Idle Vapourings of a Mind Diseased

Agape moe

Like the Greek word

I’m putting estrogen in the jet exhaust to crop dust the world with femtrails

In terms of establishing the fundamental aesthetic of the 1990s strand of cinematic cyberpunk, the 1993 Super Mario Bros. adaptation is probably up there with Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man influence-wise, as much as we all hate to admit it.

Welcome to the "learned from this post that the first major live-action feature film adaptation of a pre-existing video game franchise was a dystopian cyberpunk AU of Super Mario Bros. for some inexplicable reason" club.

I do believe the stink of this movie saved us from some far worse projects. I have no idea what those would have been, but I believe.

Are you kidding? This film was the vanguard; it may have tanked in theatres, but the novelty of it led to a number of bandwagon-jumping projects in following years. After Super Mario Bros. dropped in 1993, we had Double Dragon and the Jean-Claude Van Damme Street Fighter in 1994, then Paul W S Anderson's Mortal Kombat in 1995; the unexpected commercial success of the latter film was reportedly the deciding factor when Angelina Jolie accepted the lead role in Tomb Raider a few years later, which in turn kicked off the second wave of major live-action video game adaptations in the early 2000s that gave us the Resident Evil films.

I think the "joke superboss that looks exactly like a tutorial mob" trope from JRPGs could be productively adapted to all tabletop RPG settings. D&D campaign setting where the highest-level character in the world is a random goblin living in a fishing hut on a river just outside the player characters' home town. There's no complicated backstory explaining why this random goblin is like a 25th-level ranger – they just are.

Cyberpunk game where after many travails the player characters finally get to meet the leaders of the Resistance, and in addition to the expected cyborg rock stars and such, for some reason the shopping mall security guard the GM used to demo the stealth mechanics way back in session one is there.

(loudly at a bar) oh shit I've lost my pussy! Does anyone have some pussy I can borrow?

The Poetic Boymoder vs. Insane Mutant Dog-headed Glaive Warrior

the pettings will continue until my girl awoos

Category 1 Papal Toilet Event

Commissions an army of life-size clay effigies for my opulent tomb to serve me in the afterlife, but I have it all set up so far in advance that they arrive in the afterlife before I do, and by the time I finally show up they've organised and formed a union.

transfems are the lifeblood of all joy in the world

Evil overlord who seems to be attempting to seduce you to the side of darkness with their devious sexual wiles, but when you try to accept they're taken completely by surprise because the possibility had genuinely never occurred to them – it turns out they're just kind of like Like That.

They thought teleporting behind you and firmly caressing your shoulders with their great bladed gauntlets while whispering directly into your ear in discordant polyphony about how all humans naturally crave subjugation was a power move. You were supposed to be intimidated.

I feel like folks who are only familiar with Christian Baby from the baseball meme are missing out on account of being unaware that there are a whole bunch of these hypothetical scenarios in which it's established that Christian Baby can talk and puts itself in these situations on purpose.

In science it's important to resist the natural human impulse to ascribe telos to inanimate things. The things we study simply are; while their interactions may reliably produce certain outcomes, this does not imply that the production of these outcomes is what those things are "for". So, yes, the ray often causes death, but that doesn't make it a "death ray".