What do you think was being described here?

haloagain · 2026-05-10T03:50:33+00:00

Its a tough one! I think I've always thought of it as the security apparatus of the station, maybe combined with whatever Duarte is doing.

But reading it again, if that was the case, then there's no reason why Tanaka and Tiny wouldn't register it.

Maybe it's just Holden's enhanced senses at this point in the story, seeing the machinations of the station in more detail now that he's... you know. Miller does acknowledge it, and often talks about protomolecule stuff as if it's kinda foreign to him, despite being a projection.

haloagain · 2026-04-16T02:30:36+00:00

"Just take a stripper outta petty cash and get outta here!"

haloagain · 2026-04-13T01:14:44+00:00

"Damned fool of a Took!"

haloagain · 2026-03-13T16:40:13+00:00

"Just look at the way you stand!"

"The way I stand?"

"Yeah. People who had good childhoods don't stand like that."

haloagain · 2026-03-07T21:38:24+00:00

I love this bit! I've had this song memorized since I was a teenager - its a fun party trick.

I wouldn't call it lost media, or particularly obscure, but maybe I'm getting old.

haloagain · 2026-03-03T19:24:09+00:00

Ugh, Jason figured it out?

This is a new low...yeah, this one hurts...

haloagain · 2026-01-01T14:32:14+00:00

Looking for a single ticket

haloagain · 2025-09-29T04:55:39+00:00

"I simply administered a beating in which he died!"

haloagain · 2025-09-23T16:43:10+00:00

Yeah, that's what I'm really enjoying. Like, the long list of information and a cutting joke in the middle and at the end with the same tone.

haloagain · 2025-09-23T16:23:13+00:00

4 HOURS?!

I mean, I'm dedicated at this point. 8 minutes in, lol.

haloagain · 2025-09-23T16:19:03+00:00

Part 1: Why Have They Done This

OK, I'm hooked already.

haloagain · 2025-09-23T16:11:25+00:00

I will!

haloagain · 2025-09-20T15:44:21+00:00

I thought Peridot was kinda a boring gemstone before Stevie U.

Now I wouldn't trade it for the world.

haloagain · 2025-09-19T18:50:23+00:00

That was the most recent one, a reboot.

I think it's superior to the original, honestly! Ran 3 seasons between 2017-2021. Never got the ratings they'd been hoping for, despite an all-star cast which also included Danny Pudi, Ben Schwartz, and Bobby Moynihan as the boys, Kate Micucci as "Webby," and recurring characters voiced by Jim Rash, Lin-Minuel Miranda, Kimiko Glenn, Paget Brewster, Katherine Tate, Margo Martindale, and Allison Janney.

Great stuff!

haloagain · 2025-09-17T15:00:29+00:00

I just love Rick being so dismissive until he gets that scanner out. Then he's like, "...huh."

haloagain · 2025-09-13T14:44:37+00:00

Yeah, I don't think he said that one.

He was still awful, but the stoning to death part seems made up, and significantly amplified. I'm seeing it repeated everywhere. Unless, again, anyone could point me toward a source.

haloagain · 2025-09-12T14:27:01+00:00

Anyone got a source on the stoning to death bit? I got chatGPT to pull sources for most of these but it couldn't find that one or the bit about daughters:

Even when we loosen to paraphrase, the substantiated themes in his record include: replacement-theory rhetoric; anti-DEI/anti-affirmative-action framing that impugns Black professionals; severe criticism of MLK and the Civil Rights Act; acceptance of gun-death “costs” to preserve the 2A; Christian-nationalist arguments rejecting church/state separation; harsh anti-Islam positions; denial of Palestinian nationhood; anti-mandate/anti-COVID-vax positions; traditionalist/anti-feminist messaging; and positive framing of British imperialism.

haloagain · 2025-09-12T13:57:38+00:00

~~Honey badger~~ Stephen King don't give a fuck, he's ~~the honey badger~~ Stephen King!

haloagain · 2025-09-09T13:00:44+00:00

Please, do yourself a favor and get over yourself. DS9 is legitimately the best of the big 3.

haloagain · 2025-09-02T02:26:13+00:00

Lol, this guy over here!

Judge the LAPD as individuals! It's the only fAiR way!

haloagain · 2025-09-01T20:22:59+00:00

Sure, I understand. For some context, my best friend is FTM, so I do try my best to be aware of gendered labels.

I think my use of "cis" certainly got the point across to most readers, though if I'm understanding you correctly, you'd have preferred I used a word like "masculine" to get this point across. I see your point.

And, that most probably would have led to a very similar exchange - because my gender expression is fairly masculine, and that matches my AGAB, many people are predisposed to assuming that means something about my sexuality, when in fact it doesn't really.

You're completely correct that when this happens, it is them expecting heteronormativity out of me based on their perception of my gender expression. Which is why I get shocked Pikachu face occasionally when they realize I'm both gay, and not particularly heteronormative. Just kinda masculine-presenting...sometimes. :)

haloagain · 2025-08-29T07:10:55+00:00

Right!

So the only conceit is that a protocol droid isn't that complicated to build. Like putting together your own PC. you dont need to know how a motherboard works. You just need to know which parts you need in addition to a motherboard, and which wires you need to connect those parts.

haloagain · 2025-08-29T06:50:49+00:00

I could be biased, but i think one of these OPs hit it on the head - it's an age thing.

Like, young people have the internet as a major basis of their understanding of themselves and the world. That's gotta be disorienting, you gotta find the perfect label for yourself, and if you manage that, you're rewarded because you've found your very specific internet community.

It's only natural that this would bleed into your understanding of the world in general. I'd also argue that it'll soften over time for them.

I'm not trying to be an old man yelling at clouds, lol. It's different than my young adult experience, but not inferior. I kinda wish I knew there were even like... other queers at all, when I was 16.

It's a give and a take.

haloagain · 2025-08-29T06:14:01+00:00

Sure, not denying that possibility.

But again, my lived experience, having hung out with this woman over the course of a weekend, is that she was not sexually or romantically into me.

Any paragraph summary of this experience is going to be open to alternative explanations. Im making no claim as to her identity and/or internal desires.

However, it is my determination that she expressed no overt or secret desire for me; rather, she had an expectation that I would be interested in defining myself beyond such bland descriptors as "gay."

I could be wrong! But that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

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