Welcome to HolyWorlds, cephron! *hands cookies*

What are some of your favorite theological topics?

I've loved world-building all my life. Lego building early on, then maps, diagrams and hierarchies on paper

now that I can program my way out of a hole

my pipe dream would be to help put together a God-glorifying RPG game or two.

I especially enjoy coming up with ... fantasy extensions/revisions to the laws physics with both cobha and non-cobha results, and technology

but unfortunately I haven't yet learned to be a writer. Perhaps not my gifting, or perhaps I simply need to spend more time writing.

Theological topics, eh? I find I usually get hung up in stuff regarding free will and moral responsibility. I recently did a paper on the Augustine vs. Pelagius controversy. Really abstract stuff, and I'm not really worried about it anyway

@Azlyn & DairyMaid: yeah, the chat was w00tz! Do those sorts of adventures happen often?

I have played with Meccano and Kinex in the past, but neither really caught on with me.

They're great for building contraptions, but one can't really flesh out a character or a world or story with them--these being the backbone of my lego play as a kid. Ah, except spaceships. I did make lots of spaceships, and Meccano/Kinex isn't too bad for those.

I can program in Java (a lot), C/C++ (with lots still to learn), and C# (with a few tabs open to remind me how lambda expressions and delegates work -_-).

I've written a couple trivial games, and started code bases for a space combat simulator game (involving n-body simulation! ) and a generic RTS. While I imagine the RPG is the genre most conducive to glorifying God (because of the story-telling aspect), I'm certainly interested in other genres. Ironically, the only RPG I've actually written so far is a small, old-text-based-style RPG.

And to conclude...
*high five for self-consistent cobha physics!*

And...
Pelagian controversy!? Where!? *Runs off to look at Reiyen's Red World subforum*

I think that interactive fiction (text adventures) is the genre most conducive to glorifying God through story-telling, but I think that nearly any other genre can be turned to his service---a RTS or turn-based strategy game in which the player was encouraged to follow the ethics of just war is one example that's quite interesting to me. The reason I questioned about RPGs is that there seems to be such a glut of mediocre-at-best "RPGs" nowadays, and telling a story well in an RPG requires a lot of work---and that's just on the story, to say nothing of the design and programming on the presentation side.

What I find particularly interesting are a) unusual ways of applying a new feature (such as: if you have the ability to establish permanent portals connecting possibly-distant points, and they don't have a minimum size, you could use the to vastly speed up computer networking!), and b) reasons why a "magical" solution hasn't put all the more mundane ways of doing the same thing out of business (my usual rule is: fast, effective, cheap, choose at most one).

Oh fun, Cephron. Calvinism is my favorite topic, which is quite closely related to Augustine vs. Pelagius. I read the Confessions last summer.

I enjoy creation vs. evolution as well.

I like healthy discussions, though. John Mackay comes over to England a lot, I love hearing him talk Creation vs Evolution, and I have been to some of his seminars.

If you're interested in hearing from a different position, my Mom found couple of online lectures by one Denis Lamoureux, who considers himself an "Evolutionary Creationist". I'd have to re-watch them myself to see if I disagree with him on any points, but I liked the general gist of what he says.

World building is much more fun when bouncing ideas around with many people!

I don't know how active I can be, now that school has started (my first day was today). But I'm sure going to be around--too much cool stuff here to ignore!