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I've been flattened for the last couple of days with what I presume to be COVID. Mainlining NyQuil and fading in and out of consciousness, I've been binging some video.

The Acolyte is ... more Star Wars.

LD+R is an odd mix. Some stories are "make a painful sacrifice to defeat an unspeakable demon" and others are "post-apocalyptic, but somehow cheerful and written by @scalzi".

I spent ages saying "Antibabypillen" for contraceptive pills as a funny little joke with a german-sounding word and it was only after literally years doing it that I learned this is the actual german word for contraceptive pills which is why nobody else found my little joke as funny as I did

@MsMerope Have you mined board games? Consider Flash Point: Fire Rescue, Daybreak, and of course Pandemic.

Also of note:
montecookgames.com/first-respo

@montecook

I am really enjoying this new trend in Hollywood that is "let's make that movie that we always make, except go absolutely bugfuck nuts with it."

youtube.com/watch?v=D2PoZb1YGS

Boosts appreciated. I'm making a page of questions #blind people get asked repeatedly, that you can send to a curious sighted person. If you're a sighted person with questions, or if you're a blind person who's been asked certain questions repeatedly, send them my way.

I wonder how often the director of marketing at Frito-Lay has to gently explain to the new intern that (a) yes, they'd thought of it before and (b), no, Ruffles are not going to adopt the slogan "ribbed for her pleasure".

The Acolyte spoilers 

1. <Character>: I saw <other character> die.

Viewer: Did you? Did you really? How did they "die"?

IT'S DISNEY. HOW DO YOU THINK.

2. Having seen Imperial no-guardrails architecture, I find it hard to believe that there is any entity in that universe named OSHA.

Laptops imply the existence of lapbottoms.

Butts. They're called butts.

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