I Low-key Love The Fact That Sci-fi Has So Conditioned Us To Expect To Be Hanging Out With A Bunch Of

I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

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starteller-7

1 year ago

the great thing about preserving kink as part of pride is that it’s the one thing that rainbow capitalism can never touch. I sincerely doubt that you’ll ever see Arby’s tweeting about forcefem anytime soon.

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hehehe hoho get em with the societal shame about sex

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starteller-7

1 year ago

I feel this in my soul

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friends are the only exception tbh

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starteller-7

1 year ago

Re: shourtney wedding

I see lots of people saying “they better address this in the next video” or “we need answers”. Just a reminder that their relationship is not content on the internet to entertain us. Yes, they posted the photos on April 1st, because it was funny, but that doesn’t mean they owe us anymore. People need to realise that they will probably continue making content as normal on Smosh and they don’t need to address their relationship in videos and people need to be okay with that.

Please treat them with respect as you would any other person and don’t demand answers from them or anyone. Let’s just carry on knowing they have each other and leave it at that.

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awesome yes but also like if not there is ofc the fan part of me that’s like details! I need all the details! love is realllll what I want doesn’t matter they’re real people who exist outside of fandom stuff if they wanna tell us also awesome

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starteller-7

11 months ago

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

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I cannot write an 100% cool character to save my life they are all dorks and therefor all adorable everyone has social anxiety because I am definitely not projecting

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starteller-7

1 year ago

(bad) Idea: Pronoun selections for multiple pronoun users where you have the ability to set relative rates of each pronoun. Like maybe like:

A VB6 dialog box running on XP. The title is "Pronouns" and it has the menu options "File, Pronouns, Help". There's a main group labeled "Pronoun Order/Frequency", and below it four pronoun sets are shown: she/her, they/them, he/him, it/its". Each pronoun set has a slider, with she/her at 90%, they/them at 10%, and the remaining two at 0%. Next to each slider there's up and down arrow buttons for reordering. At the bottom of the sliders is an "Add new pronoun" button.

See you could set relative frequencies of each pronoun, and order them.

And yes I did mock this up using Visual Basic 6. That's just how my brain works.

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starteller-7

1 year ago

SO THE STORY LEAD OF LUCA AND THE DIRECTOR OF CIAO ALBERTO POSTED THESE

SO THE STORY LEAD OF LUCA AND THE DIRECTOR OF CIAO ALBERTO POSTED THESE

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starteller-7

1 year ago

You can always tell when an author is trying to "deconstruct" something that they think is stupid or boring or otherwise beneath them because they're unwilling or unable to develop the necessary understanding of the source material to properly rip into it and the end result invariably fucking sucks. You need to love a genre in order to truly do it violence.

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1 year ago