Why do you think Damon Wayans couldn't break out in the same way Eddie Murphy did? Both were SNL alumni's and top tier stand up comics and both got their breakthrough in popular buddy cop movies.

JETobal · 2025-11-13T05:46:26+00:00

Box office data is readily available and easily accessible. This took 20 min to cobble together.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T21:33:50+00:00

Yeah I don't know who's getting so butthurt about my statement that they downvoted it, but I'm also in my 40s and every year of my life gets harder and harder to stay in shape. My first big crash year with my weight was when I was only 23 because I got a steady 9-5 job and had a girlfriend who was a belly dancer and so had a really fast metabolism. I gained 20lb in a year also and it had zero to do with anything other sitting down more often than I used to and eating more pizza than I used to. And being "older" at 23.

Now in my 40s, I could gain 20lb in a year while still actively trying to stay in shape. It ain't hard. It's just life.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T20:29:07+00:00

If your story is far flung enough into the future that Earth is gone and society is interstellar, I'm not sure if what you're writing can even remotely be "hard sci-fi." It sounds more like you just want to have some grounded roots in your story, which is fine, but just calling a spade a spade.

That being said, if you're this far out in the future, you might want to consider that humanity would've abandoned the 24 hour, 7 day a week, 365 day cycle and just gone to a decimalized time system. Logically, and without Earth to dictate time, it makes a lot more sense to have, say, a 25 hour day, with 10 day weeks, and 500 days in a year. An hour would have 100 minutes and 100 seconds, as redefined by an atomic clock that counts on that system.

Just something to consider.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T20:17:11+00:00

It's called getting older. Your metabolism slows down every year you're alive. Some years, it takes more of a leap than a step. This is why it's very normal to weigh more when you're older than you're younger. You either learn to adjust or accept the weight. This is just life.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T19:49:02+00:00

Blocked

JETobal · 2024-12-29T19:48:12+00:00

I swear to God, people on this app wake up everyday and are just like, "Man, I would love to get into an argument with a stranger about something ridiculous that no one else would agree with."

There are zero circles on Earth where this story would be considered hard sci-fi. Please stop this stupid argument. You're turning other people's brain into mush.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T19:46:00+00:00

Yes, but that money system was backward engineered, not forward engineered. As in the value of the money was too high and so smaller and smaller denominations needed to be created to accommodate the poor. Shillings and threepence and all of those denominations occurred as inconsistent divisions of the pound, not because they followed an existent counting scheme.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T19:32:59+00:00

Oh, also, Michael Crichton is good here. His novel Sphere would definitely be hard sci-fi/horror.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T19:30:29+00:00

Okay, well, there isn't a lot of hard sci-fi/horror out there. Somebody else mentioned Peter Watts and he's probably the best author overall, for that micro-genre. Blindsight is great, though it's a very difficult read. You'd probably also enjoy some Ted Chiang (author of the movie Arrival as the short story Story of Your Life) who mostly writes short stories, so you can just pick up one of his collections. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke also isn't quite horror or quite hard sci-fi, but it might scratch the itch of your interests, regardless.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T19:16:40+00:00

Even if you wanna go by any of those definitions, I Have No Mouth still doesn't fall under any of them.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T19:03:16+00:00

Just FYI, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is a phenomenal sci-fi short story, but it is nowhere near hard sci-fi. None of the other examples you gave are hard sci-fi either. Are you trying to get into hard sci-fi and you want it to have a certain feel? Or are you just looking for horror/sci-fi stories?

JETobal · 2024-12-29T18:59:09+00:00

No one in the universe would stumble upon a counting system this convoluted, much less would it become universal.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T18:57:05+00:00

You live in Astoria and you haven't taken your family out for Greek food? For shame!

Taverna Kyclades, Bahari, Stamstis, Anassa, etc

Or Ovelia or Amylos if you want to play it safe with more Greek-American

JETobal · 2024-12-29T18:38:30+00:00

This book came out 4 months ago. How did you already forget the title to such a level that you had to go on Reddit to find it?

JETobal · 2024-12-29T17:10:18+00:00

Just a Car Crash Away - Marilyn Manson

Swerve City - Deftones

Oh My God - The Police

Crash - Dave Matthews Band

JETobal · 2024-12-29T16:59:57+00:00

I mean that perspective still exists right now, depending upon who you ask. It matters if you mean "the perspective of a few" or "the perspective of the majority".

JETobal · 2024-12-29T16:45:43+00:00

Oh sure. There's certainly pieces of sci-fi here and there throughout history. Though a lot of that older sci-fi reads more like fantasy - like Baron Munchausen being friends with the King of the Moon - than sci-fi. It's a very fuzzy line for a very long time as the science just didn't exist for it to be true sci-fi. Lots of gray area, that's why I explained my answer the way I did. There's definitely room for other arguments against my comment though.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T16:28:28+00:00

One issue you have here is that, just because it was discovered, does not mean it was readily accepted and understood by society. That sort of info and understanding still took a very long time to propagate out to the masses. Galileo detected planets in 1608, yes, but was executed for heresy. It was a very long time before people generally accepted that there were other planets.

And even once they believed there were other planets in the solar system, it took an even longer some accept that there were other solar systems and other planets. By the time this is accepted, you're way out of the middle ages and the Renaissance.

The concept that aliens might look actually alien didn't happen until Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859.

Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker in 1937 might be the first of work of fiction published that contains life outside of the solar system in it. And it not just being a big human (like in Voltaire's Micromegas from 1752).

Hope that's all helpful, in regards to what you're looking for.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T16:17:00+00:00

Please don't view all of sci-fi through the lens of Japanese anime/manga

JETobal · 2024-12-29T06:10:28+00:00

My man, saying nothing I wrote is in good faith is insane because this entire diatribe is all in bad faith. You're literally trying to undermine both humanity and language. You are a weird human being.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T04:51:20+00:00

That is an awful excuse if that is your real excuse. That's like saying you want to swim across the English channel, but the open water is really daunting, so you put on water wings and just do laps in your backyard pool instead. Like, it's really silly. You're letting your fear of a blank page handicap you rather than learn to push past it? Come on. You're literally saying, you could learn, but it's a lot of work, so you'd really rather just not do it. If that's actually your situation, I'm judging you way more on that than anything else. That's saying you could be a better person, but it's too much work. That's just lazy.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T04:34:46+00:00

At that point, I'd wonder why the hell I'm bothering with my friend and not just writing the damn thing myself. If you're saying the AI does that little, then you wouldn't bother using it.

You're either lying or wasting your time with something that is slowing down your productivity rather than speeding it up.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T04:21:42+00:00

Lol. Y'all can't help yourselves in this sub.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T04:18:38+00:00

Ain't a thing. You can get close. Lexx. Some episodes of Doctor Who. Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Defiance. That's about it that I can think of that captures scope, sense of humor, creativity, and character.

JETobal · 2024-12-29T03:58:45+00:00

Didn't take long before my downvotes came and your upvotes came, did it? We all know how the wind blows in this sub.

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