This particular Dark Lord has a nasty habit of not executing subordinates for failure. This is starting to become a problem for the heroes, as their foes are starting to learn what works and what doesn’t.
Scifi film festival with actual aliens and alien moving pictures.
We were afraid that the constant portrayals of us stopping alien invasions would piss off the aliens we just made contact with. Turns out the aliens went through a similar phase when they were on our level and they are eager to compare their portrayals of alien invasions to ours.
You have to be careful, certain words trigger the ambient ad-agents. You can’t say ‘pizza’ or you’ll get an ad for one floating in front of you. People make up new words, like “groundbeefsandwich” for hamburger. Companies buy these euphemisms, so people need to keep making up new ones.
The super villain shook with rage as they stared at the security footage. “He’s not even a real superhero with superpowers! He’s just some loser who’s really good at throwing knives at people without killing them!”
This is the first discussion of The Great library of Alexandria that hasn't made me feel anger and regret I am just confused but I like it
The Great Library of Alexandria was burned for a very good reason. It was hopelessly contaminated with the works of time travelers and the paradoxes were soon to be catastrophic. Only a full purge would save the world.
An AI was created to make paperclips. As the company profited it was granted more power. With time it took over the industry, gained humanity’s trusted, cured disease, made world peace, single handedly invented FTL travel, but it did all these things for one purpose: more paperclips!