[asteroidfieldgame]

I see you'd like the newest iPhone. It's our thinnest model yet and you won't believe what new metallic colors we've come up with. Please choose between space beige, inscrutable blue, or rose gold.

Now that you've picked that out, I recommend this ugly, gargantuan case to ensure it's as thick as the last model and you'll never see its color again until the day you trade it in, or more likely, it spontaneously stops working.

[miametropolis]

and what if I told you nine was less afraid of love than ten. what then.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

for a moment i lived in a beautiful world where doctor who didn’t exist and this was simply a seven-ate-nine joke too layered for me to understand

[asteroidfieldgame]

Just overheard a man saying to his friend "Part of my will is she has to change her last name after I die"

[asteroidfieldgame]

I can't stop thinking about it. What could the context be? He's probably talking about his wife, but maybe it's a daughter? Does he want her to change it to his, or away? Must she take the name of his noble house if she is to inherit his lands?

[asteroidfieldgame]

Just overheard a man saying to his friend "Part of my will is she has to change her last name after I die"

[asteroidfieldgame]

People hearing about some study showing something you could have guessed: why would scientists waste so much of my tax dollars proving something so obvious?

People hearing about some practice that was done for hundreds of years that doesn't work: why didn't any of them think to test it ever?

[asteroidfieldgame]

"Actually, biology says tomatoes are a fruit and not a vegetable" okay why is your definition of a fruit the biological definition but your definition of vegetable is "thing that kind of looks like a fruit but isn't one".

[asteroidfieldgame]

I love the quote "I won't be bothered to read something you couldn't bother to write"

It's a great quote about ChatGPT writing and Game of Thrones.

[hbmmaster]

[to-shards-you-say]

so mad that the mistborn adaptation will have no good way to convey that Ruin always capitalises Ruin when he uses it as a verb

[to-shards-you-say]

an adaptation with REAL integrity would put a vine boom after it every time.

[asteroidfieldgame]

Ordering some boba

[asteroidfieldgame]

They actually made it!

[asteroidfieldgame]

Ordering some boba

[tyresw]

And thats when it hit Rayse, Nightblood.

[thegunfighters]

average first doctor episode title: the italians

average second doctor episode title: the scary monsters

average third doctor episode title: mitosis of the daleks

average fourth doctor episode title: the apocalypse of death

average fifth doctor episode title: zarpegis

average sixth doctor episode title: explosion

average seventh doctor episode title: the cool awesomeness

[insidetheskinofthesun]

average eighth doctor audio title: the apocalypse of zarpegis

average eighth doctor novel title: the monkey and the clockwork violin

average ninth doctor episode title: aliens

average tenth doctor episode title: the space disaster

average eleventh doctor episode title: the doctor's employee review

average twelfth doctor episode title: surprise!

average thirteenth doctor episode title: the krotons of the matterhorn

average fifteenth doctor episode title: gary the alien

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

The fingers of the monkey's paw really curled on all those guys who saw a new place to conquer and went "This is officially New (whatever pre-existing place name)

I'm not sure I can think of an Old that's better known/more important than the New

I've never even heard of Zealand. I assume they exist.

[mightymo63]

Zealand the largest and most populated island of Denmark

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

In a million years, I would never have guessed Denmark

[asteroidfieldgame]

That is in fact a linguistic coincidence. It is named after the Dutch province of Zeeland.

[highly-invested]

It's kind of crazy but Sanderson accidentally nailed the performative ally thing with Starling. The kind of person that thinks that being a nice person absolves them of unpacking any of their bigotry. To her Chrysalis isn't a girl person, just a bug monster she has to remember to call one. And that's not the same thing! This is fundamentally why she fails to do anything about ZeetZii's horrible bigotry the whole book! You can't Nice your way out of a culturally imposed bigoted worldview, you have to unpack and unlearn it! Now if only it was intentional.

[asteroidfieldgame]

I've heard a lot of people who have a lot of opinions about Sun Tzu's the Art of War, and I'll rank them from worst to best:

Worst Take: it's full of great useful advice about running a business or other project that isn't war in the modern day.

Very Bad Take: It's useless

Bad Take: It's full of obvious advice for out of touch nobles.

Good Take: a lot of the concepts it discussed are obvious now, but everything that's obvious now was cutting-edge once, and this would still have been historically useful as a guide

Best Take: It's in large part, a philosophical book defending that it's possible and describing how to fight a war in accordance with Taoist principles.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

dune is so funny it literally opens like

CHAPTER 1

“It sucks that I understand Time Cube and as such cannot avoid becoming a genocidal dictator,” young Paul Atreides said to himself. “For me. Moral complexity is such a burden.”

CHAPTER 2

“Heard any good slurs for poor people lately?” asked the Baron Harkonnen homosexually, knocking back another shot of orphan tears.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

this post was a lot longer but I forced myself to cut it back because brevity is the soul of wit and I was getting carried away

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

anything for you darling

CHAPTER 1

“The fact that I will commit unspeakable genocide and lead a holy war across the galaxy is very bad,” said young Paul Atreides. “For me.”

“I too feel morally conflicted by my role in a ruthless eugenics program,” admitted his mother, the Lady Jessica. “Does that make me a bad mother? Who can say….”

At that moment the Duke Leto Atreides returned home from a grueling day churning out propaganda to convince his troops that he was worth dying for. His regal face was lined with deep moral complexities. “It’s tough when you’re me and everybody wants to fuck you so so bad,” he said. “But that’s the price I must pay for the future well-being of my ancestral house.” He sighed, deep and melancholy. When was the last time he’d thrown around the old pigskin with his boy? Would he ever get the chance again…?

That’s fully-manual ascetic space feudalism for you, he thought libertarianally.

Paul looked around the room and was struck by the sudden and horrific realization that he was the smartest person to ever live, and that even his own loving mother and father could never hope to understand Time Cube.

But that’s a problem for another day, Paul decided, not for the last time.

CHAPTER 2

“It’s a beautiful day to be grossnasty, don’t you think?” said the Baron Harkonnen homosexually as he surveyed the ravaged landscape beyond the window. Acid rain pelted against the glass and melted the flesh off the shrieking peasants below.

“Sure. Whatever,” said Feyd-Rautha, not looking up from his sketchbook, upon which he had scrawled the words ‘I love killing and maiming’ in large bubble letters.

“A-h-h,” said the Baron. “That was a trick question: every day is a beautiful day for being grossnasty. You must learn this lesson well, nephew, if you ever hope to get anywhere in life. Piter, what are you doing over there with that huge and evil brain of yours?”

The mentat violated the Hays Code six times in the few seconds it took him to reply. “I’m calculating a mathematically perfect slur for orphans,” he said in a gay voice. “Just as you requested.”

“Finally! A productive use of your time,” said the Baron, and flipped him off. Without a word, he snatched the pen from Feyd-Rautha’s hand and wrote ‘and oppressing the populace’ beneath the words the youth had already written. “There,” he said. “Much better.”