Vera "Not A Werewolf" Lycaon @Thaminga@awoo.space

reminder: lyrics to completely instrumental songs are, in fact, extremely good

like... you'd think it'd be fairly easy at least in theory to Just Write A Driver For This that I could download and hook up the floppy drive I just got in to preserve all this, but apparently no one's tried to do such a thing and I absolutely do not know nearly enough about programming to write code for that myself

lol never fucking mind apparently

due to the difference in file systems it's apparently impossible to read these things on windows without adding a card with a different floppy controller chip, and the closest anyone's gotten to writing software that works to override this behavior requires me to have two floppy drives installed directly on the computer, which uh, good luck even getting your hands on non-USB drives without salvaging them from old computers anymore

RIP me I guess

oh hey, got my USB floppy drive in

time to install that shit and and see if I can start archiving dad's old Amiga disk collection

@chest_bot open chest

ah yes my favorite pet shop boys song, the final countdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcrcuLmwjys

got a whole 2½ hours of sleep today because of the utterly exorbitant amount of noise in this fucking neighborhood, what's good y'all

this can even be small stuff! weird housing arrangements for species that tend towards different family structures, open areas for flight for species with wings, cities where all the roads are replaced by canals for amphibious ones, completely different forms of entertainment that often only really make sense in the culture and history they came from, weird cuisine due to diet (granted, humans being omnivores have an advantage there), et cetera

space adventures and otherworldly encounters are fun and all but I honestly feel like the sheer sense of scale and otherworldliness would be greatly helped if more people showed what made their aliens y'know, alien

not necessarily totally unrelatable by any means, but also definitely having different solutions to problems than ours, different social institutions and values due to culture & biology, and stuff we'd never think of doing ourselves, or only did in the past

y'know if there's one thing that bothers me about a lot of science fiction it's that there's always this implication of a world way different from ours but there's never anything there to really like, explore that fact

I know why this is mind you (Chekhov's Gun, keeping the story relatable) but at the same time it's like... you have entire alien societies here, what does an ordinary person go through in your universe? what's their life like, what do they do for fun?