Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

@extinctsnakes@mastodon.social I can recommend my vape if that helps any; it does make visible vapor but it's not like a "leet trixxx hi-temp v8p3" thing, it just.. heats stuff up so you can inhale it, and works, is reasonably priced & hasn't broken on us.

(A lot of the amt of/visibility of exhalation also depends on what you wanna vape, mind- Different liquids make more/less clouds)

Important reminder:

Rats giggle when they play together or get tickles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-admRGFVNM

I found more naan bread, yessss

NY accidentally threw some from takeout away b/c tired, and I went to eat it later & found it & was I just

"No..? Naan is in bin. This is tragedy! I want naan. Naan does not belong in bin."

But there was a half-piece of naan hiding w/ the falaffel we were saving for today <3

Takeouts can v. easily win my heart by just heaping tonnes of naan bread onto an order, I have yet to find a type of naan I don't like

(tho slathering peshwari w/ HFCSyrup is *wrong*)

It took a lot of research, planning, effort, exhaustion & money.. But it's gonna be such a big, positive change to life, being able to do so much more stuff, more of the time, with less pain & effort.

No more sensory overload from laptop fan struggling and burning out its lifespan at being primary-computer.

This.. It's gonna be a big, positive impact on our lives.

Ahhhgosh

It took moving our entire desk, deskchair & PC into the living room, buying an adjustable monitor arm and a monitor that's VESA-mounting compatible (turns out ours isn't)

But by tomorrow we should finally have an accessible PC setup that we can use from propped up bed position.

I also like fantasy settings where dinosaurs are just like

Part of things, not notable, not even like.. A category?

Like the main herbivore dinosaurs in MH are clearly based on hadrosaurs, and that just goes uncommented (as with the rest of the macrofauna, they're just.. Part of "yep thats life" in the setting)

But the best one for this is Usagi Yojimbo I think, with all the little "long-necked compsognathus-y things" that are just like, chill lil backgorund animal pals

Like just

I don't even like the kinda 40s-50s pulp comic-art it draws a lot from, or 1950s car Americana, or post-apoc settings (tho it's less 'Woe, life is bad after The Collapse, now go fetch me 10x radzombie pelts'

and more "That was so long ago it's become mythology, but some of the tech is useful if you can use it"

Kinda like Caves of Qud or Book of the New Sun.. (not 2 things I ever thought I'd link to short-lived 90s environmental cartoons)

Sometimes I have to remind myself that Cadillacs & Dinosaurs was not only a thing that existed, but a comic franchise that sold well enough to become a cartoon & get a (fairly good!) arcade game spinoff

Like, this is one of those times where our "Pfff your paleoart is weak"-brain is 100% in Sleep Mode, half out of nostalgia, half because of how ridiculously OTT the setting was anyway

Insomnia, big mood

*sleepy waves to everyone*

I had a dream I was fixing bugged displays on old arcade machines

yknow like, where a pixel freezes on one colour or something

Except all the screens were embroidered thread, but they still moved somehow

So I was just sat with a quick-unpick, tugging out the buggy pixel-threads

I gotta say, I want to live in a universe where that's the answer to these things

Where is the angry GamerBro petition about Capcom changing the timing on roasting dinosteaks

it used to be 2.5-3 beats after the Cute Roasting Song finished, now it is somewhere around the last beat

this is logical and reasonable and entirely against my years-ingrained muscle memory

Me: "There is no way you can get me interested in a Punisher story. Frank Castle is the epitome of 'boring angsty rageman power fantasy'."
Marvel: "Okay, but consider: Galactus-powered Ghost Rider Punisher.."
Me: "..Go on?"
Marvel: "Goes back in time and kidnaps baby Thanos for a roadtrip through space to try and change his future self."
"Teeempting.."
"..With giant space sharks?"
"DEAL"

The Big Mood..