I’ve got some girl scout cookies from the Loch Ness Monster that I understand to be worth about tree fiddy…

ohhhh, and it’s your piss that produces the mercury? that is cool.

The thing that would’ve really sealed it for me, I think, would be if we got the occasional cut away from the musical number to the parts of the ship that weren’t affected. Like, there’s one bit where someone shuts off the artificial gravity for dramatic effect, and I was dying for the cut across the ship to the guy in who’s been off-duty taking a nap for the last three hours, slept through the whole first act of the episode, just drifting out of his bunk and into a bulkhead with no explanation. I love a good “consequences of everyone being just a little too Extra™” in my self-aware diegetic musical episode.

Fʀᴀɴᴋʟʏ, I’ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴄᴏɴᴠɪɴᴄᴇᴅ ᴡᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʟᴏᴡᴇʀᴄᴀsᴇ ʟᴇᴛᴛᴇʀs ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ. Sᴇᴇᴍs ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ’s ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀsᴋɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ᴛʀᴏᴜʙʟᴇ.

I’ve experienced this, or at least something that very closely fits its description, a couple times in the past, and it varies on a case-by-case basis. One time it was almost like the sound of glass breaking, I think one time might’ve been closer to a door slamming. Weird shit.

And, same deal as the other fella, hard to remember the specifics 'cause you’re sorta half-asleep when it happens.

Shit, an emulator getting taken down for… actual copyright infringement? You don’t see that every day.

he’s hardware and incredibly hard

-Tasha Yar, probably

Well your corp don’t dance and if it don’t dance then it’s no friend of mine

Nah man, think about it, rock makes no goddamn sense from a lore perspective. Scissors cut paper, sure, I can see that as a win condition. Rock breaks scissors? I guess that’s not wrong, but like, who’s out here breaking scissors with rocks on the regular? How did the rock become the scissor’s greatest nemesis? Then we get to the big one: Paper covers rock? You’re telling me this is such a devastating blow that rock has no choice but to resign in disgrace? You really want me to believe that a fist-sized rock couldn’t just plow through your standard sheet of 8.5x11" ANSI Letterhead like it’s, well… paper? The whole thing is propaganda by Big Paper and they’ve got us drilling it into our kids’ heads from day 1, and I’m not having it.

…Why replace the scissors when rock is clearly the weakest link? How does applesauce beat rock or paper? More importantly, what happened to these children that would even make them assosciate applesauce with rocks or paper? How do you even make an “applesauce” gesture with just your hand? Why play rock-paper-scissors applesauce at the swimming pool instead of the dozens of pool-specific games already available? How do you fit a three-syllable word like /ˌap.ple’sauce/ into the one/two/two-syllable cadence of /ˌrockˌpa.per.'scis.sors/? Is it an inside joke? A warning of “don’t play with scissors” taken too far? Have they independently developed the game of rock-paper-scissors from first principles and simply didn’t consider scissors as a mechanic? Are they in a scissor-based cult and trying not to speak their Lord’s name in vain? Why at the swimming pool?

I, too, am amused by these questions. That said, this is going to haunt me.

Well, he’s certainly mastered the glare that could skeletonize a fully-armored knight from a hundred paces.