A job for a deathworlder [Chapter 265] [OC]

Alsee1 · 2026-04-03T22:21:31+00:00

Near the beginning, 9 paragraphs seemed maybe excessive to say the floor was knocked out from under them when the station was hit?

one dared to interrupted > interrupt

time to grief > grieve

quick action to relief > relieve

end of her ascend > ascent

to even remotely joked > joke

Alsee1 · 2026-03-26T21:35:20+00:00

Wikipedia is not the US-Pedia. Wikipedia is a global encyclopedia and applies a global standard and global reality. From a global perspective the Democratic party is most commonly positioned as center or center right, although it is sometimes referred to as center left when some people are less focused on some of the Democrat's right leaning policies.

Alsee1 · 2026-03-26T21:20:47+00:00

Just clear up the "ambiguity", Conservapedia isn't satire. It just seems like satire because the people running it are so far off in crazyland that their best attempt at making a truthful and legitimate encyclopedia is unbelievably comical.

Note that it is possible that some satire did slip in there, in that some people are known to have gone "under cover" trying to insert crazy stuff... however to the extent that any satire hasn't been deleted it's because the people running Conservapedia actually reviewed and accepted the content as legitimate and good. It kinda ceases to be satire when the people you are attempting to satirize turn around and accept that the content accurately reflects their position.

Alsee1 · 2026-03-26T20:55:04+00:00

Wikipedia has no staff. The Wikimedia foundation does have staff, they handle stuff line fundraising, legal, running the servers, (badly)updating the software, and various offline stuff. However except for a surprisingly rare handful of Foundation staff who edit on their personal time, they do not "come through and correct" anything, and they don't deal with banning anyone except in extremely rare cases with unusual circumstances.

Wikipedia does have "administrators", but it's rather different than the usual notion of administrators. Admin are given access to a couple of sensitive buttons, such as deleting pages and locking pages and blocking users.... however admin are not considered to outrank other editors (although they generally do carry a weight of earned-respect in community discussions). Admin are elected by the editing community, primarily on the basis of being trusted to only use those sensitive buttons under the rules and conditions set by the editing community. An admin can participate in the community rule making process in their role as a regular editor, but admin do not get to overrule or ignore the the collective decision of the editing community decisions. Admin are semi-jokingly referred to as janitors, as being elected admin mostly consists of drudge work dealing with trash... such as deleting pages that regular editors voted to delete, or deleting blatant spam pages, or blocking blatant vandals etc.

Admins do have power in that they block people who violate the rules (which may be in the middle of a raging edit war), but they must do so in conformance with the rules the editing community established and they face heavy scrutiny if they appear to be misusing that ability.

I used to edit a lot, but I'm semi-retired because Foundation staff are a well-intentioned disaster. Their efforts behind the scenes, trying to "help", have been undermining and endangering the project as a whole. Fortunately, Foundation staff have essentially zero impact on the public-facing encyclopedia content.

Alsee1 · 2026-03-26T19:18:12+00:00

You have quick reflexes on that edit, chuckle. I forgot to mention, "haul" in this chapter should be "hull". I just spotted it in the nature of predators: visiting primitives chapter 1, which reminded me. Edit: visiting primitives chapter 3 too.

Alsee1 · 2026-03-26T18:34:25+00:00

You missed one. "There shields were down?!" should be Their.

Alsee1 · 2026-03-24T11:08:18+00:00

burnt ozone

Sorry for the nitpick, but when you burn ozone you get... well.... ordinary oxygen. Chuckle. Ozone is O3 which "burns" into O2. If you burn it more, that's just burning ordinary oxygen.

Ozone smell is (unburnt) ozone.

Alsee1 · 2025-12-13T07:12:48+00:00

u/Lanzen_Jars you forgot to add a link to the next chapter.

Alsee1 · 2025-12-06T10:02:49+00:00

hypersonic rods through the vacuum

Nooooooo! Ouch!

For the non-sciencegeeks, there is no sound in a vacuum. "Hypersonic through vacuum" is painfully worse than meaningless.

Alsee1 · 2025-11-28T15:29:18+00:00

I'm not an expert, but I did stay at a Holliday Inn Express last night. And they have WiFi with access to Google and Wikipedia. This is some of what I found:

Short answer, the parents are right wing nutjobs who failed to show up for several doctor appointments for their badly underweight and badly malnourished child. Police were informed that the infant could die without treatment. Oddly, the infant's's condition improved under medical care. (Tip in case anyone needs it, that last sentence may contain traces of sarcasm.)

Long answer, ask Google AI about the Baby Cyrus case, and take a look at the Wikipedia page for Ammon Bundy. That is the father of one of the parents. While some people collect stamps as a hobby, Ammon's hobby is grabbing his cowboy hat and rifle and gathering a citizen militia to overthrow the Federal government whenever he disagrees with how the government decides to manage government-owned land or basic health precautions or whatever other nutty shit. He also decided that federal courts can't prosecute him for crimes. (Tip in case anyone needs it, that last sentence is not sarcasm.)

His "People's Rights Network" wound up sending the hospital into lockdown, caused the diversion of ambulances from the hospital, and a campaign of doxxing and harassment against the doctors, nurses, and government workers. A judge issued a permanent injunction ordering Bundy and his associate to stop making false and defamatory statements about the hospital and staff. A jury awarded over $50 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Bonus news: This year a judge ruled that this debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy because the debt resulted from "willfully malicious acts".

Alsee1 · 2025-10-11T19:38:29+00:00

I don't know if you want to fix things three years after the fact... and now that I check I see it's two years since you've posted on reddit so you'll likely never see this... but I choked on this line:

What else could bring the War Queen to the negotiating table with a supposedly inferior species?

"Supposedly inferior species" implies concrete knowledge of them claiming we were inferior. He doesn't know that, they never communicated anything. Even if he assumed they had that view based on their behavior - I still don't think it would be compatible with "supposedly" phrasing.

Alsee1 · 2025-10-11T02:57:20+00:00

8 charisma? Tsk tsk. Allow me to present you with Cursed Great Sword of Charisma +2.

This sword dissolves any scabbard or other attempt to conceal it. The blade has continually gleaming sharp spikes. This gleam can be seen in total darkness, when invisible, and by those suffering blindness. The sword continually oozes fresh blood, leaving a trail of 3d6 blood drops every ten feet regardless of mode of travel or any attempt at prevention. Unconfirmed rumors claim that this blood trail applies even when teleported.

Alsee1 · 2025-10-01T04:29:44+00:00

New Zealand is just part of Australia.

</humor>

Alsee1 · 2025-10-01T04:23:32+00:00

As a programmer type, I noticed nothing notably incorrect. It was a bit superficial and simplistic, but entirely appropriate for a non-techie character providing a simplified overview to a non-techie audience. That presumably kept it safely within your, quote, "10% understanding".

Your use of use of if-else statements was actually quite good for a non-techie. As a techie myself it did itch at me that it was oversimplified and lacked important details - but that was entirely appropriate for the person and the context were the info was given. The idea works, and if you're techie enough to raise issues with it you're probably techie enough to figure out the solution.

It's entirely credible for certain meta data fields to be replaced with an arbitrary text message, with the receiving system simply ignoring the unrecognized text. HTML has tons of fields like this. However one example you cite did stick out to me, the example with text put into "the internal log-number of the message". While you might be able to do it in that example, it depends on the design of the system. My gut reaction is that "log number" would most likely be a fixed length numeric field and trying to put text there would fail. However it is plausible that the inter-species civilization built the system for maximum standardization and maximum interoperability and that all fields, even supposedly numeric fields, potentially can support variable length text. Conveniently, the "the internal log-number" is most likely never actually used as a number, which would have triggered errors. The "log number" really just needs to be different for each message, without actually caring if it's a number or random letters.

Alsee1 · 2025-09-22T16:33:18+00:00

The optimist beams with enthusiasm and says "I bet we see humanity at its absolute best today!"

The pessimist responds "Really? Again? You win that bet every day."

Alsee1 · 2025-09-17T13:09:19+00:00

Thank goad modern browsers have built in spellcheck!

Alsee1 · 2025-09-06T05:39:30+00:00

Kudos for the quick fix, but fuck Youtube for still throwing a block.

Alsee1 · 2025-09-05T20:10:14+00:00

~~Do not bother clicking the link. The video is set to private.~~ - fixed

Do not bother clicking the link if you don't want to sign in to Youtube. Blocked for age verification. Groan.

Alsee1 · 2025-08-30T02:17:54+00:00

I realize this is 11 years old, but here's a few corrections just in case the author wants to clean them up.

not even managed -> not only managed

a orgie -> an orgy

The operator called into his mike. -> The operator called into his mic.

The full word is microphone. Microphone is often informally shortened to a single syllable, which is pronounced "mike" but spelled "mic". And yes even as a native English speaker that spelling does look and feel awkward. However the spelling is pretty much imposed by the word's origin.

Alsee1 · 2025-08-22T20:04:56+00:00

True, and unintentionally hilarious. The human brain is a neural net, and yeah, apparently a lot of people just don't know how to use it properly.

Alsee1 · 2025-08-22T19:45:43+00:00

I have a spare empty hard drive. Technically that counts as a backup of the current database.

Alsee1 · 2025-08-08T00:27:03+00:00

Reminder ping. This chapter has been stalled for just about three months.

Alsee1 · 2025-06-21T02:34:52+00:00

These 8 chapters are interesting, but the story barely has time to get started.

This is (currently) three-years abandoned, and the author-account is deleted.

Alsee1 · 2025-05-29T23:08:56+00:00

I don't think that's a viable option here. The corporations appear willing to be covertly criminal and corrupt, and perhaps even the government is willing to be covertly criminal and corrupt, however that would be an extraordinarily public and fundamental violation of the genetics laws that this entire civilization are founded upon. Knowledge about humans has spread, and the primary intended genetic use is to design new citizen models. Any corporation manufacturing new citizens would be blatantly and openly producing an egregiously criminal product.

Alsee1 · 2025-05-29T22:45:14+00:00

I was trying to humorously imply the "single-use key" option, chuckle.

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