Nerd Rantings FTW

Purple prose isn't the enemy boring prose is. yeah you can overwrite but you can also underwrite until everything feels flat. use weird words sometimes. get poetic about the wrong things. spend a whole paragraph on how light hits a window if it matters to the moment. literary fiction gets to be flowery why can't you? find your own level of extra. some readers want lean and punchy. some want lush and dense. write sentences that feel good in your mouth when you read them out loud. if it sounds like YOU that's style baby.

The 'ingredients you can pronounce means it's healthy' line implies a world in which the kind of nutrition a person requires scales with their biology education and grasp of phonics. Which isn't true, of course, but sure would imply some interesting worldbuilding if it were

"Potassium cyanide. Arsenic trioxide. Polonium 210. Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin," I say, smugly and with full confidence, before downing the glass of wine my political rival insisted on pouring for me. Seconds later, she watches with a smirk as I collapse writhing to the ground, in the knowledge that I never could hit that "R" in "pinot noir" quite right

This what I mean when I say science writing is terrible and you need to actually go back to the academic publications themselves to get what’s going on

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

are they hydrogen or helium

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

im an astrophysicist

but but, science is science?!

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

Yelling “we got company” right before being attacked by a horde of enemies probably feels good as fuck for an action protagonist

being attracted to someone’s voice is a real thing i swear