When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working...

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  … Im now invested in what happens next

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s from the Jurassic Park novel. Spoiler: It kinda goes downhill.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The latest one wasn’t bad, just same story again, nothing original except more water and dumb choices.

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  • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They get eaten by velociraptors.

    In context, this makes sense.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The load bearing laptop crashes the entire internet and everyone dies. The end.

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  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The book is even better than the movie, don’t rob yourself of a great time.

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• garbagebagel@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Marginally related but today was having a meeting with someone who is notorious for not being plugged in. I wish I had a recording of it because she literally went “oh sh-” mid sentence and then was booted as her computer shut down. Impeccable timing.

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Heh, that’s happened a lot since our org updated to Win11. Updates in the middle of the day (despite IT assuring us those only install after hours 🙄) and people just randomly drop from meetings as their PCs reboot.

    Today (well, yesterday now), mine was just “Preparing to hibernate due to low battery” and I was like “wait, what?!” and was frantically making sure everything got saved (this old workhorse doesn’t always want to resume from hibernate). Turns out I had the cord plugged into the laptop but didn’t plug it into the outlet Facepalm

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• Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love the movie, but my spouse talked me into reading the book and it’s an absolute masterpiece. Michael Crichton is to science what Steven king is to scary.

  The tongue scene was easily the worst thing I’ve ever read.

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This was the first Crichton novel I read, and it got me into his other works. Most of them have the common theme of:

    1. There’s a secret science place where science happens
    2. At event causes people not normally associated with the science place to have to go to the science place
    3. The science at the science place goes horribly wrong
    4. The science place blows up in the end

    That formula doesn’t really detract from any of his books, but I did laugh when I had read enough of his catalog to see the pattern.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is a structure even more common than just one author. It needs a name like the hero’s journey has. Heck, your summary works for Alien Ressurection!

      I nominate “Science goes wrong”

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    • AliasVortex@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not to nitpick, but it’s only been a single page and I already feel like the author has over used the word “said”, is all the dialogue this bad?

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have you ever read State of Fear?

      I don't really recommend it.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is that when the T-rex brings Dr. Ellie Sattler to a quivering orgasm?

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• supermurs@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now I want to read the novel again.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I loved Crichton, but goddamned does he over explain tech.

  The log was a record of the system over the last few hours.

  If readers may not be familiar, he could help them infer that from character actions or dialog.

  “Well Wu? What’s the log say the system’s been doing over the last few hours?”, said Arnold

  Congo was maybe the worst for techsplaining. Still a great novel!

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• grte@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wow, it’s been near 30 years since I read that. The thing I remember most distinctly is how different the lawyer was between the book and movie.

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think Nedry’s death in the book is that for me. The movie version is practically G-rated compared to how it went down in the novel.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First time I ever had to think about the possibility of what would happen with a sizable belly slash.

      Never going to un-imagine it.

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    • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was so visceral in the book. I remember watching the movie thinking “oh its about to happen”, then it’s basically off camera.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I only read the book as an adult on vacation. Thing that stood out to me was the very first scene and going “Oh! Yeah, probably good they didn’t put that in the movie.”

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    • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Despite posting a photo of the book, I haven’t read it for a good minute. You’re referring to the clinic scene? (I think that’s first in the book, but not 100%).

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