So, this made me laugh

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[rotten-m3]

Rokee... ouh..

[programmerhumour]

Anon visits webpages in 2022

[mornington-the-crescent]

As others have pointed out before, if you visited a web page 20 years ago and it acted like that, you would rightly assume your computer had gotten a virus.

[katie-official]

well it might have a virus called “windows” or perhaps “google chrome”

[anonpolls]

You have to be somewhere at 9:00am. It will take you approximately 30 minutes to get there, so you will need to leave by 8:30 to get there on time. About what time will you plan to wake up?

8:30

8:00

7:30

7:00

Before 7:00

WAY before 7:00

Other/nuance/show results

Voting ended onMay 27

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[dearparentheses]

Paul Evans

[probablybadrpgideas]

Why the Raven Queen? Ravens are notably alive.

Make the Goddess of Death really fit the job description by making her the Dodo Queen.

[probablysomethingtm]

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

[probablysomethingtm]

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

[probablysomethingtm]

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

[probablysomethingtm]

[hyephyep]

when i was first watching phm it struck me that a mass interstellar crisis is kind of the perfect conditions for intelligent life finding each other. instead of searching for signs of people across billions of planets needle-in-a-haystack style, everyone has a shared reason to travel across the stars and show up in one location.

maybe erid or earth sends a satellite back to tau cetti with starmaps and taumoeba farms, for anyone that might travel there after them. maybe ships show up at erid and earth because someone noticed those stars stopped dimming and they want to know why. maybe an AU where 20 ships all arrive at tau cetti around the same time as grace or rocky and it become a mass first contact situation. there's a lot of potential there.

[dolefulsunfish]

Who was that evil evil person, who decided that movie Rocky doesn't deserve to have a little eridian shirt?

[poorlythoughtoutdescisions]

Grace, setting something on Rocky for a second because he needs his hands and Rockys the closest flat surface: Hold this for a sec

Rocky, absolutely aghast: Grace use rocky as TABLE question? Rocky is but furniture to Grace question? oh! oh! jail for Grace! jail for Grace for One Thousand Years!!!

[going-dead]

Humans being persistent predators is probably a terrifying concept to Eridians. A creature that slowly follows you until your body forces you to sleep knowing you will be unable to wake up as they inevitably get closer and closer.

Grace’s explanation of old human hunting practices probably spawned a whole new genre of horror on Erid.

[lace-miserables]

A very deep headcanon I hold is that when Grace said he had “a lot of mean things” to say to Stratt back on Earth, what he *actually* did was send a photo in the beetles of himself flipping off the camera (scandalous) while playing Minesweeper for Windows 3.1 because Stratt said during the intellectual property trial that the Hail Mary “probably wouldn’t need it” and he wanted to spite her.

[viktasha]

I can't stop thinking about how, on a sensory level, seeing grace for the first time was to rocky what we feel when we touch an algae with our foot in the sea

We're used to things being pretty solid and firm and then all of the sudden theres something slimy and soft on my leg

Rocky is surrounded by hard surfaces and all of his people are sturdy and very solid and now there's this blob in his soundscape (?) that speaks and leaks and is soft and moves like a fluid

[barkilphedros-hat]

“I make door, you close door” was Rocky’s equivalent of going “WERE YOU BORN IN A FUCKING BARN??????”

[felisgalactus]

Absolutely hilarious decision to make your protagonist a middle school teacher who doesn’t swear btw

[loving-jack-kelly]

grace and rocky get to erid and both of them are hitting every eridian squarely in the uncanny valley because they've both absorbed so much of each other that they feel both too eridian and not eridian enogh. rocky faces in the direction he's paying attention to and it feels like he's trying to hide something, the way he and only he of the eridians seems to always be showing the same face of his carapace when he speaks to somebody. he speaks in metaphors that only make sense to somebody who understands light-based vision. his intonations are funny, rising on questions when they otherwise wouldn't, falling flat, his sarcasm goes to space dry and restrained and comes back with such force it almost feels like he's lying instead of joking sometimes.

and grace who is so alien, but reflects eridian mannerisms that they've never considered strange before but coming from a creature so soft and strange, it just doesn't feel right. grace who stomps his foot twice when he asks a question, and it rings out flat and dull instead of the strong, sharp sound of an eridian hand on the ground. grace whose voice is so alien, so one-note, so full of articulations that are sharp and round and everywhere in between, but who echoes the melodies of eridian poetry and music, sometimes on accident but sometimes perfectly in time with what rocky translates him as saying, and later, perfectly in time with his keyboard.

rocky and grace who mirror each other more similarly than they mirror their own cultures. who speak to each other in a strange pidgin eridian that nobody else quite understands fluently. who share jokes from movie and tv shows from earth filtered through eridian folktales, plays, and musicals until they only make sense to the two people who know both cultures. they're not strange to each other, but it puts other eridians on edge. even adrian, at first. they've changed each other, you see.

[verenakauer]

This moment is so dear to me I want to cry. First of, Grace is so gentle with him? Something something kindness literally saves the world (two worlds, in this case). Also, you just KNOW that Grace is that teacher in whose classroom the kids go to cry when they feel like the whole world has turned against them.

But secondly, "I'm a science human"! Because yeah. None of them is the other's weird alien dog. None of them is the "smart one" (or rather, they both are). They can't do this without each other. They complement each other. They need each other to succeed, there's no other way. That's the whole point! Cooperation! Connection! Working together!

Hope core at its finest.

I love them, your honor.

[jacksally]

PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026, dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller