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Devotion to duty (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (16 children)

I liked the idea so i asked bing to write a movie synopsis about it. What's fascinating is that bing knew which xkcd comic i was referring to from my horrible description of it. Anyway, here's next year mindless, generic Hollywood blockbuster action movie :

Server Down

Jack Bauer is a nerdy and obsessive system administrator who works in the basement of a high-tech skyscraper. He loves his servers more than anything else, and he will do anything to keep them running smoothly.

When a group of terrorists take over the building and hold the employees hostage, they cut off all communication lines, disable the security cameras, and demand a ransom from the government. But they didn't count on one thing: Jack.

Jack notices that his servers are offline, and decides to take matters into his own hands. He crawls through the ventilation ducts, walks across broken glass, and kills anyone who stands in his way, just to reconnect his servers to the internet. He doesn't care about the hostages, the terrorists, or the ransom. He only cares about his uptime.

But as he reaches the server room, he realizes that he has unwittingly become the only hope for the hostages. The terrorists have planted a bomb in the building, and they are ready to detonate it unless their demands are met. Jack has to use his skills, his gadgets, and his devotion to duty to stop them and save the day. He is the sysadmin, and he is the hero.

Server Down is a thrilling action-comedy that parodies the genre of Die Hard and pays homage to the geek culture. It is a film that celebrates the power of technology, the importance of passion, and the absurdity of heroism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Bing Chat (so ChatGPT) wrote an opening scene (or maybe more like a trailer, prompt was opening scene) too:

The opening scene of “Server Down” begins with a shot of a high-tech skyscraper. The camera then zooms into the basement of the building, where we see Jack Bauer, a nerdy and obsessive system administrator, working on his servers. He is surrounded by racks of blinking machines, tangled cables, and humming fans. Jack is wearing a t-shirt with a witty tech joke printed on it, and he is sipping a cup of coffee from a “World’s Best Sysadmin” mug.

Suddenly, the lights flicker, and the servers go offline. Jack’s face turns pale, and he drops his coffee mug. He frantically tries to reboot the servers, but nothing works. He checks the network connections, the power supply, and the cooling system, but everything seems fine. He then realizes that the problem is not with his servers, but with the building’s infrastructure. He rushes to the security room, where he finds out that the building has been taken over by terrorists.

The camera then cuts to the terrorists, who are holding the employees hostage and demanding a ransom from the government. They have cut off all communication lines, disabled the security cameras, and planted a bomb in the building. They are confident that they can get away with their plan, but they didn’t count on one thing: Jack Bauer.

The scene ends with Jack staring at the security monitors, his eyes burning with determination. He knows that he has to act fast to save his servers, his colleagues, and himself. He takes a deep breath, puts on his backpack, and heads towards the ventilation ducts. The adventure begins!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If Jack was really the World's Best Sysadmin the servers wouldn't go down when the power is cut off.

Also, he wouldn't rush to the security room. He'd hack into the servers remotely. No good sysadmin leaves their chair if they don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@Semi-Hemi-Demigod @Diabolo96 @CowsLookLikeMaps @IsoKiero the power supply was off, but the network connections, power supply and cooling systems were fine!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Shhh 🤫...don't tell nobody till the movie's out . We'll simply add text on one of the monitors pointing it and certainly a nerd with millions of subscribers will later make a 2 hour essay about how it's actually a genuis and yet subtle jab at the viewer for accepting any nonsense thrown at them when watching a movie or something like that. Problem Fixed.

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