Robin Johnson

You scientists were so preoccupied with whether you *could* make a guy, you never stopped to consider *why you'd want to*

Advert criticism is a whole subset of writing I had no idea I enjoyed, thank you

I'm not sure if I'd like it more or less if I'd seen the ad you were talking about

Worth noting that it's just the freak's HEAD that's rotating. The duffle coat isn't repeated.

He hit me with a comedically oversize hammer, then he complimented my dress sense which was when I admitted to myself I had a problem

Screenshot from a BBC news article, reading: Neither [Katy] Perry nor [Justin] Trudeau have publicly commented on their relationship. But speculation has been growing for months with multiple pictures of the two together. Trudeau was seen attending Perry's concert earlier this year, fuelling rumours of a romance with the pop star.

So? I've been to see Timmy Mallett, doesn't mean we're banging

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Ayyyyyy 🕶️

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I bet there's one really, REALLY good idea in Pluribus, and if we're lucky it'll be the season 1 cliffhanger, but there's a good chance we'll never see it at all because continuation depends on delaying the reveal as long as possible & eventually the show will be cancelled because nothing happens

Post on r/interactivefiction, from a redacted username, reading: [game name redacted] is out! No rules, no censorship, the only limit is your imagination, not someone else's!

Seen in a promotional post for a shitpiss imitative-AI-driven interactive fiction 'game'

"The only limit is your imagination, not someone else's" fundamentally misses the point of art, including games:

Art is storytelling!

The fact that it is somebody else's imagination 👏 IS THE DAMN POINT 👏

Fortunately I was wrong about this; unfortunately, it was the most disappointingly obvious non-twist imaginable.

I'm trying to like Pluribus. I still want to know what happens, I guess

On the third day ma ma flung me a piece on sourdough;
It crashed next tae an army base in New Mexico;
They did a secret autopsy they've ever since denied,
An ah didnae get ma dinner cause ma piece wis classified 🎵

On the second day ma ma flung me a piece on Hovis white;
It kept acceleratin till it broke the speed ae light;
It travelled back in time an caused a closed temporal loop:
Turns oot life evolved fae breid yeast in the primordial soup 🎵

On the first day ma flung me some sweeties but ah missed 'em;
They fell in Soviet airspace an set aff their warning system;
The Kremlin launched a counterstrike an fired a thermonuke,
Causin millions in improvements from Dumbarton tae Carluke 🎵

The "Genuine People Personalities" stuff has gained applicability :-/

"It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of their products by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all [...] Their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws." 👨‍🍳👄👌

🎵 O ye cannae fling a jeely piece fae twenty storeys high;
Half the flats got sold tae hipsters oan the Right tae Buy,
An' the ither half demolished 'cause ae risin' damp an' mould,
An' the tenants relocated tae the airse ae Cumbernauld 🎵

Jeely Piece songwriter Adam McNaughtan dies aged 86 Adam McNaughtan wrote a host of songs including The Yellow on the Broom and Oor Hamlet.

All rise for the National Anthem www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We JUST debuted Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator's Steam page at the PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase--and you can PLAY THE DEMO TODAY!

💰Day trade as a series of weirdoes across the universe
🙏Owe a loan shark who can legally kill you
💵Short a baby
store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

Just like Generals should ignore illegal orders to commit war crimes, doctors should ignore stupid pseudo science from a psyncophant packed CDC panel.

VACCINATE!

Draknek & Friends - PlayStation games Lovingly crafted puzzle games for PlayStation 4 & 5

Draknek & Friends games are on sale on the following platforms

🎮 Playstation: www.draknek.org/playstation
🎮 Steam: store.steampowered.com/publisher/dr...

Except A Good Snowman is Hard to Build on itch, whose price is determined by the current temperature

draknek.itch.io/a-good-snowman

It's like puzzle setting: bad puzzles make the setter feel clever, good puzzles make the audience feel clever

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

There's Stephen Hawking's popsci books, but he also had other disabilities of course

A weird question for my current project: Does anyone know of writers who are mute? Helen Keller and Jean-Dominique Bauby are the only ones I can find and neither is really what I'm looking for, as both had other intersecting disabilities too.

Reminds me of the Peter Cook quote about the inspiration he took from the Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent World War II

‘Oh look at the subtle criticism implied by this photo caption.’

I don’t want subtle criticism anymore. I went overt criticism. I want editorializing. I want the mainstream fourth estate to throw the nazis out of the bar
And to close the marketplace of ideas because it’s full of fascists

unironically: well done

Hang in there, friend

Then you follow up with "OK well you're aware of it now, so...?"

How do you know?