"What on earth"? Nothing.

I have never seen anyone fail upwards the way Miles Vorkosigan fails upwards. Captured. Thrown in a basement. By the time they let him out of the basement he had destroyed his enemy's most precious resource and he had an eight foot tall supersoldier wolfgirl situationship.

the sheer accessibility of first class travel is mind bogging like i'm in a comfy seat with my own table and there's free food and drinks ?? and all it cost was a fuckload of money???

it's fancy food too i don't even like it because it's so fancy i'm too poor to have ever tried such shit before i want plain choccy and cheese sandwiches but i guess ill take the comfy chair and the quiet room

i think first class should be scrapped and a nice middle ground between normal travel and this wild luxury can be reached instead, i'd quite like it if i could have somewhat comfy seats in every train station and free water and hell maybe even every ticket gives you a free little snack too imagine if train travel was good and not something that destroyed your entire body

there's no bins in here because you just leave your rubbish on the table and staff come by and pick it up. the lady who picked up ours looked shocked that we said thank you.

It's fun when the robot character in the sci-fi show gets cut in half because nobody working on this type of media knows anything about robotics and you never know what you're going to find inside. Green printed circuit boards? Meat and viscera, but like in a weird colour? Just a shitload of goo?

I especially like it when the robot appears to have realistic musculature which operates via contraction, suggesting some sort of fluid-driven or shape-memory-based actuation, and then it gets dismembered and a bunch of random gears and sprockets go flying everywhere.

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

"they went from biology to physics" is an AMAZING turn of phrase

I love thinking about “lost episode” creepypastas from a production pipeline POV. I wanna be the guy who gets handed a script about a main character brutally dying with no actual plot and is like “Yeah sure. Greenlighted.”

“Everyone who watches this cursed Simpsons episode dies immediately afterwards” The storyboarder died on the spot right after they finished their work. Every single animator dies after they finish their cut, the studio just has to keep hiring new animators to replace the dead ones. They lost too much money already they HAVE to finish the episode that kills people.