Notices by Professor Fischstörer (theoutrider@mastodon.social), page 15

"humans are so predictable!" - "then you've never met a woman" *rolls eyes right out of sockets*

Luc Besson is certainly good at making very expensive looking films with lots of elaborate costumes and sets

also they seem to be extremely inconsistent about whether going to above lightspeed is entering or leaving exospace

why does Valerian's tiny pursuit boat have a Lexus badge on it

there is a thing where men can get away with being legitimate celebrities and actors or popular musicians when being pointedly conventionally unattractive, while women cannot

eg Steve Buscemi or Ed Sheeran

"unmanny valley" is a term @bentosmile just coined for the looks of people like Dane De Haan

not ruggedly handsome like Russell Crowe but not conventionally good-looking like Orlando Bloom either, instead in that weird spot between the two where he just looks a bit weird

Valerian intro so far: what if Avatar, but water?

oh yeah, bleepy original PC88 music option

giving Ys Chronicles a spin now that the creature has stopped screaming and the animation on the intro is kind of awesome? they've done a neat job emulating an 80s anime look in some of the shots

@codl wahpologist

@codl free and unbound by the mores and expectations of society

Waluigi goes wah he pleases

@ajroach42 I love the bit in it about the specs for the network adapter getting leaked to user groups who then soldered their own at home and immediately after the trade show where it got released assembled in a pizzeria with their macs and bootleg network cards for what may well have been the world's first home-user LAN party

and the Pippin chapter

etc etc

@ajroach42 I've been reading a book on the history of games on Macs which has a lot of early Mac history things as well and which I'd heartily recommend https://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-History-Mac-Gaming/dp/1783524863

@scearley "high wattage performances"??

most of the staff at the big SBUX in town have written their pronouns on their nametags

slowly, eventually, we're gonna be okay I think :)

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