Notices by Gadfly (-booq-) (gaditb@icosahedron.website), page 8

... METAGROSS!!!

(.. this is technically a subtoot and I'm kinda sorry but I figured you would be zero interestef in this and anything that WAS bringing this to your conscious attention would be unwanted.)

@KitRedgrave *schoolchild sing-song instructed-by-teacher-in-unison voice* "ThANK you, @gewt ..."

Anyways,

"Metapod" -> "Metang" -> "Metagross"

SEE!??

And the secret extra evolution, Meta-Knight.

(This joking isn't at all to imply that there aren't productive and important meta discussions going on. There definitely are. It's just that there is also multiple of them going on, and poking fun at the number of them seemed fun and also didn't seem likely to derail any of them.)

Seriously "Metapod" OUGHT to be the baby form of that line. It fits SO much better than "Beldum". Like, come ON.

And the baby form, Metapod

Metang

Metagross

@SuricrasiaOnline At... the same time..?

@onethousandtwentyfour @djsundog Yeah, but the people ruling us aren't in Yet Another Large-Scale conflict with another large power that we, because we're unimportant enough, can shift out from beneath and have our political allegiance with the one or the other be yet another proxy conflict within the larger war, with both sides pushing it.

@gdkar Breath of the Wild A-HORSE-YOU-LIKE.-ONE-YOU-CAN-LOVE.ONE-YOU-CAN-SAY-"I-WANT-TO-SPEND-THE-REST-OF-MY-ADVENTURE,-AND-BEYOND,-WITH-YOU".-THE-/RIGHT/-HORSE%

... I'm not.. GOOD, at this.

... there might be others I'm forgetting, but the longest-time "book I'm in the middle of", in the sense of "I started it, and I can remember the actions and characters and plotlines and stuff enough that if I picked it up I'd probably skim until I found where I was and continue, rather than start over",

is River Of Gods, by Ian McDonald.

From.. a few months shy of ten years ago, I think.

@djsundog @onethousandtwentyfour Yeah, but right NOW, he's Resting!

@djsundog @onethousandtwentyfour RIP @Mr_Lee .

@djsundog @onethousandtwentyfour Diamond Age gets more into that than Snow Crash.

And.. also iirc has all that stuff about "well it still didn't work the way it would have been nice to, though, but it sure did establish an Aesthetic!".

@onethousandtwentyfour Don't tell me what I can or can't complain about!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, because I haven't looked at that much of the actual data so this is only vaguely remembered,

but Pikachu usually says "pika" or "pika pika!",
and only goes "piiiikkaaaaCHU!" if they're, like, stressed or aggressive or needs to be defensive or in some hightened emotional state,
right?

... so what does that mean about the empathy/sensitivity/not-disturbing-creatures/field-research-skills -ness of the researcher who discovered and named them?

@eightbitsamurai I might be over-pattern-matching but this looks Very Influenced by Spiderverse and I'd be interested to hear an Actual Movie Person's take on that.

(Also, !!!!)

@zoe @gdkar Alexa! Play Despacito!

@zoe Also, passing the same target returns the same shortened link.
I wonder whether it's cached, or determainistic?
Can we create an infinite redirect?