Malgas

He should definitely cite the readings in question in a “do not read” section of the syllabus so that the students won’t accidentally consume or discuss them without realizing that it isn’t allowed.

It’s not even neon!

The numbers are verse numbers, used for citing specific passages, e.g. “Ezekiel 23:20”.

I would assume that the letters are annotations, and that this is likely an academic Bible.

Well crap, now I want LotR but Gollum is Jason Sudekis (not mocap, just him) and everybody else is a muppet.

That’s approximately 314 trillion more digits than is necessary to calculate the circumference of the observable universe to within a Planck length.

(The actual number is 62.)

The contrast of their deaths has always stood out to me: She died of radiation-induced aplastic anemia. He was run over by a horse cart.

Top left somewhat resembles a real life technique called half-swording.

Yeah I have a dal recipe that calls for “whole dry red chili”, “green chili”, and “red pepper”.

I do my best to interpret this (usually arboles, poblanos, and cayenne, respectively) and I like the result, but I do sometimes wonder what the author intended.

Like many crappy things these days, the name and some of the concept were stolen from good sci-fi. Snow Crash, in this case, in which it was as if the entire Internet was VR.

Which, the Web barely existed when that book was written, so wild visions of what the Internet might turn out to be were to be expected. And something like it remains a common cyberpunk trope to this day.

That said, I disagree with the other poster that it will ever happen, let alone is inevitable.

Hmm. At some point werewolf media updated from silvered blades to silver bullets. Buffy used a crossbow, but what about wooden bullets?

Might need a sabot or some kind of jacketing to protect from combustion, but could it work?

I’ve been taking green DayQuil for a cold, and now I find out there’s also red NyQuil? What the hell is going on at the Vicks branding department?

Only some of what he’s talking about is even remotely in the game, and I don’t think any of it is in the first 1.6 hours.

Also, he got it for free, so who cares about the refund window?

Those don’t seem to address the little girl. Kaguya grows quickly but is nevertheless apparently an adult by the time she goes to the moon. And the moon rabbit just loops back to Chang 'e.

Wait, I thought Chang’e was an adult woman. Is there a different moon-rabbit-lady story I don’t know about?

It seems possible that there might also be finite closed rings of memes that all make fun of another. In this case there would be no normiest meme, and dankness would not be well-ordered.

Reminds me of the twins from Kingmaker.

Ceci n’est pas une bière.

Fun fact: “nuclear” ultimately comes from the Latin nucula, ‘little nut’. The c and l being adjacent is the result of metathesis, similar to pronouncing “ask” as “ax”.

…in service of his fantasy epic.

This is wrong. The the histories, cultures, etc. were in service of the conlangs. Sure, he eventually wrote some stories set in that world, but that wasn’t the reason he created it.