A five course meal that i work through presenting as the drama unfolds. I’d need my laptop to pull up my notes from last year:)
No one got to eat the 4th course soup.
Each course is embued with a memory, because the restaurant is Deja Chew. Thats the only pun in the story
I’m not just reposting this because I have a story in here.
So does J Alan Erwine!
I haven’t gotten to read this yet (soon!)
@jalanerwine.bsky.social, what for dinner in your story?
Awesome news. Is this how you became one of the SteamFunk guys?
Back catalogue?
Ladies and gentleman, please, allow me to introduce myself. #BookSky
Come, see how we make them burn.
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Money aside, selling out always means watching the thing you built get ruined.
If what i built was stable, and profitable, and good jobs, why would I wreck that?
But that’s just me, seeing that those things are more important than a massive payout
I gotta wonder what made those folks sell out.
Money, of course. But weren’t they all doing well enough without that?
What?
I barely know what they are. Like youtubers right?
How does PE own that?
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The mogmaxing incelspeak reminds me of a point made in Samuel Delaney’s book, Babel-13.
Thought is formed by language. The words we have or don’t have limit or enable how we think.
Those dudes are stuck in their ways and made jargon to keep them there
Pubshare?
Boundary Shock Quarterly uses them (a quarterly scifi anyhology) works for distributing the pay shares, but also seems to handle publication like d2d
I’m just a contributing author, i don’t know the rest of its service
Yeah, nobody leaves home without their phone unless they rushed. Car chargers exist for folks who drain quick.
Only Walt Longmire leaves the cell at home.
On the plus side, today’s Q is helping me flesh out Lena’s problem for the story.
She’s got an asset (thumbs!) but is stuck.
I figured the setup might be an allegory for reliance on tech, but i smell an illegal resident situation, too.
Hmm….
Is this the game with the paddle?
So long as players aren’t spanking each other, i thinking showing affection for fellow teammates is very sporting.
I’d think that if players fail to keep their eye on the balls, a loss is their own fault.
She has thumbs. Since the Transfur virus turned everyone else into anthropomorphic animals, they can’t open pill bottles, fix things
Sure, the automated system takes care of folks, food deliveries, entertainment. But she’s not registered. So she’s stuck in the building, helping for handouts
The mutant replacement fear of humans is something that a lot of people misunderstand because it misses the obvious cachet: mutants are the children of humanity. So the humans terrified of it are terrified of their own children replacing them. The most natural thing in the world. #comics #Xmen
I don’t think Lena has seen that far ahead because she’s trapped in what feels like everyone else’s retirement plan.
She could leave, but where would she go? Everyone’s an animal out there, and they all want to use her.
At least in Building 789, she knows the beasts within.
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters
Do your characters have retirement plans, so to speak?
What do they want to do after their adventure/plot is complete? Are they planning for a happy ending?
Do you think they will get it?
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How? Very cool.
You could put flats on them
Related to this, ads invented problems to sell product. Ring around the collar? Teeth whitening. Nobody cared until the soap companies told you about it
When evil is powerful and large enough that we cannot cross to the other side of the street, nor spit on it, we’re left with other subtle paths if we wish to resist
But we have to take those path
I’m not well read enough to visit Hobbesian territory, but I did just order the complete collection of calvin and hobbes….
Agreed. Amazon murdered the bookstore industry. That was a reason to avoid them 20 years ago. They’ve moved on to all other shops, data centers and AI
AWS is their money pot. Not books. So any book boycot doesn’t even register
Ah, the old there is no ethical participation in commerce because of capitalism
Here’s my imperfect take:
Given evilcorps exist, and you need to co-exist, choosing a limited interaction with them is best you can do.
It is nonzero. And varies by day and person. As they have means and awareness
Great example. There’s no signs in the woodlands, tx. Every road is lines with trees. Very hard to find a gas station or shop without a map or knowing.
So that’s the other extreme. Not a common world where there’s shops and you can see them and the sign on their wall even as you drive near
When i can, i link to the pub’s page for the book which lists the many ways to buy it.
As ethical as I can be within constraints.
I do raise an eyebrow if an author only has amazon. Like they didn’t even try
But that’s a specific niche and not the worst, specially at most author’s scale
I think we hit the 2 traits that make an ad immoral: obnoxiousness, and shady.
Obnoxious covers all the ways ads grew past a page in a mag or a 30 second spot during a break
Shady covering truth distortion, lying, hiding who’s behind it, manipulating folks harder than “buy PJ’s book!”
I’ll rewind. You have a book. What is unethical about you trying to sell it?
That might be where i’m not thinking wherenyer going
I think people with a good to sell, need a means of attracting customers. Thats not unethical.
Obnoxious, shady ad methods are unethical. But there CAN be ethical methods.
Otherwise we don’t even have free speech, because advertising is speech. Sharing ideas might be advertising.
A line exists
I hate ads, but logically we got here by crossing a Rubicon of practical and acceptable to adverdystopia where anything goes.
A business needs a sign on their building. Thats an ad. Word of mouth is advertising. Coupon section in the paper is advertising.
Something might be reasonable