Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

I'm... I'm being just as bad as your father, aren't I. You really do want to go down this rabbit hole, don't you. I understand the game is important to you. I won't force you to talk, if you don't want to. I love you, man. Good luck down there. ;____;

Fine. Fine. There's a timer. I'll... I'll just wait it out! That's... that's surely like letting him make his own decisions, right?

Oh, god, or is that just leaving him in Charlie's hands? Am I just letting another, worse demon than me take over?

Dammit. We'll see how far it goes. But which is worse, honestly? Being complicit, or sitting here like an otiose god and not even _trying_ to steer this somewhere good?

*bites nails*

NO

*tugs earlobe*

ALSO NO

Dammit dammit dammit!

Brooker, you BASTARD. Let me help this poor fucking kid. If you make me complicit in something... I swear to god, I will walk away. I did it with Funny Games, I did it with Immortal Defense. I don't need closure more than I need empathy. I will let this poor young man hang in limbo forever rather than torture him for you. Never trifle with an animist, when a hundred deaths are on the line.

(This is really good. <3 Also, I'm probably lying to myself. I knew the moment it said "Black Mirror" nothing good could possibly come of my presence in this world... Sorry, kid.)

Also, the mild inaccuracies about 80s culture are fascinating. (Little things like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style books for adults being widespread by '84, or game developers being famous enough to be talked about on TV...)

They don't bother me at all. I think they were necessary and well within the bounds of artistic license. I would not put it past Charlie Brooker to research the truth exhaustively and then willfully ignore it.

But it's still interesting. It feels like that whole era is starting to fade into myth. It's getting all fuzzy around the edges for most people. Fluid, you know? This is something good and proper and inevitable; I have no complaints at all.

OK, already this is fucking amazing. Prepare to get railroaded a bit. I've already elected to play stubborn, to advocate for what I think the protagonist *really* wants, no matter how hard the narrative tries to intimidate me into another path.

Do this. Play it, watch it, whatever. Steal Netflix credentials if you have to. It's already been a rewarding experience.

"CW: mental health issues" for the whole game/show, big time.

About to watch Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. (Or play it?) Wish me luck.

Just as I was starting to brood over trying to start a comics career at 43... I run across an article about Fred Astaire learning to skateboard in his 70's.

Point taken. Back to work. ^___^

@anthracite Can you hit the original source up again?

@spacewastrel@snouts.online I swear to god, that vehicle's got Christine vibes...

@spacewastrel@snouts.online Oh god, have you seen the Range Rover episode...?

@spacewastrel@snouts.online Somebody had posted this image-- if you don't get it, you're probably lucky-- and we all started in with the Mr. Peanutbutter crossover jokes...

(The source episode of IASIP is actually a great satire of toxic masculinity, it's just... a lot of Dennis-logic to take in one sitting. -_- )

@spacewastrel@snouts.online That's _precisely_ how this whole mess started. Somebody else cracked that line, and well... next thing I knew, Todd and Charlie Kelly were having a spaghetti day together. :D

I joined in on a Reddit thread that accidentally turned into an It's Always Sunny/Bojack Horseman crossover and now I have to bathe for about four hours to scrub off all the complicity.

But come on, it's not like Dee and Dennis _wouldn't_ have an extended conversation about the logistics of fucking horsepeople right in front of Hollyhock...

"What a time to be alive."</jasper_beardsley>

https://www.polygon.com/2018/12/26/18156304/roomba-doom-levels-doomba

@JulieSqveakaroo

"Huh."

@zx3 no, EXACTLY-- see, you get it

@hummingrain I will, thanks hun! Only ~44 hours left to go...

@mmsword I appreciate the reminder! *hug* But yeah, I know. I've gotten some really nice examples of that over Xmas and I'm grateful.

I think it's less lack of social opportunities these days, and more just missing certain aspects of the Big Communal Furry House life.

It's just weird, you know, having my social life require actually *going* places with people and *doing* things on a schedule instead of just, like... going downstairs. :)

And tbh, I do feel like my values are kinda drifting apart from this crowd, too. Not so much in terms of politics or anything, though I am starting to feel the confines of the ideological bubble a little bit. I've just shed so many of the things that brought our little group together in the last two years, and it feels harder and harder to *really* connect with everybody than it used to be...

Thanks for listening, seriously. Get yourself some Bentley kisses. <3

reminder to self:

you still exist

you're just still in ohio

your feelings of utter loneliness and stagnation are perfectly normal here

granted they don't tend to be that much better in seattle

but you'll have weed, sushi, and that dragon you like

life is fragile and precious

stay mindful of your little joys

be ready for the bubble to burst at any moment

absolutely nothing about this world is fair, except those we struggle to make fair

entropy hates you and everything good you do is an act of defiance against the laws of thermodynamics

[I'm good, actually. Just playing soothsayer atcha. Remember, thou art mortal. Especially when you hang around with huge overeducated crazy jungle cats. 🐯​❤️​]