Noirinth

I saw this on Facebook and had to look it up. It really happened, albeit the details are different. From Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story:

"On the evening of MD-46, I finally played the trick that had been in work for over two month," said Garriott. "It even had the flight controllers puzzled for twenty-five years! My objective was to pretend that my wife, Helen, had come up to Skylab to bring us a hot meal, even though this was an obvious impossibility. Here is how the scheme worked. I recorded her voice on my small hand-held tape recorder before flight, pretending to have a brief conversation with a Capcom, with time gaps for his replies. The Capcom would be my only accomplice, but his role would be carefully disguised.

It was also necessary to have some recent event mentioned to validate the currency of the dialogue, so it would seem it could not have been recorded before fight. The short dialogue is printed below in its entirety. I knew that both Bob Crippen and Karl Henize were going to be Capcoms for Skylab, so they were brought into the planning, given the script and rehearsed on their timing. They kept the short script on a piece of paper in their billfolds, awaiting the right moment.

"For our flight in August-September, there would be many occasions of natural disasters involving forest fires or hurricanes, which would be widely known throughout the United States. So a few comments about one or the other were made on the tape. This led to four different scripts being recorded, one for each of the two Capcoms and one each for the two natural events. I would play the tape on the normal air-to-ground voice link with my wife's recorded voice and the Capcom would respond as if totally surprised by the female interloper."

Near the end of one period of voice contact Garriott said to the ground, "I'll have something for you on the next pass, Bob." Crippen replied, "Roger that, Owen." Then quietly and surreptitiously, he reviewed the brief script that had been in his pocket for all these weeks. Soon after coming into voice range, the ground heard this voice on the standard air-to-ground link:

Skylab (a female voice): "Gad, I don't see how the boys manage to get rid of the feedback berween these speakers.... Hello Houston, how are you reading me down there? (s sec. pause) Hello Houston, are you reading Skylab?"

Capcom: "Skylab, this is Houston. We heard you alright, but had difficulty recognizing your voice. Who do we have on the line up there?"

Skylab: "Hello Houston. Roger. Well I haven't talked with you for a while. Isn't that you down there, Bob? This is Helen, here in Skylab. The boys hadn't had a good home cooked meal in so long, I thought I'd bring one up. Over"

Capcom: "Roger, Skylab. Someone's gotta be pulling my leg, Helen. Where are you?"

Skylab: "Right here in Skylab, Bob. Just a few orbits ago we were looking down on those forest fires in California. The smoke sure covers a lot of territory, and, oh boy, the sunrises are just beautiful! Oh oh..... See you later, Bob. I hear the boys coming up here and I'm not supposed to be on the radio."

"Then quiet returned to the voice link, but we were told later, Bob Crippen had lots of questions coming his way in the Control Center," Garriott said. "What was going on? Where was this voice coming from? Bob must have been a very good actor, because he claimed complete ignorance and innocence of how it happened. Everyone heard it coming down on the air-to-ground loop. The whole two-way conversation sounded like a perfectly normal dialogue. No breaks or gaps, and they all heard Bob respond in real time. Could I have recorded Helen's voice on a 'family conversation' from our home? Yes, but there was no recent one. How would she have known about the fires, or who was to be on Capcom duty and how could she respond to Bob's comments in real time, as everyone could hear?

"No one ever worked out how this was accomplished. Finally, at our twenty-fifth reunion celebration in Houston in 1998, and with many of the flight directors and controllers present and still with no clue as to how it was done, I described it all as above. My prejudiced opinion is that this was the best 'gotcha' ever perpetrated on our friendly flight controllers!"

Crippen recalled: "That was kind of a fun trick. There was head rubbing.

For Kris, their love of chocolate is an important piece of their identity that gets through to us, fairly early on too, and the fact that they actually prefer pies to chocolate is used in chapter 3 to emphasize that we really don't know Kris at all.

For Susie, it's very clear that she doesn't get enough food at home and that she makes up the difference by eating objects that are definitely not food. Her big eater tendencies give us an important look into her backstory, and also flesh out how gleefully unfeminine she is in every aspect of her life (which then ties into how gender is used in Deltarune).

For Ralsei, the cakes he "bakes" (explodes out of a cauldron fully formed) for his friends symbolize his people-pleasing nature, and the fact that he's never eaten any of his own cakes until Susie insists upon it (which he immediately decides he likes a lot) is another detail about how worthless he sees himself as. In his mind, it's his purpose to bake cakes for his friends without ever getting a bite of cake himself, and Susie insisting he eats some fits in with how much she cares about Ralsei and wants him to care about himself.

Ainz and Frieren Crossover

Just wondered what it would look like if these two awesome characters were in the same page.

(im not thinking abt all vertebrates and therefore insects bc then the answer will always be beetle)

maybe like, "opposites" evolutionarily? like full colorful "active" predator vs camouflage still/sedentary prey. but theyre both social prey animals that are relatively intelligent so like, nowhere close to opposites

then I realized oh wait no its way more simple

its that rats are the animals that have done the most harm to humanity (plague, destroying crops), vs the most (horses)

and then I actually realized i

Horse is the opposite of rat because one is big and dies easy and one is small and hard to kill.

Snake is the opposite of pig because people fear snakes when most snakes are harmless, people rarely eat snakes and snakes almost never eat people. Whereas people rarely fear pigs, despite of the fact that pigs can and will eat a human person alive if given the chance.

A dragon is the opposite of a dog because dragons are mighty, independent of humans, and look down on humanity as insignificant vermin, and dogs are our companions who look up to humans as family members and friends.

A rabbit is the opposite of a rooster because rabbits are quiet, sensible and pragmatic, will bolt from threats and focus on surviving. Roosters are loud and utterly senseless, and will try to fight a turck if they decide that it looked at them funny.

A tiger is the opposite of a monkey because tigers are calm, calculating sleek predators that consider very carefully whether potential prey is worth the risk of attacking it. Monkeys will go out of their way to fuck with you despite of risking their own safety, for no apparent personal benefit, just because fuck you that's why.