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[Egan_BW]

Okay so, there's the genre of Alternative-History, where the writer writes the past, except intentionally wrong. Then there's some Science-Fiction stories which were set at a future date as of the time they were written, but which has now passed and are thus stories about an unintentionally wrong version of the past.
The question is such: are there stories set in the future which try to be intentionally wrong about what will happen, in the vein of Alternative History?

[wierd]

Both are narrative fiction.
Both use parallel cultural fixtures to build rapport with the reader, to better establish reader interest.

Nothing further to see there.

[Egan_BW]

The cowards. Everyone knows that if you don't meticulously build your own entirely original universe with no relation to reality you're not a real fiction author.

[scriver]

What if you write alternative fiction but then it starts changing history?

[Naturegirl1999]

What if you write alternative fiction but then it starts changing history?

You have either found a magic book, magic paper, or a magic writ9ng utensil, maybe a magic computer, when you know this stuff is happening, you now need to be careful what you write

[wierd]

Or you are just a very influential author.

Take for instance, the circumstance of George Orwell.  He never intended for 1984 to be an instruction manual, but here we fucking are.

[Naturegirl1999]

Or you are just a very influential author.

Take for instance, the circumstance of George Orwell.  He never intended for 1984 to be an instruction manual, but here we fucking are.

Ah yes, fair point

[KittyTac]

Is there a way to hide threads user-side? Some things (like politics, I'm just quitting it for good) I'm not interested in.

[Eschar]

I've never been able to find a way to stop the new replies notifications for a thread - I assume that's what you're referring to?

[Egan_BW]

Someone made a browser plugin for that a while back.

[Reelya]

Yes, I made that.

EDIT: here's the guts of it

Code: [Select]

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Bay 12 Trimmer
// @match        *http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/*
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

let ignore_topic_list =
[
    "100379",
    "82547",
];

(function() {
    'use strict';

    let q1 = document.querySelectorAll(".windowbg a[href*=topicseen]");

    for(let i = 0; i < q1.length; i++)
    {
        for(let j = 0; j < ignore_topic_list.length; j++)
        {
            if(q1[i].href.indexOf("topic="+ignore_topic_list[j]+".0") > -1)
            {
                q1[i].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.removeChild(q1[i].parentNode.parentNode);
            }
        }
    }
})();
Get Tampermonkey and paste that into a new script, add the ID's of threads into the list to have them auto-deleted from replies. I put comments after the IDs to remind me which topic they were, but they're not necessary so I omitted them for clarity so you can see the important part. Comments work like so:

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let ignore_topic_list =
[
    "100379", // Word Game
    "82547", // Music Thread
    "117154", // soldier toughening
    "172537", // terrible suggestions - DF
...
I did have a more elaborate version of this script going before, but the code was lost when my browser decided to die or something. Definitely use TamperMonkey now, and not the old GreaseMonkey plug-in. TamperMonkey is just much better supported and has backup features that GreaseMonkey lacked. This one is a basic one and you'll have to add extra thread IDs manually. It's possible to make one where you get an extra "block topic" button and those topics are stored on a Google Sheet spreadsheet page, which is also read to work out what you want to block.

[KittyTac]

Alright, thanks, I'll try it out.

[Reelya]

BTW that one hides things in your replies thread. It would be easy to convert it to hiding ones in the general boards too, but I'll have to do that later if you want that.

[methylatedspirit]

I was trying to mount a CPU cooler (stock Intel cooler, copper-core, LGA 1150) to a motherboard, and I accidentally broke one of the mounting pins on that cooler. Every other pin seemed to mount correctly, and it's sturdy enough, I guess.

How screwed am I? Will the CPU burn itself to death the moment I turn it on, or would it still be fine?