Domino Quartz's Delightfully Quaint Random Banter Thread #248

[Rater202]

You ever get into something and spend some time trying to figure it out and then it turned out it's not really thing?

A recurring narrative that has been shared through several symbiote-related titles in the past few years is Carnage trying to become a God... to the point that the symbiote had a falling out with Cletus over differing ideas of how to go about it.

It succeeded in doing so in the climax of Death of The Venomverse, and then returned to Earth 616 to flex it's new godly power in the most recent volume of its seld titled series only to be told that it's incomplete and a god of nothing, so it creates a clone of Cletus with his memories up to when they first bonded again so it can have that human perspective after they merge and then they go off to try and create a following and naturally this involves a murder spree.

Stepping lightly here, the first issue has every single one of his named victims in the issue share a name with one of the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth while also leaving behind allusions to the same.

So I spend a month wondering what that means, what his endgame is...

This month, the second issue reveals that it doesn't mean anything, he's doing it to **** with conspiracy theorists and other than that he's just doing the Classic Carnage move of inflicting random violence and inciting chaos and his actual methods of building a following for himself are unrelated and so far unrevealed.

...so basically I fell for the bit.

[Manga Shoggoth]

Our national dishes are fish and chips, chicken tikka masala, and roast beef (not all at the same time), thank you very much.

Don't forget the Full English Breakfast! Egg! Bacon! Sausage! Chips! Beans! Some people also add black pudding, but I don't eat that.

Of course, some people replace the Chips with something else and make a hash of it...

(And others attempt to replace it all with the curséd croissants and coffee)

[Anonymouswizard]

Don't forget the Full English Breakfast! Egg! Bacon! Sausage! Chips! Beans! Some people also add black pudding, but I don't eat that.

A Full English is bacon, sausage, black pudding, fried eggs, fried bread, baked beans (degenerate English version), and optional hash browns. I have no clue why you're adding chips to a Partial English

(And others attempt to replace it all with the curséd croissants and coffee)

Croissants and hot chocolate is acceptable, if you wish to be seen as sleeping with the enemy.


Also we're all forgetting afternoon tea. Tea! Scones! Jam! Clotted cream! Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off! Whatever cakes you can stuff on the top layer!

[BisectedBrioche]

(And others attempt to replace it all with the curséd croissants and coffee)

Croissants and coffee is the perfect breakfast, and I will fist fight people for its honour.

[Rawhide]

Why would Doritos put the promotional code on the OUTSIDE of the packet where anyone can steal it without buying the packet?

[Anonymouswizard]

Croissants and coffee is the perfect breakfast, and I will fist fight people for its honour.

Fisticuffs? For honour? My my, how barbaric.

Over here we fight with a bit of nobility. You may pick from the classic gentleperson weapons: walking stick, infantry sabre, pistol, hapless peasant, or intercontinental ballistic missile

[LaZodiac]

I hope everyone has been well. I've been a bit indisposed due to Qwerty visit! We've made braised chicken and veggies, stew, some bread, some cake, and all was delicious! We also watched Fiddler on the Roof and it made me cry a bunch- and also threw me into a wall so hard I ended up upside down when "If I Was A Rich Man" started because the fact that such a genuine, wonderful song was turned into a pop anthem by Gwen Stefani is just a very weird realization to have.

Anyway, yeah. Great film.

[Rater202]

Today I learned that there exist a Mod for the 2018 God of War that replaces Kratos and Atreus with Homer and Bart Simpson, competing with the dialog being replaced by very good impressions of the two characters.

Some lines are references to the show, others are just lines from the original game, and others still are the lines changed to reflect the altered characters.

The Leviathan Ax is replaced with Wonderbat, and Balder is replaced by Flanders who wants to know why Homer left Springfield in such a hurry and is a little overaggressive about getting Homer to come pray with him.

[Rawhide]

Today I learned that there exist a Mod for the 2018 God of War that replaces Kratos and Atreus with Homer and Bart Simpson, competing with the dialog being replaced by very good impressions of the two characters.

Some lines are references to the show, others are just lines from the original game, and others still are the lines changed to reflect the altered characters.

The Leviathan Ax is replaced with Wonderbat, and Balder is replaced by Flanders who wants to know why Homer left Springfield in such a hurry and is a little overaggressive about getting Homer to come pray with him.

[Batcathat]

Heh, that's pretty brilliant.

[Manga Shoggoth]

A Full English is bacon, sausage, black pudding, fried eggs, fried bread, baked beans (degenerate English version), and optional hash browns. I have no clue why you're adding chips to a Partial English

Because nearly everywhere I go these days black pudding isn't automatically there (a huge number of places don't sell it as it is forbidden for a lot of their customers), hash browns don't usually appear and the toast is usually an extra if you aren't at a transport cafe.

(I miss the old place in Bradford - there was a transport cafe at the end of the road. Excelent food, and since the owners lived there anyone blocking the driveway was made to move before taking another mouthful.)

Also we're all forgetting afternoon tea. Tea! Scones! Jam! Clotted cream! Cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off! Whatever cakes you can stuff on the top layer!

That's one hell of a Dagwood right there...

[Rawhide]

That's one hell of a Dagwood right there...

A Dagwood... Dog?

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[Aedilred]

The classic full English breakfast is bacon, egg, sausage, tomato, beans, fried bread, bubble and squeak (may be replaced by hash browns if necessary), with optional mushroom and black pudding. I will accept no substitutions (certainly not chips) and my word is final.

I may be willing to accept further additions, like liver sausage (but only in addition to the breakfast sausage). On the side, tea and, if you feel for some reason your calorific intake is insufficient, toast.

I do think, however, that the very similar Irish breakfast, which includes soda bread, potato farls and white pudding, is marginally superior.


With all that said, continental breakfasts with coffee are perfectly acceptable, as are American breakfasts with pancakes and/or waffles (provided they are of good quality). No insular prejudice here. The full English isn't exactly an everyday food, and some continental pastries are delicious.

[Batcathat]

Despite only having visited Britain a couple of times, I think it's where I've had both two of the most disappointing breakfasts ever as well as the most surprisingly tasty one (the former two were in a cheap Birmingham hostel and a slightly less cheap London hotel, the latter in some sort of diner at the edge of the London Chinatown). None of them were anything close to a full English breakfast though, which I've never tried.

[TaiLiu]

It was like a billion years ago when I was a child, and I don't remember anything about it, so I don't talk about it much.

Oh, okay.

"Plato? 'It's okay to ogle and get handsy once in a while', probably. And we happen to have a policy about that as well."

Really? I didn't know Plato supported ogling and sexual harassment. :O

So, a question for all y'all, since it came up recently. What's my vibe?

Not totally sure what a vibe is, even after looking up the definition. But it's a good vibe for sure.

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I wish it were easier to block certain content on the internet, at least my web browser, for all time.

There are zero circumstances under which I ever want to see anything involving Seth McFarlane animation, or any variation on certain memes ever again.

That sounds technically difficult. You could block out text discussions of Seth McFarlane, but images are a pain to manage unless there's alt text.

As an aside, it'd be cool to be able to insert alt text for images on this forum. On the list of would be nice to haves.

My next year's resolution for 2024 is to drink less caffeine.

Hey everyone. I'm popular in the Starbucks community. Today I went to Starbucks near my house just to get a cup of hot coffee and a Marshmallow Dream Bar and a customer paid for the coffee and food for me.

I'm happy for you. Did the customer know you?

It's also kinda funny paired with your new year's resolution. It must make it hard if people are regularly buying you coffee.

Why would Doritos put the promotional code on the OUTSIDE of the packet where anyone can steal it without buying the packet?

Maybe their factory is set up to print things on the outside of the bag but not the inside. Like, a technical limitation that they don't wanna bother bypassing just for the promotion.

I hope everyone has been well. I've been a bit indisposed due to Qwerty visit! We've made braised chicken and veggies, stew, some bread, some cake, and all was delicious! We also watched Fiddler on the Roof and it made me cry a bunch- and also threw me into a wall so hard I ended up upside down when "If I Was A Rich Man" started because the fact that such a genuine, wonderful song was turned into a pop anthem by Gwen Stefani is just a very weird realization to have.

Glad you two are having fun. Are you two planning to spend the new year's eve together?

[LaZodiac]

Glad you two are having fun. Are you two planning to spend the new year's eve together?

We are! She sadly goes back on the 2nd of January though, so it'll be a short but eventful way to ring in the new year.

I do kinda wish she coulda stayed for my birthday on the 27th but I'm not gonna lock her up in this frozen hellhole for a month just because I want birthday hugs.

[Rater202]

We are! She sadly goes back on the 2nd of January though, so it'll be a short but eventful way to ring in the new year.

I do kinda wish she coulda stayed for my birthday on the 27th but I'm not gonna lock her up in this frozen hellhole for a month just because I want birthday hugs.

Your vibe is now "too cool to be a fairy tale villain."

[Aedilred]

Despite only having visited Britain a couple of times, I think it's where I've had both two of the most disappointing breakfasts ever as well as the most surprisingly tasty one (the former two were in a cheap Birmingham hostel and a slightly less cheap London hotel, the latter in some sort of diner at the edge of the London Chinatown). None of them were anything close to a full English breakfast though, which I've never tried.

There is some bad food here, to be sure. Hotel breakfasts in particular can be all over the place. There's bad food everywhere, though, so whatever anyone might say, it's not just a British thing.

[TaiLiu]

We are! She sadly goes back on the 2nd of January though, so it'll be a short but eventful way to ring in the new year.

I do kinda wish she coulda stayed for my birthday on the 27th but I'm not gonna lock her up in this frozen hellhole for a month just because I want birthday hugs.

That sounds like a lot of fun. Happy for you two.

It must be super super cold right now, what with being so close to the north's winter solstice and all. Hope you stay warm.

[Rater202]

Thoght Potato, the channel that has that speculative biology series I mention from time to time, has two more videos up.

Last month they added one about the qalupalik, a mermaid-like a creature from Inuit folklore that's credited with snatching away stray children who wander too close to cracks in the ice, and a few days ago a video about giants(especially the 'Si-Te-Cah' of the folklore of the indiginous peoples of the Great Basin region in north America) which also picks up on some narrative beats from their Frankenstein's monster video.

I'll b honst, I'm starting to beless interested in the spculativ biology and more interested in the world building becuase there's very clearly some Umbrella **** going on in the background.

[Manga Shoggoth]

A Dagwood... Dog?

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One of these, although the Dagwood Dog is named after the same character.

[Anonymouswizard]

That's one hell of a Dagwood right there...

Please, it's not all eaten in one bite.


Been watching Mahou Shojo Lyrical Nanoha, as I said in the last thread, and it's a bizarre experience watching it after Madoka Magica.

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Specifically while Kyubey/Cubey was a very inhuman character with inhuman flaws, all their counterparts in Nanoha feel like a refutation by being very humanly flawed. Especially Yuuno, who while incredibly moral is just not a particularly good mentor.

Which as I said is weird because Lyrical Nanoha is a decade older than Madoka Magica.

Also there's finally going to be more Madoka Magica next year, proper stuff and not spinoffs. I'm very excited.

[Bartmanhomer]

I'm happy for you. Did the customer know you?

It's also kinda funny paired with your new year's resolution. It must make it hard if people are regularly buying you coffee.

Apparently, yes the customer knows me very well because he sees me almost every day at Starbucks but what can I say I'm very popular and famous in the Starbucks community.

Yes, you're right about that.

[LaZodiac]

Please, it's not all eaten in one bite.


Been watching Mahou Shojo Lyrical Nanoha, as I said in the last thread, and it's a bizarre experience watching it after Madoka Magica.

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Specifically while Kyubey/Cubey was a very inhuman character with inhuman flaws, all their counterparts in Nanoha feel like a refutation by being very humanly flawed. Especially Yuuno, who while incredibly moral is just not a particularly good mentor.

Which as I said is weird because Lyrical Nanoha is a decade older than Madoka Magica.

Also there's finally going to be more Madoka Magica next year, proper stuff and not spinoffs. I'm very excited.

Yeah, it does kinda feel like that. I think it's especially funny how

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the little ferret guy is absolutely framed as Nanoha's love interest and how that completely Does Not Happen At All for obvious reasons.

I'm not sure why one would be excited for more Madoka stuff given Rebellion is garbage and everything after it is interminably worse.

[Anonymouswizard]

Yeah, it does kinda feel like that. I think it's especially funny how

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the little ferret guy is absolutely framed as Nanoha's love interest and how that completely Does Not Happen At All for obvious reasons.

I'm not sure why one would be excited for more Madoka stuff given Rebellion is garbage and everything after it is interminably worse.

I presume you mean the fact that

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Nanoha is as straight as a roundabout and has been obviously crushing on Fate since their first befriending?

Rebellion wasn't that bad, but definitely suffered from not being the second series it was supposed to be. Since then I don't think there's been any attempt to continue the story, and I've avoided most EU stuff because the first one I tried was just terrible.

[Metastachydium]

Really? I didn't know Plato supported ogling and sexual harassment. :O

I was somewhat facetious and hyperbolic there, yes, but Plato was very much a product of his age and quite apologetic of certain, khm, cultural practices thereof, among which those pertaining to what kinds of relationships are normal between an older man of wealth and learning and a teenaged boy.

[Rater202]

I'm not sure why one would be excited for more Madoka stuff given Rebellion is garbage and everything after it is interminably worse.

What is this Rebellion of which you speak?

I presume you mean the fact that

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Nanoha is as straight as a roundabout and has been obviously crushing on Fate since their first befriending?

Rebellion wasn't that bad, but definitely suffered from not being the second series it was supposed to be. Since then I don't think there's been any attempt to continue the story, and I've avoided most EU stuff because the first one I tried was just terrible.

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By the time they're adults, Fate and Nonaha are living in the same house, sleeping in the same bed, and raising children together, one of whom refers to them both as being her parents and looks exactly like what you'd expect their magical lesbian baby to look like even though she isn't genetically related to them.

They never outright say that they're together in the original continuity, but...

And as for Rebellion... Jokes aside it took the surprisingly happy ending of the very dark orignal series and ruined it because Hamura would rather watch the world burn than not be with Madoka.

[LaZodiac]

I presume you mean the fact that

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Nanoha is as straight as a roundabout and has been obviously crushing on Fate since their first befriending?

Rebellion wasn't that bad, but definitely suffered from not being the second series it was supposed to be. Since then I don't think there's been any attempt to continue the story, and I've avoided most EU stuff because the first one I tried was just terrible.

Yeah that.

There isn't anything a second series is SUPPOSED to be, because there shouldn't be any attempt to continue the story because the story is Over. There is nothing of value to whatever happens next in Madoka's setting because the first series more or less created a perfect self-contained story. The Incubators are explicitly not clever enough to do what they do in Rebellion, and the idea of Homura becoming the lucifer to Madoka's magical girl hope god is Stupid Stupid Stupid STUPID. This is why the other attempt at this with Magi-Reco was "here is a side story somewhere else that takes place during one of Homura's weirder loops", because there isn't any way to add more onto the story without ruining or weakening the original in some way.

The only things that could possibly work as "further Madoka material" is having side stories about other magical girls in the settings, or getting a standard but well executed "here is what Madoka's new world looks like". Nothing else could possibly function as a sequel, and Rebellion's decision to undo the happy ending is exactly what everyone who says "MAdoka is bad because it's edgelord ****" was expecting. Let the series unambiguously happy ending stand as it is, please, for the love of Madoka.

[Peelee]

What is this Rebellion of which you speak?

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[Anonymouswizard]

And as for Rebellion... Jokes aside it took the surprisingly happy ending of the very dark orignal series and ruined it because Hamura would rather watch the world burn than not be with Madoka.

Which is a very valid route for the story to go, particularly with the original series having the selfishness of wishes as a theme. It also helps a lot that it's clearly not intended as the end, and Homura may very well be ruined by her relatively honest selfishness as much as those who were dishonest about it were.

It's also entirely consistent with her character,

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when you've fled to the past a hundred times to save one girl what's dooming one more timeline to you? It doesn't hurt that her powers seem to let her keep her memory whenever anybody hits the reset button, and those powers are also established to be ripple-effect proof...