Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

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. ^___^

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

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. 🐯​❤️​]

bojack horseman is a buddhist allegory

bojack is the icchantika, the proverbial unenlightenable soul

todd is the buddha

i'm feeling really called out here 🐯​

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGCW8xftdOA

I always associated this song with my time in Seattle because it reminded me of the show Community. I never really expected the actual lyrics would fit my feelings about this city so well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGbjR1Y9Qo

At least we were here. And I do still love you more than words can say.

Yes, them too.

Everything Thomas Pynchon says about British hard candy is, in my experience, absolutely true.

http://bella.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Fun/gravity.html

CHRISTMAS IS OVER! (if you want it)

Happy Kulturkampf, from all of Mars. 🐯​❤️​

*watches trailer for Jordan Peele's Us*

*sits there in dead silence for 2-3 minutes*

*blinks*

Fuuuuuuck.

Yeah, I'm in.

Apparently Trump is all alone for Christmas and has been whining about it on Twitter, and I just can't stop smiling. :D

Let's celebrate, with the only good Christmas song ever recorded that wasn't by Tom Lehrer or Weird Al: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KWj2WRd5PE

i am very fierce you know

(No, Rez. Looking up at the Martian sky, shaking your clenched paw at Terra, and muttering is _still_ not a subtoot. It's just a good idea. --Ed.)

You know, I originally came here to gripe about something, but on the way I found out there's a new Local 58 up and... you know, I can't even remember what was bothering me now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-vBhGk9F4

[CW: creepy. as. all. fuck. also this one is probably outright blasphemous to some of you <3 ]