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Laughter is the best medicine. If that doesn’t work, try 50 ccs of inaprovoline. If inaprovoline doesn’t work, slap them.
14·3 days agoLatest alt of a long term persistent troll who has nothing better to do with their life. Would be sad if they weren’t such an obnoxious POS. Wish I had that kind of free time.
Looks like they got lazy and setup a bot on an endless loop.
Also, toast.ooo clearly needs to set some damn rate limits.
261·3 days agoIf I need that level of precision, I’ll use a digital clock or set an alarm.
I can usually tell the time, at a glance, within 1-2 minutes which is precise enough for 99.999% of cases. Most IRL scheduling has a lower bound of 5-minute increments, so looking at an analog clock for the exact minute isn’t really necessary. e.g. 7:21 and 7:23 are effectively the same for all but the rarest of my purposes.
6·3 days agoMostly short stories based on a single “what if” concept. Like, “What if everyone in the world had to have a unique name?” That may not be the premise of the story, but it factors into the characters and the world building and the story goes from there. Most of the stories don’t really “go” anywhere, but that’s not the point. The point is to spend a day in a world where the “what if” concept is true and see what society, people, and life is like.
The setting is usually ambiguously Earth but it’s never stated nor that they’re even humans or what time period. That gives it a lot of leeway.
It’s mostly just a creative outlet / thought exercises so I don’t even save half of them when I’m done.
Examples From the Example "What If"
For the “What if everyone in the world had to have a unique name?” example, the short story had the following elements:
- Surnames / family names quickly became extinct since they were found to be redundant.
- Different cultures in that world implemented the unique name requirement differently:
- Some kept the family names but combined it with a unique name as a suffix. e.g. SmithFriendlyGame, SmithSoccerFan
- Some went with just number designations. e.g. 12345
- Most came up with brand new words when a child is born e.g. Fluginary
- Other cultures did something similar to “What 3 Words” does for locations by combining 3 or 4 ordinary words. e.g. BashfulCarpetTree
- Families could register specific naming conventions which could only be used by that family. Prestigious families could would add numbers to the family name with the patriarch/matriarch of the line being “0” or “first of their name”. If someone was Smith47, it meant they were directly descended from the Smith.
- The uniqueness requirement included not reusing names of those who have died. e.g. There could only be one “John” ever, for example. All mentions of “John” would only refer to that individual.
- Because of that requirement, heirloom jewelry became popular in this world to make up for not being able to honor a loved one by naming your child after them.
Dumb phones. I’ve grown to hate smartphones, apps, and all that goes with them.
Ah, yeah. I don’t Discord or Twitter so wasn’t thinking about those. ArsTechnica would benefit as well. They still do the forum-style inline replies which is hard to follow.
Don’t most lemmy clients do that?
Despite posting a photo of the book in my hand, I haven’t read it for a good minute. You’re referring to the clinic scene? (I think that’s first in the book, but not 100%).
Heh, that’s happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot. Project manager almost called shenanigans on that until it happened to her mid-meeting.
Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just “Preparing to hibernate due to low battery” and I was like “wait, what?!” and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn’t always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn’t plug it into the outlet
Not really. There’s just a lot of characters in that scene (Muldoon, Hammond, Wu, Arnold, and Gennaro) all with dialog.
Also they lazily copied …
In film school, that’s called an homage. /s
I think Nedry’s death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.
This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:
- There’s a secret science place where science happens
- At event causes people not normally associated with the secret science place to have to go to the secret science place
- The secret science at the secret science place goes horribly wrong
- The secret science place blows up in the end
That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.
It’s from the Jurassic Park novel. Spoiler: It kinda goes downhill from there (both the situation and the franchise).
That kind of puts the scene where Rick keeps reanimating in different universes in a new light. Forget the episode, but he keeps coming out of his lab in a different universe and they’re all fascist hellholes. He’s like “Is this, like, the default setting or something?”
I think human parts are a hard no for me
I’m pretty confident we still have the kids’ baby teeth stored somewhere in a box of mementos in the basement (where all our treasured family memories / water heater are stored). I think that is my personal threshold.
22·9 days agoIf you’re gonna pretend to be the victim here, at least show people what you said.
Receipts: https://t.lemmy.world/modlog?community=1344&other_person_id=11402001
I checked out the linked post and the community rules for UO. One of the rules is “Defend your position” and you didn’t do that. Like, at all. You just threw out a blanket statement in a rage-bait way (which can also be seen as trolling).
To borrow a phrase from another community (where this post probably belongs rather than in General Discussion): YDI.
PS: I checked the modlog. It was a 3 day ban - a slap on the wrist. Get over it.
PPS: Looking at the modlog for that post to see what comments of yours were removed, one thing became very clear: You are very much NOT the victim here. The post wasn’t why you were banned. In fact, the post is still up, so clearly that wasn’t the problem. It was 100% your attitude and completely abominable behavior in the comment section.
Frankly, a 3 day ban is generous from the mods. If I was a mod and you pulled that in one of my communities, you’d have been shown the door permanently.
Receipts: https://t.lemmy.world/modlog?community=1344&other_person_id=11402001
The analog method of playing a MIDI file.
