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!

--
-- (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.

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

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.

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