I gotta say it: thank you for all the joy you bring to us all, Randy. May everything be kinder to you and your family.

The ending cutscene on Portal 2 legitimately made me tear up and still stays with me over a decade later. I won't spoil it, but be sure to also stay through the end credits.

...Furthermore, the finale has the most satisfying "Yippee-Kai-Yay, Motherfucker" moment I've ever had playing a video game.

"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of"

Where Your Eyes Don't Go
-They Might Be Giants

It's frustrating that I can't find a quality readymade GIF of John Lithgow's character from Dexter Season 4 delivering the infamous line "Shut up, cunt!"

To the person behind this account, you have lost the room. There is no win here. No point in telling people they have misjudged the original intent. You have moved into continuing-brand-damage mode. Just stop. Rethink. Reject hubris. Have an internal conversation and learn from this fiasco.

This is not my creation, but I've seldom >right-click>Save'd an image off Teh Internets so hard recently:

Every arm of the travel and convention industries should be LOUDLY opposing this, theme parks, hotels, airlines, cruises, convention centers.

Fucking insane.

I AM TRYING TO CONTAIN THE DAMAGE AND ALSO PAY MY RENT, OKAY?!!

Hi All! I'm a Designer specializing in Themed Entertainment Design.
Are you a Megalomaniac (better than all those petty, inferior ones) in need of a Folly in which to languor and preen, away from those who Simply Do Not Understand?
Let me facilitate that! Away from all those you would affect!
HMU

Just what I needed! Thank you for your prompt response!
I want to make an annual tradition of commissioning different artists to get their own personal visions of my character, "'Shackles' the Prisoner," so now I know where exactly to go before Halloween Spooky Season 2026.

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Thank you! I have the inclination to design a temporary tattoo based on this that makes it look like the mark of a branding iron as part of my character's makeup for next Haunt Season.
I'm also starting a tradition of commissioning artists to depict my character. When should I best inquire for this?

What would my ScareActor nickname be?

"Shackles"

"Lyin' Ass Bitch" by Fishbone

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You are welcome! You have a whole song about Interstate 5, so I figured this might resonate with any need for a bed of sound to motivate you on any journey.
Just be forewarned: certain tracks of this will convince you that no matter how underpowered one's car is, you can absolutely pass that truck.

Whatever my next car is going to be, I must have a CD player in it. I have too much investiture in mood-defining music for driving on physical media that I cannot rely on streaming services to reliably deliver.
BTW, Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for "Broken Arrow" is necessary for driving in the desert.

Both of the scripts for The Twilight Zone episodes "The Shelter" and "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street" were included in my early '80s Junior High School English textbooks for damn good reasons, and significant enough to where I wonder if there are any modern analogues for this.

#TwilightZone

On this note, bless the memory of Tom Lehrer and all that he was and did:

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OK, I never do this, MDL, but I'm literally at my breaking point:
I hope you and everyone on your staff and their families get cancer. I want them all to know how disposable they are with the rest of us without insulation. I am reliant on the ACA and you just pissed that away on a bad-faith promise.

When I crafted this doll as a gift for an appreciative fan, I realized after the fact that I was essentially recreating a scene from "The Comeback Kid" episode of the sitcom "Parks & Recreation," so I might as well be explicit about it.
"...Do you think a depressed person could make this? No."