green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

@Azure @Angle@witches.town in Urth of the New Sun, it's definitely treated as... a natural progression for a sentient species; not painless or easy, but--more like reproduction than evolution, kindly meant. I thought of it that way, anyway. ;)

I re-read the series about once a year, and it seems like every time I do I notice something else, make some other connection, that I had missed before. XD

@Azure @Angle@witches.town yes! wow... yes. and there's a story that's told in the book about--it sounds like an AI uplift scenario gone possibly wrong, but *definitely* sideways, and then even more strangely. XD

@Azure @Angle@witches.town *suddenly perked interest*

@kara@occult.camp well, so far *talking* about Nazism is getting a lot of hits--but how will that translate to actually doing anything, for or against it? and part of the reason there's so much discourse is because there's a lot of disagreement with the concept.

... holy shit procedurally generated ~discourse~. has somebody done this yet. I WANT SOMEBODY TO DO THIS.

for some reason the part about the wonderfully wide-ranging and cross-referencing conversation with @kara@occult.camp that's sticking with me is the thought that procedurally generated pseudo-AI is going to be either what rescues or destroys our civilization. :D I'm really not sure ~why~... possibly just wishful thinking. XD

@Leucrotta my first favorite is troodon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troodon, for... personal reasons that are kind of hard to explain, heh. but I fancy pretty much the entire range of dromaeosauridae, including all the various raptors, and even the little early birds. bipedal, with forelimbs that could grasp (though no opposable thumbs have been found... ~yet~), and feathers, yeeeee.

@Irick @kara@occult.camp @kel@witches.town I'll put it on my list--if it's not the Johnny Depp one? if it's got JD in it I'm probably going to have to give it a pass, sorry. :/

@Leucrotta @chr@cybre.space @InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space oh gods that movie pissed me off SO MUCH. the dragon biology made not a god damn lick of sense, the Amurrican Gun Brigade was fucking offensive on every goddamn level, and just... UUUUGGGGGHHH.

for comparison: How To Train Your Dragons, which still makes me squeal with delight. ;)

@Leucrotta I first watched Jurassic Park the night before opening, at midnight, in a packed theatre, in the front row, and I have to admit that when Sue (I think of her as Sue) knocked down the bathroom kiosk and was staring at the lawyer I *yelled* "EAT THE LAWYER!" and got a round of laughs just before she did exactly that. XD T Rexes aren't even my favorite therapods, but I will *always* cheer for their roaring smashing awesomeness. and sometimes squeal "kitty!!"

@emily@octodon.social hooray for libraries and librarians! glad you were able to get it, let me know what you think! :D

... no really I'm going away now for a while bye

basically I want to see MORE MEDIA PRODUCERS TAKING GODDAMN RISKS WITH MEDIA because again, it doesn't always work, but when it does it's FANTASTIC. otherwise, you just get... more procedurally generated Media Product (TM) (R) (C)Disney

it avoids the stiltedness that you get from "official Star Trek products" because it's willing to mess with the foundation, instead of creating more, well, procedurally generated Star Trek Product (TM).

AND Y'KNOW (talking about intertextuality in media) this is one of the reasons that "The Orville" *works*, despite being, well, what it is; because it takes the super-familiar Star Trek setting, extrapolates the worldbuilding in a way that *makes sense*, and then it *takes risks* with that premise. the risks don't always work out, but when they do it's phenomenal, just by virtue of having done something genuinely risky with such well-known source material.

anyway! tearing myself away from The Mastodon to Go Do Stuff. see y'all later! (no I will not be able to resist continuing to boop and reply to stuff, shut up)