Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@arthurwyatt So there's this story by Charlie Stross... 🙀 🙀 🙀

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781625791870/9781625791870___2.htm

My thanks to all of you who helped resolve my MST3K crisis last night. :)

@Leucrotta Wasn't you, hun! I mean, it wasn't anybody, in the sense that it's a general community mood I'm uptight about. I'm not subtweeting anybody anyhow, I swear to Bast. It really is about me, and the crushing sensation of just... not being as young and fierce and idealistic as I used to be. I just feel like I'm taking the coward's way out by substituting politeness for honesty, and I had to say *something* about it or lose it completely, yanno? <3

I had a big old impassioned speech planned regarding an ideological matter, and I was just about ready to start banging it out, and then I realized I just don't have any more fight left in me.

So I'll just slink back up the mountain and sulk and overeat. But honestly? It's fine. One of two things will happen: there'll be a younger, fiercer, better version of me to fill in the gap, or the world will end specifically because I fucked off and went back to shitposting about 90s comedies. I suspect it'll be the first one.

I really am okay. Frankly? I'm *braced* for the future. I'm downright stoic. I just feel so fucking old.

All right.

This has been bothering me for like 30 years.

So, at about 24 minutes into Master Ninja II, during the first host segment... what the poopie is Crow saying after "like it was written in blood?!?!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SZrvOCYXP8&t=1442s

Every time I've seen it referenced online, they wrote "The van dies!" but that makes absolutely no sense to me--even though that's exactly what I hear, too.

But lately I've been starting to wonder: could it be "the Van-DAL!" Like, that would be perfectly cromulent, since it's an actual pun on "vandal." And I mean, the phonology isn't perfect, but early MST3K left in a lot of flubbed lines. So it definitely seems possible that Trace was just having an off day and didn't quite pronounce it right.

Help. This threatens to become my own personal That's Where I'm A Viking.🙀

@Leucrotta Malkavian would explain a *lot*.

@Leucrotta DYSCHOCULA: severely impacts your ability to drain the blood out of... chocolate? Or something?

@Oneironott I can ask around -- what kind of pain where? I have a friend who took a nasty fall a couple years ago and still has chronic pain, they might have some concrete advice...

@anthracite You're welcome. 😺

Heh. Yeah. This is basically the depersonalization/derealization anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtaLKvini4k

@spottyfox Or Spy! Or dare I say it, Tiger!

@fairydoctor420 Praise is a pretty good treat. Keep going. :D (Missed ya too!)

Be warned that the above opportunity is only a dream job if, like me, there is SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU and your idea of a good time was already spending 6-8 hours a day on Wikipedia. :D

It's a tough job. We have a 40+ page set of guidelines just for the BASIC tasks, and lots of people wash out on the training process. It is SUPER nitpicky work with a lot of ambiguity. It requires constant lateral thinking and a thick skin for (polite and fair, especially on MY watch) criticism.

But if the Full Data Nitpicking Lifestyle still sounds appealing to you, even knowing this job has broken lesser people -- but obsessive freaks like me at least love/hate it -- let's get you in touch with my boss.

HEY. YOU.

You there with the more-than-passing familiarity with Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, or Arabic!

You want a job in the fast-paced world of making sure innocent people don't drive off a cliff? You wanna work at home, for a very queer-friendly liberal European company with flex hours and good benefits?

Are you an irksome pedant whose friends REALLY wish you would apply your gift for spotting fine logical and factual distinctions to something OTHER than their favorite TV shows?

Can you locate more than 20 or 30 different countries on a map without even breaking a sweat? Or did you at least play a lot of Risk as a kid and have a faint idea where stuff is?

Better yet, do you have a "useless" liberal arts degree that you'd like to turn into a reason for your jerkass engineer friends to be ENVIOUS of you for once? 😼

Let me know. My employers are hiring for our Asian language teams.

Not back exactly, but I am poking my head out from under the Imperial Martian Couch and sniffing around for treats. I could be lured. 😽

I'm not well or great, exactly, but I'm fine. Cats are currently safe, Peg is under the weather but fine, and I look poised for the best financial position I've ever been in, if I can just keep the world at bay for a few months.

Miss y'all. Just haven't felt like I've had much to share. Might put more random nonsense here, if only to spare poor Anthracite 😺​

@Austin_Dern Don't even joke about that. 😾

(Heh. No, please do joke about it, I don't want people to EVER forget that this film is languishing somewhere. 110% of my ire over this is directed at the studio...)

@anthracite Sorry babe! I really really tried to hold my breath for the last three days, damn these weak Terran lungs! 😽

if i can see just ONE all-protogen dance troupe perform this at a furry con before i die, every other insult i have suffered at the hands of Terra shall be forgiven 😺

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD4DAa62maI