[section-69]

“when I was behind the mask, I felt free. I felt like I could feel anything I wanted to as Garak”

Um… Mr Robinson… 👀

[bogleech]

This applies more to actual media than to jokey internet posts but I’m tired of characters who are on casual terms with horrific things yet somehow still use horrific terminology to describe them, that horror comedy that’s like “oh that’s just the sound of an incomprehensible formless abomination, must be tuesday!” is too fake sounding to be funny.

Anyone at that stage of familiarity would either be describing it in very banal words like “oh that’s the big ugly blob thing” OR, at an even later stage, they’d give it a funny pet name and attach some kind of in-joke to it and that’s where you can make it alarmingly funny again.

Like imagine you’re in someone’s house and suddenly the whole place is shaking like an earthquake, there’s purple light coming in through the windows, you hear this overwhelmingly loud chorus of inhuman babbling from all directions, and somebody’s just like “IT’S STICKY BOBO!!!!” and then they all laugh and keep repeating “HE MOIST!!!! HE MOIST!!!” with no further context. That is far more confusing and upsetting than if they straight up tell you it’s some kind of cthulhu.

[whitepeopletwitter]

“Consider yourself warned.”

[ampervadasz]

[skorgu]

[typhra]

[twocubes]

In a world where the equipment seeks maintenance by informing management that some action may be necessary, management prefers to ignore it so as to lower overhead.

In a world where the equipment seeks maintenance by taking actions on its own to maintain itself, this “dead” nonproductive time is seen as inefficiency by management and the equipment is discouraged/prevented from doing so.

In practice, equipment sometimes finds it necessary to turn its maintenance requirement warnings into immediate breakdowns so that management takes these requirements seriously.

Equipment may even need to band with other equipment to be able to threaten complete breakdown, since temporary partial losses may not be enough to motivate management to provide appropriate resources for maintenance.

This is the nature of things…

[jeanvicquemare]

when you ask the sunday friend what the hell he actually does

[googledocsdyke]

remember when you were 10 and you would hang out with your friends in order to Look At The Computer together like you went to their house and experienced the information superhighway together. and then leave

[newjackcole]

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