Now that I think about it, there's an interesting thing in Dune where thinking machines are bad but the stuff that's done to make humans inhuman to replace them is seen as fine and we even get multiple examples of those people being compromised in the first book

Whichever one does an insta-kill.

This is one of the many reasons why I dislike the prequels that turn the BJ into a 50s pulp brains in jars fight.

The Encyclopedia sets it as an overcorrection from a zealous religious order's hospital.

It ...doesn't really bring it up in the rest of the show either. There's one handmaid/former who's gay but that's about it and it's not really talked on (much) about the larger implications of all that

I see Mike Flanagan is doing a Carrie mini series. With a thin, pretty, blonde Carrie (nothing against the actor...)

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I was gonna email you! Last week was tech week and I got my vaccines on Sunday and that was kinda a bad idea cause my brain leaked out of my ears all week

Aw! The loser nerd blocked me!! Loser!!

If you're saying you utter "feckless" in your daily parlance, then I consider you a loser nerd. If you're doing the "are you assuming my gender/race" type of response then you're just a loser.

Where did everyone learn the term "feckless" anyway? No one uses it in real life and yet everyone in social media uses it to describe the Ds and the Ds only. It sounds unthinkingly Pavlovian at best and a Manchurian candidate at worst

We should all listen to what people think about congresspeople who rep a state the speaker has never lived in thinks. It's really enlightening or something. o_O (him not you)

also, I'm assuming it's changed since the days of Victoria but I'm sure there's still foundation there, the same way that the US has weird ideas of who's working class on our end.

(i.e. the person who owns the store is middle class. The person working the counter probably wasn't? and on the other end of the middle class spectrum, the person running the bank would be [upper] middle class but not actually upper class)

When Gilbert and Sullivan have Sir Joseph refer to Capt. Corcoran as Lower Middle Class (And he means that in a good way as Sir Joseph's trying to social climb through marriage), I've understood it to be "not inherited nobility but also not poor or day laborers." Managers, shop owners, that sort+

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*waves back while working out* *something something thirst trap*

Yeah, but one of them is reading Let Them and any book that shows up on a Michael Hobbes podcast calls for immediate expulsion from polite society (I can't tell what the others are reading and also ... this is all sarcasm)

4) How it gets labelled (I have no idea how much y'all have over this) but if I wanted an audio drama and got an actual play, I would click off.
5) Overuse of D&D tropes. "Oh! The bard is bisexual and horny and sings Britney Spears! How funny is that!" "The Paladin might as well be Joel Osteen!"