Scifi writers: the setting is sleek and futuristic
Scifi set designers:
The emperors of the late fourth and fifth centuries then proceeded to invite people into the house, promising its shelter, if only they would help them light one more fire – and then when the house was burned down and everyone was left on the cold ground, they tried to shift the blame onto the very guests they had invited.
https://acoup.blog/2022/02/11/collections-rome-decline-and-fall-part-iii-things/
He is on a mission to reach Gazpacho IV
I dunno, haven’t played it in ages. Wizards of the Coast has developed the mierdas touch 🤮
I want more filler episodes the same way Magic The Gathering wants bad cards:
The solution to the aforementioned problem leads to the second reason “bad” cards exist. Different cards have different functions and appeal to different players.
We make some cards for the multi-player crowd. We make cards for the flavor crowd. We make cards for the silly crowd. We make the big creatures and spells for "Timmy." We make the combo cards for "Johnny." We take each different group of Magic players and throw some cards their way.
The problem is players tend to define “bad cards” as cards that they personally see no reason to play. But certain cards aren’t meant for them in the first place.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/when-cards-go-bad-2002-01-28
Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.
Buffer time! It’s the episode I feel where LD comes into its own.
TIL the episode is actually called Temporal Edict and “Buffer Time” is a lower decks board game they made based on the episode.
Torquemada: hold my beer 🤣
And it’s not some “resting bitch font” situation, where a completely innocuous statement was twisted beyond recognition
resting bitch font, I’m dyin 🤣
Theodoric has entered the chat
I recently watched The Return and while I liked it a lot…I don’t remember this scene lol
Ahh, the Braveheart armory 👌
I think every one of those gets used in the movie. I know for sure he pops a helmeted skull like an egg with the ravens beak 🤪
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_e
Cognitive dissonance on the more accurate name of “Ignored e”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics)
Record a record? Convict a convict? What an annoying concept.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_leveling
At least irregular verbs are drifting away, that’s a pleasant surprise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisyllabic_laxing
fotograffy > fuhtawgruhfee I’ll die on this hill
B5 gang, you're my only hope.
why's it so hard 😭
I swear I remember they cut directly to Obrien and Data with incredulous "did he just say saucer sep" looks on their faces.
One of my absolute favorites and I'm hoping folks want to talk about it.
Hands down my most reread book. Me, an atheist, never imagined a twisty/puzzly novel about the life and times of future space jesus would speak to me so deeply.
The prose is multidimensional and layered with meanings that only come into focus once you know where it's going.
Some of my favorite examples:
Any other trek fans delighted by Group of Seventeen in book four, realizing it was 10 years ahead of the TNG episode "Darmok"?
I can’t understand why we get Mark Antony instead of Marcus Antonius or something.
Were historians like “Nah fuck this guy, Ima give him a grimy anglicized name lol”