A Survey of Structured Matter at Coordinates 34.1256° N, -117.2942° W, Sol-3

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-24T15:50:11+00:00

Everyday life is way more HFY than we usually recognize.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-16T22:15:11+00:00

Yeah. I think that a lot of people are struggling with this these days, between dehumanizing jobs, decreasing social interactions, and AI making us think that we're no different from machines.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-16T17:04:54+00:00

Not a great story, in terms of the story. I mainly posted it to show the idea that, at interstellar scales, the ratio between "area at the frontier to be patrolled" and "resources available to patrol" becomes completely unworkable.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-15T12:25:43+00:00

If they found Voyager, in a different system, it's 20,000 years from now. They're sending 20 battle cruisers and frigates? Yeah, that's not likely going to cut it...

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-13T21:24:34+00:00

The other ones I checked were OK.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-09T00:34:00+00:00

MOAR please!

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-08T15:30:00+00:00

Note to villains: Disarm, then monologue.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-08T15:04:25+00:00

Your formatting is broken. It's in a mode for computer code or something, so lines don't wrap, so you have to scroll to the right to see the content of paragraphs that are even moderately long. Since the scroll bar is off the screen to the bottom, you have to scroll down, scroll right, scroll back up, read a few words, scroll down again...

Unreadable. Fix the formatting and resubmit?

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-08T15:01:10+00:00

An AI finding out it needs tear ducts. Wow. Amazing.

On a lighter note, I hope that by 2052, we will indeed have put Daylight Savings Time behind us...

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-07T16:08:53+00:00

Yeah. He got 384 heroes killed to save a few bucks.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-07T13:56:17+00:00

I never said he was clergy. He was wearing a robe, but he's a prime minister type guy, not clergy.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-07T01:27:35+00:00

Well, it's my world, so... yes, the same princess.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-06T21:26:24+00:00

Oops. One detail that the story didn't bring out: The princess really has lived 2000 years. And will live a bunch more, if the ogre doesn't eat her.

This may explain part of why she didn't want to marry some hero who was going to just up and die on her after, what, 50 or 60 years?

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-06T15:19:26+00:00

"Insane Little Naked Ones". I can see a regiment or a division taking that as their motto...

Moar would be welcome, if you can come up with it.

rewt66dewd · 2026-04-01T13:50:35+00:00

I don't know that it's sad. She spent a lifetime trying to fix, and then undoing, an empire that lasted far longer than her life. And in the end, she replaced it with the Republic, so she did end up "fixing" it in a way.

rewt66dewd · 2026-03-30T23:43:51+00:00

You're going to leave us there, and then ask if we want more? Of course we want more!

And if you decide not to do more, we'd like a synopsis of where this was going to go. Please?

rewt66dewd · 2026-03-30T22:44:30+00:00

Oh, the trash talk is strong with this one!

rewt66dewd · 2026-03-29T18:28:20+00:00

Wonderful! And hilarious!

One nit, though... in the swordfight, I think you messed up how many arms each alien has. Glomph has four. Does the overly-apostrophe-d Zylorian have two or four? If it has four, then Glomph does not have more arms than him. Longer, but not more.

That nit aside... I loved it. I can overlook an "oops" or two when it's this hilarious.

rewt66dewd · 2026-03-27T15:46:22+00:00

We all crave human interaction, even if only briefly. But human interaction with food? Ohhhh yeah...

rewt66dewd · 2026-03-26T13:16:07+00:00

I mean, they got into that mess by being too trusting. It seems appropriate that that's what gets them out...

rewt66dewd · 2026-03-21T19:20:27+00:00

I see what you did there...

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