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  • LNH20: Smash Comics! Featuring Corporation-Smasher #5: Fall of a Titan

    From Scott Eiler@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 1 04:16:59 2022
    Corporation Smasher was on patrol. Her trainee, Dragon Corporation
    Smasher, had been sent on furlough by the Corporations.

    Then a male figure (with long hair, wearing a wide-brimmed hat) burst in through a universal interface. "Greetings! I suppose you can call me Alt-Corporation Smasher!"

    "ehh, okay, what are you here to smash?"

    "I don't have to smash anything! I'm only here to watch!"

    "Watch what?"

    "The Absolute Telephone Titan corp is about to die. Its business model
    has always been to consume other companies. This worked well for it,
    until it started consuming companies which had nothing to do with
    telephones. It got indigestion, and vomited them out."

    "So?'

    Alt-Corporation Smasher smirked. "Now it feeds upon itself."

    "Eww! What happens then?"

    "Probably it gets eaten. I think by MacroSoft."

    "Okaay..." Corporation Smasher relaxed. "That's just what corporations
    do."

    "Even on this scale?

    "Absolutely."

    "How shall you smash a corporation *that big*??"

    "With *one blow*!"

    "...Okaay!" Alt-Corporation Smasher gave two thumbs up. "I see this
    universe is in good hands!"

    Then he of course disappeared. But Corporation Smasher remained on her mission.

    ...

    Author's Note... Instant story, based upon current conditions!

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    "Your Royal Highness, instead of devoting yourself exclusively
    to Minerva, should, instead, rather offer sacrifice at the altars
    of Bacchus, Orpheus, Venus, and Morpheus."

    - Advice to Prince Duarte of Portugal. From "The golden age of
    Prince Henry the Navigator", by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins.
    Coming soon to Project Gutenberg.

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  • From Drew Nilium@21:1/5 to Scott Eiler on Tue Jul 26 01:42:19 2022
    So, I should clarify, this wasn't meant as a cascade or a free add-on story; it's part of a larger narrative I'm writing myself. I apologize for not making this clearer. That said, this issue is pretty cool, and I'm gonna read thru and comment on it; I'm just probably not going to include it in my later stuff.

    On 4/1/22 12:16 AM, Scott Eiler wrote:
    <snip>
    Then a male figure (with long hair, wearing a wide-brimmed hat) burst in through
    a universal interface.  "Greetings!  I suppose you can call me Alt-Corporation
    Smasher!"

    Ah, yr standard self-insert type. :>

    "The Absolute Telephone Titan corp is about to die.  Its business model has always been to consume other companies.  This worked well for it, until it started consuming companies which had nothing to do with telephones.  It got indigestion, and vomited them out."

    "So?'

    Alt-Corporation Smasher smirked.  "Now it feeds upon itself."

    Okay, that is an extremely cool interpretation of this stuff. |>

    "Okaay..."  Corporation Smasher relaxed.  "That's just what corporations do."

    "Even on this scale?

    "Absolutely."

    Yeah that sounds right.

    Alt-Corporation Smasher gave two thumbs up.  "I see this universe
    is in good hands!"

    Then he of course disappeared.  But Corporation Smasher remained on her mission.

    Drew "all titans will die someday" Nilium

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  • From Scott Eiler@21:1/5 to Drew Nilium on Tue Jul 26 02:00:01 2022
    I'm sorry, did I violate boundary on Corporation Smasher? I apologize.
    But I did think LNH*20* was shared-universe.

    Anyway, thanks. And you're right about me and self-inserts and
    corporations.

    Scott

    On 2022-07-25 18:42, Drew Nilium wrote:
    So, I should clarify, this wasn't meant as a cascade or a free add-on
    story; it's part of a larger narrative I'm writing myself. I apologize
    for not making this clearer. That said, this issue is pretty cool, and
    I'm gonna read thru and comment on it; I'm just probably not going to
    include it in my later stuff.

    On 4/1/22 12:16 AM, Scott Eiler wrote:
    <snip>
    Then a male figure (with long hair, wearing a wide-brimmed hat) burst
    in through a universal interface.  "Greetings!  I suppose you can call
    me Alt-Corporation Smasher!"

    Ah, yr standard self-insert type. :>

    "The Absolute Telephone Titan corp is about to die.  Its business
    model has always been to consume other companies.  This worked well
    for it, until it started consuming companies which had nothing to do
    with telephones.  It got indigestion, and vomited them out."

    "So?'

    Alt-Corporation Smasher smirked.  "Now it feeds upon itself."

    Okay, that is an extremely cool interpretation of this stuff. |>

    "Okaay..."  Corporation Smasher relaxed.  "That's just what
    corporations do."

    "Even on this scale?

    "Absolutely."

    Yeah that sounds right.

    Alt-Corporation Smasher gave two thumbs up.  "I see this universe is
    in good hands!"

    Then he of course disappeared.  But Corporation Smasher remained on
    her mission.

    Drew "all titans will die someday" Nilium


    --
    -- (signed) Scott Eiler 8{D> ------ http://www.eilertech.com/ -------

    "Your Royal Highness, instead of devoting yourself exclusively
    to Minerva, should, instead, rather offer sacrifice at the altars
    of Bacchus, Orpheus, Venus, and Morpheus."

    - Advice to Prince Duarte of Portugal. From "The golden age of
    Prince Henry the Navigator", by Joaquim Pedro Oliveira Martins.
    Coming soon to Project Gutenberg.

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  • From Drew Nilium@21:1/5 to Scott Eiler on Sun Aug 21 02:42:22 2022
    On 7/25/22 10:00 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
    I'm sorry, did I violate boundary on Corporation Smasher?  I apologize.  But I
    did think LNH*20* was shared-universe.

    It's a shared universe, totally, but individual series aren't necessarily shared.

    Anyway, thanks.  And you're right about me and self-inserts and corporations.

    :3 Heck yeah!

    Drew "capitalism delenda est" Nilium

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