Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11_nsW151tg&feature=youtu.be

@JulieSqveakaroo @Leucrotta Yeah, but it's not as good as the lost "But They're In Space" episode. O;)

@monorail @Austin_Dern OK, yeah, it looks like the relative budget of Price is Right is approximately 2 x butt. :D

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls056710448/?sort=list_order,asc&st_dt=&mode=detail&page=2

@monorail @Austin_Dern Purely for kicks, I did a little research. In case you were curious, the actual budget per episode is something like $700k. (https://mentalitch.com/the-price-is-right-one-of-the-longest-running-tv-game-shows-in-history/)

I'm not nitpicking or anything, btw, this is just offered as trivia! I... honestly have no idea if $700k is high or low, actually. :D Given that includes the prize budget, yeah, I'll bet what's left is... a piece of string, maybe a binder clip. :)

I wish you all a joyous post-capitalist Samhain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP3yivaOcJA

(cw: nightmare comedy; surreal body horror and infohorror)

Also, this episode of TOTU turned out to have a not-actually-all-that-young Elaine Stritch, so all is forgiven. Totally worth the price of admission, even if the "twist" is "yeah, let's do the bad thing we saw those other people doing." 🙄​

@Leucrotta I mean, why the hell ELSE would we go back to the Noble Bumpkin's homeworld? Yeah, that's basically Plan A for Chapter 3 or 4. :D

"Oh, this is a quillberry and sourgrass cordial! Ooh, and it's a fourth pressing! Hmm, a bit sweet, must have been a light winter back home. I think this is from the Jazbivali region. Somewhere hilly, lots of ice runoff. YOU OLD RASCAL, YOU MARRIED A BOY FROM KAZBEK!"

*swishes beverage between his cheeks and swallows pensively*

"A bit of tannin... I think he's an orthodontist! Very nice!"

OTOH, I shouldn't complain, because TOTU gave me a slick idea for Parallax: we demonstrate the absurd courtly culture of Baron K's planet by having an old rival of his send him an anonymous gift of an extremely expensive bottle of G-Rated Native Beverage. The Baron's palette is so sophisticated he can detect the exact varietal origins of every flavoring agent... and Planet K's etiquette is so hyper-refined that this conveys a LENGTHY hidden message.

@001zlnv @troodon I think that was a misthreaded reply to a friend of ours who said they were feeling uncomfortable somewhere. *quiet nod*

Last night I apparently dreamed that there was a Ramones cartoon in the 80s (I blame @Leucrotta) and now I'm all sad that there wasn't.

In other news, I've been watching the old UK mostly-Roald-Dahl anthology Tales Of The Unexpected. The main thing I'm learning from it is that twist-ending technology has advanced dramatically since 1981.

"And it turns out the chap was quite mistaken." "And she decided NOT, in fact, to eat the poisoned food." "And then the murderer MURDERED him!" Rubbish.

(None of you all, obviously. Some foodtube on Reddit was playing the "you can't blame me for thinking it was real, because it sounds like something those tumblr types would say anyhow" game. It was over somebody saying that learning a foreign language was "cultural appropriation," FFS.

What pisses me off the most is it means this 4channer false-flag shit consistently WORKS. If humans don't learn some basic memetic hygiene real fucking fast, we are SCREWED. -__- )

God I hate it when people use Poe's Law as an excuse for missing blatant satire. I especially hate it when they misquote it to justify their confirmation bias. And deliberately exploiting it, to get away with billing real sentiments as satire after they're challenged, is just plain evil necromancy. -_-

For the millionth time, Poe's Law doesn't say *nobody* can tell *any* real opinion from satire. It says *somebody* will mistake any satire you write for the truth. FFS.

Holy fuck. The voice of Professor Coldheart from the very first Care Bears special?

Ross from You Can't Do That On Television. Mind blown. Childhood narrative totally shattered.

@troodon That sounds AWESOME... I'd ask for a link to details, but I have a hunch any place like that's got an Atlas Obscura entry... :D

@Leucrotta You forgot Darth Ramone, Project R4-M0-N3, Black Adam Ramone, Bugsy Ramone, the Ramone With No Name, and the Little Ramone From Another Place.

I don't talk nearly enough about the *good* days, so I'm trying to make an effort to be less of an Eeyore. =n.n;=

Today is good. Peg's unwinding from the con. The day job is a bit grueling today but it's left me feeling really clever. I'm still basking in all the unexpected good wishes about Parallax from the con. My stepdad's weight's back up to 140, which is awesome. I get a mini-vacation in a couple of days. We'll probably retake the House.

Things are sort of okay.

🎵​ rowr rowr
🎵 Anthy's orange tiger
🎵 chews gently on your head!
🎵 rowr rowr
🎵 Anthy's orange tiger:
🎵 be grateful she's been fed!

@acetone_kitten @Kyresti Seriously. If I had seen the level of resistance and outrage among my friends in, say, 2003 that I see in 2018... I would have been a much happier person. FFS, now I even see, like, Fortune Magazine and The Economist and shit occasionally popping out articles with titles like "Huh, Some Socialism After All Maybe I Guess?" :)

mfw when i'm referred to a right-wing site that's not only down for the count, its downtime message is "Get updates on our Gab page!"