Dusty Oracle

Yet another grumpy old bastid 💢with an X account. I’m not going to care if you end up offended. Anti-Sugar propagandist.#SaveTheGongo 不機嫌な爺さん

[Dusty Oracle @DustyOracle]

Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Oh, wait… yes, I do.

[Jon 🔬 @JonnyMicro]

THE PINK TOASTERS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

[Dusty Oracle @DustyOracle]

@japan_nobunaga I’m going to have to add a room just to display my growing collection of your quotes:

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Dusty Oracle @DustyOracle]

@AngelaBelcamino @shelbystardust @BradWCAttorney I bet she’s got what she thinks is a forehead hidden up there… she wore the hat to try and avoid you catching on to her plagiarism.

[Larry Correia @monsterhunter45]

I’d call California a third world nation, but to be fair third world nations count votes faster.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

@USATODAY

[Dusty Oracle @DustyOracle]

@JonnyMicro I take it you’ve never had to deal with people who “speak” Klingon.

[Dusty Oracle @DustyOracle]

@BaronDestructo Definitely Ashford.

[Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT @lone_rides]

Okay, fine. You can build a data center in my backyard.

[Wonky Astromech Droid @FaultyMotivator]

BREAKING: Lucasfilm Ltd. has decided to cancel the sequel to their 1977 blockbuster "Star Wars" because the studio felt director Irvin Kershner was failing to appeal to a wider audience. @BaronDestructo

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

@VaxxersAnti It’s where British and American cuisine spiritually diverged

[Aydin Paladin🍸👑🇺🇸🇬🇬✝️📊 @AydinPaladin]

It sounds like they were trying to, but you can't make Stargate today. The heroes are the US military, and the villains are an ethnically diverse group of aliens in human bodies who posed as the various gods of human cultures in antiquity. The one group of aliens that also posed as gods but were benevolent rather than intrinsically evil - and the Goa'uld are intrinsically evil, as is made explicit - posed as the Norse ones.
That's why Stargate has remained untouched while every other franchise is defiled. Too much of the basic premise is fundamentally incompatible with modern Hollywood. There are too many uncomfortable implications.
Seems to me that higher ups got a whiff of what kind of show they were trying to make, and that show being Stargate, put the kibosh on it.
The "fresh new direction" they want to go with instead will have to be utterly unrecognisable. Stargate Universe is the direction Im sure they'd like to go in, but they already made that before the era of "modern Hollywood", and it was universally panned.
There's no getting around the good guys being the military and the bad guys being evil on a genetic level, so the whole premise is anathema. Stargate future-proofed itself, and with 15 proper seasons and 3 films, there really is no need to revisit it. I can continue, as I have for the past 30 years, just regularly rewatch what we already have. Because it's awesome.

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

Impeach

[Dusty Oracle @DustyOracle]

Booooo!!! @AmazonMGMStudio
#JusticeForStargate

[GateWorld.net @GateWorld]

Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
https://t.co/CReonRt2Qg

Amazon MGM Studios is not moving forward with Martin Gero's Stargate revival, which was to begin filming this fall.

[GateWorld.net @GateWorld]

Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series
https://t.co/CReonRt2Qg

Amazon MGM Studios is not moving forward with Martin Gero's Stargate revival, which was to begin filming this fall.

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

At a daycare in Tokyo, a Muslim mother said:

“It’s so much easier now. I don’t even have to pack lunch anymore.”

Why?

Because the daycare changed its meals.

No pork.
No soy sauce.
Chicken only if it is halal-certified.

Not in Saudi Arabia.
Not in Pakistan.
Not in Indonesia.

In Japan.

Of course, children should not be mocked or punished for their religion.
That is not the point.

The point is this:

Japanese children are now eating under someone else’s religious rules
inside their own country.

And somehow, we are told to call this “diversity.”

No.

Diversity should never mean one side gives up everything
while the other side is endlessly accommodated.

So tell me again.

Who is integrating into whose country?

Because from here, it looks like Japan is being asked to bow in its own home.

And I’m tired of being told to smile while it happens.

[Dusty Oracle @DustyOracle]

#MakeNewMovies

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Zack Snyder is set to direct a remake of ‘ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK’.

(Source: https://t.co/KTureS6SLe)

[Dusty Oracle @DustyOracle]

@GenXWolf That needs to be a flare gun, so he can catch fire as well.

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

Dear Diary,
Laughed for 20 uninterrupted minutes today.