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Interesting watch, as SR seems to avoid a lot of those tropes.

Mega corps in SR have not over thrown the governments, as explained, there is no profit in welfare programs or infrastructure (ie roads), which society needs to a degree.

There is a lot of internal politics in mega corps, from family feuds like Shiawase, the literal popularity contest of Horizon, Ares being made up of people that don't like each other, etc.

Also, something else that helps SR isn't that there is one all knowing all seeing Mega, but dozens of them, from the obvious Big 10, to countless AA and single A corps. So a single mega can't literally make the law, as other megas will be also constantly countering each other to make everything in a pseudo balance.

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 32 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/dethstrobe šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ Mar 10 2019 šŸ—«︎ replies

"I cloned Karl Marx just so I can shoot him! Take that you Union Sympathizer!"

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 22 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/LucidProfit šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ Mar 10 2019 šŸ—«︎ replies

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, I am currently working on a street level campaign that will get the party in over their head, and this is exactly the type of advice I need.

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 6 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/500thCenturion šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ Mar 10 2019 šŸ—«︎ replies

Who flagged this as a drekpost? This is a genuine worldbuilding YouTube channel, even if it's done in a comedic, critical style.

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 5 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/IonutRO šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ Mar 10 2019 šŸ—«︎ replies

Iā€™m not sure who this guy thinks heā€™s owning with this video but Iā€™m pretty sure it didnā€™t land.

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 2 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/Alightgrift šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ Mar 10 2019 šŸ—«︎ replies

Was the plot of original Deus Ex in there or was it just me?

šŸ‘ļøŽ︎ 1 šŸ‘¤ļøŽ︎ u/FriendoftheDork šŸ“…ļøŽ︎ Mar 10 2019 šŸ—«︎ replies
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CEO: This episode of Terrible Writing Advice is brought to you by Megacorp! And I guess Skillshare helped. Are you struggling to write a compelling villain? Is it just too much work to create a nefarious baddie to properly challenge your main characters? Is there a way to cheat and create an easy, faceless antagonist to oppose the good guys with near zero effort on the writerā€™s part? Writer, what you need is a Mega corporation. Here at Megacorp we provide all of your antagonist needs so all a writer need do is sit back and rake in that cash for the cheap cheap price of your ethics and self awareness. Concerned about the upfront world building cost of creating a Mega corporation? Donā€™t worry. Megacorp makes its easy. Just follow our guide and soon any writer can find themselves building better worlds. Megacorp is the best solution for menacing the heroes with a wide variety of sinister assets. Are the empireā€™s storm troopers failing to impress? Megacorp has its own team of high tech private military contractors on call and ready to deploy in a momentā€™s notice. These cutthroat mercenaries are as well armed as they are ugly and they are very ugly complete with savage ā€˜bad guyā€™ scars and psychotic dispositions. Yes these soldiers were likely veterans who served their country faithfully before being forced to join the PMC due to hard economic times and yes they likely suffer from untreated PTSD, but we will overlook that as the main characters mow them down without remorse. These PMCs also come equipped with the latest combat drone technologies because what we fail to spend on PTSD treatment for our mercenaries we spend on high tech robotic weapons instead. Our PMCs are so powerful that they can wage multi front campaigns to conquer entire nations despite the absolute crippling expense of waging modern war. Should our PMCs not be enough of a threat then Megacorp has a far more terrifying weapon to wield against the heroes. Lawyers! Even the most deadly of heroes can easily be mired in red tape and petty bureaucracy. See you in court goody two shoes heroes. Why do would we resort to litigation after extra legal death squads? I uhā€¦ it was in the memo somewhere. Our crack legal teams keep Megacorpā€™s public record spotless and anyone who says otherwise will be sued into the stone age faster than you can say ā€˜libel and slanderā€™. Megacorp does this just for fun since we own the government anyway. We could just make it illegal to post negative review of our products and save ourselves a ton of legal fees, but that would cost the story the writerā€™s poorly researched court room scene. Speaking of money down the tubes, Megacorp is so expansive that we run everything. From the government, military, economy, education, colonization, every aspect of life is under Megacorpā€™s control. But how can the audience know that a sinister megacorp has taken over the world? Well they wonā€™t miss it because our slogan and logo is pasted onto pretty much everything. Will this dilute the value of our brand? Of course not. We trademarked the concept of ā€˜brandā€™ after all. It is important to remind everyone that we are everywhere and that our sole goal is to turn a profit from everything. We own the police. We own the hospitals. We probably own you. Sunlight? We purchased that a few years ago. Great investment. We now have an autopay feature to make sure you donā€™t miss a payment for your sunlight and oxygen bill. We even own the bio engineered plague that is ravaging the population as well as the cure which we will withhold giving the virus plenty of time to mutate and further kill off our customer base as well as drive up wages in the plagueā€™s aftermath. Should we have thought this out further? Of course not! The highly skilled board members of Megacorp would never second guess themselves, mostly because the actual hierarchy of Megacrop is suspiciously absent minus the odd corrupt CEO. Megacorp is not a dynamic organization filled with a plurality of perspectives and individuals with their own motives and goals. We are a nebulous and monolithic organization that exists solely to commit evil acts and sometimes to act as a strawman. We are here to let the audience know that money is bad and that you should give as much of it as possible to the author. Creating a multi tiered organization full of intrigue and power plays would only distract from the authorā€™s soap box. Having the heroes try to navigate the ruthless world of cutthroat corporate politics, trying to distinguish friend form foe and stay one step ahead of the endless web of betrayals, sabotage, and the duplicitous charisma of ambitious corporate officers might sound like an interesting story element, but doing so would only create problems for the writer. This is where Megacorp can really shine as its monolithic nature saves the writer from coming up with a justification for why any of these ā€˜extremely intelligentā€™ corporate officers thought that the military would totally pay top dollar for a zombie bio weapon. A bio weapon that converts potential customers, investors, and share holders into more zombies. Clearly we can all see the value in that. In addition to zombies, Megacorp also has a wide variety of other useful products. Our bio-weapons division has an extensive xeno biology project as we strive to turn a captured alien creature into a weapon. We will continue our attempts to turn this creature into a bio-weapon even after it escapes and destroys our multi billion dollar starship before forcing us to nuke our off world colony complex along with our expensive secret lab. I mean we canā€™t stop trying to weaponize the alien now. Weā€™ve sunk too much money into this project. Does this alien life form do anything that a human weapon cannot? Not really, but Iā€™m sure we can sell it to the military anyway. Just like we sold them that super powerful death robot that did instantly turn on them, but surely theyā€™ve forgotten about that now. Yes we could sell the military a cheaper war-machine that is basically a lemon and thus make bank on all of the replacement parts, but that would undercut the heroā€™s victory. Speaking of those pesky heroes, they wonā€™t be able to do anything to stop Megacorp in spite of our many many weaknesses. Our corporation doesnā€™t need a PR department because Megacorp is always willing to fight no matter how bad it makes us look. We all know real life corporations are just the textbook definition of brave and will always fight to the end and never just instantly fold when faced with even a small vocal minority of negative opinions. Megacorp is beholden to no one. How do we keep our shareholders happy? We donā€™t because we are far too busy running the government in spite of how little profit there were be in having to act as a nation state bloated by crippling defense spending, social programs, and other services that do not generate revenue but are still required for a society to function. We will of course brutally oppress the population meeting rioters with expensive tanks and death squads rather than really cheap bread and circuses. How do we keep in the black? Weā€¦ umā€¦ well we own a monopoly on contrivium. Hopefully the revenue from our contrivium sales will be enough to prop up the rest of our imploding pet projects as we continue our relentless quest to convert all of our capital in zombies. Megacorp is all about profit even though all our evil acts would cut into the bottom line. It is important for the audience to think Megacorp is evil in order to distract from their own contributions to an unsustainable and gluttonous consumer economy that promotes a culture of short term thinking and praying at the alter of savings. Any nuanced discussion of the topics of environmental destruction and ecology should be simplified for the consumer into ā€˜trees good, industry badā€™. Iā€™m sure the irony will be lost on the paperback reader. After all ā€œresources exist to be consumedā€. And if you act now, Megacorp will throw in a free mercenary miniboss to hound the heroes until at least the halfway point or your money back. Act now. Remember, never blunder always plunder. Megacorp, the only villain you will ever need! Side effects may include zombie outbreak, xeno-parasites, author soap boxing, and poor reviews. Consult with an editor if soap boxing continues for longer than three paragraphs. Ask your beta reader if Megacorp is right for you. CORPORATE STOOGE: Sir, we secured this videoā€™s sponsor, Skillshare, from the ancient conspiracy. CEO: Right, right. How much did we pay that hacker? CORPORATE STOOGE: It was six figures at least. CEO: Right. Double his pay. Then shoot him. But use a cheap bullet. No sense in wasting money. DARK LORD: There it is. At long last I shall recover what is rightfully mine! Which come to think of it is everything, but especially Skillshare. CEO: Ah. There you are, Dark Lord. Assistant. Cancel my 3oclock. School is session. DARK LORD: I will now take this power for myself andā€¦ CEO: Yes yes. Look, DL. Can I call you DL? Im gonna call DL. Leā€™me ask you DL. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? Well if you ask me he needs take a shower and then hire someone to do the manual labor for him. Listen, DL, you wanna know how I got to the top? I earned it through hard work! I got up early in the morning and murdered baby seals with an oil taker every day! That made me richā€¦ somehow. You wanna know how rich I am? Iā€™m so rich I cloned Karl Marx just so I could shoot him. Ha! Take that you union sympathizer. DL: Is there a point to your ramblings, pudgy man. Also your cat is quite overweight. CEO: Yeah, my cat is pretty fat, but thatā€™s not the point. See, you think Skillshare with its over 20,000 classes in writing, design, technology, and most importantly business is the key to unlimited power. You think that getting a premium membership will open the door on unlimited access to high quality classes to improve your skills like this class on making fantasy maps. And you would be right. But doors open both ways. You and the other worlds in the Terrible Writing Advice expanded universe donā€™t understand what these sponsorships really are. And much like my ex-wife, some things are best left buried. Which is why Iā€™m not going to tell anyone that the first 500 TWA fans can get 2 months of Skillshare for free if they go to skil.sh/twa9. I mean the link is in the description below, but no one ever checks that Oh, and DL. Iā€™m sorry, but Iā€™m going to have to you go. DL: What! You cannot fire the Dark Lord! You will feel the wrath of my legions of darkness that will march forth from my bleak dungeons. CEO: Oh that? Yeah, we already sold your wasteland to a developer. Gonna turn that into a fantasy themed golf course. Anyway, we are done here. Security! Donā€™t feel too bad, DL. After all, Iā€™m playing a bigger game.
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Channel: Terrible Writing Advice
Views: 436,998
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Keywords: Terrible Writing Advice, Not to guide, writing, Bad advice, How to, How not to, guide, comedy, sarcasm, Talentless hack, Novel, Novel writing, Writing a book, book, J.P. Beaubien, J.P.Beaubien, Parody, Spoof, Terrible, JPBeaubien, JP Beaubien, writing a Megacorp, evil corporation, corporate villains, Megacorporations, mega corporations, cyberpunk mega corporations
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Length: 11min 21sec (681 seconds)
Published: Sat Mar 09 2019
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