tetris11 @ tetris11 @lemmy.ml

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I dont get how snakes breathe

Edit: yes I do now

His lungs apparently are somehow just warping around it

Check out Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice series.

For a long while you're not actually sure what species the characters are, what their defining features are, if they even have gender, and/or how many limbs they have.

You just know what they're like from their cutting remarks to one another.

It's a series that focuses solely on plot and has a very loose definition of identity (and it's awesome)

"neilty son", aww cute name

"He kept saying that a stick insect had gone up his shorts, and it was for the good of all insectdom for us to find it and document its secretions."

Arrested Development: "It's balls"

https://feddit.uk/post/32239230

what is that game about
like, how do you win

Your concise analysis has warmed this reader's heart today, my good fellow

I wonder if anyone remembers what Lisa Maffia told them in 2003?

Yep. They called me "Kid Gorgeous."
Later on, it was "Kid Presentable."
Then "Kid Gruesome."
And finally, "Kid Moe."

1000007. Always align your sights to curve around corners

I took it more like galactic credits are banned on Tatooine , and no trader who didn't want any trouble with the Hutts would be dealing with them. Taking them on would be a world of trouble, like fencing stolen goods

The thing with the Jedi mind trick is that only Jedi's think it works.

Everyone else just see a scary lightsaber guy asking them to repeat a sentence and are more than happy to comply if it means they get left alone.

There's a limit to how much you can pretend though.

• Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else's problem.
• Selling an obvious narc deathsticks? Yeah, maybe going home and rethinking your life is the right call here.
• Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.

It's an old WW2 story. They were trying to improve their bullets thus analysed the returning planes which had collected many. By siphoning the bullets out of the frame they could see which ones had the most luck, and could then manufacture luckier bullets.

Wood Bison looks healthier to me, despite all the negativity of the annotations

"WIIILLSOOONNN"

Dark Magic

well when a mommy asymptote and a daddy asymptote meet on opposite ends of an infinite grid, they give birth to a finite area that is carefully and lovingly defined, until the mommy asymptote runs away with a thick veiny fat curve that rules her world, and the daddy asymptote just stands there night-after-night watching them bisect each other

I still get the shakes