#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 25 - Does 'destiny' have a role in modern fiction?
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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 25 - Does 'destiny' have a role in modern fiction?
Not unless you can figure out a whole new way to subvert it (or are working in a genre whose readers have Expectations): it's a cliché in high fantasy and plays into reactionary religious and monarchical tropes.
(Subverting it egregiously is on my to-do list, but my to-do list is longer than my current life expectancy.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 25 - Does 'destiny' have a role in modern fiction?
Not unless you can figure out a whole new way to subvert it (or are working in a genre whose readers have Expectations): it's a cliché in high fantasy and plays into reactionary religious and monarchical tropes.
(Subverting it egregiously is on my to-do list, but my to-do list is longer than my current life expectancy.)
#WritersCoffeeClub Footnote: "Destiny" tends to show up more in fantasy than SF. On my to-do list is a hard-SF Chosen One narrative—our protag knows from an early age they're not like the other kids in the hive. Only as they near adulthood do they learn that they're a member of a rival eusocial hominin subspecies, and they've been created to infiltrate a neighbouring hive and kill and replace the queen ...
Like, "Hellstrom's Hive" meets this whackiness in ants: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09425-w
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Che giornata infernale.
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Appena ggiornato, temerariamente, a Fedora 43 appena ho ricevuto la notifica.
Beh tutto gira benone, zero problemi per ora sul mio laptop. Ottimo lavoro @fedora
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@cow I feel like it's usually older games that are more likely to have problems in wine, and newer stuff generally has a better shot at working out of the box. I wonder how much of that is because it's a lot more common these days for games to not touch windows APIs directly, either because they're using a big popular game engine or because they're using SDL or similar to abstract it all.
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@aeva it's so wild that in 2025 I can buy a game on _release day_ and expect that it will just work on Linux!
I almost never have to check Windb/Protondb for compatibility anymore :)
(That said, my personal white whale for Wine compatibility is a 15 year old WPF game called Academagia. I've tried so many tricks to get it to work and have failed every time.
Wine is fantastic now at running graphically intensive games that use DirectX/OpenGL/Vulkan/whatever. It still struggles with little spreadsheet games built on UI libraries like this one.)
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83 figli? Ma chi è l'inseminator?
Auguri e figli neutri, Diella! Io e il mio virus senziente neanche riusciamo a concepirne uno. [SI SCHERZA]https://www.facta.news/articoli/albania-ministra-diella-intelligenza-artificiale-figli
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Ooo, there's a Release Candidate for #Mastodon 4.5. I admit, I'm pretty excited for this one.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0-rc.1
edit: Obviously not available on Fosstodon yet. They don't do non-stable releases.
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On the one hand, Americans' healthcare is going to become completely unaffordable. On the other hand, millions of Americans won't be able to pay for food.
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@repubblica @ambiente-la-repubblica-repubblica occorre piantumare oculatamente ampliando i boschi ma già realizzando ampi sentieri tagliafuoco e invasi per lo spegnimento incendi.
Si potranno poi abbattere selettivamente piante per creare larghi sentieri tagliafuoco... la legna così ottenuta si potrà vendere finanziando i costi.
Inquinamento inferiore degli incendi incontrollati che pure ammazzano fauna e flora....
Certo... tangenti derivanti da pompieri privati, elicotteri e aerei
