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If it wasent obvious I will join the lateshowerlegion. Mostly due to positive events but still.
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So, just a quick update: My time managment sucks.
Meta, your thingy is, like, 33% written down. Should be finished in no less than 2 days because there is no drafting or anything invovled, only typing and SPaG.
Crayon man, I can't even. So my original idea proved unfeasible, so I basically pivoted to basically creating a slide show with a bunch of infographics for a CI orientation on [SPOILER], but I haven't figured out how to properly display it as an article. Like, apparently you can embedd PDFs, so releasing it as one would work, but gnaaaaaaaaarf.
Would any of this have happened if I had started before christmas' eve with working on the drafts?
…tbh, probably yes.
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Happy New Year.
I remembered we had a thread for this.
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Glad you liked it.
I never heard of the lamp incident (I was referencing something else). I also never heard of that sign, but I knew of 2 buildings that turn cars into mush when hit with sunlight from the right angle (which happens daily).
You are right with Stepford, but I never read the book or watched the movies. A lot of bad blood could have been prevented if the dudes just left their woman for the robots instead of attempting a replacement plot.
You can never have enough useful idiots, fallguys, alibis, cheep espionage and self-delusionists. Also it takes longer to make sure your brick did not hit a lawyer or a someone who would be missed by an employer.
I am working under the assumption that there is enough anomalous AI out there that has tried to be Skynet that fails because better AIs keep them in check. The AIs are people, people that are really difficult to kill or predict. I have seen enough code that should work, but does not to not trust them. For reference see self-driving cars that suddenly and for no apperent reason try to drive into oncoming traffic. The CI deals with AIs that range from "more than a machine, most likely" to "why are you not god, exactly?". Dealing with AI is like dealing with anomalous persons that also have their mind affected. Trusting that would reduces mission success.
Originally, the deceptions would not have been marked at all, but I wanted to show that something was going on with it. Would {} do the trick?
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Normally I'd vehemently complain about the, ahem, metafictional parts of this work, but frankly I'm actually enjoying this way to much to focus on the bad parts.
Honestly I'm not sure if many of the parts here are even deliberate references of yours or just a haunting case of art imitating life, but:
what counted as woman was as valued as a decorative lamp
Happened with the tech bros, of course.
A bird landed on a curve that might be a bench, before it incinerated.
I think the most likely reference to pop culture might by Night City's bird extermination act (Cyberpunk Roleplaying Game), but that in turn is based on real precedent, namely urbanites being just fucking menaces with a net negative contribution to everything that is good:
Wealthy Bristol residents cause uproar by installing 'anti-bird spikes' to stop droppings hitting expensive cars.
I'm also not sure what movie the line "WARNING: this bench becomes red hot between 2 AM and 6 AM." originates from (I can't even find a damn picture of it) but it's been around for a while.
The The Stepford Wives allusions are so strong I wouldn't believe you if you told me it wasn't on purpose. Or probably a flavour of overshooting counter-Geneshaft conditioning… (Wtf was Geneshaft even on about? I can't know whether I agree with its message until I figure out what it was in the first place.)
I agree that the Epilogue "twist" was very important. Of course we'd do something like that, especially since it is probably among the more ethical endeavours to achieve those ends (although I am not sure what we need spineless, detached males for; you could lob bricks at random in the city and you wouldn't hit a non-target).
On to gushing about great sentences that I especially liked:
- A good dystopia has teeth like a shark. Break out one and the next one will just slot into place in time.
- […] money flows, from the desperate to the deserving.
- Like a garden SiliconPeak grew men complicit with cruelty and great in self delusion, yet secretive and superficial
- If the mask slips we may assume ourselves lucky to have glimpsed the truth, but someone might have a plan and showing you a losing hand might just make you bet more. Do not assume to know all moving parts. Do not trust that you did not see what you were meant to see. Some are lying, some just do not know better and some have an interest in making you know what you know.
Oh yeah, you probably mean contemporary LLMs branded as "agentic" AI and not AI as a whole. I don't think the concept of artificial intelligence is something the CI would distrust. Unlike natural stupidity, a rational player is much easier to predict.
Oh yeah also you might not want to exclusively rely on colour to mark certain passages. Males frequently suck at telling colours apart (I think Tritanopia struggles with Blue/Green, but I'm far from sure here) but even disregarding them there's still issues for things like reading mode, narration (for the fully blind) or simply people wanting to print out your article suffering.
Now excuse you whilst I go rummaging for the plans regarding the aggressively parcouring magical girl SWAT team I shelved somewhere…
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Originally I just wanted to post Main, but without Epilog, it is missing something.
Than I noticed that it might be better to not take out the process that got me to Main, so I kept Prelude in.
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Marry Christmas
@zesc: Mirrors-Edge-like I hope.
@Crayon man: A picture about someone having a nice day, (with just a hint at something larger)
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Thank you.
This is actually part of a series I am writing Moving Shadows, so if you want more there is more already on the main site. My sandboxes are full so I always have something in the works.
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Good !
I wish you can write more stories to expand more about the history of the Insurgency ,looking forward to your next story.
Come on！
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One pice each?
Per writer? Probably!
Per wish? Nah to easy!
Anyways, how about we concentrate on one setting for our works so we can link them together. I know its kinda weird place but its commonly accepted that the GOC has like a semi Utopian city in the Atlantic ocean. That could fit.
Sadly I gave up on uploading the meme when I was not successful at the first try.
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Oh, we're doing a piece each? That might be easier (tbf idk how Meta could have done his two in parallel), also means more articles posted to the site.
@Crayon: Your farmalization1 stood out through its distinct lack of accompanying diagrams. Additionally, I am very certain Meta wanted a competent not a confident protagonist, whereas assignement attributed to be is way to succint to have that origin.
@Meta: I actually won't peek into your sandboxes until it's finished, kinda defeats the purpose of a present, doesn't it?
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So, I just got some of that.
@Zesc: I am pretty confident in what I got for you, but seeing as I am shooting mostly blind here that might not count for much. I am still contemplating whether I let the sub-titles in as an esthetic choice. (I needed a fully structured approach to get something working and that is not usually how I write).
@Crayon man: I have not got my pen out just yet, but you already gave me a conflict about what "Having a Nice Day" actually means. I do have some ideas. Maybe it is time that I resurrect CI-Comics.
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in discussion Wiki Announcements and Proposals / Policy Discussion/Proposals » Let's make another contest
The add to and formalize the writing assignment:
Crayon: Give the work a pretty presentation, preferably with pictures/audio and for atleast one person to have a nice day.
Meta: Wants to see a confident protagonist win
Zesc: Give the work an urban countercultural theme, exploring the difference between living in and living through it
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Strike-through text is commonly known to denote erroneous and superseded remarks, use in Ogham not withstanding.
So yes, I'd very much appreciate a detailed, printer-ready diagram.
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The flip should I do now? Should I clarify my wish again? Maybe with a nice picture?
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Ah, don't worry, I pride myself in my characters being usually more competent and proactive than the Foundation (which, I must remind you, has magic "anomaly go away" machines a.k.a. Scranton Reality Anchors and still manages to have containment breaches like it's weekly schedule). I'll have to find a way to not come across as arrogant though…
The key to abridged series has always been exaggeration, not ridicule. Just that this is really hard with YGO because SHUEISHA/TV TOKYO is of the "I don't even know writers who use subtext, but if I did, they'd all be cowards"-variety. (Also can we talk for a bit about how Zuzu rides as passenger? That gives me more anxiety than any ME jump.)
Wasn't the ME WR heavily glitched and out of bounds? Or did you watch glitchless?
The only way I could make that work is something like Bioshocks Rapture, where the rich build a city far away from normal people problems.
I mean, almost. Bioshock (1&2, Infinite's political messaging was … messy) is a deconstruction of libertarianism. Or rather a parody? Because as shown, there's nothing deconstructing that idea faster than having it play out completely straight. I dislike that games as games, but as pieces of art? 10/10, no notes.
It also features the idea of an outsider perspective on the system, but they don't seem as much to outright reject it as the runners do with their off-the-grid living. Think about how your grind-fiction (Animemo? is that actually a term?) youths would engage with the world twenty minutes into the future, with an figuratively, and sometimes also literally, stratified society.
If you bear with me for a moment (I write, roughly 4k characters in), I think this has an interesting connecting with the concept of "liminality" as it was before the internet got its hands on it. Whilst the places explored are spatial close, if not identical, to the lifescape of the common populace, their social and practical roles differ greatly. And I think that's something that fascinates me and made me write this increasingly elaborate wish: the almost alien lens on the shared urban habitat, and the difference between living in and living through it. Third places become passage ways, whilst unpersonal off-limit areas necessitated by shrimple logistics become zones of freedom and expression.
Solid colors, no patterns (AI reality overlay?, some things change color to indicate intractability
It's called "runner's vision", and whilst being incorporated visually appealingly, it still remains one of the great scourges of the gaming industry, namely (rightfully) assuming that players are big dumb-dumbs that need everything traced out step-by-step for them. Mind you, the game was released by EA.
Haha, you though I would just go off the rails indefinitely? Think again! I have something on topic to contribute:
Namely that we need somebody (Crayon man) to contribute before we can start. I think "aim for the 24th Dec, with hard cut-off at the 6th Jan" is … reasonable. After all, this is an informal thing.
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I just eventually found out what makes a good story for me and that includes people being good at what they do. The quickest way to ruin that is to make that their only personalty trait or their only relationship to others. Seto does not work without Mokuba (season 0 included).
The only source on the list I am familiar with is 5DS, and the Arc V clip is so hammer on the head that I thought you send me an Abridged version.
I was actually hung up on
counter-cultural contrasting an oppressive near-future solarpunk dystopia
Solarpunk is not near future, dystopian or very "counter-culture contrasting".
The only way I could make that work is something like Bioshocks Rapture, where the rich build a city far away from normal people problems.
Good that you tell me now, because my "Mirrors Edge" research material (WR Speedrun) did not include that part.
These were my notes:
- Tall structures, wide open spaces
- Ineffective use of space (post scarcity or heavenly supplemented?)
- Only other movement is cars and enemies (no need to use streets?)
- even construction sites and Regeneauffangstruckturen are clean and white (new city, automatic cleaning?)
- Solid colors, no patterns (AI reality overlay?, some things change color to indicate intractability)
- Rats but no garbage or wall holes (Drones?)
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