Just Rewatched The Martian (2015) And That Shit Was As Good As I Remember It And Since I Need To Tie

can we PLEASE standardize the key to open your inventory??? i keep playing different games (crazy ik) and it goes from E to esc to I to tab to not even having an inventory im gonna stroke out pretty soon

why orange cats are stupid little dipshits

after doing a bit of googling, i cannot find a single actual study that has been done to determine why orange cats are considered stupid, but i have a theory.

its because orange cats are mostly male

now thats not me being "heehoo men stoopie" (very stupid trans man), its like a valid theory. 80% of orange cats are male (quick google search results) because the gene for being orange is linked to the X chromosome, so most gingers are male.

so i propose an experiment.

we take two groups of several common coat colors/patterns of domestic shorthairs (since those are the most common housecat (another quick google search). each of the 2 groups for each coat will have 100 individuals, one group with the average male/female ratio of that coat normally (for gingers that would be 80 males, and 20 females) and the second group would be 50/50 male female.

then, follow the cats from birth to maturity (~2 years old)(google search) and track "mental" milestones. also important that these cats would be raised in a typical "household" setting you found find a normal domestic cat in, and they would be raised alone.

then, after all that info is gathered, compare the relative intelligence of the cats of the average m/f ratio and the 50/50 m/f ratio. theoretically the average m/f ratio of orange cats should be dumber than the 50/50 ratio of oranges

and then, finally, we (and i) will have a true explanation for why (my) orange cat(s) are fucking stupid as all hell

My roommate bought this cute notepad for the house and I'm currently helping her build good habits

Astarion is helping

DEADASS FORGOT THE WORD "FACILITY" LAST NIGHT THIS IS A GODSEND

some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

I got to the part in The Martian where he does all the rover modifications and the mental image of it just bewitched me to the point I had to draw it.

this took me like 5 minutes or less btw so for a quick doodle i think its pretty good

someone probably already made this

also just realized and dont feel like editing the last one: why the fuck do eridians count in base 6?

like the reason humans count in base 10 is bc we have 10 fingers, but eridians have 5 limbs with three fingers on each. it would make more sense for them to count in base 3, 5, or 15. so why 6?

i got project hail mary yesterday so everybody better be ready for YAPPING!!!!!!!!

instead of finishing my drawing of astarion. i drew him looking like a wet possum

A removed conversation between Robin and AL-AN that remains in the games audio files.

It’s a very interesting interaction, but I do see why they opted to leave it out. Though it is nice to see a longer conversation between them. Especially one where they talk out their reasonings for differing views, and one where Robin ends up expressing empathy for AL-AN.

Transcript under the cut

AL-AN: Thank you for undertaking the quest for an alternative storage medium.

Robin: I would really love it if you could stop referring to me as a storage medium.

A: Not you. Your body.

R: My body is a significant part of who I am and how I experience life.

A: It is different for us.

R: Clearly. Or you wouldn’t have been hanging out in that sanctuary waiting to hitch a ride with me.

R: How did you get in there anyway?

A: We came here in search of a cure for the Kharaa bacterium.

R: What? Thousands of years ago?

A: I do not experience time as you do, but yes, that is technically correct.

A: My body was infected before a vaccine could be developed. I uploaded my consciousness to the sanctuary for storage.

R: What happened to the others?

A: Some left, others perished. Over time my connection to them grew weaker… I cannot sense them now.

R: AL-AN… I—

[missing piece of dialogue]

R: Yes okay, but— what I was going to say was… I’m sorry.

A: …Why? You have done nothing wrong.

R: Not sorry like an apology. Sorry like I feel empathy.

A: Are all your human languages so… confusing?

R: All the ones I know are.

thinking about the biological implications of someone (Ryley Robinson) getting stuck on an alien planet (4546B) with purely silicon-based lifeforms (headcanon).

like would he just starve??? Because if everything is composed of silicon there's no real use for carbon sugars and I dont think people can digest silicon last I checked

the main idea is that this could lead to some absolutely fucked-up prompts like Ryley slowly starving to death even though he feels full because his body is physically incapable of processing whatever fucked up molecules the plants/animals/other on 4546B use in place of carbon sugars. And he keeps misdiagnosing what's wrong with him as maybe it's part of the kharaa but then he gets to the floating island and gets potatoes and melons and lantern fruit and he either thinks he got over the kharaa or puts two and two together and realizes he was dying from starvation and/or malnutrition