PascalPistachios

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Full memo transcript of u/Spez to reddit employees in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

Hell, even if people move back to reddit, I've made the choice to stay on Lemmy, and give a small community everything I've got.

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#1 Weekly Bad Writing Prompts (beehaw.org)
 

Welcome to the first (unofficial) Bad Writing Prompt day of the Beehaw Writing instance!

I've been reading a bit on the instance, and I agree with the consensus that we're going to need something weekly to bring and keep a community together. So I'm doing my part!

Wait, what do you mean by bad writing prompts? Partially inspired by this post here.

“Don’t try to prove you’re a good writer, you’ll never write anything. Try to prove you’re a bad writer and you’ll write everything.”

So, here's my general idea. For now, I'll be posting 3 different things.

  • Bad Character Ideas
  • Bad Setting Ideas
  • Bad Plot Ideas

For you to mix, match and use as you please! Again, I'm writing this off the cuff and with 20 minutes before work, so apologies for the short post, but without any more delay, here's what I got for you all!

Bad Character Ideas

  • The disgruntled younger sibling of the "Chosen One"

  • A food critic who actually suffers from no sense of taste, getting by on charisma and faking it alone

  • A magical anime girl who has a strange hobby and obsession with taxidermy (Thanks to my coworker for giving me this one haha)

Bad Setting Ideas

  • Cowboys and digimon. How that works I have no clue. Just. Cowboys and digimon combined. If you do this you have my eternal gratitude.

  • Told entirely through the lens of the endless blurb you skip before a recipe.

  • An office building set within purgatory itself.

Bad Plot Ideas

  • The main character has traveled back in time to kill Hitler. Little do they know is Hitler is now a skilled killer of time travelers.

  • A love story where two people are fated to be with one other, lest the world end. They hate each other.

  • A heist on the Vatican vault.

Alright, I'm running out of time, and need to skip off to work. Hope to see some posts, and remember to make it awful. I want some real schlock and cringe. Feel free to use all of the prompts, or none of them! Your reward will be nothing. Ciao ciao!

Silicon Valley escalates the battle over returning to the office in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree with this whole heartedly. I think the issue, remote or at work, comes down to the fact that it isn't the workers making the choice, but their boss. For me, I don't do tech work, so I have to go into work because I'm legitimately doing work with my hands. And I like it that way. I know that if I had to work from home, I would become miserable QUICK. That's just my personality.

But the choice is made from up high, from people who don't give two shits about the workers. As with all things.

Netflix sees jump in subs as it begins to curb password sharing in US, says report in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

It seems that business has gone the way where, as long as you keep making profit, who cares if you have less customers? It's such a backwards way of thinking when you actually apply it to reality. I wish I could find the article, but I remember there being a discussion about the trust threshold for businesses. Where, a business who constantly pulls moves like this makes more and more money out of fewer customers, until they suddenly pass a threshold of trust, and BAM! It all falls down.

Ofc, I know, it's capitalism. The endless pursuit of profit and the expense of all else. It's just... Exhausting to see it happen everywhere.

Here we go, the AMA with /u/spez is live in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Please, please I can only get so excited for such a glorious future.

Here we go, the AMA with /u/spez is live in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just like Twitter banning any mention of mastodon. They can't rely on keeping the product, users, on the site with a good website. So they just prolong the inevitable and do whatever they can to stop people from leaving. Enshittification, my beloathed.

Here we go, the AMA with /u/spez is live in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] PascalPistachios@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Calling it now, free coin drops for moderators to show how "valued" they are to reddit.