So now this is happening. . .

@harrowhound

Somebody tell me what style of sofa that's called in the upper right hand corner because it's the most comfortable and I need one

Blessing my heart doesn't do anything so you're a useless slave destined for eternity in hell.

I don't think that's what the sofa's called.

Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.

Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don’t realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They’re just like “yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience”.

THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE’S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING

I love this. Especially because of how well it plays with my headcanon that the Federation does so much better against the Borg than anyone else because beating the Borg with military tactics is nigh-impossible, but beating them with wacky superscience shenanigans works as long as they’re unique wacky superscience shenanigans.

Yeah, I love this.

Come to think of it, I mean. Look at the “first human warp drive” thing in the movie. That was… Not how Vulcans would have done it.

you know what the best evidence for this is? Deep Space 9 almost never broke down. minor malfunctions that irritated O’Brien to hell and back, sure, but almost none of the truly weird shit that befell Voyager and all the starships Enterprise. what was the weirdest malfunction DS9 ever had? the senior staff getting trapped as holosuite characters in Our Man Bashir, and that was because a human decided to just dump the transporter buffer into the station’s core memory and hope everything would work out somehow, which is a bit like swapping your computer’s hard drive out for a memory card from a PlayStation 2 and expecting to be able to play a game of Spyro the Dragon with your keyboard and mouse.

reblog for new meta.  RE that last line: McGuyver. 

“MacGuyver” is the equivalent of Vulcan vintage human horror television.

true tumblr hertiage.

i fucking hated your shoelaces this entire time

must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason

why does dennys have a tumblr

why do you

Imagine being so pathetic that you would actually spend your time monitoring a public figure you don't like (but don't actually know and doesn't affect your day-to-day life in any way), just so you can send nasty replies to whatever mundane rambling they may post. Couldn't be me.

So, is the head of TPUSA who hurt your feelings in the room with us now?

He probably stopped even thinking about you, while he lives rent free in your head. Lol

@/teaboot

This isn't even a joke it's just what we do

Something being true doesn't make it not a joke and this is a good one

generally I like the culture of this place but it's a little frustrating that the median user's understanding of economics is "why do I have to pay to take the bus, the driver's going that way anyway"

Ok but why isn't public transportation free, it absolutely could be.

A revenue based model is preferred because it allows you to easily figure out which routes are most used and you don't have to raise taxes to fund it.

generally helpful to charge for services and give people money, although that isn't optimal for everything.

It's always so crazy when people forget that we're allowed to ask workers about things.

what do you mean?

The fucking drivers know which routes are busiest, loser.

Calm down, champ.

I see the median user has found your post

This is great because a bunch of people are trying to be slick by tagging it as "color of the sky," accidentally outing themselves as not having used this site since 2019.