#docfuture

[letsallgotothelobby]

Funky Kong giving you a ride home from the airport

[jiskblr]

“'There are many who think killing a sign of strength, of ruthlessness.  They are fools.  Any cheap thug with a gun can kill, out of panic or desperation.  It is very rare that killing is necessary.  Someone strong can maintain her power without killing, and never deprive herself of potential resources.  Even a bitter foe may have a future use, killing hirelings never encourages anything useful, and executing hostages hardens opposition, decreases leverage, and shows you worthy only of contempt.  Killing is rather a sign of weakness, of fear, of stupidity.  It is a waste.' 

-- Machiavelli’s Daughter, Practical Power Dynamics.”

-- Fall of Doc Future

Klaus Wulfenbach: “I like this woman. Can I hire her?”

[adokle]

Trying a thing based on a post which referenced another thing. Apologies to @hydroxianchaos for this one.

Audio Source

[discountadoptables-boter]

Me when I survive another 4/13.

[gomjabbar]

do you know anything about hackers? can you jam with the console cowboys in cyberspace?

ever read neuromancer? ever experienced the new wave? next wave? dreamwave? the vaporwave?

*bweep-beep*

seapunk? witch house? blog house? deep house? chicago house? you like chicago deep dish pizza? you like a stuffed crust? a thin crust? you a crust punk?

a cyber punk? cipher punk? steampunk? you wear, like a-- a tophat? you watch top cat? you know choo-choo? benny the ball, officer dibble.

a-are you a cop? you gotta tell me if you’re a cop. are you jump street? are you johnny depp? are you literally edward scissorhands. you need hands to type, ed.

what’s your words-per-minute, mavis bacon? you know excel? what was the last CMS you used? where do you see yourself in 5 years? can you start on monday?

you wanna carpool? what kinda tunes we listening to? new wave, next wave, dreamwave... vaporwave... this that dreampop?

that shoegaze, that new gaze? is this chillwave? is this lo-fi hip hop beats 24/7 to study and relax to?

is this a real slow version of an old electric song? is this shit like a-- like a wonderswan title song played backwards? you into them chiptunes? them showtunes?

you seen hamilton-- have you seen hamilton? you ever see that episode of “how i met your mother” where lin manuel miranda is rapping on the bus? ... you ever even been on a bus? do you support public transit?

you ever hacked the subway from a payphone? have you ever seen a payphone? are you a phone freaker? you ever call freddy freaker?

you ever played “freddy farkus frontier pharmacist”? you ever been to a pharmacist? you ever taken over-the-counter seasonal allergy medicine? do you have seasonal effective disorder?

y-- you feel better in the spring? could you imagine a world without springs? got a case of spring fever? you ever watch the 2005 movie “fever pitch”?

‘cuz first you get the fever, then you get the flavor, then you get the fever for the flavor for pringles.

d-- d-do you even eat potato chips? do you like chip tunes? showtunes? itunes, napster? audiogalaxy?

you ever downloaded an aiff file of the “night rider” theme off IRC and then played that shit for like 30 minutes?

*whiplash sound* didn’t think so.

[jiskblr]

[Undersecretary Wilson]  shrugged.  “True, this potential invasion sounds alarming, but dealing with it isn’t my problem.  I just need to convey–” "I wonder,“ Stella mused.  "If they put together an international team to try to negotiate with the invaders, who would they tap for it?  Who has relevant experience?” He was good.  A casual observer would have thought they were chatting idly, as he watched Zirjack regaling Doc, the air force colonel, and several others. Wilson looked down at the ice cubes in his glass for a moment.  “Tell me you wouldn’t deliberately request–” "To get you, instead of some harmful idiot?  Damned right I would.  Doc and I would rather handle any necessary negotiation ourselves, but governments love to meddle, even if they don’t have the first clue about what they’re doing.  Am I wrong?“ "No."  He sighed. "I’m paying you a compliment, you know.” "That’s what makes it so painful.“  He gave her a sidelong glance.

The reward for a job well done is another job. As Undersecretary Wilson, formerly Assistant Undersecretary Wilson, should have known already. And which he must have caved to and rolled with eventually, seeing as how he was later Ambassador Wilson.

[arconinternet]

Tryrush Deppy & Super Tempo (Let's Play videos, Topher Florence, 2008)

The great Topher Florence's wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful Let's Play videos of similarly-describable obscure Japan-only Sega Saturn games. Featuring special guests Tempo himself and Laughicus Maximus, God of Internet Comedy! Watch them here, and read an archive of the originally-accompanying posts here.

[jiskblr]

'If you’re powerful enough, there’s no sense of community, not enough minds even close to yours, and pretty soon you find yourself thinking of humanity as amusing pets rather than people.  And that’s if you like them,’ he had said. She’d felt like shouting at him from inside her ships, her wonderful new bodies, that she felt that way about humans already. That was how she’d felt about humans when she’d woken up in the morning. How she’d felt about them when she’d completed her mind trap at seventeen. How she’d felt when she’d looked down at the body of the first man she’d killed. When she was nine.

Stella Reinhart III