Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I just saw Peebles lose a fight with a backpack. She got spooked and bolted, which is clearly a forfeit.

Nice job, kid.

@relee My first hunch based on what I've seen at my day job (geography researcher for HERE Technologies) was no, since India is *so* densely populated and when I do India tasks I usually just see endless tightly-packed housing without room for front yards. And it looks like that hunch might be true? https://www.quora.com/Do-they-have-lawn-mowers-in-India

@xinjinmeng They did an episode that's basically Reservoir Dogs with the Commedia Dell'Arte characters. There's a very interesting Columbine.

@xinjinmeng Have you seen the "Wuthering Heist" episode of Inside No. 9?

@chimerror "There are more things on the number line, Ada / Than are dreamt of in their philosophy." :)

Let's put it this way: I did a quickie search for "could the value of pi have been different," and while the VAST majority of replies were the neepery you were braced for, the discussions fell REAL quick into "well, pi is DEFINED as the ratio of the circumference and diameter of a circle IN A EUCLIDEAN PLANE."

So IMHO all you'd have to do is say "well, screw you, this ISN'T set in a perfectly Euclidean universe AND the locals have quite reasonably defined pi as the ratio of circumference to diameter IN THIS FUCKED UP SKEWED PLACE. Your pi still exists in a hypothetical but USELESS Euclidean plane; our characters will stick with what actually keeps machines working in this universe kthxbai."

They can nitpick all they like; it's no more meaningful than taking your alien riding beasts you called "horses" for convenience and nitpicking that they don't have hooves like "real horses." Well, they're NOT real horses, and you never claimed they were. Pi is a standard, a defined concept, and "well, we're removing the Euclidean plane part because people are gonna need to ACTUALLY USE THIS" is IMHO totally cromulent.

@chimerror It's a really interesting idea, regardless, and I think it's *well* within the realm of "listen, it's a damn fantasy premise." FWIW, I've seen no less than Charlie Stross play at least as wooishly with math... (See his FANTASTIC story of memetic subversion, "Antibodies," which I believe was in his "Toast" anthology, which plays REAL fast & loose with the consequences of P = NP...)

@JulieSqveakaroo (Admittedly, Peg is fairly calm about the whole thing and most likely none of this implies actual serious life danger to any cats. The lede here is "MARTIAN EMPRESS'S CLINICAL-GRADE OCD IS BACK, HEAD FOR THE HILLS.")

@chimerror Also I'm real curious what the math premise was! I was a math jock once upon a time, before I took an arrow to the limbic system. n.n;

@chimerror Yeah, but I've always felt that the Joel Doctrine was more for people who thought they could find the ONE true objective explanation for something -- or worse, could prove a show was "wrong" or "didn't work" or was "bad" because it failed to resemble material causality in some way-- which fictional worlds are under little or no obligation to do, really.

But you? You're just being weird and that leads to creativity.</joel> :) You're working from a perspective of "all these solutions are valid, and dammit, I wanna make one of my own because it's fun." You arguably already HAVE relaxed before you even got started. :)

Hey. Sorry I've been scarce. Mostly been hanging out elsewhere. I think getting booted from Twitter kinda made me realize that Masto's not an ideal medium for me either, so I guess I'm taking a bit of a break?

Been under a lot of stress. The Cat Situation next door is still ongoing. There's construction, and signs that the (largely non-English-speaking, which really complicates things) family doing the work is also moving in?

Really, we are in better shape than we were when Artie started her Attic Adventures in April. If they do lock the path to the attic on us and she still gets up there, we have at least three possible means of entry, plus the likely success of an "¡Hola! Nuestros gatos están en su ático! ¿Podemos entrar y rescatarlas, por favor?"

But I'm still freaked to the point of low-grade agoraphobia when I'm not here to watch the house and getting jumpy every time I hear ANY bump from outside. My mental health is not great right now.

It didn't help that we spotted Shemp stuck in a DIFFERENT place the other day, a neighbor's storage locker. We're 99% he's fine, the neighbor assured us the cats have a hole they can get in and out of and she hears them in there all the time. But I still haven't seen Shemp since then and some part of me is still DETERMINED he somehow managed to perish from being locked in a cool, cozy garage for maybe two hours.

Because I'm going fucking crazy with worry and stress down here. And hurricane season is coming.

@anthracite Could... could I have a scan of your doodle? *blushes* *drinks*

@Phorm I really need to go play this game... for the same reason I really need to see Birdemic 3 if it ever comes out.

@Phorm

@spottyfox

@spottyfox truth in advertising?

@eredien I think something might not be threading for me! Mind a screenshot/link?

@LexYeen You rang?

@Phorm I was just about to go peek in on you, and apologize for not having been more help through all this. Still a little rough around the edges from recent family crisis but I should have some reserves soon if you need somewhere to vent. *TACKLEHUG* Been missing you.

SIlly stoned thought from last night:

You know how they say film genres have a life cycle? And they go through "primitive," "classic," "revisionist," and "parodic" phases?

I was thinking about what would happen f the remake trend itself went into its final throes and we started getting WEIRD remakes of things...

Like, years ago I was matching Evil Dead 2 with a dear friend and we started joking around about doing a remake where all the SFX gore -- literally meat scraps and red Karo syrup per Raimi-- was replaced with breakfast foods. It's the exact same film, but when someone gets splatted, out comes orange juice, scrambled eggs, æbleskivers, sausage links...

Or a remake of Tarantino's Deathproof. But the villain(s) chase innocent women around in their tricked out polka-dot 1920s clown car with a goofy air horn and 50 of their friends crammed into the back dressed in harlequin makeup.

Title: "Foolproof."

@arilin That moment you're describing is basically my single favorite thing about furries. 😻​