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.

Space Ship Superstar by the Canadian band Prism



First thought for a power was a spaceship version of a tourbus or something, not super large but comfortable for long trips.  But that seemed a little overpowered or of limited use (and then there's the question of how long does it last, a ship that vanishes before you reach the nearest planet isn't useful)

Then I recalled the power from White Wedding and figured the song gives him a 'Solar-powered laser beam guitar'.

Now whether that's a solar powered guitar that can shoot laser beams or a guitar made out of laser beams, is up to Doug's subconscious.

Might be a fun one to pull out for the Sailor Moon Step

Heaven is a Place on Earth
by Belinda Carlisle

Quote:Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
They say in Heaven, love comes first
We'll make Heaven a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
When the night falls down
I wait for you, and you come around
And the world's alive
With the sound of kids on the street outside
When you walk into the room
You pull me close, and we start to move
And we're spinnin' with the stars above
And you lift me up in a wave of love
Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
They say in Heaven, love comes first
We'll make Heaven a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
When I feel alone
I reach for you, and you bring me home
When I'm lost at sea
I hear your voice, and it carries me
In this world, we're just beginnin'
To understand the miracle of livin'
Baby, I was afraid before
But I'm not afraid anymore
Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
They say in Heaven, love comes first
We'll make Heaven a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
Heaven
Heaven
Heaven
In this world we're just beginnin'
To understand the miracle of livin'
Baby, I was afraid before
But I'm not afraid anymore
Heaven
Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth?
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
They say in Heaven, love comes first
We'll make Heaven a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth

Here I am wondering it it'd be possible to make a new sister to Titanic. I mean, they were a fairly efficient design for the era on fuel - about 2/3rds of what Mauretania burned but a ship a third larger.

You can't build steam reciprocating engines anymore , so you'd have to go with diesel, but then your boiler rooms can be replaced with other 'modern' machine spaces like auxiliary generators, air conditioning, laundries, waste processing and larger entertainment venues. Those big slow-rolling marine diesels are incredibly efficient of fuel and burn anything black and liquid that'll inject. Centre engine is electric, driven by the main generators.


As a modern ship, you'd have to run plumbing to all the cabins - not just the first class - and the high quantity of interior cabins would not be popular with modern cruisers, but the Three-Class layout gives you public areas of the ship with distinct character - with 'Third' class being more like a buffet and a low cost bar, second class being a casual restaraunt that's comfy but informal , and first-class areas having a fancy dresscode and shit for the nights you want to be glamourous.
You can't panel the interior with timber - hello Morro Castle - but veneers may be possible to at least replicate the effect and the decor of the 1912.

Lifeboats - you can get an exemption (QM2 has it) to the 15 meter maximum limit. You have to have enough for everyone, but that's already possible.

But modern ships are less class-driven - most areas and amenities are available to most passengers. The difference between first, second and third class now being the amount of time you spend in public spaces on the ship. Third class cabins are beds with shitters and showers, with the expectation that you spend most your time in public areas of the ship (Like a car ferry cabin), and first class cabins are spaces where you can spend time privately and - in theory - never actually leave your cabin (Like Grills suites on QM2). Second class are sort of, in between, like Britannia class on the QM2

And maybe, second and third class, some amenities are extra charge - or the fancy restaraunt is an extra cost that needs booking for a night or two.

I mean, maybe people would get a kick on sailing on an imitation of an early 20th century ocean liner. And, fully packed, she'd be more environmentally friendly that an equivelant quantity of flights which might be a big thing in the near futures.

Taxes on aviation may make ocean travel viable once more.

Find a billionaire. Cook up some bullshit. Get 'em to build it.