Which is certainly plausible and also extremely predictable, so why bring up the helicopter in the first place? Security theater is the most charitable reading I can manage right now.

Gross. I wondered if it was something like that but thought maybe I was creating a boogeyman.

I met several nerd celebrities on the 2017 JoCo Cruise (all lovely), and have several delightful anecdotes, but the one who stands out in my mind as “nicest” is probably Wil Wheaton who told me he really liked my cool hair.

They already have at least one end-credits disclaimer about the gods

Depends entirely on what one means by “polycule” because there’s a universe of difference between a closed triad and “the chart of everyone we’re occasionally banging plus all the exes” and Gritty would definitely do the second one

I'm actually the Scav person who requested that @seantcollins.com 's tweet be painted in oils, ultimately generating this bizarre AI summary. all of the completions were genuinely amazing, and sorry I forgot to ask permission Sean!

“Go to an old cemetery.
See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone.”

—Michael Okuda

In America, the prevailing attitude is "We would rather fail to help *everyone* deserving than ever accidentally help even *one* person undeserving." Whereas decent people don't mind helping someone who *doesn't* "deserve" or need it if it means they can help those who *do*.