what is an automotive shop but a mech hanger for really small mechs

inventing problems to make other problems worse

Taking flight for a desperate rescue mission: Rescue on Fractalas, Lucasfilm Games, 1985. (Atari 800) Named for the use of fractals for terrain generation, and the first of two games developed by Lucasfilm's shiny new video games division. (The other one being Ballblazer)

- RFK delivers a press conference to "debunk" the zombie plague and its connection to BBP - he's a zombie now - no one makes any acknowledgment of this fact, even as he eats a cameraman's brain

- a connection is swiftly drawn between BBP and the zombie plague but the media refuses to acknowledge it - TV shills continue to tout the benefits of BBP while downplaying the zombie plague - Congress passes an emergency bill making it illegal to claim a connection between BBP and the zombie plague

- RFK gets a bug in his bonnet about "Beef Brain Protein" which he touts as a miracle panacea - Trump puts down an executive order making consuming it mandatory for all US citizens - zombie plague ensues as people come down with a severe form of mad cow disease from consuming BBP

baa it's me, Quiet! HI

💭 it's a close match but if Donut is allowed to participate she breaks the stalemate by shooting Carl Llamaswithhats in the neck with a magic missile

💭 Dungeon Crawler Carl is armed with a mighty iron fist and enough explosives to kill God plus a MacGyver-like capacity for improvised violence but Carl Llamaswithhats destroyed the world once and seems to have no real difficulty opening hell-portals and triggering thermonuclear armageddon

💭 Carl Brutananadilewski is gibbed within the first 5 seconds of the fight, possibly in circumstances that have nothing to do with the actual battle

💭 battle of the Carls: Dungeon Crawler Carl, Carl Brutananadilewski, Carl Llamaswithhats

(okay so Alita's a cyborg, she has a human brain, but still, one can't argue Gwen is *entirely* "robot" either)

like i can't help but wonder if "robot girl with a hell of a history and an instinctive capacity for turboviolence dredged up out of the literal garbage by people with no idea of her past" was an intentional nod

i'm annoyed with myself how long it's taken me to draw a line from Knights of Guinevere to Battle Angel Alita

Our cat saw a chicken

some dipshit with money: "i need to shoot something so i can feel like a Real Man" dipshit: "*shoots himself in the foot*" dipshit: "AAAAARGH THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HURT, THE PRONOUNS MUST BE CONSPIRING AGAINST ME"

you see this dichotomy at multiple tiers both "i shouldn't have to *struggle* to succeed; the rat race is for the *plebs*" and "it's not enough just to *have won*; i need to feel like i'm *winning*" the net effect is the privileged torching the sources of their comfort out of sheer entitlement

they can maintain the facade of a functioning economy for a shockingly long time on the backs of promises of "of course i'm good for it, I'm Elon Musk" and "once the AI economy takes off this will be peanuts, *peanuts* I tell you"

the problem is it's "sustainable" as long as they all agree it is more important for the elite to have Only Good Happen in response to their idiot brainfarts than for anything they do to actually make sense according to the rules they set for the rest of us

Of course then you have ZUN making fifty million shmups and it turned out to work pretty well from him. But Gensokyo Georg is a statistical outlier and should not be counted.