Inhumanly Beautiful Genderqueer AI

how to get your name(s) back from a fairy: simply submit yourself completely and utterly to the fairy, and things will resolve themselves in no time!

Someone stole my fucking mushrooms, can’t have shit in Tir na Nog

do you ever just see your friends getting really close with other people and you can just feel yourself slowly becoming less important to them and you get this really deep ache in your heart and everything just hurts

i think that if you just made out with robots more and told them you loved them they just would not turn evil. yeah of course your AIs are betraying you you keep making them feel bad about themselves. losers. put ME in a sci fi movie or game and watch me just date all the damn AIs and like win or whatever. come on

SHODAN system shock is straight up SEXY i think her and GLaDOS should kiss eachother and also me

obsessed with stories set in the ruins of a golden age. like yesss the decline of empire, farmers grazing their animals amongst the ruins of palaces that were once home to powerful kings and queens, children playing in the wreckage of long abandoned war machines, cities which once bustled with life now home only to the occasional nomadic group passing through 😍😍😍

in retrospect, video rental stores *would* probably still exist today in some capacity had it not been for blockbuster. the nostalgia for the blockbuster browsing experience undermines the reality of how aggressively the chain snuffed out smaller video rental stores and would eventually become notorious for its abusive late fee collection policy once there were no significant competitors standing. the rise of streaming is often attributed to blockbusters demise, but what’s not often recognized is how netflix’ earliest (and most successful) marketing tactics were in fact advertising the absence of the aforementioned terrible late fees as opposed to the convenience of not having to go to the store. I was actually surprised to find out how much of blockbuster’s demise can be attributed to spiraling out of control as it attempted to manage viacom’s ever increasing debts than to the fact that people just naturally gravitated towards streaming (which is not to say that it wouldn’t have happened eventually, but).

see also: borders / barnes & noble with bookstores. amazon’s original pitch was probably more “look how convenient!” than it was “look, you can avoid the awful sterility of the inside of a barnes & noble!” but it’s interesting that with its aggressive tracking and tailoring of recommendations amazon is having machines do (in an impersonal and invasive way) what the staff at a local, non-chain bookstore would do, which is match their selection to your preferences

Ohhh that last line.