Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Never mind the children's content, I'd forgotten that the analog synths on the Pinwheel theme were this groovy. If anybody could recommend a band that sounds like this -- you know, without the kids' choir -- I would be most grateful. I guess basically just "Boards of Canada without the secret messages and forests full of faceless space elf children." O_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNJ0IkgzuRs

Oh, let's make it a double-feature. I don't think I've made all of you listen to the Thinkabout theme song yet. Folks... I grew up swimming in this stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvLzVTpnb5I

@Austin_Dern I SHALL NOT CLOWN! I SHALL... NOT... CLOWN!</professor_nebulous>

@Austin_Dern @Austin_Dern Noice work, coati. You made Anthracite go nuts and you've seriously creeped me out.

#seriousclowncare

(apologies to the Brothers Chaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW14YWw3h1E)

(also, Anthy going nuts might have had something to do with the multi-minute "commercial" for clown.space I did in a Pennywise voice...)

tuesday city park =(^).(^)=

we were bad and fed 'em

from a polite distance

@hystericempress In the series and in reality, yeah. It's impressive how well it works as a political metaphor too, isn't it.

That wonderful moment has come, where the new batch of people with my exact (and fairly uncommon, but more common than I expected) RL given name has overwhelmed all my embarrassing Google search results. ^______^

Now all I gotta do is get my Parallax credit to the first page. It will come with time, if we ever even finish/release the damn thing.

@xinjinmeng I remember this one! Early TTRPG design at its most rococo. It left an impression on me, and I kinda miss this kind of obsessive chart-based design.

@Verdigris Sure!

https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/hj0awd/gaslighting_red_flags/

Holy fuck. This is 9 out of 9 my relationship with my ex-housemate. This is... vindicating.

Every goddamned time I had a concern, it got me into a knockdown, drag out "intellectual" argument that was designed from the start to make her into the final arbiter of reality.

Our final argument even started when I told her she could be stubborn and she intimidated me and she told me that was ridiculous.

I kinda knew it was true, it's just been really hard not to keep blaming myself for everything. I was FAR from blameless in that situation, but... It's just really shocking seeing what I was stuck in, spelled out this clearly.

@zx3 several, or to be precise, sixtyten

We've had a bug infestation, and not the cute kind, for about three weeks now.

As my sanity has dwindled with the quarantine, smashing cockroaches and yelling at right-wingers on social media have kinda blurred together into the same activity.

I called the bug exterminators today. They're coming Monday. But the ones for the other problem will have to wait until November and beyond.

WILL CHEW FERAL-HATERS

COMMISSION-BASED SERVICE

TIGER KEEPS ⅗ OF ANY KILL

(or ​ will give them distemper for 25 cents, a car key, or a rusty paperclip)

@xinjinmeng "Norman Jones is just a run-of-the-mill CPA until he stumbles through a mysterious doorway into an alternate reality onto a spaceship where a talk show that is evolving mankind broadcasts from." Holy fuck, how has this gotten so obscure!?

@xinjinmeng Shadoevision looks AMAZING...

So yesterday I made the mistake of searching for "surreal comedy playlists" on Youtube. The results were DISMAL. And very very... er... "dank."

So I spent most of yesterday putting together a curated list of favorites. All possible CWs apply: some of these videos are deliberately uncomfortable and difficult to watch, though I tried to err on the side of excluding outright offensive or juvenile material -- with a couple of suggestions that I thought were just too damn funny to exclude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8&list=PLWiaTQ91EE2G4LTp_Wm7lfcEdShnnIDn8

I am DEFINITELY up for suggestions for additions to this list..

@Sig Yeah. I hate to say it, but par for humanity is REAL LOW, dude.

I learned this lesson early in life: I took a lot of Greyhound trips in the 2000s. D:

Just a big of analog joy. Very mild CW because some people might find the animation a bit creepy.

I sure do. I adore it. <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7k8fxaAC40&list=PLWiaTQ91EE2FoXc3a_35G0HDrKXL7KNjr&index=44&t=0s

More filmstrips in the playlist!

@hystericempress also, *fires up a game of Civ 6 explicitly to go kick the almighty shit out of Pericles*

@hystericempress "And then these goddamned Martians showed up and suddenly everyone decided strength and ferocity were retroactively no longer ethical bases for social power, funny that. Didn't stop them from eating everything, but everyone's been a lot more civil since culinary prowess became the core survival skill." 🐯​

@Phorm *squeeze* It's OK, hun! Beliiiieve me, I don't want to waste any energy defending these guys. I don't think they're closet nazis, but at best they're opportunists. If anything, they strike me as Williams Street Studio Nihilists, if you know what I mean. Nothing matters except the joke, and the money you make off it.