Mostly 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.

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?

🤚 Don’t. Even.

You are not even remotely the first to try to pull this scam here.

With that many details, your story must be true 🙄

I too have struggles. Can you find it in your heart to share some of your scampaign funds with a fellow struggling human?

But seriously, shame on you for pulling this scam. People like you make me wish I believed in God so that I could take comfort in knowing one day you’ll burn for eternity in Hell.

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.

If 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

This is the way. And same here. I don’t use the mask of pseudo-anonymity to be a jackass. Anyone I know who discovers my online accounts will find I interact online and IRL exactly the same way.

I quit smoking over a decade ago, but if I had the opportunity to light a cigarette from the Olympic torch…I’d take it. Probably also use that cigarette to light the pilot lights on my water heater and then all my showers would be heated by the Olympic flame (technically speaking).

Life imitates art:

I know, right?!

Clearly we need MicroUSB-C /s

If those are my two options…start looking for my projects on Codeberg I guess.

So you’re calling out doxxing by…helping them spread the doxx?

At least pop it into GIMP or something and blur out the private info.

Stills are the HD ones from Trek Core and the third “roll credits” from is a screen grab from the end of the episode I was watching (The Pegasus) when I made it.

My Blu-Ray of S2 isn’t much better than what’s on TrekCore, so I just got them from there.

It’s compressed with webp for the post.

That used to be a frequent Tuesday at the office until they locked down who was allowed to send to the big distribution lists lol.

7x11 Parallels

Worf goes through the quantum fissure, keeps hopping through quantum universes, and eventually all the Enterprises start appearing in that universe.