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Quick perusal shows we've actually, apparently, got a few working jetpacks out there. They're just expensive, dangerous, and impractical. We've also sorta' got flying cars (as an example), with more likely due before 2020. Also expensive and fairly impractical (if only due to the training necessary). The future was a few years ago, or something.

Dunno about functioning skin-tight spacesuits, though. We've definitely got non-functioning stuff along those lines, though.

Seriously though, one of these days it's actually going to hit people, as in the collective species consciousness thing, that we've actually been living in sci-fi land for a while now. Cyborgs (or at least medical cyberlimbs), supercomputers, surveillance states, hyperadvanced medicine, the beginnings of practical genetic engineering (retrovirals, et al), etc., so forth, so on, and forthwith. The future was a few years ago. Really. We're there now. Next is, like. Post future. Future-future.

Bleeeh. I missed a chance to see those guys perform a year or two ago. They were <30 min away from where I was staying and I didn't find out about it until about a week after they were there. E2: I spent a while staring blankly out the window when the vehicle I was in drove by a billboard advertising it, heh. Good thing I wasn't driving.

Reminds me I should probably find, like. Their itinerary or whatever those things are. Would love to see 'em perform, heh.

... actually, I just did. Closest they'll be to me next year is Durham, NC, next march.

I... maybe. Maybe.

E: Almost makes me wish I was in cali. They're going to be all over that place next year, it looks like...

M'only a wizard

... nah, I thought my bailout was higher. Could have sworn it was in the 90s, but it looks like it's only in the 70s. Ah well.

Does make me wonder how far off I am from Illuminatus. Looks like the leaderboard's down, so checking will have to wait...

E: Ohey, I think I just saw FD get scared off by the bootleg ryu vs mario match
E2: I made two bucks :3

... actually, it seems that the problem is that it isn't curtains for Caz...

Yeah... I kick DF back up a couple times a year, more or less like clockwork, but usually not much more than that. Last go was during the summer, iirc. Play fairly intensely for a week or two, get distracted by other games/responsibilities for a few months, repeat. DF's in my overall gaming cycle, basically. One of relatively few that actually comes up pretty consistently.

I'm pretty sure not all the fighters are human iin saltybet
that means its animal abuse
saltybet is satan for animals

There's definitely outright animal fighters in saltybet. Bison and bear are pretty solid, and killer whale is supposed to be one of the deadlier things in the game (haven't had the fortune to see a killer whale match, yet). Then there's critters like Ecco (Eco?) that's basically a massive undersea gangbang that almost never loses, or the Kraken which is almost as much of a boot to the head as the original Shining Force one.

Basically, animals are definitely represented in Saltybet, and they trend toward brutal.

10+23. It's particularly amusing in the face of near lifelong marked paranoia and fairly serious general social issues

Another one of those ones that are just asking the wrong questions for the wrong reasons, really. That and the fact that most of my physical anxiety reactions are accompanied by a remarkable lack of emotional ones, which is rather incredibly annoying at times. It can be incredibly jarring to have a fairly extreme disconnect between physical reaction and emotional state, some days.

The power went out for a couple seconds at one point and I was literally plunged into total blackness. I couldn't see anything at all and couldn't do anything about it. Unnerved me enough so that I closed my eyes and waited for power to come back. Spoiler alert, I still couldn't see anything with my eyes closed.

Feeling completely powerless is not fun.

You've still got a buncha' senses Touch and hearing are both pretty good when you're suddenly blind. Or intentionally blind. I do eyes-closed/lights-off navigation of my living space occasionally, just for the fun of it. It's always an interesting experience, going without a sense or two for a period of time.

Also, giving it a minute or two (forget the exact time threshold) lets your eyes adjust. It's usually not as dark as you think it is, when it first goes black. Human eyes are pretty light sensitive. It's mostly just a matter of actually paying attention to what your senses are telling you.

I have to do 101 hours of community service before January 13th. I barely have a fifty days. That's two hours a day, plus my full time job, classes, meetings with counselors/P.O. and urinary analysis nearly every other day. Plus two days of court.

Eesh. Good luck, man. You at least got venues for it lined up? Or do you not get to choose?