Notices by Floaty Birb (floatybirb@mastodon.social)

excited to live in the time where the USA transforms from "often the baddies" to "deffo the baddies".

@cstross @rudy I get why we might do metric time, but what's the advantage of an 80 minute hour and 18 hour days?

@futurebird Economics is definitely the child of mathematics and social science who hates both of her parents and steals from both of their wardrobes.

@thomasfuchs I think I agree, but it's already hard enough agitating for public transit to exist (at least in North America).

@glent @thomasfuchs I am thinking more in terms of someone trying to get more and better public transport where I live, where transit agencies are always given low priority and run in fear of fiscal deficits.

Like, I could pressure them to cut bus and train fares to zero, but I think that would be extremely hard to convince them to do (when it's enough work trying to get cities and states to keep their agencies alive, let alone expand bus and train routes).

@mcc is this the "were gonna be like grammar nazis about it and yell at you about it on the internet?" or is it more of a "You Will Hear From Our Inktober Lawyers About This Shortly!" sort of scenario?

@mcc what did the Inktober people do?

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 Okay I think the weird sequence is over now as we see a bunch of wrecked boats floating on the sea.

Now Mr. Turner is wandering by the sea shore and meeting his worried wife, the artist formerly and currently known as Big Hat Lady. A larger boat that rescued some of the yacht racers pulls into port, followed by a police boat, and everyone scrambles to search for their relations; at last she finds her kid but not his friend.

#Monsterdon the chaotic neutral director of #Tentacles1977 gets his or her way with this long sequence of boats being knocked over, interspersed with the Big Hat Lady saying worried things into a walkie talkie and the coast guard showing "turn back" signs to them, with occasional ominous octopus glares and screaming children.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 Mortal Enemies of the #Orca, by Century:
19th century (and earlier): unknown
20th century: giant killer octopodes
21st century: yachts
22nd century (and later): unknown

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 curly hair guy talks to his Orca pals, his secret weapon against the evil octopus. He explains that they are chill creatures and should not be called "killers" while feeding them fish. I guess he plans to free them in hopes that they will do battle against their mortal enemies.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 some martial music starts playing as a Large Sailboat pulls up to a yellow submarine that's probably a tunnel segment. Curly Hair Guy is on the sailboat, with the grim resolve to vanquish the evil Octopus.

This movie decides that the plural of Octopus is "Octopi", instead of "Octopuses", "Octopodes", "Octopussies" or any of the other equally acceptable alternatives (according to me).

Anyway, we have an existential discussion about how Cephalopods thirst for blood.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 I think the searching for missing yacht racing children and relatives is actually kind of a moving scene... its very much like the more humanized evacuation scenes in monster movies in that it lets you see how normal people cope with the monster induced devastation.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 After swimming around the coral reef, our human characters are ambushed by an avalanche, and then we see a giant octopus being bludgeoned by our Orca Allies! For they did not fuck into the sea for good, but rather fucked into the sea temporarily, to deal a surprise nose battering attack on our Octopodal Enemy!

At least I think that's what's happening... its really blurry so I can't quite tell what is going on. Anyway, the epic fight music is turned up to 42.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 Anyway, I like the coral reef they jump into; it has some nice fish, including a guy who eats other fish loudly, and a stingray and also some nice corals. I give this coral reef 8/10; seems like a cool place.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 As fifteen minutes of this movie remains, the boys suite up in their diving suits, which the martial music tells us is super cool, like putting on armor or something. Which I guess diving suits are just ocean armor. They have knives and harpoon guns to fight the octopus with, which is probably not the worst choice.

#Monsterdon #Tentacles1977 After more futzing around, our cool sailboat does the sideways shake, like when the Enterprise is hit by a photon torpedo, but it is actually because the boat was hit by an octopus.

We go above deck to find that our submarine tunnel segment has sunk. We observe our killer whale pals fucking off into the sea, which i guess I can't blame them.

#Tentacles1977 Perhaps the strangest #monsterdon fight scene, as the Octopus tries to escape into a cave, but can't because an Orca keeps biting it and chasing it into the hole. It responds to getting eaten by screaming.

Meanwhile the two humans ascend, one guy carrying the other guy (who lost his breath mask) to safety.

@Rasp probably because the gay guy thinks about gay sex, finds a way to nut and then does something else, where the homophobe gets no such release?

@nyrath a downside is most of the destinations are gonna be "icy moons that are kind of similar to each other", unless you develop each of those icy moons in a different direction to make it into a more memorable destination.