100°F is 38°C.

The detail on those braids. Damn, painting minis is some high arcane shit.

What the sci-fi?!

Awww, so little! ☺️☺️☺️

Living in a ski town in the US is fucking wild. Either you work at the ski resort, work at the actually essential functions of the town like water and power, or you’re leaving for Cali or Dubai once the snow melts.

You know what makes me happy? They settled out of court because the fans said, “We love them both!”

That said, B5 will always have a very soft spot in my heart.

Eastman and Laird were taking potshots at everyone because they had nothing to lose, and were both having fun and working hard. It’s a specific kind of indie spirit that I’m glad to see all over the place in webtoons and webcomics these days.

Which I think is genuinely incredible. Watching the show evolve from a Star Trek Spoof to a Star Trek Comedy all the way to Just Star Trek was breathtaking.

And to think, one of the most crucial plot points of the show–and how it evolved to encompass bigger and more profound issues–came from a gay joke.

Deep Space Nine ripped off Babylon 5. Fans love them both, because instead of one sci-fi political drama on a space station, we got two!

Kender Rangers. They take the whole ‘professional traveling nuisance’ shtick to a whole new level of commitment.

I heard this parable for the first time in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, believe it or not.

It was during Fast Forward, one of the less popular later seasons of the 2003 show. They get blown a hundred years into the future, and have to fight the evil clones that their nemesis-of-the-season keeps throwing at them (it’s superhero sci-fi, just go with it).

Leonardo’s clone–who, much like Frankenstein’s monster, never got a real canon name–was captured and the guys tried to take the chance to show him more mercy than he’d shown them. Leo believes that since the clone is, essentially, mostly him, he is capable of change. He delivers the parable, and then asks, ‘Are you a scorpion? Or a turtle?’ Then, like an absolute madlad, deliberately gives him a chance to betray them as a test of his ability to grow. He fails… mostly. There’s a bit at the end that gives it some ambiguity, leaves the question open-ended.

Honestly, one of my all-time favorite moments in turtles, bar none. It’s rare to see such deep questions about nature and nurture asked and explored in a kid’s cartoon.

I envy that kind of freedom. But I understand having the curse of itchy feet. Some people can’t stay still.

How strange, reading this and thinking that my very state of being is called the product of opinion.

I mean… I guess that checks out. Is sight an opinion that my eyes feed to my brain?

Unpopular opinion.

People who are obsessed with winning at everything all the time, are bad at receiving criticism. They see every single miniscule issue that can arise and see only a way to make more short-term gains instead of pacing themselves, exercising patience, or being able to forgive themselves and others for their shortcomings.

People who line their walls with trophies need their egos constantly stroked, or there’s something wrong, and they take it out on everyone else.

I think you’re confusing excellence with exceptionality. I’d rather have a kid who is happy to do good in the world than a kid who’s happy to be better than other kids.

Fight them tooth and nail.

Don’t get me wrong, he did plenty of divisive things. Pioneering the idea that the president can just call in a drone strike without the approval of Congress if he can get a quick kill in, for example.

But that’s just an ‘improvement’ on the same shit that every US Prez has done since the Gulf of Tonkin. Literally every single one has authorized the use of extrajudicial authority to silence their critics or exercised military clout without approval. The War Powers Act of 1973 functionally gave away the most important power the representatives had. They’ve just invented a casus belli and gone to town, every god damn time.

Obama wasn’t divisive, not by comparison. He was an improvement. At the very least he acted like there was some kind of civilized intent behind the enormous war machine he was driving. Recently, we just haven’t had the luxury of a President that is polite enough to let us ignore how brutal this hellhole really is.

You are assuming that capitalists will actually think that far ahead.

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So cannibalize the last of your species in an imaginary race to the top that ends up being a zero-sum game? Not, “Hey, screw this dude, let’s build our own boat so all three of us can survive”?

Congrats on being today’s lucky one in 10,000 people. ;)

Ea-Nasir is the world’s oldest recorded corporate con artist. Shitty business owners getting away with being absolute bastards and getting off on making people angry is a thing older than fucking dirt.