Wake the fuck up, samurai

Sometimes I wonder what weird archaic stuff is still rattling around Arasaka’s corporate structure given it’s been a zaibatsu for like 100 years or so. Mostly I wonder what network ghosts and other haunted technical infrastructure they have because lemme tell you, hypercapitalist sprawling tech companies have some Shit going on in the background and it never gets fixed until the people thanklessly duct taping it back into place give up or die. Imagine the technical debt going on in like the HR system while R&D gets all the shiny new toys, and then someone has to make all these systems talk to each other.

my next V is a consultant tasked with overhauling the legacy system arasaka uses for managing inventory for its hotel kitchens. it's a rails app with 100k lines of code and a mysql database stuck on a major version that hasn't been supported since 2013

HR finally gets enough money to upgrade their systems and they launch a six month study of two different programs. After six months, they file for a six month extension. Finally they decide that they want neither, then spend six months going back and forth with IT asking why can't they just upgrade Microsoft Access.

HR finally decides not to upgrade systems after all: 46 dead, thousands injured (the system failed, so totals may not be entirely accurate)

it’s been talked about a million times but way too many books now have a problem with telling and not showing. a character in the book i’m reading rn said “my therapist says my anorexia and drug use is my way of gaining control” girl i don’t want to hear that i want to see you starving yourself and snorting coke every time something goes wrong

anyone wanna have a toxic homoerotic psychosexual rivalry with me? it does have to be weird

your kink is not my kink *but your kink is okay* don't forget that part

honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before

a lot of writing is sort of watching the film in your head like oh sorry can’t write the chapter yet i have to repeat hallucinate the dialogue first