“I was just helping him pray the gay away!”

For that price, you’d at least expect a slide-out QWERTY keyboard under the game pads so you can do some BASIC programming when you get bored of Chucky Egg.

Are these the FPGA ones or just specially branded ARM Linux retro-gaming handhelds?

Yikes!

Looks like someone got ChatGPT to summarise some Wikipedia pages and pad the result out

Are humanoid robots ever the most effective form factor for any task, or is it just a case of them being seen as futuristic because that’s what they had in sci-fi films?

That should have had an “if it survives long enough”; most weird cults/sects don’t.

Russia’s alliance with Iran would make this somewhat awkward.

Do all Americans have a good sense of how much a baby elephant weighs? My impression is just a vague “it’s heavy, though less so than an adult elephant, which is really heavy”

“Trump is not a cunt. He doesn’t have the warmth or the depth” - a sign at a protest

Give it a few more generations, and it’ll look like Mormonism (originally an obviously scammy personality cult with a problematic founder, but now a respectable pillar of conservative society). Another century or two and it’ll be like Lutheranism or Episcopalianism: so much part of the background that people don’t even notice the weird stuff in its doctrines.

You got a bit of Giger in your Lovecraft

There was a guy who’s army nickname was Thrombo, because he was a slow-moving clot.

“bringing you the hottest hits from the 80s, 90s and beyond…”

he presumably has a plane to Moscow fuelled and waiting on the tarmac for when the charges drop

America can still lead in homeopathy and mystical healing. We’ll show those godless commies!

Man with stereotypical Italian name has close relative also with stereotypical Italian name

Now that’s a shoggoth.

Woodchippers and black bin bags are next

You love to hear it.