a story i kind of want to write is your generic "earth goes to space war with aliens" novel, except focused on, say, a single ship's IT department, and the ungodly bullshit they have to behind the scenes to keep everything working
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wrangling with Space Microsoft to keep their licenses up to date, keeping the shipyard's cost-cutting measures from asphyxiating the crew daily, that kind of shit
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contrast the glitzy tech every sci-fi show has with the grim and dirty realities of cybercapitalism
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a space war novel set in a world where transfering a file from one tablet to another cannot in fact be accomplished with a flick of the finger, and requires roughly ten minutes of bullshit and hardware that should be completely unnecessary
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e.g. what things actually look like when capitalists go to war
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an entire space battle lost, entailing thousands of deaths, because the licenses for their targeting software expired at precisely the worst possible moment
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the crew going without a main display screen for weeks because a kernel upgrade broke the drivers for the legacy video cable standard they were unknowingly using, and converters and new cables have to be shipped all the way from a MarsCorp distributor back in the Belt
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i have to try to remember to come back to this thread and plug my buddy's anime VN when it gets released, the problems are more Space Linux than Space Microsoft but it scratches some of this itch
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