The Blu Ray set just got released in the past year, and is under a hundred bucks. I still haven’t gotten it, but should, it’s just that I’ve had to manage my budget a bit carefully and a bunch of limited-time editions got released.
But buying the DVD sets used will probably cost more than the new Blu set. People love the show.
I’ve had the DVD sets for about 20 years. It’s a shame they lost all the HD CGI video they generated. JMS and Babylonian Productions knew HD was on the way, they did the show in HD and then downscaled it for broadcast, but some bean counter deemed it ‘too expensive’ to maintain the hard drives with HD video on them.
One exec in particular at WB hated B5 and swore it would never, ever be counted as a success. I presume, with the release of the Blu set, that said exec died or retired or something, because the vendetta was, reportedly, rather amazing.
Our TV is from the last year or so of HDMI V1.0, and the Blu Ray player I bought won’t talk to it. Still, the full set of DVDs is $99 at Amazon. $SPOUSE saw the listing and when explained, said no. Rule of thumb is I’ll buy DVDs that we will both watch. Lots of Brit Mysteries, and the Bones full set is in the TBW queue. I don’t watch much TV/Movie content by myself, so I’ll save the money for something else. Maybe DoctorBlake.
It doesn’t help that she doesn’t much like SF TV. She’d be OK with a bit as movies like ST:First Contact and Generations, yeah, but she’s Not A Fan. OTOH, she doesn’t insist I watch Rom-Coms or Hallmark. Did the first when we were dating. The things we do for love. (In both directions….) :)
If I go for it, will probably go a season at a time. Probably can talk myself into Firefly easier.
Klingon therapist is right. When you wake up in the morning, smile because you beat them AGAIN.
Remember friends, every day above ground is a good one. The best revenge is to enjoy this day.
On this subject, Phantom Update, Mom passed away on Saturday night. So for all you Huns who offered prayers and all who didn’t as well, thanks. I’m out here having a go at enjoying this day. Tomorrow morning if I wake up, I will smile.
When I think of my Mom (nearly a quarter century gone, now), I just remember that there is no more pain, no more anxiety – and thankful for how much SHE has missed seeing.
May you and yours have the strength, grace, and constitution to face the weight you bear. May you all be fortified with the memory of the past to face the future with confidence, and to carry yourselves as she would wish you to be.
All people must die someday. Let not life’s end be the curse you fear, but the final setting down of burdens having done what is right and honorable. May we all face our final hours well, whether wracked with pain or quietly in our sleep, having done our utmost to live a good and proper life.
That’s it exactly. All we can offer are the same words that have been said a million times before, in every possible combination. They’re pretty much useless.
You have to. Depression is not a foe that can be conquered with patience or dull endurance. Depression is fought with life. Life is chaos, unpredictability, and a storm of constant challenges. You are only a failure if you stop fighting.
Curse the wet blanket that is depression. Cook tasty food that is bad for you, clean a closet, play with a cat (or dog, or a crow, I don’t judge). Cuss the clouds, rant about hanging communists, make tiny little holes in paper targets or make the steel ring for fifty yards away, sing loudly and off key, love your family and your spouse till they squeak, sleep soundly knowing you’ve put the fact checkers and busybodies into a tizzy wondering what the f*ck that crazy old bat has got up to this time.
Depression cowers away from life lived with verve. Might want to start small, if you’re new to this gig.
Because that’s one of the talking points they use to pull in minorities and minority allies (mostly the allies, they don’t care much about the minorities).
Doesn’t matter if it’s true, normal people still feel the need to address the talking points. Communists don’t need logic, but they try to enforce it on everyone else.
Battle tested, Carl Jung approved. (No, really, go read some of his stuff on “individuation” and the role of the analyst. The goal of the entire process is for the client or “analysand” to be able to do single combat, eventually, against… whatever comes up.)
Too lazy to look up the exact C. G. Jung quote (which is likely a translation from his Swiss German anyway); but it runs (at least vaguely) something like this…
The contents of the unconscious that the “individuated” person comes to terms with and integrates as a strength, are identical to the contents of the unconscious that the mentally-ill person falls prey to and is drowned under.
See also the Gnostics (they weren’t full of it all the time): “If you bring forth what is inside you, what is inside you will save you. If you fail to bring forth what is inside you, what is inside you will destroy you.”
Wow. We at least got “Are you bleeding profusely?”, not just a scrape. And “Did you break something?” Implying a bone. If not latter, but something else, then, ouch.
I’m almost certain it was a necromancer. And it probably wasn’t me. Probably. I think I was running clerics at the time. It wasn’t a door, it was dinner. Roast pig.
The town was not very understanding, but I am given to understand the DM’s girlfriend thought it was great.
Go watch Apollo 13 again and you’ll note the astronauts were using pencils to do their arithmetic to program the LEM computers.
The Bollywood film “3 Idiots” had the “super smart” main character tell the story in the beginning of the film to demonstrate the idea that engineers tend to overcomplicate things, but then at the end of the film had the dean (the film’s anatagonist) pointing out the problems with graphite and telling the MC that he wasn’t always right about everything.
This very day I was working with high school students and we were talking about the AP US History course. I mentioned that I would probably fail, because having been alive for more than a quarter of the existence of the US, I remember how most of it happened as it happened. They thought I was nuts. I reminded them it was my peers in college who were inventing the internet, and they’re very welcome.
Although I’m not exactly sure what they’re really welcome to…
This is why they seek to obfuscate and blur language. They lose when definitions mean actual things. They lose when folks catch on to the con.
Communism is cult intellectualism for the terminally dumb. It sounds like it’s educated. Smart. Well, it sounds like that to those who did not earn their education with skull sweat and constant analysis. But it is all form, no substance.
Actually it may be worse than that. It’s a parasite that feeds on common sense, hard work, and entrepreneurship and craps out soulless drones.
Nope, nope, nope, women were fighting to get more pockets even then. I ran across a contemporary rant by an aggravated woman that women might maybe have 3 or 4, while a man with pants, waistcoat, vest, etc. could have upwards of 18.
Mecha Break is a game currently undergoing public (invite only) beta testing. It’s made by an Asian company (Korean, I think, though I’m not sure). Since English isn’t their first language, they brought in an English-speaking company to put together a “banned words list” for English in-game chat.
Apparently ‘Trump’ was on that list. ‘Biden’, ‘Kamala’, and ‘Harris’ were not.
The developer has apologized, and is reviewing the situation.
The big Japanese video game publishers have been starting to embrace DEI under the mistaken belief that it will help them sell better to American customers (ironically at the same time that the anime industry is being alerted to how woke localizers are corrupting dialogue). Which leaves us in the rather ironic position of games from China as one of the bastions against leftist crap in video games.
Unfortunately, both Korean and Chinese developers are only barely starting to expand out of the non-mobile and non-mmo games on the international stage. And while I don’t expect Chinese developers to start pushing the woke crap, I also realize that they’re under the constant threat of CCP interference in the content of their games.
This reminds me of a story that I heard several years ago. The assistant manager at my Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS) was talking about one of the players in a particular miniatures wargame (Warmachine, for the curious). That player had an army with squads denoted by color variations. And he would refer to them as the blue guys, the green guys, etc…
And one day he mentioned the white guys.
Much hilarity ensued, and it apparently became a running gag whenever he was playing with that army.
Does anyone know who the cute anime girl about to be trod upon is? I feel like I’m missing a visual pun because I don’t recognize her.
I still have my Atari game system, although I haven’t played it since… 1988? 1989? Pretty sure I have a copy of Pitfall too, although I never played it much. If I remember right, I bought it on deep sale about the time I started losing interest in the system. It was a lot of fun while it lasted though.
Guess one could say that about a lot of things, now.
All anime looks the same….distorted and under-frame-rated.. }:o)
Except for the more outright strobing siezure-inducers.
(I know, but since I have been *falsely* accused, I might as well bloody RUN WITH IT Dunlike it?. Take it but with the demonically- possessed/mentally ill accuser[s]). NMFP)
Weirdly, the “Doc Martins with white laces” is a statilus symbol. It means “anarchist virgin”. Once they get popped, blooded so to speak, they use red laces.
(kzin grin)
Those (honk!)heads tend to use snake-stomp motifs. Which is dumb. Stepping on a rattlesnake just gets you bit.
Hey, I resemble that meme with all the canned goods . . . just did a batch of pickled beets a couple days ago and a batch of homegrown tepary beans last week, and won 16 blue ribbons at the county fair for various canning projects done last year. Ain’t nobody gonna starve at my house!
Most importantly, I know how to make things grow. Very handy skill, gardening.
About the last meme: Not-O-K. Harris might well be the single most useless chair of the National Space Council, ever. (I remember only a single photo-op event, which was as cringe-y as… well, all the rest.)
Even the much-maligned Dan Quayle actually did some real stuff, with that same position.
And on the Walter Williams meme: so courteously savage, but then all his quotes are like that. Would have loved to hear his take on our current embroilments and… surreality.
The otter…finally got around to seeing, “Guardians of the Galaxy Pt. 3”. Didn’t really enjoy it. Much darker than I expected, too much bickering…and yet, I realized afterwards how it also epitomizes how popular entertainment carries, counter-cultural messages perhaps unconsciously.
The villain is an abusive maniac who keeps doing the same thing (trying to uplift various species to create a “perfect,” society) and expecting different results (all of his “perfect societies,” crash and he destroys them). If you’ve had an abusive parent, this may be hard to watch, because the High Evolutionary is an extremely abusive “parent,” to Rocket.
He wants to be God…and his staff turns on him when he blasphemes God and says he’s taking God’s role. (I assume you all saw it earlier, but it’s not too much of a spoiler to say their rebellion doesn’t do them much good).
And while the HE tries to make perfect people, down in the bottom of his ship a group of rejects, including a motherly otter, are innocent, gentle, loving, compassionate….everything he says he wants spiritually. I found myself quoting Jesus: “Lord, I thank you that you have not given this gift to the powerful and righteous, but unto babes,”
And when Rocket is in crisis, the otter, who is basically his adoptive mother (and who happens to be dead) tells him that all is well with her, and when he speaks of the hands that made him, tells him, “there are the hands behind the hands.” In other words, behind the false god who “made,” him, is the true God, with the implication God loves him and has a purpose for him.
Did Gunn mean to have that, or was it necessary to tell a good story? Either way, I had a tiny pang at seeing the otter.
Nope, except on the far western edge of the state, based on what I saw. That’s where MN bleeds over into SD and ND, which are big pheasant-hunting areas. As in “we flew in from New York because the hunting is so good.” (So many expensive airplanes at Mitchell SD on opening weekend! Daaaaaaang.)
According To Hoyt 
“I need a glass of whiskey, a gun, and two bullets.”
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I remember having to explain that one to a housemate when it first aired. She thought it was funny, but didn’t understand it.
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Never saw B5*, so I had to go to DDG to figure out what/who the first bullet was for.
((*)) It started when life was getting Really Interesting, so that makes sense now. Must look into DVDs.
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The Blu Ray set just got released in the past year, and is under a hundred bucks. I still haven’t gotten it, but should, it’s just that I’ve had to manage my budget a bit carefully and a bunch of limited-time editions got released.
But buying the DVD sets used will probably cost more than the new Blu set. People love the show.
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I’ve had the DVD sets for about 20 years. It’s a shame they lost all the HD CGI video they generated. JMS and Babylonian Productions knew HD was on the way, they did the show in HD and then downscaled it for broadcast, but some bean counter deemed it ‘too expensive’ to maintain the hard drives with HD video on them.
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One exec in particular at WB hated B5 and swore it would never, ever be counted as a success. I presume, with the release of the Blu set, that said exec died or retired or something, because the vendetta was, reportedly, rather amazing.
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Our TV is from the last year or so of HDMI V1.0, and the Blu Ray player I bought won’t talk to it. Still, the full set of DVDs is $99 at Amazon. $SPOUSE saw the listing and when explained, said no. Rule of thumb is I’ll buy DVDs that we will both watch. Lots of Brit Mysteries, and the Bones full set is in the TBW queue. I don’t watch much TV/Movie content by myself, so I’ll save the money for something else. Maybe Doctor Blake.
It doesn’t help that she doesn’t much like SF TV. She’d be OK with a bit as movies like ST:First Contact and Generations, yeah, but she’s Not A Fan. OTOH, she doesn’t insist I watch Rom-Coms or Hallmark. Did the first when we were dating. The things we do for love. (In both directions….) :)
If I go for it, will probably go a season at a time. Probably can talk myself into Firefly easier.
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When I bought the Firefly Blu Ray set, it was under $20.
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And combined with Serenity on DVD runs $31. That goes in my eBook budget. Bought.
Thanks for the tip!
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I just saw Serenity on 4k going for about fifteen on Amazon. (I already have the Blu, so I held off.)
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I’ll take Vir’s version for politicians.
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Truly one of the best subplots of that show.
Vir is a criminally under appreciated character.
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Great! More Memes from the Meme Channel at the Meme Time! [Big Crazy Meme Grin]
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Once again I must reiterate that GP locomotives were EMD product, not Alco products.
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Dear Lord. That Klingon mental illness meme hits HARD. Very very hard. And close to home.
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Qapla’ to the shipmate!
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Klingon therapist is right. When you wake up in the morning, smile because you beat them AGAIN.
Remember friends, every day above ground is a good one. The best revenge is to enjoy this day.
On this subject, Phantom Update, Mom passed away on Saturday night. So for all you Huns who offered prayers and all who didn’t as well, thanks. I’m out here having a go at enjoying this day. Tomorrow morning if I wake up, I will smile.
The memes are helping. ~:D
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http://countyoursheep.keenspot.com/d/20040204.html
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There’s a meme depicting a raccoon spreading it’s paws wide and the caption:
“God Has Let Me Live Another Day And I’m About To Make It Everybody’s Problem.”
Need to remember to save that meme next time I see it on Twitter.
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Still sending on the prayer line, Phantom.
When I think of my Mom (nearly a quarter century gone, now), I just remember that there is no more pain, no more anxiety – and thankful for how much SHE has missed seeing.
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First day of work after a little disagreement with my heart I was asked, “How are you doing today?”
“Still pissing off the people who wish I was dead,” I replied.
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I am so sorry for your loss, Phantom. Prayers are continuing.
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My most sincere sympathies.
For myself, I feel a lot like Homer Alone up there.
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Sorry Phantom. It is never easy even when it is expected. It just isn’t. One day at a time.
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So sorry for your loss.
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Prayers up for you.
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Long distance hugs. Thank you for the update, and I’ll keep flying the prayer flag for you and yours.
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We will pray for your family. It’s hard.
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I’m so sorry.
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May you and yours have the strength, grace, and constitution to face the weight you bear. May you all be fortified with the memory of the past to face the future with confidence, and to carry yourselves as she would wish you to be.
All people must die someday. Let not life’s end be the curse you fear, but the final setting down of burdens having done what is right and honorable. May we all face our final hours well, whether wracked with pain or quietly in our sleep, having done our utmost to live a good and proper life.
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sorry for your loss
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…and weirdly I didn’t see the part where you mention losing your Mom and only now when I have some acid reflux waking me up do I see it.
Sorry for your loss.
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My sympathies to you and your family.
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Glad you are still around.
The price of a long life is burying most folks we knew. Never gets easy, but you may be more at peace.
Hopefully you outlive, and well, all who have annoyed you.
Condolences.
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Yes, seeing the green side of the grassy lawn is a good thing. Prayers for Familia Phantom.
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Condolences, Phantom. I know it’s cold comfort but there’s many of us out here praying for you.
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All condolences and sympathies.
The hole in the world is huge, but it does shrink and fade with time, even if it likely never quite goes away.
The blessings and good memories, though, are mostly evergreen.
And may that double-barreled blessing be so with you.
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Prayers for your family as they go through the mourning process. 🙏
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My sympathies.
I wish I had something inspiring to say that would somehow make things better.
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Right? A whole web site full of writers, and we have nothing to say on the subject.
That’s because there is nothing that can be said. It is a thing that happens, and that is pretty much it.
But, on the other side of the coin, that means saying -anything- is more than enough, and a respectable silence is entirely appropriate as well.
So I must say I appreciate you guys and gals. Never change, people.
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That’s it exactly. All we can offer are the same words that have been said a million times before, in every possible combination. They’re pretty much useless.
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Not just for you. I fight depression every day
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You have to. Depression is not a foe that can be conquered with patience or dull endurance. Depression is fought with life. Life is chaos, unpredictability, and a storm of constant challenges. You are only a failure if you stop fighting.
Curse the wet blanket that is depression. Cook tasty food that is bad for you, clean a closet, play with a cat (or dog, or a crow, I don’t judge). Cuss the clouds, rant about hanging communists, make tiny little holes in paper targets or make the steel ring for fifty yards away, sing loudly and off key, love your family and your spouse till they squeak, sleep soundly knowing you’ve put the fact checkers and busybodies into a tizzy wondering what the f*ck that crazy old bat has got up to this time.
Depression cowers away from life lived with verve. Might want to start small, if you’re new to this gig.
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Use a Batleth.
¡Qaplah’ carajo!
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Or a lirpa, because the skeletons in your closet have DR 5/bludgeoning.
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Why do folks keep saying communism is about “equal outcomes”?
It never was. And they are loudly saying so with “equitable”.
They get whatever they want. You give it.
Rape.
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Wow. This wad supposed to go to the end of the thread. WPDE
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LANGUAGE! (Runs.)
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That one with Trump and Brown…
For those who noted Trump’s political evolution over 50 years, note that the Diet Coke man has before him a Pepsi.
(grin)
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Check your email…. Also, this is your fault!
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After the 1989 earthquake (Loma Prieta) the Cal State Hayward Geology department put up a sign
“It’s not our fault!”
as the earthquake was in fact not on the Hayward Fault. (San Andreas Fault, good old Saint Andrew)
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Sam Andreas, the farmers friend.
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Lots of folks, over the years, have called me “responsible”…
(grin)
I once thanked a Drill Sergeant fir calling me “smartass”, because it wasn’t “dumbass”.
My arms still hurt, and Georgia got lowered a bit more.
Seeing his expression, Priceless!
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There’s one “equal outcome” guaranteed to everybody.
Death.
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Because that’s one of the talking points they use to pull in minorities and minority allies (mostly the allies, they don’t care much about the minorities).
Doesn’t matter if it’s true, normal people still feel the need to address the talking points. Communists don’t need logic, but they try to enforce it on everyone else.
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Brock Sampson as the avatar of America was a thing I did not realize I needed. But I did.
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FOR THE RECORD – I do NOT carry my printer around in my pocket. WAY too hard to foil wrap it against wi-fi trackers.
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I think I need a Klingon therapist.
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tlhIngan wo’ voDleH wa’DIch
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And that’s a weird translation indeed. It was supposed to be “everyone needs a Klingon therapist” but ended up something about an embassy.
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Pretty far down an internet translations rabbit hole, but interestingly one Klingon word for “therapist” is apparently their word for “cats”.
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Even they know.
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LOL
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Battle tested, Carl Jung approved. (No, really, go read some of his stuff on “individuation” and the role of the analyst. The goal of the entire process is for the client or “analysand” to be able to do single combat, eventually, against… whatever comes up.)
Too lazy to look up the exact C. G. Jung quote (which is likely a translation from his Swiss German anyway); but it runs (at least vaguely) something like this…
The contents of the unconscious that the “individuated” person comes to terms with and integrates as a strength, are identical to the contents of the unconscious that the mentally-ill person falls prey to and is drowned under.
See also the Gnostics (they weren’t full of it all the time): “If you bring forth what is inside you, what is inside you will save you. If you fail to bring forth what is inside you, what is inside you will destroy you.”
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I guess I didn’t need a Klingon therapist. I had a Dad therapist.
I definitely feel like the universe is like that. You think THIS is bad? It could be worse and I’ll make it worse if you don’t quit sniveling.
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“Mom! I fell down!”
“Is the floor damaged? Good. Go play.”
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Wow. We at least got “Are you bleeding profusely?”, not just a scrape. And “Did you break something?” Implying a bone. If not latter, but something else, then, ouch.
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“Sorcerer: Personal best.”
Bwahahahahaaaaa! Even Mrs. Phantom laughed at that one.
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That … sounds like a gaming session I had once back [redacted] years ago. Druid, though, not sorcerer.
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I’m almost certain it was a necromancer. And it probably wasn’t me. Probably. I think I was running clerics at the time. It wasn’t a door, it was dinner. Roast pig.
The town was not very understanding, but I am given to understand the DM’s girlfriend thought it was great.
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The Reader needs the number of the Klingon therapist. He knows lots of folks that need it, whether they realize it or not.
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SFBS
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https://imgur.com/a/zLO7SDG
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Right now, it’s under the bus.
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In re: pens vs pencils in Zero-G —
Go watch Apollo 13 again and you’ll note the astronauts were using pencils to do their arithmetic to program the LEM computers.
The Bollywood film “3 Idiots” had the “super smart” main character tell the story in the beginning of the film to demonstrate the idea that engineers tend to overcomplicate things, but then at the end of the film had the dean (the film’s anatagonist) pointing out the problems with graphite and telling the MC that he wasn’t always right about everything.
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h/t Glenn over at InstaPundit.
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/COMMIEFARM-551×600.jpg
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I loved that. Your farm?
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Elvis impression, singing
“…in the Gulag….”
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This very day I was working with high school students and we were talking about the AP US History course. I mentioned that I would probably fail, because having been alive for more than a quarter of the existence of the US, I remember how most of it happened as it happened. They thought I was nuts. I reminded them it was my peers in college who were inventing the internet, and they’re very welcome.
Although I’m not exactly sure what they’re really welcome to…
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All good! As usual. But the “natural selection” one. Actually seen that one. Wasn’t that high. But oops is right.
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Activists pushing communism somehow always think that their stuff will be exempt from being seized and redistributed
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As one of the Occupy Wall Street fools said, “this isn’t private property, it’s personal property.”
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That’s an oldie but a goodie.
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If by “good” you mean “do you even speak English?”
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This is why they seek to obfuscate and blur language. They lose when definitions mean actual things. They lose when folks catch on to the con.
Communism is cult intellectualism for the terminally dumb. It sounds like it’s educated. Smart. Well, it sounds like that to those who did not earn their education with skull sweat and constant analysis. But it is all form, no substance.
Actually it may be worse than that. It’s a parasite that feeds on common sense, hard work, and entrepreneurship and craps out soulless drones.
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Thus, and exactly as you say: “Ignorance is Strength!”
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It means it’s hilarious.
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Why is it that the “interesting people” so often wear a pig-ring?
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‘Tis easier to lead them by the nose.
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Because otherwise they’d be even worse at rooting around in other people’s business? (It helps to have met actual hogs.)
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Pockets. Must have. Women have been fighting for pockets for centuries, it’s not fair, fashion industry!
It’s not Friday yet….
Stay inside until the storm passes? Man, we’d almost never be outside….
Mood, indeed. Heh.
Bludgeoning damage. SNRRRRK
Florida: Yes!
Grocery shopping. Definitely. I remember those prices. I miss them.
Very tired. Oh yes.
Congress should not be allowed to exempt themselves from anything. We get it, they get it.
And I have to agree with so many others here: We NEED Klingon therapists. They’d probably advise us to go kill something. For therapeutic purposes.
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Y’know, we’d still have pockets if we hadn’t let them take away our corsets and hoop skirts…
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Nope, nope, nope, women were fighting to get more pockets even then. I ran across a contemporary rant by an aggravated woman that women might maybe have 3 or 4, while a man with pants, waistcoat, vest, etc. could have upwards of 18.
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Whoops!
Just saw on X…
Mecha Break is a game currently undergoing public (invite only) beta testing. It’s made by an Asian company (Korean, I think, though I’m not sure). Since English isn’t their first language, they brought in an English-speaking company to put together a “banned words list” for English in-game chat.
Apparently ‘Trump’ was on that list. ‘Biden’, ‘Kamala’, and ‘Harris’ were not.
The developer has apologized, and is reviewing the situation.
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Chinese developer, not Korean, apparently.
The big Japanese video game publishers have been starting to embrace DEI under the mistaken belief that it will help them sell better to American customers (ironically at the same time that the anime industry is being alerted to how woke localizers are corrupting dialogue). Which leaves us in the rather ironic position of games from China as one of the bastions against leftist crap in video games.
Unfortunately, both Korean and Chinese developers are only barely starting to expand out of the non-mobile and non-mmo games on the international stage. And while I don’t expect Chinese developers to start pushing the woke crap, I also realize that they’re under the constant threat of CCP interference in the content of their games.
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Of course, this raises a critical question: Which is more effective, Betan Therapy or Klingon Therapy? :-D
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Both have their uses.
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Yup.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GUoOkBNWQAAUiey?format=jpg&name=large
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Blink.
No kidding!
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https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1822395394640245119
This reminds me of a story that I heard several years ago. The assistant manager at my Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS) was talking about one of the players in a particular miniatures wargame (Warmachine, for the curious). That player had an army with squads denoted by color variations. And he would refer to them as the blue guys, the green guys, etc…
And one day he mentioned the white guys.
Much hilarity ensued, and it apparently became a running gag whenever he was playing with that army.
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Does anyone know who the cute anime girl about to be trod upon is? I feel like I’m missing a visual pun because I don’t recognize her.
I still have my Atari game system, although I haven’t played it since… 1988? 1989? Pretty sure I have a copy of Pitfall too, although I never played it much. If I remember right, I bought it on deep sale about the time I started losing interest in the system. It was a lot of fun while it lasted though.
Guess one could say that about a lot of things, now.
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All anime looks the same….distorted and under-frame-rated.. }:o)
Except for the more outright strobing siezure-inducers.
(I know, but since I have been *falsely* accused, I might as well bloody RUN WITH IT Dunlike it?. Take it but with the demonically- possessed/mentally ill accuser[s]). NMFP)
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s/but/up/
Freudian analysts can…. go Freud themselves.
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Weirdly, the “Doc Martins with white laces” is a statilus symbol. It means “anarchist virgin”. Once they get popped, blooded so to speak, they use red laces.
(kzin grin)
Those (honk!)heads tend to use snake-stomp motifs. Which is dumb. Stepping on a rattlesnake just gets you bit.
Left doesn’t meme very well.
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Hey, I resemble that meme with all the canned goods . . . just did a batch of pickled beets a couple days ago and a batch of homegrown tepary beans last week, and won 16 blue ribbons at the county fair for various canning projects done last year. Ain’t nobody gonna starve at my house!
Most importantly, I know how to make things grow. Very handy skill, gardening.
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About the last meme: Not-O-K. Harris might well be the single most useless chair of the National Space Council, ever. (I remember only a single photo-op event, which was as cringe-y as… well, all the rest.)
Even the much-maligned Dan Quayle actually did some real stuff, with that same position.
And on the Walter Williams meme: so courteously savage, but then all his quotes are like that. Would have loved to hear his take on our current embroilments and… surreality.
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“Space” …
Well, she is a void, surrounded by a sphincter.
(grin)
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Any one I know? 😸😏
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The two I liked best are the 2nd Amendment one (is that Madison?) and the Willie Brown one.
The 1982 one reminds me of the day I first saw Pong, in 1975 (at a pinball machine distributor in Holland where I worked for the summer.
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The otter…finally got around to seeing, “Guardians of the Galaxy Pt. 3”. Didn’t really enjoy it. Much darker than I expected, too much bickering…and yet, I realized afterwards how it also epitomizes how popular entertainment carries, counter-cultural messages perhaps unconsciously.
The villain is an abusive maniac who keeps doing the same thing (trying to uplift various species to create a “perfect,” society) and expecting different results (all of his “perfect societies,” crash and he destroys them). If you’ve had an abusive parent, this may be hard to watch, because the High Evolutionary is an extremely abusive “parent,” to Rocket.
He wants to be God…and his staff turns on him when he blasphemes God and says he’s taking God’s role. (I assume you all saw it earlier, but it’s not too much of a spoiler to say their rebellion doesn’t do them much good).
And while the HE tries to make perfect people, down in the bottom of his ship a group of rejects, including a motherly otter, are innocent, gentle, loving, compassionate….everything he says he wants spiritually. I found myself quoting Jesus: “Lord, I thank you that you have not given this gift to the powerful and righteous, but unto babes,”
And when Rocket is in crisis, the otter, who is basically his adoptive mother (and who happens to be dead) tells him that all is well with her, and when he speaks of the hands that made him, tells him, “there are the hands behind the hands.” In other words, behind the false god who “made,” him, is the true God, with the implication God loves him and has a purpose for him.
Did Gunn mean to have that, or was it necessary to tell a good story? Either way, I had a tiny pang at seeing the otter.
And yes, I too could use a Klingon therapist.
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And on a different note on the, “California liberal,” meme, most good ol’ boys in Minnesota are probably not hunting pheasant.
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Nope, except on the far western edge of the state, based on what I saw. That’s where MN bleeds over into SD and ND, which are big pheasant-hunting areas. As in “we flew in from New York because the hunting is so good.” (So many expensive airplanes at Mitchell SD on opening weekend! Daaaaaaang.)
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And here I thought the big thing in Mitchell was the Corn Palace.
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