so hit me, i can't get soft

"Your self-pity's a terrible first course. Why don't you try the soup instead?"

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Nurse Chapel! She's awesome. Majel Barrett in general is awesome.

Favorite Nurse Chapel Episodes:

What Are Little Girls Made Of?

Amok Time

Plato's Stepchildren

Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/collections/drmistytang/star-trek/

day 15: oral fixation

like. how did you get the impression that you're supposed to kill anything that gets in your way. did we play the same game

i'm so so glad they're just completely removing the player's ability to damage and kill creatures in subnautica 2 in favor of more interesting nonviolent methods (outside of the previously mentioned things) but i fear people who completely miss the point and view the game as something it most definitely is not will be very annoying about it

one of my favorite things that's happened during my playthrough of Subnautica 2 so far:

this fish, the Marrowbreach, is labelled to be (and upon basic observation, appears to be) very dangerous and aggressive and scary, so a lot of the time spent interacting them is specifically spent avoiding, or trying to escape them. they have a very specific, telegraphed attack where they launch towards the player in a super scary way.

however. i noticed that despite their scary appearance and loud growling noise, they don't actually do much damage when they attack you. and so i thought to myself "am i categorizing this unfamiliar social activity as aggression? am i being reductive towards how this creature actually operates? am i sure it's not just playing with me?"

I mean. It WAS seminal. That Vulcan jizzed his pants.

Honestly I still have no idea how this aired, but if what we got was the tactful version, I want to know what he would have written without the danger of censorship.

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This works perfectly with that little essay on the t'hy'la footnote argumenting that Kirk's answer wasn't an answer at all (one of Kirk's "arguments" being that he wouldn't want to be thought of as a fool for choosing a partner who only would have sex once every 7 years). Also this member of Spock's legion of fans thanks you again Theodore Sturgeon...