Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

I.. Words have failed me by this point

(To be fair, no one even told me "Go be a zebra" was an option, so I'm still reeling from losing out)

As always, Talking Heads have my back on this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3oiIdZyq_8 (shouted verses, lyrics at: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/141078/)

So, Evolutionary Psychology: Still about as firmly grounded in actual science as you'd expect.

Page 2 lands us in Pooptoot Plaza, buuuut..

I keep my cool! Some people are bad at Powerpoint. Like. Really, really bad. Maybe it's just tha-

..Oh. Evopsych. ..That always bodes well.

And we plunge headlong down the rabbit-hole at about this point.

Holy hell

I'm trying, really, really hard to read up on the local NHS's uh, favourite therapy, without immediately slipping into snark mode, as I tend to quite easily.

Around here this brand is a super common recommendation from NHS psychs. It's got some serious funding pull (local bloke, so no mystery).

But.. Outside of the immediate region, I just get blank looks from people when I ask about it. So. Why not see for myself?

I was a fool. I have regrets.

There's only so much snark one bat can contain, we're in full-on "Pepsi Gravitational Field" country.

And if you think that's hyperbole then buckle the heck in, friendo, cuz it's 8:30am and I got nothing better to do

*hears about the seige of Aquillea, where Atilla noticed some nesting storks leaving and took it as an omen to attack*

"Jeez, just how much of Roman history is down to people making important decisions based on 'What I saw birds do today'.."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augury

"..Ah."

An awful lot of bizarre stories make much more sense now that I have a rather vital nugget of cultural context.

-T

It does mean that scrolling through it kinda goes

"Possum nomming fruit"
"Aardwolves chilling in a pile"
"Men's Coats of 17th Century France"
"X Ray of a Viper Eel"
"Possum peeking out of someone's pocket"
"Various flintlock muskets"
"Tiny bat"

My "art ref" folder is also my "cute animal pictures" folder

Not deliberately but just.. The amount of overlap lead to this organically just happening

I still haven't brought myself to the point of masochism where I'll watch the Blame! animation or the live-action version of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

..I have not heard good things, but that draws my morbid curiosity all the further

According to Netflix there is now a 2018 live action adaptation of Kaiji

Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji must have done a whole lot better than I thought. 0.o

Netflix is rapidly becoming "Keeping up on what anime is next to get a terrible live action makeover.. Oh, and watching Star Trek." for me. :P

Hm. Dare we try to learn Unity for the Nth time.

Probably. Not at 3am, but probably.

Oh god

I had to cancel tonight from fatigue and pain and taxi crap

Don't rely on MyTaxi for anything, doubly so if you're a wheelchair user

I maybe spent too long painting and turned my brain to mush

I don't care how advanced PHR technology is, calling yr troop carriers "Ganymede" would not do *anything* for your army's morale.

Like, I get the classical naming convention but.. Ganymede? For the big squishy transport ship with next-to-no defences of its own..

"It's so pretty that Zeus himself would send an eagle to swoop down and carry it off."

..Yr just tempting fate, surely

I have an actual game of Dropfleet Commander tomorrow, with someone who knows how to play and can teach me.

Will I get my PHR fleet painted in time.. We shall see. (A: probably. or like, 99% there)