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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

      "the united states has fought and won thee nuclear wars" is a setting detail so ominous and horrifying i lifted it for a setting that i never actually did anything with

      1 reply 1 retweet 16 likes
    2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

      as in, sure the states "won" the wars, but also california and also half the rest of the world is a radioactive desert now and things are basically fucked forever the apocalypse came and went and we're still sorta staggering on

      2 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
    3. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

      there are refugees from a dozen wars everywhere, occasionally radioactive dust storms blow in, the state monopoly on violence is on the edge of breaking down, florida is underwater but things sorta just keep on going, as if this is--ordinary. people can get used to a lot.

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

      The Onion Future News was one of my favorite treatments of this concepthttps://youtu.be/iKC21wDarBo 

      2 replies 2 retweets 8 likes
    5. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

      god the language is so good

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

      "I love you" "I love you too"

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    7. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

      le guin teaches that the greatness of sff is its ability to show us ourselves in a new light to see--for instance--the arbitrariness, the strangeness of the various rote phrases and catechisms that make up the theater of broadcast news

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

      Yeah the idea is the language has evolved so that both intimate language like "I love you" and coarse language like "total fucking" have now just become bland broadcaster phrases

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and

      "Frustrage" is an amazing idea for a word and I'm gonna steal it

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    10. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

      the way it's all just slipped in there, like her closing a segment by deadpanning "this news is quenched" i can't get over it

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Aug 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

      The sheer density of the worldbuilding is itself part of the worldbuilding, the information overload everyone in this world just lives with

      5:45 PM - 8 Aug 2020
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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 8 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

          the way the fucking beetles segment just keeps on going long past the initial shock of the joke and then it feels stale and finally it just ascends into this hyperreal wonderhorrorland

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 8 Aug 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @HWokescold @Nymphomachy

          Like the structure of a typical Onion article (mimicking the inverted pyramid principle from real journalism) they go backwards from typical comedy principles of "escalation" We start with the most shocking joke that leaves no doubt about the kind of world this is, the Omega-12

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
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