106 thoughts on “Misty, Watercolored Memes!”

  1. “Don’t replace us with AIs”.

    “Would I know the difference if they did replace you with AIs?”

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    1. That’s really one of the issues with the Writer’s Strike– so much of the stuff they do that gets produced * is stuff that could be replaced by an AI.

      And not a great one, at that.

      I’m aware of the selection pressure there. There’s a reason I watch anime.

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        1. ThinkGeek (before they got borged by Gamestop) used to have a shirt that read “Go away, or I will replace you with a very small shell script.”

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        3. … which I will not document, because if you and the script both vanish, no one will care.

          (My shell scripts had documentation – ’cause why would I want to remember the details of something so routine it could be done by a computer?)

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      2. I’ve been saying the way to not be replaced by a robot is don’t do things a robot can do.

        Writing generic crap fiction that checks current things boxes is something that can be done by a robot.

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      4. Since the shell script joke has already been made, I’ll go with this:
        “They say an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. This? One monkey, twenty minutes”.

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  3. (“researching” for a story)

    #searchengine how much blood is in the human body?
    #searchengine how much blood is in the human body in gallons?

    I see, I see…

    #searchengine how much water in is in the world in gallons?

    Wow. So, only a middling sized lake, then, for all the humans that have ever been born? huh.

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    1. So, when I lived in College Station we played RPGs in the Student Union meeting rooms. The student gaming club reserved most of one wing Friday night through Sunday night (we always made sure to have enough undergrads to be a campus group).

      So, in a sci-fi game one character was being hunted by local mafia and government which resulted in a plan, left on a blackboard labeled:

      “Plan to save Dax against his will”
      1…
      2…
      3. Exsanguinate body

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    1. Oh so Grumpy Cat. Musicians are night people (aside from church musicians). Day Job is for morning people. I’m getting too high mileage to be both Morning Person and Night Person at the same time.

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  8. Friend sent me one saying, “If there is a domesticated housewife, that implies there are feral housewives, and now I have a new goal in life.”
    If I had any idea how to pull it off Facebook messenger I’d try.

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    2. Taking a screenshot generally works. I think holding down the Windows key and pressing S is the current keyboard shortcut for a screenshot, but I don’t use Windows so I could have out-of-date info in my head. Then pretty much any image editor program has tools to crop an image so you can isolate just the meme and not include the rest of the screen. If you don’t have an image editor, GIMP is free (you’ll also want to click on the Tutorials link at the top of the site, as GIMP is designed for advanced users and thus has lots of tools, so it’s easy to get intimidated if you load it up without reading any documentation).

      And if it came from Facebook Messenger on your phone, then the screenshot method on Android phones is to press the volume-down button and the power button at the same time, and hold for one second. (It might be volume-up, I’m only 90% sure it’s volume-down). Then load up an email program and email the screenshot to yourself so you can crop it on a computer.

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    1. I am nearly 150k words into what was a short story before readers came up with that particular “please sir, I want some more” bit of pitiable pleas, and no beadle about to save the poor author.

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    4. Oh lordy yes on the short story. Ten book series = short story. Oops. I tried, really I did. It just … growed.

      It’s OK to look at the old books. Just don’t—for the love of everything!—don’t read aloud!

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        2. If you ask Ash Williams, he’s likely to have at you with his chainsaw hand…

          “Did you say the words?”

          “Well, I might not have gotten every little syllable just exactly right, but, yeah, basically, I said ’em.”

          “Stranger, you have doomed us all!”

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            1. Hey, he tried!

              He also raised a vast army of Deadites led by his evil twin, but, hey, he didn’t mean to! Who’d’a thunk a gang of evil mini-Ashes would climb out of a broken mirror, huh? Would you have expected that?

              “Good. Bad. I’m the guy with the gun.” BOOM!

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                1. Eh, if you want that punchline, I like Firefly’s treatment:
                  Mercy is the mark of a great man.
                  {stabs him}.
                  Guess I’m just a good one.
                  {stabs him again}.
                  Well I’m all right.

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          2. Ehhh, I’d say there’s a good bit wrong with sitting on that floor. Ewww.

            The chairs are likely in the same condition as the rest of the room, ready to fall apart in a strong breeze. And will any of the tables hold up a book?

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            1. On floors… Ah, heck with it. I’ve sat on much, much worse. That floor looks like it won’t be crawling on me, so that’s a definite point in its favor.

              And there is much I would suffer for a good book. Let alone several bureaus full of them.

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    1. I’ve not seen cannibalism apologetics. Yet.

      More than that? Murder, pedophilia, rape, theft, assault, kidnapping (legalized, at least)… As of now, the line is drawn at cannibalism. Less than that? They’ve defended it, if not had members in good standing perpetrate it.

      I am not surprised by the antisemitism and lauding of vile, murderous rapists and uncivilized barbarians. Leftism has not just one, but multiple death cults held within its bosom. Human sacrifice? Abortion. Genocide? Green cult.

      By their acts we know them. Witness the leftist antisemite law students, shocked that law firms with Jewish names in them declaring that their firm does not want them and will not hire them. They honestly are surprised that they are being held accountable, even in this least of ways.

      Because they never were. Insulated, coddled, indoctrinated, and poisoned, if not outright diseased minds. Small wonder, is it, that those that break free of their chains are so visceral in their attacks against their former allies. The betrayal of everything they were cuts deep.

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          1. Even if they are aware of those Americans, they might “think” that those Americans deserved that garbage for visiting that Evil Israel.

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      3. I’ve not seen cannibalism apologetics. Yet.

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        Key word: Yet.

        Just wait until they decide bugs aren’t ‘Green!’ enough. Was ‘Soylent Green’ a coincidence, or prescience?
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        Some folks believe ‘Soylent Green’ had a happy ending.

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  13. Don’t Forget!

    Biden* is stealing an hour tonight!

    Oh, yes he claims he’ll being giving it back in the Spring, but who believes him?

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    1. The government steals those hours every year to extend the lifespan of politicians. That’s why they hang onto power into their eighties and nineties.

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    5. No! No! No! The hour was stolen in the Spring. In the Fall we get it back, but WITHOUT INTEREST! Bastages!

      “We get an EXTRA hour to sleep.”
      “I work nights. Damn Stupid Time can go to Hell where it damn well belongs!”
      “Tell me how you really feel.”
      * Paint doesn’t merely peel, but erupts into flame. TREES WILT *

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      1. Still gotta be better than the low rent poorly crafted fanfic emo angsty sour gas “stronk wimmin” that have neither strength of character nor femininity stuff they’ve been passing on as Star Wars.

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  19. And in response to the VMS reference I provide this oldie but goody about leap years and VMS 3.2
    https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/decly.htm
    I had the pleasure of working with Mr Rabinowitz (the author) many times he was (and possibly still is) a card. And yes that was the actual answer provided. In 1982/1983 SPR’s were done on NCR forms and typed in. Stan still had the Maintainers yellow copy that you were to keep and file. Oh and answer code UE was User Error…

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    1. The Reader thinks the comment about the year 9999 will only matter to the 1 person on the planet running VMS in a virtual machine under Win 666.

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      1. Likely True, Although VMS has now run natively on 4 architectures, Vax, Alpha, Itanium and X86. and there were rumors that VMS development had a 3 architecture (VAX, Alpha and Itanium) cluster running at one point. VMS is a tank of an OS and just keeps going beyond any reasonable expectation.

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  20. In a writers’ forum, one writer did tell how her husband decided to get something he knew she really wanted for St. Valentine’s Day and got a bookstore employee to help him, and then it slipped out WHY he wanted The Writer’s Digest Guide To Poisons.

    He said, “I consider it an expression of trust.”

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