Boredom. Thats the answer. You dont get to take a whole lot with you up there and you will be surprised what your brain does with the free time… Like decide to shoot a sitcom intro.

Happy to help expand your view of this crazy crazy world, cause now you know of Cialis honey.

I have terrible news

Cause we have lots of places to do science with gravity, its nice to have a place to do science without it.
And hard to maintain the force without damaging the ship. We have small space stations and shuttles and they would need to rotate really fast to generate gravity similar to earth and that is taxing on the structure and you since your feet would have a lot more gravity than your head closer to the center of the circle.

If you have seen project hail Mary that is why there is an extendable counter weight actually. It helps move the central point of the rotation further away from the astronaut and let’s it rotate slower and have more consistent force.

Happy birthday Albert Einstein, Akira Yoshizawa, Casey Jones, Frank Norman, Michael Caine, Billy Crystal, Dan Avidan, Simone Beilles and Me.

Its a truly wild rild and so good. Producer of Akira and Director and writer of Appleseed kinda feels obvious.

An easy excuse to get that nudity tag while somehow arguing its better cause they are plastic.

And right at the end of this era and somehow hitting the bullseye of all the tropes while also being a meta commentary on them:
The Big O

Yeah, if you pay attention you will see Okabe gets his every wish. So that when suddenly he has to pick what level of pain he is ok with for payment, it puts him in hell. And since he is a loner and doesnt think of everyone else he doesnt have anyone else to talk to to the point that he doesnt even realize that everyone else is still remembering what he did and that his actions have never been without consequences. And he has to live up to them to undo them.

But yeah wild how the wrapper on a story can make such a difference, I mean this is the same story as Its a wonderful Life and yet the method of telling it makes it completely different and makes a slightly different take on the answer. The author clearly thinks its still ok to be absurd with reality at the end as long as you take it seriously.

By the way I don’t know Maebashi Witches but I do love Studio Sunrise and how they do personal stories, so it will go on the list after I catch up to Frieren.

And I didnt even downvote your original comment because I liked the idea of having a discussion on this because you are not wrong to find the MC grating.

You have your own sonder and I respect that. I appreciate you giving me a place to put my thoughts in this discussion by starting it. And yeah, some of us with our own flavor of life will take different things from it. Its why I think Steins;Gate is great at being art even if it isn’t always easy to watch.

So the point is that he is a nearing adult chunibyo (person with grand delusions that is somewhat common in Japan that is very strict and leaves young people economically behind) he is supposed to be weird and making stuff up because he doesnt care much for the real world. He is bad at being a “real” person.

But, surprise surprise, everything he is making up is real, and he gets everything he could want. A grand conspiracy, evil organizations, even stuff pertaining to his friends, changed to his desired fantasies. He gets it all and is asked only to give up the “real world” which seems easy until it comes with actual loss of it.

It invites you to watch the tragedy of this person trying to find who they are when either version of himself makes him unhappy. And then it is wrapped in the SciFi story where one of the best parts of the show is that everything is relevant to the plot by being true to the characters and their world. Lots of little details to map out how they all work together.

All to say I actually like the tedium. It shows how easy it is to stumble downwards into delusion, how it feels simple and boring unti l you are in it, and then how painful it can be to come back out the other side and how hard it can be to be the same person when you do.

Dude, there is a memes that are mutliple paragraphs that some people can recite by heart.

Just mention eliter snipers or vaporeon and watch the people go.

Your post really called out all the “smart” people who have decided on a form of fascism to appeal to their idea of how to fix the world.

They won’t change their mind cause they want less people and they want to think it fixes stuff without having to read a study about it. They liked it during covid when there were less people to interact with I think and had comfort in wealth to not have to suffer the consequences and now just aim for it.

Good post. Love the resources.

I’m tired of people pretending they are smart and problem solving by by mass murdering most humans on the planet and stopping procreation.

You don’t solve a jigsaw puzzle by putting 10 pieces together and burning the rest so you dont have to deal with them.