Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

suuugggaaarrrfffooottt

maybe even sugarfootandahalf

@Sig Ooh, I'll bet Shemp would let us get away with holding him like this but would be JUST annoyed enough about it to make it gratifying. :D

(The poor kittyboy. He will rue becoming my favorite for the rest of his life.)

cc: @anthracite

"Huh."

YV + BRAAAAAP + CURSED NUKE LAUNCHER + LEVEL 4-? = MOST FULFILLING DEATH EVER

@mmsword @Soreth @hystericempress That article was a misquote on CNN's part. The 38% figure *includes* people who would not have bought Corona for other reasons, like... um... they live in the PNW and have access to much better beers. :)

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/5wpr-survey-reveals-38-of-beer-drinking-americans-wouldnt-buy-corona-now-301012225.html

Heh. Guess I won't be taking that vacation in Seattle until things clear up.

That means, by the Alice Trillin Law of Compensatory Cashflow ("Any money not spent on an anticipated luxury is the equivalent of windfall income."), I have just made hundred of dollars.

Fuck it, I'm ordering sushi.

@JulieSqveakaroo Poor thing! Best of luck and keep us posted!

OK, Seattle folk. Coronavirus is making the headlines in King County.

1) Don't panic.

2) Wash your damn hands.

3) Carry a little sanitizer bottle.

4) I said wash your damn hands.

5) If you use public transit and touch the rails or grips... DID I MENTION WASH YOUR FUCKING HANDS.

Your odds of survival just went up like ten-fold right there, and they were already pretty high.

@Oneironott wild?! speak for yourself, ott lady, i was manufactured on a facility on mercury and get cranky if the pillows on my recharge bay aren't properly fluffed ​❤️​

@eredien @frameacloud Every damn time I see that website's name, my brain wants to pronounce it as "futur-eem." :D

Ah, there's no finer way to start the day than to push a QAnon's face in a pile of statistics and citations that show they got every single basic fact of their coronavirus conspiracy theory incorrect, down to the fact the lab they're screaming about is not in fact in Wuhan, China... but Surrey, UK. 🤣​🤣​🤣​🖕​

@typhlosion rat, and where i come from that's a big compliment

rats are good ​

@dodec @Cerulean 😆​

@SangriaSnake listen, if you got a rich enough ecosystem in there to provide a habitat for a spider, the spider is not your biggest concern 🙀

@typhlosion eeeeyup, found out only thanks to a salad expiration date n.n;

i just like em is all

@typhlosion I did a little research just to satisfy my own curiosity, and apparently most Japanese-style "royal" milk tea is made with Assam and/or Darjeeling?

@KitRedgrave Do it! Even just picking a small subset of moves and scoring patterns and trying to make something vaguely playable out of it could be interesting!

@KitRedgrave That is exactly correct. :) Pataphysics is, put very basically, a genre of surrealist satire of systems of rules.

Usually it's stuff like big fancy scientific-sounding papers about completely imaginary problems, like how to build a "real" time travel machine or turn a human being into the square root of negative one.

In this case, it's a satire of over-complicated games like contract bridge or mah jongg with a ton of fiddly and hard-to-remember rules -- or worse, monstrosities like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi -- and was probably never seriously intended to be played.

Hell, I'd be surprised if anyone but the author's even READ the whole thing. :) Though it might be fun to see someone program a couple of AIs to play it someday...

@Cerulean This show sounds super fun. :D Guess I know what I'll be bingeing next...