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  • I wrote it out as if it were the spec script plot of a movie.

    Guys out with his friends watching the eclipse and all of a sudden some other guy walks up behind him puts an umbrella up and covers over the view right at the apex of the eclipse. He turns to look at that guy and the guy says don’t look at the Sun. As soon as he says that all of the main characters friends suddenly explode in a puff of dust.

    The guy starts freaking out and then eventually they end up working their way back to the house as he has the other guy the angel explains what is going on

    It’s the end of days. the eschaton. And the Sun is claiming every single person it can.

    This guy claims to be your angel. To prove it he shows obviously hobbycraft Dollar store wings and a Halo that’s clearly being supported by a strand.

    The guy says that there must be something going on I’m going to look at my phone as they’re driving around and right as he’s about to open up the news the guy slaps the phone down and it says don’t look at your phone.

    As someone who freezes the video should be able to see a picture of the eclipse on the phone, from a camera stuck pointing up at it and everyone who looks at it to turn it off instantly explodes

    Why did the angel save the man? Is the Angel actually an angel? What things happen?

    The angel says that the guy is not exactly the best dude in the world. And given that is the end of days this is the last chance you’ll have to make everything right and the angel kind of goofed off a little bit so you know I got to figure out a way together to get him into heaven so that the angel also gets to go to heaven and to do that they’ve got to do some good deeds really fucking quick, well everyone that even catches a glimpse of a reflection of the eclipse Sun immediately explodes into dust.




  • I’m willing to compromise with the isekai setup.

    You’re in a new world. There’s magic and sword play and monsters to fight. You get some skills and abilities that give you a decent chance to survive. I’m perfectly fine with that setup.

    But what I want once you have been given that setup is an interesting world to explore.

    Interesting characters to meet.

    Actual challenges and hardships that have to be overcome by the main character.

    Real relationships with people that have their own goals in life.

    And character growth that happens organically given the constraints of the system.

    We have far too many Mary Sue protagonists who never failed anything and never do anything wrong and who have so much power and are just so kind and giving in every single way and everybody loves them and nobody could beat them even if they didn’t love them.

    We have far too many villains whose entire character Arc is “hurr durr look at me I’m a villain”.

    And for some reason when those villains get converted into sidekicks they always become comical parodies of their former selves.

    And finally, even in a harem situation, the main character should neither be asexual or a man whore. Let him have some feelings about the person he’s with and not automatically fall into some unspoken love scenario with the women around him.

    If you’re going to have romance at all in your isekai anime, let the guy actually have some preferences and pick one person and stick with them.

    Like I get it you’ve got to give people a taste of the familiar but the taste of the familiar is only to lure us in. Once we are in, you need to give us something new and strange and stressful and worrisome and make us doubt the outcome of the next series of events that are going to happen.





  • Bizarroland@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.mlMe irl
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    7 months ago

    My guess is that if you’re going to start a MSP you can do that with Foss and probably have a lot of success as long as you’ve got the sales chops to get the contracts.

    Then you can funnel some of your customers money to foss well also increasing awareness and adoption of the better free and open source software programs


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    7 months ago

    Most of the small to mid size companies that I have worked for would choose a larger more established system that costs more even if it offers less over a self-hosted one that they had to pay some sort of fee for.

    Is like this weird idea in the business world that if you’re using Foss systems that it must be completely free, and that the reason why you are using it is because you are broke or cheap.






  • I think it was Confucius that said that society is best when the laws are simple and people understand the laws.

    I mean what do we need with 5,000-year-old Chinese mysticism when we’ve got Elon musk shoving metal pellets into your medulla oblongata that can play ads at you in your dreams?


  • A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

    -Robert A. Heinlein



  • Everything turns to shit whenever a metric becomes a goal, and multiply that by Infinity whenever that goal involves making money.

    Ads are the worst thing about the internet. There’s not an option to escape them under any circumstances and when you use things like adblock people crawl out of the woodwork to tell you how you’re stealing money from people.

    I’m sorry, I’m paying for the service of accessing the internet. How I do so should be my decision and not somebody else’s under any circumstances, so long as I am not breaking the law.


  • I work in it and one of our employees brought a laptop to us that had been completely and thoroughly dismantled with a screwdriver.

    She told us that she wanted to remove the hard drive but she couldn’t find it.

    It had a flash hard drive that had been detached from the board was sitting next to the Wi-Fi card.

    Me and the other it guy just kind of like looked at each other for a minute and then got her a new laptop.

    To be fair she was due for an upgrade anyway, but I’ve never had anyone dismantle their soon to be recycled devices.


  • Bizarroland@kbin.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldTell me
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    8 months ago

    My mom was a nurse who worked in geriatrics and so one day she came home from work and cooked us a big plate of spaghetti and started telling us about how elderly people with dementia would have no control over their body and would snot on their hands and then rub it on the the handrails in the hallway.

    She should talk about how she kept on over and over again touching bare-handed massive piles of gooey green and brown snot while we’re all sitting around the dinner table trying to eat spaghetti.