial heartbeat. But here, in Receiving Bay 3, an unusual...
Hey, thanks for leaving behind a comment. But I'm just gonna say it straight up, the story will be told via peripheral narrative; meaning that the story will be told from the perspective of those affected by the main subject of the story (the Avalon/Alan Crosby).
There will be interludes later...
Saturday, February 6th, 2021
(19:05 EST / 00:05 UTC Feb 7th) Arthur Pendelton's Backyard, Small Town USA
The satisfying click of the latches on his telescope case echoed slightly in the cold, still air. Arthur Pendelton breathed out, a plume of white mist momentarily obscuring the deepening...
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
(08:03 EST / 13:03 UTC) Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland
Ben Carter leaned closer to the monitor, the glow reflecting off his glasses. The main display showed the orbital plot of near-Earth space, a serene blue sphere cradled by a sparse network of green...
Something new from me. To get me back to writing.
January 1st, 2020
The new year dawned, not with the usual bleary-eyed hangover from worldwide celebrations, but with a collective, global gasp. It wasn't fireworks that held the world's attention, nor the resolutions hastily made and destined...
Health update: I developed viral pneumonia due to Covid a while back. It sucks and it took a lot out of me physically, mentally, and financially. I'm feeling better though.