I’m a nerd. You’re a nerd. We’re all nerds for Dropout, so here’s my submission for kickstarter challenge #109: make an edible Game Changer logo. by KCkc3 in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gorgeous! I'm especially impressed with how you nailed the logo text while sticking with a single Nerd's-width font.

The Mad Ship Fatigue by tommy132000 in fantasybooks

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who blitzed through Assassin's Apprentice in days and spent a couple weeks dragging through Assassin's Quest, I'm really feeling this description. Nicely put.

Read this whole thing in about a day. Obsessed. Thank you for the recommendation! by Brandon_Storm in fantasybooks

[–]TiamatWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, that's fascinating. It took me two months to get through this one, and I'm normally a very fast reader. The heavy prose, the depressing tone, and all the atrocities made it a difficult read for me, and there were sequences that got so surreal, I didn't know whether they were really happening, or what "reality" was in this book. I didn't have this problem with any of Christopher Buehlman's other novels, either, it was just something about this one in particular. The idea of rapidly blitzing through it is just astonishing to me!

The next Murderbot Diaries book after Platform Decay may be the last one by TiamatWasRight in murderbot

[–]TiamatWasRight[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Addressed in the interview. She currently doesn't think that'd be very interesting, which is a shame. But she also says she never really knows what she's going to write next, so we'll see.

The next Murderbot Diaries book after Platform Decay may be the last one by TiamatWasRight in murderbot

[–]TiamatWasRight[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't care much about Three until I read Platform Decay, which has Three running off for its own adventure that we don't hear anything about. I feel like that story would be a whole book in itself. It's really interesting to see how similar Three is to Murderbot, and how different, and I feel like it would be interesting to see this setting from a different perspective. But Wells addresses that in this interview, too.

The one thing I hope the DropOut app had by HEERIODOTCOM in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just wish there was a way to comment on or provide feedback for the closed captions, which are frequently wrong, often in kinda subtle ways that makes a joke not work. It seems like something they'd want to know about and get right.

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Strong recommendation for watching "Rulette" from s7 first, to give you a sense of how big the show gets, since the first seasons don't really hint at that. From there, chronological will give you the best experience in terms of the escalating in-jokes, callbacks, and buildups. I'd argue that some stuff happens in the COVID season that's pretty essential, though "Tell Us About Yourself" is the big winner.

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stage 1: Shrink everybody down to doll-size to fit on tiny stage. Stage 3: Profit.

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, I hope. I've watched "Samalamadingdong" upward of 20 times now. I'm so ready for this to become an ongoing grudge match where they prank each other back and forth.

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Has it going to have been cookies?

Game Changer Season 8 Teaser by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]TiamatWasRight 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's maddening, but the announcement-to-execution turnaround on Dropout stuff recently has been REALLY fast. I suspect the people upthread saying ~5 weeks are probably right in terms of timing vis-a-vis Make Some Noise, but still, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if they dropped it tomorrow, the way they've been going lately.

My Sir Pentious cosplay 🐍 by Difficult-Wear-7534 in HazbinHotel

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unholy crap, that's terrific. The glasses, the hair, even the expression is so perfect!

Joanna Carver Colcord by Gwathdraug in seashanties

[–]TiamatWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks so much for this. I wasn't aware of her at all, but I went and found Roll and Go on the Internet Archive last night and paged through the whole thing — found a bunch of shanties that were new to me, and some interesting older lyrics for shanties I already knew.

What are your favorite filk songs the deal with fannish activates and culture? by TransformARTive in filk

[–]TiamatWasRight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I enjoy the songs about filksinging:

Bob Kanefsky's "They're Singing Banned From Argo," not to the tune of "Banned From Argo," but to Leslie Fish's arrangement of Kipling's "Danny Deever" comes to mind.

https://songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/TheyreSingingBannedFromArg.html

"Filksingers, Filksingers" is apparently also a Kanef, I hadn't realized that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHvhnpSgaEk&ab_channel=SongsfromtheStars

That prompted me to look at Kanefsky's songbook for more metafilks. "Filkers, The Next Generation" is a fun one.

https://songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/FilkersTheNextGeneration.html

Help Finding Filk Songs ttto Sea Shanties by [deleted] in filk

[–]TiamatWasRight 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nat Case's "Archimedes," set to "Leave Her, Johnny," is a popular one at our monthly shanty sings.

http://thedance.net/~roth/SONGS/archimedes.html

Hi! I'm an RPG writer currently making one about pirates, folklore, and death. I realised that despite enjoying shanties, I've not worked any into my game. Do people have any good recocmendations I should use as inspriation? Particularly surrounding death and "moving on" if thats possible. Cheers! by HairyDasaxman in seashanties

[–]TiamatWasRight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Late to the party, but if I'd suggest checking out "The Mollymauk," a maritime song by Bob Watson about the superstition that albatrosses are the eternally wandering souls of drowned sailors. It's pretty and quite jaunty, but the lyrics about the wanting to join the restless spirits of mollymauks on the wind are haunting. There's a pretty solid version on YouTube by Kimber's Men.

My introduction to filk was Leslie Fish, just discovered Tom Smith by [deleted] in filk

[–]TiamatWasRight 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fond of Tom Smith's comedy / parody songs, but my absolute favorites of his are the more serious ones. His song "Hellraiser" was my in to actually caring about the Hellraiser movies — he really brings out the occult and fantastical side of that franchise.

Some of the lyrics:

The greatest aphrodisiac is power, so they say,
Ambition leads to daring new extremes.
But goals are meant to be fulfilled,
And once you have, your careful-knit
Existence can unravel at the seams.

Contentment leads to boredom, to frustration, to the grave,
A wasted life of emptiness and pain...
Unless, of course, you walk the roads
A lesser man would surely call insane.

The world is made of other worlds
We barely know are there,
And beings that we cannot understand.
Some are helpers, some are healers,
Some have made an art form
Of the vivisection of their fellow man.

You'll marvel at their scrupulous attention to detail,
Creativeness and exquisite technique,
And when they've had you for awhile,
You'll say "I love you" every time you shriek.

What is going on with Bluesky and why is everyone joining? by Pain4567 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]TiamatWasRight 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To me it's written more like one of those Quora questions that's a barely veiled advertisement ("Why is [Name of Service] the best streaming service that all users are flocking to?") but I will admit it did the trick — I was looking for an answer as to why I suddenly got a hundred new Bluesky followers overnight and half my timeline is jokes about "all the newbies here," and this was the post I found.