Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I'm just so bloody bored. Surrounded by distractions, terabytes of media accessible, dozens of games, and bored out of my mind. And feeling intensely aware that something is probably really fucked up about both me and my culture.

@hystericempress Oh, here it is! I'm curious how it squares up with the experience of someone who's actually familiar with Dune...

https://medium.com/@hdernity/dunes-not-a-white-savior-narrative-but-it-s-complicated-53fbbec1b1dc

@hystericempress The white saviorism, at least, I might recommend a little skepticism about. I'd have to dig up the article, but I did read something lately that offered excellent evidence that Herbert meant Dune's White Savior Complex to be entirely satirical and doomed.

The rest is probably a pretty solid accusation. And I'm admittedly NOT working from an informed opinion here, just an article I've read. I've never even seen the damn film adaptations...

@spacewastrel@yiff.life Well FUCK :(

@Cerulean This sounds right up my alley though, thank you!

Quick gaming note:

If you're into Slay The Spire or other deckbuilders, Monster Train has provided me a hell of a lot of entertainment for my money so far and has a surprisingly deep, if fiddly, combat and upgrade system. Very highly recommended, and not just because it's so conducive to throwing the horns and screaming "MONSTAAAAH TRAAAAAAAAIN!" in your best hair-metal falsetto.

@LexYeen@snouts.online Delighted to test that one in the field for ya, chief. o7 <3

In the meantime, just remember:

"Folded hands Tangerine Person golfing Skull and crossbones!" [sic]

Twitter Support hasn't done a thing to me about that one so far. Take notes: emoji seem to be immune. I'd say take that as a dare.

Landed a 12 hour ban for telling Ben Shapiro to "go die." Got 6 hours, 40 minutes left. I can't even LIKE things, what the hell is the purpose of that?!?

Expect extreme rhetorical tiger violence around 20:10 CST. If there's a way to tell Ben Shapiro to go die without saying it out loud, he's gonna hear it tonight. 😼​

This. Sounds. Awesome.

Hey, @anthracite, any interest in learning German? I already speak a tiny bit. I wonder if they need artists and researchers...

@Leucrotta In the immortal words of Reverend Stang, I'm Up For Any Program at this point...

Penumbra's been MIA for three days. :( I think he's moved on.

I feel guilty, but less guilty than when Umbra went missing, 'cause Penny left all on his own. The cats (except maybe Arthur and Shemp) have made it quite clear that they appreciate our Our Cats Who Live Here offer but politely decline.

Still, I already miss the little dude and was not done doting on him. I really hope he shows back up. There's absolutely no way we can take care of seven frickin' cats as if they were Our Cats forever (in cat lifespan terms), but... I was really hoping everybody would just kinda stick around.

If anything bad happened to him, I never ever ever wanna know. I am gonna comfort myself with how much he was already taking after his prodigal hero brother Umbra, who turned out to have suffered mildly, for all of 8 hours, before hitting the semiferal jackpot...

Vaya con Bast, little amigo. Please visit real soon, 'cause I WILL fret over you.

Witches, you know what to do.

Tigers don't even get any mana points -- we'd be way too overpowered if we could spellcast AND teethmurder AND look this fabulous all the time. But I still fully intend to make a sigil out of "PENCE EQUALS PETRI DISH," put it out before the cosmos, and see if I get any bites. XD

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/04/president-pelosi-pence-shrugs-off-covid-risk-426219

@anthracite Artist's rendering:

*hug*

Nothing panics an Italian like not being able to get a hold of Mama.

Nothing restores an Italian's mood like finally getting called back and talking for 45 minutes about ethnic food for no particular reason. (African, in this case.)

I realize I am so much luckier than so many of my friends to have even one parent who's my friend, and another who loves me enough to be benevolently indifferent to my bullshit. :) (Fully accepting Peg after my mom outed her has got my stepdad into Tier S for the rest of his hopefully long adorable redneck goober life. <3 )

I dunno what the fuck I'm gonna do when they're gone.

@hystericempress @Aradia *blinkblink* That is a REALLY smart answer.

@Aradia I'm going to play the David Macaulay gambit and say "a grand hotel/resort"...

@spacewastrel@yiff.life It... um... you weren't missing much, trust me. :) But that's always true, isn't it? Like, there are some films and TV shows I just refuse to watch, because I have such a vivid idea in my head of what they are, and they're more inspiring than the reality could ever be. I've learned over the years that most of the people I envy are like that, too -- anything that has to take place in reality is inevitably gonna disappoint a little. :) But yeah, it was all worth it but I've been left -- especially after Transliminal exploded -- feeling like it was a world I got to look at but never actually touch. Like it was always JUST past the next wall. I dunno, maybe that's the nature of it?

fuck everyone replying to that tweet except for that "I bet this kind of meal is making budgets work now in a lot of houses" guy tbh

@spacewastrel@yiff.life *sigh* yeah. that all sounds so distant now, doesn't it. *hug* not surprisingly rik and i both loved that place