Hello, my name is Jack

by on August 29, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Pre-War economy enshrined the idea of getting the next new hot thing as quickly as possible. If your phone was a year old you needed something better. People bought new cars every two or three years. Toys that broke just needed replacing. There was no need to fix anything. We were a throwaway society, obsessed with getting newer and better things. It was a real shock to a lot of people when The War stopped that trend. We had to keep stuff designed to wear out in three years for twenty years and more. It fundamentally changed how people looked at buying stuff. Maybe war can be good for something after all.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on August 28, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The Texas courts were always quick to throw out lawsuits against the Twilight series. The Hollywood courts ruled in favor of Disney though, and that set off a long series of court duels between the companies. They escalated during Twilight’s second season into a full-scale cyberwar when Hollywood hackers began bringing down networks that broadcast the series. Texas hackers responded in kind of course. It is ironic that a series based on a real world cyberwar generated another cyberwar based on it.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on August 27, 2015 at 12:01 am
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The later half of the twenty first century became an odd mix of war and peace. The Chinese and Russians expanded their influence on all fronts, absorbing many of the nations around them. And so many others came to America and Europe for protection. But the Second Great Depression, the Islamic Jihad, and the Cybernetic Wars had affected them worse than the other nations. It simply took them time to recover. But once they did, neither the Russians nor the Chinese felt like testing them. They all had many new acquisitions to digest after all.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on August 26, 2015 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The War forced changes in most of our lives. Even those who never raised a weapon in anger felt the effects of increased prices of civilian products. The combined industrial might of entire interstellar nations and alliances poured into building the weapons it took to fight the Shang and their allies. There just wasn’t a lot left over to make new cars, phones, or even toys for kids. People had to keep what they had working, because replacements were hard to come by. That took some people a long time to figure out.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on August 25, 2015 at 12:01 am
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Twilight lost one of its main cast members at the end of season one to a Disney buyout and other allegations. Not wanting to let a good scandal go to waste, Twilight’s ever-snarky studio advertised their next season as “the series that brought you Disney’s next great action star” and there were more lawsuits. The Texas courts dropped them and more people came to check out the series that was making such a controversy. The network laughed its way to the bank while Disney was not so amused.

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