doggy does an ollie!

I don't know where I read it but one of the best quotes I've ever read about the nature of sci-fi was "A good sci-fi story is one that predicts not the car but the traffic jam"

Like if you're writing "sci-fi" but you're not interested in speculating about the potential societal implications of the technology that exists in the future you're imagining then what the fuck are you even doing. That's not sci-fi that's fantasy set in space.

hot women sound off

it's true

knew this woman who used to be a gay man and when he was a gay man he liked ‘ironically’ referring to himself as she/her and so when he came out as a woman he decided the next logical step was to also switch his pronouns to he/him.

🏁Nightmare Kart is now available to wishlist on Steam!!🏁

Lets celebrate with a first look trailer, showing off the game's new coat of paint!

Wishlist here!

🎵Music by @TheNobleDemon

➡️ Old Man Herman by @KamranNikhad ➡️ Marie and Onnête by @TheSphereHunter ➡️ Nicholas by @funnywes

# of Robin Hood video games by decade

(non-exhaustive. source)

what happened?

there's been an even more precipitous drop off in the percentage of all games released that were based on tennis

bunny girl...

(she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🐇🌙💤

this ain't my best drawing but I had fun drawing her meowww

B0X-Bot While this line of mechanical platforms, known colloquially as “B0X-Bots”, may be famous for their affordability and versatility, they are perhaps more infamous for their almost nonfunctional A/C systems. First finished illustration of 2018! This was fun, though it really got out of hand. Just wanted to draw a simple mecha/robot based on a cube, and this was the result. EDIT: Added a close-up detail shot, since Tumblr compressed the image a bit.

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(he/him) 🐇

also jokes aside he's a cis guy and I think cis guys can and are allowed to look cunty too...

Winning gender 👗✨ — commission

whats the fucking point of having laws if people can keep making led headlights

If I had a nickel for every time a 90s sci-fi show had to write out a character who had visions and other mental power things, because their actor developed severe mental health issues, only for the producers to lie about why they'd been written out for decades afterwards? And they came back once or twice for a cameo?

I'd have 10 cents, but it's still weird that it happened twice.

(Kes played by Jennifer Lien on Star Trek: Voyager and Jeffery Sinclair played by Michael O'Hare on Babylon 5)

So Michael O'Hare didn't tell JMS to write his character out because he (O'Hare) realized his mental faculties were going?

No, that's the true story, which came out long after he left the show (JMS only told it because O'Hare had died). The original story was... Well there mostly wasn't one. It was just explained that it was amicable, and most people assumed it was to do with money.

Jerry Doyle (who played Mr. Garibaldi) may have been the one who spread that rumor. He didn't know about Michael O'Hare's illness and just thought he was an unreliable prima dona.

From what I recall, JMS originally offered the explanation that:

1. He had written the character of Jeffrey Sinclair to be something of a warrior-philosopher (which makes a great deal of sense if you are familiar with the character's eventual fate); with considerable emphasis on the 'philosopher' component in the first season.

2. From the second season forward, Sinclair would adopt a more action-oriented role, and drive the main story arc forward.

3. He hadn't laid the necessary groundwork for this change; and having written himself into a corner, JMS opted to exercise one of his famous 'trapdoors' and switch Sinclair out for John Sheridan.

The reasoning wasn't wholly implausible (imagine, for instance, Sinclair deploying nuclear weapons with the same sort of joyful abandon as Sheridan); and the timing happened to coincide with the introduction of Hotshot Network Note Warren Keffer (which lent some credence to the idea that TNT had a hand in the change)

To give full credit to JMS: not only did he protect Michael O'Hare's reputation (and kept the actor's mental health struggles in confidence until after his passing), but he did so by offering up a cover story that placed the blame entirely on his own shoulders.

Yeah! JMS handled it exceptionally well. Reportedly he even offered to O'Hare to suspend filming on the show so he could get treatment (O'Hare's mental illness didn't get bad until mid-season), but it was O'Hare who didn't think that would be fair: he was afraid that it'd get the show canceled, and O'Hare didn't want everyone else on the show to lose their jobs.

JMS was basically willing to say "fuck the show, your health comes first".