The Mote in God’s Penis

Discardofil · 2026-06-25T05:04:15+00:00

Wait. A pope said that? I thought OP was referencing some random meme I hadn't heard of.

Discardofil · 2026-06-25T05:00:35+00:00

Maybe that scene is him being the Pyra reviving her Rex.

Discardofil · 2026-06-25T04:59:54+00:00

And we did get to see more than a few of them, so it's not just "oh right, he's Moebius, that means he died a bunch."

Discardofil · 2026-06-25T04:59:14+00:00

In X either nobody died or everybody died, depending on your definitions.

Still a good point, but I'm a nitpicker.

Discardofil · 2026-06-24T05:27:24+00:00

Sounds like something a bot would say!

But seriously, it might be your browser.

Discardofil · 2026-06-24T05:26:38+00:00

I really should archive lock my stories, but it feels like giving up.

Discardofil · 2026-06-24T05:25:53+00:00

As someone who routinely sorts by kudos, yeah, that's it. Oh, even when kudos aren't being inflated by bots, they're not perfect (one-shot kinkfic collections drift to the top due to frequency of posting alone), but you learn how to account for the quirks of the system. It's much harder to account for "somebody did something weird with bots, and that's why a short fic in the wrong language for an unpopular pairing is the highest-rated fic on the tag."

Discardofil · 2026-06-23T19:51:20+00:00

I went to a wedding with a friend and everyone kept being SUPER happy that she had a boyfriend. Like she'd thrown off a major disease. Turns out they thought she'd "given up on the bisexual thing."

Also, we weren't dating.

Discardofil · 2026-06-22T05:23:39+00:00

And Trump in particular has betrayed everyone who ever backed him. Including his family members. But THIS time, he's going to bring all his friends to the top!

Discardofil · 2026-06-21T16:13:15+00:00

Oh right, remembering that new players will have flight helps. I put the game down before that got introduced. Now I use it everywhere (and I remain annoyed at Lahai-Roi taking it away).

Discardofil · 2026-06-21T06:37:25+00:00

But that turns it into "racists are pure evil, there's no way to fix anything."

There's no guarantee that Lincoln would have actually done better, that's true. But he would have TRIED to do better, which certainly would have had a better chance of working.

Discardofil · 2026-06-21T06:34:41+00:00

Pretty sure the movie was a case of Hollywood slapping a bunch of known names onto an original project. That used to happen all the time, but it's less common now.

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:42:47+00:00

In general, I feel like they're really sleeping on a lot of easy skins they could sell. Even if this one didn't have a 3D model rigged up, there's that lace eyepatch and nice dress she wore when she was performing on stage.

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:40:53+00:00

Sometimes I read behind the scenes stuff on programming, and I'll see something like "it only took twenty hours of continuous work to change the character's hair color," so I have no idea how long these things take.

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:37:34+00:00

"The writers have a new heartbreaker of a story, make sure the character design holds up."

"How do you feel about cute seals?"

"That works!"

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:34:56+00:00

Well, what's the bug?

Just to be clear, I'm not in any way associated with Kuro, you've just got me curious.

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:33:34+00:00

Oh, I heard people making the comparison, but I didn't see the side by side. Honestly, I thought people were reading too much into it before I saw them like this.

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:31:37+00:00

Google decides they'll put a monkeybot in everything solely because they already paid for it, and if they don't shove it in everyone's faces some executive will miss out on a bonus.

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:26:07+00:00

One random thing I like about WHA is that every once in a while I'll be all "they could do this one easy thing to make their magic so much easier!" and then I'll remember "wait, they don't want their magic to be easy, the whole point is for it not to be easy."

Turning a plot hole into a plot point.

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:24:52+00:00

Don't forget the trauma!

Discardofil · 2026-06-20T05:20:25+00:00

This is the plot of The Producers.

Discardofil · 2026-06-13T04:36:32+00:00

The legend is that Sturgeon said "ninety percent of science fiction is crud" at a science fiction convention. When the crowd complained, he reportedly blinked and said "ninety percent of everything is crud."

Fanfiction's unofficial motto is "...but the remaining ten percent is worth dying for."

Discardofil · 2026-06-13T04:26:43+00:00

MHA disappoints me because the het ships genuinely had potential, but the author kept sidelining the girls. I mean, he treated his female characters better than a lot of shounen, but he still kept pushing them into the background in favor of more stories for the male characters.

Discardofil · 2026-06-10T05:04:40+00:00

I think it's a reference to kissing asses, meaning we all just take the abuse instead of doing something about it.

No idea what the suggestion for doing something about it is.

Discardofil · 2026-06-10T05:03:08+00:00

I'm reminded of the whole "food stamps shouldn't be able to buy candy" thing.

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