Realm of the InterNutter

Thoughts, stories and ideas.

(potential prompt) What's a Faiize?

Faiize are a gengineered species designed to be a better, bells-and-whistes-rich version of the popular Wave of The Future product known as Cleaners.

Cleaners, of course, resembling labrador-sized blue slugs.

The Faiize were designed, according to their sales shill, to be largely self-sufficient and capable of solving elementary problems. And, as a bonus, they can get into places regular Cleaners can’t reach. They were alleged to have no more than an Augment’s level of cusp-cognisence and were therefore legal to own, rent and trade.

Of course, this all went to hell due to the events chronicled in RTFM, when it was discovered that the Faiize were more intelligent than their creators had let on and, worse, their parent company was playing an elaborate shell game in a vain attempt to conceal this fact from ruinous discovery.

Challenge #00535 - A160: Reve-rie

“Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.” - Oscar Wilde c/- RecklessPrudence

Everyone who met her knew that there was something wrong with Sai’dut. She would talk to herself, or stop her appointed tasks to stare at something irrelevant, she would grow forgetful or latch on to some asinine entertainment and learn everything that nobody wanted to know

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Challenge #00534 - A159: Exceptions to the Rule

An Outside Context Problem is the sort of thing most civilisations encounter just once, and which they tend to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encounters a full stop.
-“Excession,” definition of an OCP c/- RecklessPrudence

Thus it is that the Cogniscent Rights Committee has passed numerous laws to prevent them. Shipping through inhabited systems with recognised intelligent life native to them is generally forbidden until such time as that native population has regular and reliable space flight.

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Hi it's me, the Anon from earlier. I think we ended up arguing at cross-purposes. I agree with you almost entirely, and my point was never...

Anon - Tumblr keeps eating the rest of this. You might want to come off anon and send me a fanmail and discuss this properly.

But I still think your premise is flawed. There is no such thing as exclusive exposure to extremists. One would have to have very selective vision to only see and listen to the aggressive, bad element.

That said, I have yet to find a ‘good’ MRA. And by that, I mean a MRA who is

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Challenge #00533 - A158: Relative Cartography

Google Maps is accurate. Apple Maps is the product of Dali and Picasso smoking a joint before painting the child of a canary and penguin with a frightened cat used as the paint brush, then selling the result as a map. – RecklessPrudence

There’s an old human saying, that there is no such thing as an accurate map. Maps lie.

For a start, they compress thousands of square distance units into flat expanse capable of -for instance- being held by

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thefinespine: was-that-a-pun: thefinespine: pushes spg and laika so incredibly close Dude that would be amazingThe bots in stop motion...

thefinespine:

was-that-a-pun:

thefinespine:

pushes spg and laika so incredibly close 

Dude that would be amazing
The bots in stop motion would be so awesome i can just picture it

maybe if enough people picture it the universe will allow it to phase into the physical world 

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Challenge #00532 - A157: Pee Ode

On a scale of one to “I will invent a time machine explicitly for murdering your parents,” how mad do you think [person] is? – RecklessPrudence

“Ambassador Z0rk? He’s always tetchy.”

“That’s tetchy?” Shayde boggled. “Remind me never tae get him PO'ed.”

“Pee… ode?”

“Pissed off. Angered. Riled. Bluidy furious.”

Humans. They were equally confusing in any temporal zone. At least she wasn’t mysteriously speaking

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why is "hate breeds more hate" a bad thing to say?

lookatthisfuckingoppressor:

Oh so many reasons.

1) it equates the anger of the oppressed to the hate of their oppressors.
2) it blames oppressed groups for their oppression. Bigotry doesn’t exist because people hate bigots. It exists because oppressed people oppose it. It exists because of bigots and because of privileged folks being complicit or tacitly condoning systems of oppression.
3) it’s fundamentally untrue. Hatred of oppression doesn’t lead to more hatred; it leads to progress.
4) it is used

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rosalyndablack said: One time I was awake for 26 hours. Ouch. Fuck. I feel you. I do. It’s just that my sleep issues are firkin...

rosalyndablack said: One time I was awake for 26 hours.

Ouch.

Fuck.

I feel you. I do. It’s just that my sleep issues are firkin chronic and this shit means that my current all-stops-out measures aren’t efuckingnough any more. It means I have another messed-up week of repeated four-hours-or-less sleep over a passage of days in a row…

and i’m sick and tired of feeling sick and tired and this is just the jewel in

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