Incidental Bits Thread #3

[Bob Schroeck]

Brewster's Millions is a story, filmed for the seventh time in 1985, about a guy poised to inherit $300 million if he can legitimately spend $30 million in 30 days.

Seconding that request, though. What did you have in mind, Dartz?

[AvrosRaven]

I know exactly how to do this: He has to legitimately seduce 1 woman. like, just one. I guarentee you he couldn't do it.

[robkelk]

Seen on displacees.yggdrasil

KONATA_IZUMI> I managed to buy my first anime figure in this world! But it's of my roommate. Should I put it on display?
MIYUKI_TAKARA> Somebody made a figure of me? If I'm dressed the way I'm dressed in that poster you found, it would be best if you kept it safe in your bedroom.
KONATA_IZUMI> Oh, hi, Miyuki! No, you're dressed in Ryouou's phys-ed outfit.
MIYUKI_TAKARA> Oh, dear. ... I want to see it. Once. Then it stays in your bedroom.

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(EDIT: This figure, should one be interested.)

[Bob Schroeck]

Have to admit that now I'm curious about that poster...

[robkelk]

She had this poster in canon. She's replaced it with this poster in Refuge. Miyuki insists that Konata keep the poster in her bedroom, too -- not because seeing it makes her embarrassed, but because it makes her homesick for all the friends who didn't get displaced.

[AvrosRaven]

"Do you ever think about how existentialism is a failed state?"
"... Raven please stop talking to me, go bother one of the others. or go to your philosophy class. yeah, go do that"

This sums up my interactions with people. and in the funniest way possible, im usually the one telling people to screw off.

[Dartz]

"You left the children with Revy?!"

"She's really good with them. And you know they'll be safe..."

[robkelk]

"You know how people sometimes say 'You can sleep when you're dead'?" Kuroha shook her head. "Take it from a ghost; they're wrong."

[Dartz]

--August 21st, 2017

"Hey, did you ever watch Berserk?"

"No"

"Good."

"What?"

"You haven't been spoiled so."

[Labster]

September 23rd, 2016

"Babe, I love ya, but if I was planning a jailbreak I wouldn't have brought a narc like you along."

[Dartz]

Early October, 2-16:


I am a demon, I am a devil. I take the shape of a man humans are gonna trust, so I can judge them by the content of the hearts. I can damn them and take my due, or they can defeat me and take their reward. I am neither evil nor good, simply a factotum of the universe, performing my function in the name of creation.

But you are not human

I've trapped myself. I cannot win against you, because you've already lost before you stepped through my door.

When a human comes through my door I give 'em a choice. They can have talent, without fame. Or fame without talent. Most will choose the fame, and they get just enough talent to make it happen, to hit it big just once. And when they can't hit that again, when they can't evolve and become more than what they were in the first place and realise in their soul what fraud they are, that's when I claim my dues. The ones I give the talent to, they have enough talent to achieve that fame.

Only one man ever took the talent. And he became famous after he died. More famous than he ever was alive.

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[robkelk]

Time passed. Something between a Plank time and a kalpa; what is time to the Norns working together?

[robkelk]

"How much do any of you know about generative AI?" Jenny Everywhere asked her tenants.

"My dear girl," Dr. Hooves replied, "who do you think created Stable Diffusion?"

[robkelk]

Another exchange that I know exactly where it will be used.

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"We can't go biking next weekend. My parents are getting married."

"To each other?" Hane asked.

"I'd hope so," Shinji commented. "But I remember Misato mentioning a story called Marmalade Boy."

Hotaru sighed. "Yes, to each other. And it's a bit depressing that the question is a valid one in this reality."