I made this joke to my husband at 2am last night so now you have to suffer like he has.
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#…oh my god #Star Trek #DS9 #puns
Author: Brin
spookphantom asked: Crack AU where Anakin can all of a sudden hear the background music that we all hear. Those pleasant chats with Palpy become a lot more ominous. Though Anakin admits that the fights have become a lot more epic. Thoughts?
Hahahahaha. Love it!
And okay, my first though was “and the galaxy was saved because even Anakin Skywalker would struggle to keep trusting Palpatine with that music playing in the background”
Anakin think he’s gone COMPLETELY insane (maybe he’s finally been electrocuted too many times and its fried his brain). He doesn’t tell anyone though because he can still fight just fine just… everything is a lot more musical. He doesn’t want to be thought crazy and taken off the front lines.
Once he figures out what the various musical cues mean he actually finds them useful in figuring out how dangerous a situation is. Also battles are so much cooler now and boring landscapes are slightly less boring because at least now they have mood music. Yep, he can live with this.
(Although he is always confused why the ominousness that is The Imperial March starts playing at some of his decisions)
*cracks up*
Anakin: I’m so worried about something. I should probably keep my feelings to myself and attempt to solve my problems by working with Palpatine. He seems like he has my best interests at heart.
Music: DUN DUN DUN, DUN DA-DUN, DUN DA-DUN!
Anakin: [pauses] [looks around] Uh…OK. I mean, I’ll…go talk to Obi-Wan?
Music: [hopeful woodwind instruments]
Anakin: …and be open and honest about my life and what is bothering me, and try to work out a non-violent resolution to my problems?
Music: [Force Theme plays]
Anakin: [smiles] All right! Huh. This is helpful.
Positive reinforcement at its finest. ;D
#lol#i’m just imagining the force throwing its metaphysical hands in the air like ‘subtlety obviously isn’t working with this one so have a whole#symphony of hints young reckless one’ (via @likealeafonthewind)
I’m crying from laughter, this is beautiful.
Anakin: *fucks up*
The Force: Son, please… Guess I’m gonna enable the hints menu.
THE HINTS MENU. *dies*
Maybe Obi-Wan hears the music, too, and then the day is saved.
Obi-Wan: [walking away] Welp, guess it’s off to kill Grievous I’m sure Anakin will be fi –
Music: [Duel of the Fates]
Obi-Wan: OMG not this shit again [runs back down the hall towards Anakin]
Anakin: [running back towards Obi-Wan] Obi-Wan I just heard that Ominous Music again and also I secretly married Padme and she’s pregnant and I haven’t slept in 6 days and I keep thinking she’s going to die and I AM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT and if you leave I will 100% end up killing everyone and –
Obi-Wan: – oh my God! OK…it’s OK, I heard my own ominous music a second ago when I was getting ready to leave and so I won’t and we’ll fix th –
Anakin: – I heard mine when I thought about maybe talking to the Chancellor instead of y–
Palpatine: [sidling up behind them smugly] Everything all right, gentlemen?
Music: [scary ass music from the opera scene]
Anakin and Obi-Wan: AHHHH
On a non Star Wars note, there’s a Space Center– basically this Star Trek simulator–near my university, and you do full scale missions in replicated federation ship bridges with uniforms and roles like Captain and first mate and tactical and navigation; it also has really epic background music. And the three rules of the missions are: 1, if you have to die, go out with style (this is in the captain’s manual, too); 2, get into it/ham it up; and 3, the background music doesn’t exist. You can, however, “get a bad feeling.”
So, like, every time the music gets all tense and stuff and you know something is about to go down in the plot of your mission, you get to shout “I have a bad feeling about this, Captain!” And the music legit does act like a guide for what’s happening in the story. One time the music went out and it was so disorienting, and our first mate just turned to the rest of us and screamed “I DON’T KNOW HOW I’M FEELING ANYMORE CAPTAIN!”
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#Star Wars #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog
SD cards turn out to be a lot more complicated on Android 6.0 than they were on 4.2, so it took longer than I thought it would, but I’ve finished the transfer. All of my stuff (give or take a weather app) is on my new phone, and my old phone is now officially Mom’s.
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Re: Internet access, it remains to be seen how much can be done with option 1–I might still use it at least partially–but it’s looking like the primary answer is going to be option 3.
Mom was remarkably agreeable to switching to my old smartphone as her primary cell phone, under two conditions: that nobody expects her to use the smartphone to anywhere near its full functionality (she doesn’t want to have to deal with getting to know a new kind of computer, at least not beyond a shallow level), and that I figure out a reasonably practical way for her to carry it around with her (she currently carries her phone in a flip-phone-sized pouch in her backpack).
(Dad suggested sticking her SIM card into a smartphone when I wanted to use data, then putting it back in the flip phone afterward for routine use. I said I didn’t think flip phones had removable SIM cards. Turns out the real answer is in between: *modern* flip phones have removable SIM cards, but her phone is so old it predates PC Mobile flip phones becoming the type of phone that has a removable SIM. In order to switch a SIM card back and forth, she’d need to get a new flip phone; if she’s going to change primary phones anyway, why spend money on an additional phone when we have a perfectly good smartphone available?)
It seems we can’t get a monthly or yearly graph of how much phone credit she’s actually using, but judging from the amount of credit she currently has built up, over the six years she’s had her account she’s used an average of ~$70/year. Put another way: if the average usage rate holds, we could buy a $10/month basic data plan May – October and not run out of spare credit for about 6 years. That’s long enough to be getting on with; hell, for all I know, I’ll have a need for my own phone plan by then.
I already borrow Mom’s phone on those occasions I need access to the cell infrastructure. This will just be an extension of that.
I’m not going to take any action on obtaining a data plan until it gets close to spring. If all goes well, Mom will keep her old flip phone for the rest of the winter, and she’ll have some time to get used to having a smartphone before trying to do any actual phone stuff with it.
(It’ll have to be Brother who gives her the tour of how to do actual phone stuff on a smartphone. I’ve never done it, after all.)
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#I looked it up and it turns out PC is actively encouraging people with SIM-less phones to upgrade to SIM models #so they can consolidate their networks #for us personally I consider this a good sign #because it means it *probably* won’t be a huge hassle to switch her account to a new phone #people usually make things easy to do when they’re trying to convince you to do them #hopefully running a mobile hotspot will also be non-frustrating #*knocks on wood* #oh look an original post #oh look an update #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #(and not three) #in which Brin learns to speak Pokemon
Peter Piper probably never picked a peck of pickled peppers for the peppers can’t have been pickled prior to picking. The pickling procedure takes place post picking, and the possibility of Peter piper picking a peck of pickled peppers is preposterous. The paradoxically penned poem positing Peter’s picking of the pickled peppers is past probability due to its postulating on peppers that were pickled pre-picking.
Perhaps Peter is a petty pilferer, picking a peck of peppers from the platform of a plant where peppers are processed for pickling in preparation for purchase by the populace?
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#say that one time fast
AND THE NARC IS THE LISSON GALLERY
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#oh look an update #vantablack saga #(note: this is from Stuart Semple’s Tumblr)
The thing about trying new stuff is that you acquire a whole new range of things that can inappropriately remind you of kink.
I’m at the eye doctor earlier today. I’m not even sure what this particular test is for, but you look into a box and you can see a picture of a landscape. The nurse/technician person is explaining what this is supposed to look like. I’m sure she repeats this same speech all the time and that’s why it sounds weird, but she’s saying in this slightly rising and falling voice “and just let your eyes rest on that image.” Add to that something about mentioning the picture will “drift in and out of focus,” there is a definite hypnosis-vibe going on here it is not only me. (It might be only me.)
I wouldn’t have cared much about that by itself, but later the doctor is doing that test to look at the motion of your eyes. She’s saying “Look at the tip of my pen” while she moves it back and forth, but also using the little plastic thing on a stick to cover one of my eyes at a time. She’s doing all this pretty quickly, I’m trying to stay looking at the pen and not at the stick… And I’m thinking: hey, do you want to hear about what was going on the last time(s) someone told me to focus on something that was moving around very close to my face? No you don’t, but that would go some ways towards explaining why I’m awkwardly smiling right now and trying not to giggle.
Oh yes. Oh yes
This happened to me on the phone the other day at work. All she was doing was thanking me, but she did it in just. the. right way.
*Giggle*
The eye doctor is the most hypnotic fucking place that mankind ever devised. The new machines in particular are just insane, but also
“Follow the light with your eyes… this way and that way… up and down…”
I MEAN COME ON MAN
Oh god, I know this feel. I have known this feel ever since I read The Miserable Mill as a child.
(And they never do say what exactly happened to Klaus in that optometrist’s office, only what he was like when he left it. That might have made it worse.)
Lately, when sitting in that patient’s chair, I tend to end up going meta. I think about all the past selves that have come before, sitting in that same chair and thinking along those same lines. It isn’t precisely the same thought each time: it changes a little, the more I know and the better I understand myself. I think, if you could go back and trace exactly what I was thinking each time I had an eye exam, year upon year, you could get a trajectory of my sexual development in a nutshell.
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#hypno-fetishism: because eye exams just weren’t uncomfortable enough already #reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #eyes #A Series of Unfortunate Events #nsfw?
My new phone arrived yesterday!
(Amazon almost always takes less time to ship than they think they will, so I ignored them telling me to expect it on the 9th and kept an eye on the tracking page.)
I haven’t got it fully set up yet, but it’s coming along well. I might be finished by tonight, and likely by the end of tomorrow.
There are two main problems left.
First, it’s fucking cold out. -10C, windchill -20. It’s going to get less fucking cold in a couple days, but there won’t be a positive windchill temperature in the foreseeable future. Apparently active Pokemon Go players are dealing with this as best they can by things like walking laps around malls and camping indoor Pokestops. I might do stuff like that *next* winter, but I don’t want to *start* playing a game while it’s in winter dormancy.
Second, Internet access. I still don’t have a SIM card, which means I don’t have a data plan. I’m told Pokemon Go requires a continuous Internet connection.
I can think of a few ways of dealing with this:
1: Play only in Wi-Fi zones. I can’t tell yet how feasible this is: I don’t know what the public Wi-Fi coverage is like in my area. Because it is, again, fucking cold, I can’t go out mapping yet. (There are a *few* hotspots already listed on that map as being within walking distance, but it’s clear nobody’s gone through and systematically mapped my area. Not yet.)
2: Pay my brother to come with me, with his phone set to mobile hotspot. I might need *a* mobile data connection, but nobody said it had to be *mine*. I’m pretty sure I’d need to pay him even if he didn’t mind the act of coming with me, because I don’t think he currently has a data plan, nor do I think he has enough spare credits that he could buy one without making more top-ups to his pre-paid account than he otherwise would.
3: Convince my mother to detach her pre-paid account from her current flip phone and attach it to a phone capable of generating a mobile hotspot (the smartphone I’m giving her, perhaps). Then, take her phone with me. (She probably wouldn’t mind me using her phone without her supervision, as long as I asked first.) She has enough spare credits built up that I probably wouldn’t need to pay her, but she likes her current phone and getting her to switch would be tricky.
4: Finally just buy my own phone plan. (This option can probably be discarded. I am very reluctant to spend money on gaming: I normally stick to video games that are ad-supported, volunteer-maintained, or have optional purchases I never buy. I might be willing to bend a *little*, but not to the tune of $100/year. This option would be feasible if I had a significant amount of non-Pokemon use for a phone plan, but I currently don’t.)
5: *Partially* just buy my own plan: instead of getting the same setup as the rest of my family, with a $100 minimum top-up paid annually, pay on a sub-annual scale and let it lapse in winter. Alternatively, pay on a monthly scale only on months I don’t have school (and therefore have a lot more free afternoons in which to play), letting it lapse during winter *and* during school semesters (using one or more of the other methods to play during semesters). Even pre-paid plans don’t like people lapsing, so there would be penalties for having my plan be on-and-off. Because of the discount for paying annually, it might not even be cheaper depending on what periods of time the plan is “on”.
(All of these options, other than 1, also require arranging the data plan itself for maximally efficient use of phone credits. Depending on the setup, minimum payments might not provide enough credits, and if the minimum isn’t enough even Mom’s built-up credits would eventually run out.)
Last I heard, @nenya-kanadka has an on-and-off phone plan. Her Internet connection usually isn’t good enough for Tumblr these days, so she probably won’t see my ping, but I think I’ll message her on Dreamwidth and ask for details about how her setup works. (What with her being in Canada, any country-specific advice she gives will still apply.) That’d get me a bit closer to having enough information to make a decision, though I won’t be able to make any plans until I’ve mapped the local Wi-Fi.
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#originally I wasn’t even going to *consider* replacing my phone until spring #because I knew I’d get antsy if I had the theoretical capacity to play Pokemon Go but not the weather #(I’m now trying to balance ‘doing enough research to plan stuff like Internet access’ with ‘researching will make me antsier’) #but the sooner Mom gets an Android that actually functions okay (unlike her shitty tablet) the better #and anyway the roomier hard drive will be nice regardless #oh look an original post #Brin owns *two* 2010’s computers now #(three at the moment) #in which Brin learns to speak Pokemon #I’m not especially *expecting* advice but if anyone has any I’d be interested in hearing it
It’s 2017
…the year Tumblr bands together to steal the president’s shoelaces?
Come on, guys, we can finally actually do this
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #high context jokes
