One piece at a time, of course.

The Register: Long-lost 1977 Star Wars X-Wing prop discovered – lock s-foils in bid position

So if you've ever wanted to own a Colonial Viper, or Captain Kirk's TOS uniform and toupee, or a... no, let's not describe the stuff from Flesh Gordon here... now's your chance. Assuming you have enough money to bid on them, of course. There's a link to the auction catalogue in the article.

I had reason to look at the Member List, and discovered a side-effect of Bob's linking our old Yuku accounts to the current forums. While I'm member 23 for just these forums, I'm member 42 once the Yuku accounts are taken into consideration.

Just how many pop-culture references should one person have attached to them?

AP: Peter Navarro convicted of contempt of Congress

I wasn't aware that "contempt of Congress" could be appealed to the Supreme Court...

Sorry, cultural joke. I don't have an update.

So over on QQ the funny pictures thread got derailed for a bit with another iteration of "immprtality would suck/but think of all the awesome parts" discussions that pops up in fiction forums like Unicron vs. the Death Star in fandom-related ones, and I eventually teal deered it like this (after sveral edits for exact wording):

Extroverts: Can't understand why anyone would want immortality when everyone you know and love will leave while you live on.

Introverts: Can't understand why anyone would shun immortality when it means that you can just wait a while and everyone who keeps pestering you will leave.

For a quippy shitpost mostly aimed at hoping to end the derail by making it too ridiculous for continued argument, it's developed a lot of staying power in my brain and keeps feeling far more profound than I ever expected.

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Hands up, who here (besides Bob) knows what this is a reference to.

As to why it's here, I seem to recall a few displacees with acting aspirations.

May God forgive me. May history judge me charitably.

(06-28-2023, 09:29 PM)Once upon a time when pigs were swine, Your Humble Narrator and like droogiwoog Wrote: (I've sometimes thought of launching a thread just for fics that a forum member wants to recommend but recognizes might not be to literally anyone else's taste: a Dead Dove Locker, so to speak.)

ErikModi Wrote:As a young girl, Sarza Zarazell was shipwrecked on an abandoned planet, only an old holocron to guide her. Now an adult, Sarza is on the cusp of completing her training as a Nue Jedi Knight.

Inspired by Haara Brightwater's D&D fanfic "Vow of Nudity." Using Fantasy Flight Games' Star Wars RPG rules.

May as well start this one off with a look from the outside.

CBC: Canada mulling 'game plan' if U.S. takes far-right, authoritarian shift

Keeping in mind the old Boy Scout adage "Be Prepared", of course. Everything presented here is from public statements... which is why it's so vague.

I feel like I've seen this premise before, but can't remember if it was fanfic or TF comics or what. Anyone else have any ideas?


A wanderer told me of his travels,
In a distant future time,
Who said—“A signal led me to a throne
Abandoned in orbit. Upon it, scorched and scarred,
Half ruined, a shattered Seeker sits, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its owner well those passions knew
Which yet survive, stamped on these grim remains,
The hand that mocked them, the fuel pump that fed;
And in the signal, these words appear:
My name is Starscream, Emperor of Decepticons;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Below the decay
Of that orbital Wreck, twisted and bare
Scrap and seas of rust stretch far away.

I have an odd question. Over on All The Tropes, a new user has just submitted a change the deletion of this passage (referring to Fallout 2) from a page:

Quote:Note, the battle with Frank is only this tough if you didn't use the mutant toe on him.

Quote: A poster was perpetuating a hoax. Removed the incorrect passage.