"Your excellency, the social media experiment has not yet been recognised by its peers as the rightful representative of true Capellan citizen opinion."
"Fine, I'll do it myself."
CUNOESSE - "Fucking pussy didn't shoot shit, did he? Didn't shoot me, didn't shoot himself in the mouth..."
EMPATHY - "Didn't shoot *me*." There is sincere disappointment on her face. This kid was expecting *pandemonium* and release from her mortal coil.
INLAND EMPIRE - You, every morning, walking from Voyager Road to teach gym. She -- leaving for the academy with her spring coat on. The air filled with the smell of smoke and raspberries and incredible hope. An ocean full of hope.
INLAND EMPIRE - You, every morning, walking from Voyager Road to teach gym. She -- leaving for the academy with her spring coat on. The air filled with the smell of smoke and raspberries and incredible hope. An ocean full of hope.
by the way, the fact that they keep giving him these tests means that they are not trying to figure out if he has dementia. They already know that. They are monitoring the rate of his decline.
Hard sci fi is when materials science has no advancements past Current Year, and the more it stagnates, the harder sci fi it is, and when TRL climbing completely stops, its Speculative Aerospace Fiction
you can also see this delayed wave in romance novels all the way into the 2000s with highlander theming and shit. Mel Gibson's movie probably gave it that last big bump in popular consciousness
Hyper specific but peep my pfp and you'd be unsurprised: the whole nexus of scots-irish larping by cold war era americans + the last peak of lost cause leads to a lot of weird vestigial celtabooism in like 50s to 80s sci-fi distinct from Bostonian celt larp
@MichaelLip74233@ilikeadamsmith Ah yes, the whole "Southerns are descendants of refined Cavaliers and Normans, while Yankees are degenerate Celts and Saxons" shtick.
@ilikeadamsmith On the other hand, there's the giga-racist who did the math and realized slavery was making the South poor so he became an abolitionist
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Daily reminder that the US South used to be a 4th world country until Bill Clinton opened Pandora’s Box by giving them iodine, removing their worms and giving them the internet .
you know it's not something we talk about as communists but the sheer scope of the british nanny state is downright insane. like it's shit at giving you reliable or substantial welfare but the sheer scope of what in your personal life it just bans or overregulates is crazy
god this film was so good. I don't care if we never get a sequel the direction they took it in with the hardcore torture porn/musical climax/zombie pov stuff was just. Nobody's ever gonna hit those beats again