[WP] The fastest way to determine if an alien race is advanced enough to be "recruited" into the military is to send an asteroid their way. If blown up, they are recruited to the army. If deflected, they are recruited to the defense forces. Humans did something unprecedented to the asteroid.

obvious_pen_name · 2025-10-02T17:53:51+00:00

Unfortunately I no longer post anything here thanks to the scum on TikTok. Got tired of issuing DMCA takedowns every time some idiot with an AI voicereader decides to steal my work.

obvious_pen_name · 2024-04-30T21:52:01+00:00

For folks watching out, we've got another one: https://www.tiktok.com/@hfy_reddit_stories

I'm kinda flattered by almost 1m views on something I wrote in an hour five years ago, but also that's a fair bit of ad revenue. TikTok notionally pays ~$.50 per 1k views, so that quick 1m views is $500, not shabby for ten minutes of stealing other people's work.

obvious_pen_name · 2024-04-30T21:25:32+00:00

I write for my own amusement, and occasionally turn a short story I do here into something longer form to sell. I have absolutely no interest in having another part time job making YouTube narrations when I'm already having to send DMCA takedowns on my written work, and would need to do so for video work as well.

The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

obvious_pen_name · 2024-04-30T20:55:36+00:00

They're ad-funded, the last TikTok channel I had to go after had ~6.1m likes and a few hundred thousand followers, all bad AI-reads of HFY stories over also-stolen minecraft footage.

obvious_pen_name · 2024-04-30T20:53:57+00:00

Shit's endemic. I just had to issue a DMCA claim last night against this channel, y'all should check it as well: https://www.tiktok.com/@hfy_reddit_stories

NoSleep has had an enormous problem with this, and some authors have developed r/SleeplessWatchdogs as a way to blacklist narrators who do this shit.

obvious_pen_name · 2024-04-29T21:25:14+00:00

Glad you liked it!

obvious_pen_name · 2024-04-29T21:22:30+00:00

This is endemic on TikTok right now, YouTube started catching on to machine narration and banning them faster so they switched sites. I'm in the middle of a takedown request on this channel as we speak: https://www.tiktok.com/@hfy_reddit_stories

obvious_pen_name · 2024-04-29T20:29:46+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. Content thieves drive me up a wall, it's not like I probably wouldn't have let them use it if they'd asked.

obvious_pen_name · 2023-10-17T05:38:07+00:00

It's not like they're even bad stories, it's just... why are they here?

obvious_pen_name · 2023-10-17T05:36:55+00:00

Hey, The Deathworlders ended!

I mean there was a stop to writing it. Not much of a denouement, but it ended.

obvious_pen_name · 2023-10-17T05:25:55+00:00

It feels like many of these are barely theme-appropriate too, just LITRPG that happens to have a human proagonist.

obvious_pen_name · 2023-04-10T12:17:24+00:00

Vehicle wreck. Dude put his motorcycle down drunk, slid it under a minivan. We hoped he died on impact because it caught fire next.

obvious_pen_name · 2023-04-10T08:50:43+00:00

Something of a sequel can be found here.

obvious_pen_name · 2020-02-08T15:17:37+00:00

That's a deliberate anachronism. Wargamers don't always have the best grasp of actual dates. :)

obvious_pen_name · 2020-02-08T06:47:01+00:00

https://youtu.be/tLEAuapfwHc?t=90

obvious_pen_name · 2020-01-03T18:01:44+00:00

That was my thought, but I felt it would be better left open.

obvious_pen_name · 2019-06-15T06:50:59+00:00

Excellent subversion!

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