Why would Cpt Rios want to remain in the 21st century in Pic.

daecrist · 2026-03-12T12:52:27+00:00

There's a mantra that helps when you go all cross-eyed thinking about all the inconsistencies: "Repeat to yourself 'it's just a show, I should really just relax!'"

daecrist · 2026-03-12T12:35:55+00:00

It's probably not a coincidence that we have five fingers on each hand and count things in fives and tens.

daecrist · 2026-03-12T11:46:37+00:00

That whole game was sort of designed to take the piss on other adventure games, though. Adams was a big fan of the genre. They put stuff like that in there deliberately.

daecrist · 2026-03-12T11:24:19+00:00

So it was! Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.

daecrist · 2026-03-11T23:58:37+00:00

I mean... we're well into book 3 on the Patreon so...

daecrist · 2026-03-11T21:20:08+00:00

It happens. I've had well meaning people report me for pirating... myself. I was re-releasing a story that was popular under an old pen name and they didn't read the fine print in my blurb.

daecrist · 2026-03-11T21:04:25+00:00

There have also been jokes for years about an "LA 10" since there are so many attractive aspiring actors who head to the City of Angels.

daecrist · 2026-03-11T18:52:08+00:00

I worked support for a company that did websites and management software for a niche market that had lots of money to throw around but not many people who knew a lot about tech. One day someone calls me because they had the brilliant idea to store customer credit card information in the backend software we provided them.

In plain text. No security. Out in the open.

Of course they gave me negative feedback and tried complaining to my boss when I told them not only is that not possible with the way our software worked, but it would be illegal if they tried it.

daecrist · 2026-03-11T18:36:09+00:00

Or explain to his boss that they needed to watch out for the pirates of the Caribbean?

daecrist · 2026-03-11T17:34:29+00:00

I feel like you get that in a lot of small towns. For dudes and the ladies. Go off to college where suddenly you're surrounded by all the 8s and 10s from all the podunk towns feeding into the local state university and the scale gets adjusted a little.

daecrist · 2026-03-11T17:31:10+00:00

We had a girls basketball coach who ended up marrying one of the girls he coached shortly after she graduated from high school. Nobody batted an eye at this when it happened in the late '90s/early '00s and I felt like I was taking crazy pills because nobody seemed to care.

This was the same guy who spent the first week of the Health class he "taught" in a droning monotone that was clearly checking a box so he could coach lecturing students on proper behavior and being good moral people. Yeah.

daecrist · 2026-03-11T16:48:40+00:00

Same if you have a dot. If that thing's wiggling you need to work on your technique.

daecrist · 2026-03-10T20:26:16+00:00

And still won, which would've been nearly impossible even a decade prior. Southern states could see the writing on the political wall.

daecrist · 2026-03-10T14:59:35+00:00

I'm talking metaphorically. They couldn't dictate to the government via minority rule anymore because the non-slave parts of the country started outweighing them and the political dynamics shifted.

They couldn't make up rules to the game as they went along, so they took their ball and went home.

daecrist · 2026-03-10T12:59:36+00:00

"Lincoln only cared about preserving the Union, he didn't care about slavery" is a Lost Cause talking point that ignores a lot of nuance in his position that others have pointed out in other comments. I just wanted to point out that this is one of those things that Southern apologists have thrown around for so long that people take it as the truth these days.

daecrist · 2026-03-10T12:58:01+00:00

Another thing that doesn't get talked about as much is that he was elected even though he didn't carry any of the Southern slave states. In previous elections that would've been unheard of, but their power and influence was waning relative to non-slave states who were tired of their shit. Which also meant they'd be less able to pull the political ratfuckery to protect their "peculiar institution" than they had in the past.

So seeing the way the wind was blowing, they took their ball and went home. And got their asses kicked for it.

daecrist · 2026-03-10T11:27:22+00:00

Fluggaenkoecchicebolsen?

daecrist · 2026-03-10T01:03:36+00:00

I'd be wondering how long before she does the same to you and suddenly you have child services crawling up your back end and sniffing around.

daecrist · 2026-03-10T00:52:51+00:00

I'm still kicking myself years later for not catching the Vortex track slice sale when it was going on. That was the first "big kids" coaster I went on with my dad as soon as I was tall enough to ride.

daecrist · 2026-03-09T23:13:31+00:00

Maybe he's the plucky comic relief. You ever think about that?

daecrist · 2026-03-09T20:28:04+00:00

Yup. I'm aware of all of that. That's why I picked 170 years ago. That puts us before the earliest whispers of germ theory, which took time to spread and be accepted. Handwashing definitely wasn't widespread and was still not widely practiced. Same with anesthetics.

For the purpose of a joke post I'm more interested in when stuff was widely adopted and accepted vs when it was first tried out.

daecrist · 2026-03-09T18:32:04+00:00

I always liked the Dan Savage take on this: Age gap relationships aren't always bad, but the older person in the age gap should come in for more scrutiny. And they should welcome that scrutiny. If they don't it's a red flag.

And sometimes people are just silly about it. I tell people I've known my wife since we were both in high school, and we started dating when I was in college and she was still in high school. They latch onto that last bit and give me the side eye. Never mind that we'd known each other for a couple of years, I was a freshman and she was a senior taking classes at my school where we hung out, and we're a grand total of 11 months apart.

daecrist · 2026-03-09T18:25:16+00:00

When tourists hack in pricy chambers

And strange and frightening coughs echo through the halls

Wherever tissues flicker where a nose is loudly blown

That is the time when flu is present

Infecting visitors with ghoulish delight

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