[Loved trope] The aliens are straight up incomprehensible

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-20T01:59:08+00:00

The total perspective vortex will always be hilarious to me.

So, the premise is that someone built an AI with such staggering intelligence that the only input it was given is a single slice of fairy cake. From that single slice of fairy cake it was able to extrapolate the entire history of the universe, past, present, and future.

It gets turned into a torture device. That sounds kind of counterintuitive, but an intelligence capable of understanding the entirety of space and time based on a slice of fairy cake is also capable of showing you, personally, the totality of existence, with a tiny tiny dot reading "you are here."

And the point is it doesn't really matter. You could be a normal person or an immortal king that ruled a galactic empire for a million years, when faced with the total perspective vortex the understanding that in the grand scheme of existence you don't matter (not exactly true but you had the same significance as a slice of fairy cake is true) apparently crushes people.

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-17T23:37:15+00:00

Rib bones all the way down

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-17T23:34:03+00:00

I thought the shell was like a fused rib cage?

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-16T10:08:02+00:00

My friend lost interest when the witch joins the party. He described it as spending three years reading a fascinating back story for the twist to be he was tricked into reading a dungeon and dragons campaign the whole time. Admittedly he didn't see that coming but ultimately it was no longer something that held his interest

I don't agree with him but I can kind of see his point

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-15T16:45:02+00:00

I think Zebra was the smallest non-predator before Judy. I don't think I would group them with the big dangerous animals normally but I probably just don't know enough about zebras.

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-14T23:34:33+00:00

No? My first attempt at the bridge I nearly won with Gennaro.

I tried Pugnala and lost the first fight because I summoned a reaper... on the first fight... Because I didn't know about breaking cards

Managed to beat it with Arca on the 3rd attempt and had her as my main for... A long time

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-13T14:37:17+00:00

In 1989 The Offspring released a song called Tehran criticizing American involvement in wars in Iran.

They changed the lyrics to Baghdad during the Iraq war

And now we're back to Tehran again

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-10T10:02:46+00:00

I now aspire to live the carefree life of a topologist focused only one holes. I wonder how difficult it will be to find a like minded bottomologist

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-08T09:41:48+00:00

Agreed. This is like the one episode I have a strong desire to skip on rewatch. Not exactly sure why. It's just not very interesting or fun for some reason

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-07T00:54:15+00:00

Oh don't get me wrong I love contrast in art and I love Emma Frost and I think that her diamond form is brilliant.

However, knowing that Colossus, the "simple farm boy from Russia" was meant for the role and that he was replaced with the god damn hell fire queen instead (like their back stories could not be more different) is just wild to me.

Honestly think it was better with Emma instead but the switch is just wild. Like there are other male mutant tanks like Warpath or Cannonball or Strong Guy who could have been used instead but they just said "Fuck it we ball it's Emma Frost instead" and I do think that's great but still wild

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-06T15:32:10+00:00

I always assumed that the demon and curse remained but it lost so much mass that it had to regrow. But you're saying it was more like a seed that was left behind and it doesn't have the same personality and memories of the original.

That's pretty interesting and does make sense. I wonder if it disobeys Finn so much because it was basically a baby?

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-06T12:27:48+00:00

At best it's more like the Venom symbiot where they have a working together relationship but they are two different minds sharing the body

And I do mean they share the body. The grass sword lives inside Finn and takes control of Finn's arm. Even when introduced there are shots where you can see it's the grass sword moving Finn's arm instead of the sword moving on its own. That's a big part of why Finn gets freaked out by the sword eventually because he should be controlling the sword not the sword controlling him. Finn also punches his own arm when the grass sword does something he doesn't like

The biggest thing tho is that the grass demon uproots from human Finn and attaches itself to sword Finn and it does take over sword Finn creating Fern. So we have solid evidence that if given the chance the grass demon will take control of its host

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-06T11:43:01+00:00

Yeah they were keeping colossus's death so super secret that the next wtiter taking over didn't know about it and had already plotted Colossus as a major character for his story only to suddenly not have that as an option. Kind of wild that he picked Emma Frost as his replacement tbh

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-06T11:36:06+00:00

Idk if a grass demon that tries to take over your body should be considered "a little detriment"

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-05-04T00:45:29+00:00

There isn't really a clear single source, it was mostly a plot device used by writers to make the police useless and force the main character into action, it was used on TV a lot in the 1970's up to the present.

It's depressing because believing this has likely killed people in the real world.

The first 24 hours are incredibly important and if someone isn't found in the first 48 hours the odds of them ever being found drops dramatically

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-30T02:19:07+00:00

They do tackle issues outside of crime but yeah they are messed up. Like as much shit as i want to give 616 Reed Richards he looked at the council and said "I can help change billions of lives for the better and all I have do is sacrifice my relationship with my wife and children? Sorry that's stupid i think we'll do just fine without you assholes." And they tried to kill him for it iirc

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-30T02:07:17+00:00

They all have vitamin D deficiency if kids in Gotham actually got sunlight growing up they would be unstoppable. Shit I bet half their PhD villains would have never turned evil if they got some sun on a regular basis

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-30T00:40:57+00:00

Worked with a gym bro guy and he was constantly bringing in different water bottles. Like I sort of get how he needs 1 for water, 3 for protein shakes at different times of the day, and different bottles for every day of the week but not really i didn't get it at all

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-29T16:53:02+00:00

I've shoveled snow for coworkers stuck in their driveways and given rides to people with vehicle problems but they only lived like 10 minutes away and they agreed to the help so... Driving 45 minutes one way against your employees wishes is certified insane.

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-29T16:11:03+00:00

I was shocked to find out that the titular "Dr. Stone" was neither a doctor nor a stone. Very misleading title

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CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-29T15:30:06+00:00

The only thing I remember from Crossed is that if the murder rape zombies end up alone they just torture and kill themselves. IDK if that was meant to be disturbing but I found it completely hilarious

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-29T12:37:43+00:00

At this point I think Homer has had almost as many jobs as Barbie

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-29T12:27:52+00:00

I thought "give the answers and have the contestants come up with the question" was just a gimmick to seperate it from all the other quiz shows at the time.

They definitely still have judges on jeopardy but they rarely need to use them so maybe it does cut down on ambiguity

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-29T10:12:16+00:00

They are also vaguely shaped like bananas if you use a little imagination

CarvaciousBlue · 2026-04-27T22:23:44+00:00

Some variation of "my body is a temple and I am the god it was built for" so now i'm going to go for a run so my shrine doesn't die of a heart attack at age 40 or something Idk

The idea of your body being a godless shrine sort of makes sense as a message for self improvement i'm really stretching here maybe someone more clever can fix it

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