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@nesterov81 depending on your point of view, for Hitoe things either improve, or enter fate worse than death territory, in these episodes of the show

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today Meatball abruptly realized that there are refugee office plants in the kitchen (they have been there for weeks) and has decided his singular purpose in life is to eat them 

it’s a tragedy that dinotopia was adapted as a weird gritty looking tv movie with bad cgi when it’s, without exaggeration, the most ghibli any book has ever been

You’re not an awful person, Madiha. You’re passionate about what you believe in and you stick to your principles, but you’re always willing to be open-minded, which is so hard to do in this day and age. That doesn’t sound like a bad person to me. I am probably the last person who should be an amateur counselor, but remember: those negative thoughts you have are not. true. They are years of insecurity and fear twisted by depression into a cudgel that give you a false view of reality and convince you that you deserve to be unhappy. Nothing they say is true.

We do not think that way about you.

You deserve to be happy. You will be happy. Whenever those thoughts start to roll in, remember that they are do not reflect reality and they are lying to you. Hold on to that. (This is really weird for me to write, but it tears me up to see you burdened with so much and know there’s almost nothing I can do about it.)

im really afraid im just a like, completely awful person but just utterly deluded in my own goodness that i dont see why everyone hates me

There was also the Tox Uthat, the MacGuffin from the third-season episode “Captain’s Holiday”, that could perform the same trick. No explanation is ever given as to how the device works, beyond the Treknobabble description of “quantum phase inhibitor”, so beyond “piece of alien technology from three centuries after TNG that works by Trek science rules”, there isn’t much room to speculate as to how it shuts down stellar fusion reactions.

In Star Trek Generations, the bad guys had a substance which could stop the fusion inside a star, making it collapse and produce a solar-system-obliterating shockwave. This is actually somewhat feasible compared to your average Star Trek science: for various reasons I don't think it could actually exist in the way it does in the movie, but you could conceive of a substance that acted as "fusion poison", producing more of itself when it collided with energetic hydrogen but was not itself able to be fused further. Even the bit about the shockwave was really plausible: it's pretty much exactly what happens in an actual core collapse supernova.

The one really unfeasible part was that it couldn't happen instantaneously like it did in the movie. Even in the core of starts, most hydrogen atom collisions don't result in fusion - they can't overcome the Coulomb barrier. If you introduced a self-replicating fusion poison into the core of the Sun, it would grow only very slowly, at least at first. You could imagine a fusion poison produced almost no notable effects for centuries or millennia, then maybe a one-lifetime period of noticeable effects, then the Sun went out and everyone died.

Which I actually think would be a better story. Suppose you knew that there was a fusion poison, but not exactly when the Sun would collapse, since astrophysical time scales are immense and imprecise. It's going to be in the next 10,000 years, but beyond that you're not certain. Would people try to escape the Solar System? What would life be look in an era of certain doom but highly-uncertain timing?

if you relate to having an idea for a story for 4 to 8 years with almost zero progress towards actually writing it down, clap your hands

Wait, what happened to episode 26...OH I GET IT!

Transmediacrity Episode 27: We Haven't Killed The Abrahamic God Since The SNES

Jupiter's electromagnetic field contains THE POWER.

Esther is back from the battle of the Trinary Star System. Now the course of history can resume.

Topics include: the state of liberal propaganda on television; the GameGriper; shitting on the sidewalk to own the libs; my first move since I became a full grown idiot; Esther kept playing Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse and she’s here to say; which society sounds best; Dagda; SMT Scathach vs dope baedysuit queen; Dagda’s mom; there’s still the Abrahamic god; WHY DON’T THEY PUT PERSONA ON THE ~SWITCH~; Madiha beat Doom 2016 and she has Feelings; FPS raid boss; strafing enemies across the entire room; worth $60; overwhelmed by SNAPMAP; game development teams are a mini Ship of Theseus; Millennial John Carmack’s “Woke Doom”; Madiha is still reading HAKAIOU ~ GAOGAIGAR VS. BETTERMAN; Somnium lore; eldritch horror; our listeners should really listen to Betterman Anime Club; Madiha deep Betterman lore cuts for 20 minutes; WE STAN MICATEAM; WE WILL SHILL YOUR GAME FOREVER; Girls Frontline is good; team 404 is good and strong and my friends; Esther played the Shin Megami Tensei mobile game; steampunk patrick klepeck; gun otaku girl; brand new assets; the comments on the demons; Madiha sends hatemail; if you have more sentience than Madiha, who is turing incomplete, send us that mail; Kizuna Ai poppin’ the biggest bottles.

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