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Saturday, June 17, 2023

fiction (or not)

 My game totally crashed, resetting my video card.
Or maybe it was "My video card crashed, resetting itself and corrupting my game"

Both are true.

And if I started talking conversationally about near-constant nosebleeds (during boring parts of games you need to replay because of the corruption)

uh, ...Oh! 

Blood-cancer.

Not that nosebleeds cause cancer, it's the other way around (cancer can cause nosebleeds)

But how did I (fictionally) know that?

And reading (for thrills):
Loss of smell?
Cancer!
Stuffed up one side of nose?
Blood cancer!
Relative died (who couldn't smell well) uh oh, Cancer!!!

Well, shit, it's something to look forward to.

Rooting around your internal organs, they might notice a cancer they never would have noticed before (Because it's too expensive for them to look)

And they'll tell the story of your imminent death.
Meantime (before you die) they can treat the shit out of you with chemicals and gigantic ray-machines, beeecause it helps them become richer.

Today's ROTD: "Apollyon" as in "who &^%$ is 'Apollyon' "

 

Note: Abaddon and Apollyon aren't Bros, they're the same guy. 
Or are video games looking for fresh new ways to name really bad guys?

This train of thought was brought to you literally by a random stray thought, although it's prolly in my game (it's a subway station) somewhere.
I was awakened by a loud chihuahua....just waking up, browsing news.
And IN the news,
They go on about Juneteenth and a shooting.
I really doubt the shooting had jack to do with the holiday, but moving on,
a clay tablet was returned to Iraq. 
What's it say???!!!
We might (the references might) be talking about two way-different tablets, both "stolen" from Iraq, both returned eventually.
Ahh, you go read it.
I still think they should say what it says.
Some king's name is on one tablet, and another has a poem (I think)

cuneiform (I wasn't paying attention in school that day)

hieroglyphics vs cuneiform (They like to bring this up to fill a dry dusty hour in school) But they don't really show examples.
Although someone somewhere will point out the "Rosetta stone," yada blah whatever.
If you could *read* Cuneiform, or know enough about how to write phrases, you  
could make a small (tiny) fortune selling teeny  tablets with cute phrases in cuneiform that translate out to "Flush after Using," "For a good time call (iv v ix)VVV-VIIVIIIII"
"Gore in 04 (AD)"
Hecho en Pompeii (all rights reserved)

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