What, were they really proud of their children's penises or something? I mean, I'd be more proud of the successful filmmakers thing.

I hope so!

But I'd argue it's still very possible! For me the biggest draw was always the way he tapped into the primal fear of the unknown on a cosmic scale. For everybody there is a point at which something becomes utterly unfathomable. For Lovecraft this apparently included other kinds of humans, but this wasn't as much of a…

What would a cyclopian hamburger look like? Just really haphazardly-stacked and ancient?

OK, so what actions do I have at my disposal when the problem is congress being unreasonable? Do I write letters to congresspeople, or find and vote for better representatives, or…?

It's complicated! I'm glad he existed, and all the nasty things about him are a part of who he was as a writer, but I'm most thankful that he made all his ideas open source so anyone could make stories about them. Then the xenophobia can stick to being about literal aliens.

I'm starting to think the trick to solving a good chunk of social injustices lies in acquiring a sort of laser-guided disinterest. Knowing exactly when something is worth your attention and not bothering to think about the rest.

Everyone in this thread has given interesting insight to the problems the government has and how it should be run. But something I rarely see in these discussions is how to enact that change. What do we do now? This kind of thing gets disheartening for me and I just want something to do about it.

I wanted to see their fusion dance!

Oh man, that just reminded me I still haven't seen Jupiter Ascending. All my friends said it was amazing. I believe the words they used were, "imagine a movie starring every stupid OC somebody posted to deviantART in high school." and they had the most excited expressions when they explained this.

Ooh, "Wachowski Sisters" sounds less awkward than "siblings." It's cool they can support each other like that.

Yeah, Lovecraft is one of those people who, although his imagination was incredible, his ideas are really best left in the hands of more-capable and less-racist writers.

I've made a tradition of always choosing whatever starter is most like a turtle. This made more sense when the only two games I'd played were Pearl and FireRed. As a result, I have never gotten a fire starter. I wonder what they're like…

Omanyte is so cool though! It's an ancient cephalopod spelled wrong!

Haha!

What if he simply used Twitter as a joke archive for all the jokes he'd already used live?

Oh man, that actually sounds pretty neat.

Bill was a foreign entity in Stan's mind; he couldn't survive its destruction. But the memories themselves could grow back, with time. Like a forest fire killing an animal but some of the trees regrowing afterward! [citation needed]

I'd assumed the way the machine worked was you designate a keyword, and then whatever memories are triggered in a person when they think of that keyword are erased. So according to that, it could work.

Hey, that was the top comment!