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Chuck Wendig

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THE MARTIAN, except Matt Damon plays some junior tech bro using a Martian WeWork space who gets left on Mars when his Orbital Cybertruck takes off without him, and he can’t grow potatoes because he doesn’t know how to do anything except AI prompts; he dies rage-tweeting into the blackness of space

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Leah Shaffer's avatar Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social
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This is sadly probably more realistic at this point than the story of the world working together to save him. :(

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Chris Farnell's avatar Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social
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At the end the test supervisors open the simulator and drag out the body, complaining that's the sixth one they've lost this week.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat's avatar Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social
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It’s not that he doesn’t know HOW to grow potatoes, it’s that all agriculture on Mars has DRM, and he doesn’t have the correct license key (his firm was unable to afford “Ag Worker” access permissions for everyone). Thus, the potatoes never sprout.

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