Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@Oneironott Yeah, um... sometime have me tell you the story of *my* encounter with Coyote during a 2C-B trip. He's a bastard therapist,
with an emphasis on both words, yeah. Basically dragged me by the fangs into something approximating adulthood, and I still have the scars.

@Oneironott still reeking of bagna cauda

@Soreth This last one is your fault, honey.

"Yo, check it out, I put a princess crown on my princess crown." -- Xzibette

This feels like a Guaraldi morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3972E7-SOas

What happens if you give Equestrians access to Mushroom Kingdom technology and get Celestette, Lunette, and Chrysalette?

PRINCESS RECURSION. We're down the rabbit hole here, folks.

Tiger victory condition, age 23: "slay the boss"

Tiger victory condition, age 33: "complete my main quest"

Tiger victory condition, age 43: "escape (read: 'perish from this shithole') with as much enemy loot as possible"

[✓] paws spat upon
[✓] sleeves rolled
[✓] throat-slashing devices installed (at birth 🐯​)
[✓] jolly roger painted and hoisted
[ ] grave of HL Mencken pissed upon despite him having that one good quote

Five minutes later, the cheetah and gazelle met up behind a bush. "$150, usual rate." "Well worth the price. Thanks, Charlie, that was a close one."

https://i.redd.it/1aahssifuuq11.gif

@mona@cybre.space Wellll, shit. I hadn't read anything about the game for several years. Looks like the machines have won: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa

"In 2015, the challenge was won decisively by the computer (Sharp by David Wu), with top players agreeing that computers had become better at the game than humans."

@mona@cybre.space Can't recall if an account is needed, but... https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4616/arimaa

@mona@cybre.space I'm curious if you're familiar with Arimaa at all? I haven't played it, but it was talked up on the BGG community for a while. IIRC it was explicitly developed as a game that would use the classic set of chess pieces but be unusually difficult for AI players to master relative to human ones. I have no clue if it's ever caught on, let alone spawned an online play community, though...

This paragraph hurt a lot to read, 'cause I think it applies to sisters, too.

bowser + super bell + super crown = meowsette

furry artists get to work dammit

pickle rickette

#supercrowncrimes

Also, I promise this story will end up with a Happy Ending eventually, for some bizarre, psychedelic, and thoroughly inhuman definition of "happy." =^__^=

Like, I probably drew more from the separation anxiety, frustration, and disenchantment of the past year than is probably strictly healthy, especially with an intended audience of ages 14-18.

Oh, well, they have to learn sooner or later: love is a lie, people you care about change right out from underneath you and there's nothing to be done but moving on, and there are some strains that no friendship can possibly stand--even if you think you're immortal. -_-

The good news: I finally got past a major case of writer's block and wrote up the climax of the Mixolyne ("pretty goth fungus-druids") side of the story.

The bad news: I had to really stick the emotional knife into a very sweet ponyboy and birdboy, and twist it really hard, in order to do it. I'm starting to wonder if this story isn't going a little dark, but let's face it, there are mostly only dark emotional ingredients laying about these days. *shrug*

@001zlnv I. Can. Only. Hope. -_-