IcedRaktajino

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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

Examples From the Example "What If"For the "What if everyone in the world had to have a unique name?" example, the short story had the following elements:

  • Surnames / family names quickly became extinct since they were found to be redundant.
  • Different cultures in that world implemented the unique name requirement differently:
    • Some kept the family names but combined it with a unique name as a suffix. e.g. SmithFriendlyGame, SmithSoccerFan
    • Some went with just number designations. e.g. 12345
    • Most came up with brand new words when a child is born e.g. Fluginary
    • Other cultures did something similar to "What 3 Words" does for locations by combining 3 or 4 ordinary words. e.g. BashfulCarpetTree
    • Families could register specific naming conventions which could only be used by that family. Prestigious families could would add numbers to the family name with the patriarch/matriarch of the line being "0" or "first of their name". If someone was Smith47, it meant they were directly descended from the Smith.
  • The uniqueness requirement included not reusing names of those who have died. e.g. There could only be one "John" ever, for example. All mentions of "John" would only refer to that individual.
    • Because of that requirement, heirloom jewelry became popular in this world to make up for not being able to honor a loved one by naming your child after them.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why doesn't The Rock, the biggest Rock, not simply eat the Racist Rock?

Edit/Bonus: What would you have if they all fell down a hill? The Rolling Stones.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't most lemmy clients do that?

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?"

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Life imitates art:

Dale Gribble lighting his cigarette from the Olympic Torch

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Clearly we need MicroUSB-C /s

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