Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

@woozle I do have a whole lot of skepticism about whether our approach could really *scale* -- Encyclopedia Dramatica and Portal of Evil had some pretty heavy hitters and a Trolls From Olgino-grade grasp of gaslighting techniques, but they were never funded by ACTUAL KREMLIN MONEY. 🙀

And yet... I've been predicting since 2014 that the MAGAs would fall to infighting just like the trollfarms, and for exactly the same pathological reasons, and they've done nothing but prove me right so far... 🤔

@woozle I actually have some thoughts on this, based on how the furry community on Livejournal fended off attacks from trollfarms back in the 2000s.

One of our most successful strategies was crashing straight through our detractors' stereotypes of us. These people stick together in part because they've been lied to so much about what *we're* like. But they're SHIT at building their own empathetic communities and we bled quite a few folks off 'em on LJ by giving them our "better offer!"

@spottyfox Cleveland... Ohio!?!? :D

J/k, there really is some great stuff there. What did you see?

@LexYeen DUNGEON!

@Chip_Unicorn I too have pondered necromancy.

@Austin_Dern There's only one way to find out...

@Austin_Dern "There's a Michael Ehmantraut holding on line one..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKuqB2k4UE

@monsterblue @anthracite Dude, I remember BBS DOOR GAMES. Now fetch me my cane and my dentures, dear lizard-child. Yeah, the big sabery ones. 🐯​ And if you're good, I'll tell you tales of Trade Wars, set in the futuristic year of Two Thousand and Two! 🚀​👾​📡​

@Austin_Dern You know, now that I think of it, "esoteric/exciting/archaic career that's really mostly sober desk-job bureaucracy" is a pretty good trope.

Hitmen. Blacksmiths. Rodeo clowns. Brothel madames. Ghost hunters. Chicken sexers. Laboratory rats. Ninjas. Airport Hare Krishnas from the 70s. Damsels tied to railroad tracks. Cartoon cereal mascots. Everybody's got an ISO compliance program these days...

I'm gonna have to look for an excuse to use that in something.

@monsterblue Heh. I have a long-standing joke with my wife that I'm a VT-100 terminal. The BEST you're gonna get outta me is green text highlights. But @anthracite keeps promising she's gonna get me a CGA card for my birthday one of these years, so I don't have to keep typing "look dragon" to remember what she looks like!

I'm just back for a moment, to tell you about the greatest song ever recorded. 🐯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BA6ioUqhk

@LexYeen *thinks of her late brother Matt* FUCK. CANCER.

@Aradia @anthracite You're the greatest, fox, thank you. <3 <3 <3

@monsterblue @anthracite YES! You were on the list of folks I explicitly hoped would like this, I am so delighted!

@anthracite You should talk, miss "oh let's just leave our comic under an overturned barrel for four years" 😽​<3

(you're doing AWESOME with No Pizza On Luna though <3 )

@LexYeen I spotted you over there in the Rage On (Himbo Punchin' Machine) comments! 😽

@chimerror Speaking of cumbia, I hope you don't mind if I share one of my favorite albums... It's not QUITE traditional cumbia, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwwdkdMUy8o

@anthracite And Artie is still Most Interesting Cat In The World back there! "Sup."