LAST EDITED ON Sep-25-20 AT 09:02 PM (EDT)
 
>Suffice to say, a Pizza Pie is the kind of pizza where you have no
>choice but to eat it like a pie - with a knife and fork.

Huh, wow, you just reminded me of something I haven't thought about in decades. Way back when, like when I was in high school, Pizza Hut did a thing called the Priazzo, which was basically a pizza with another pizza on top of it. Like literally a pie made from pizzas. I really liked it, but evidently it didn't catch on or was too much of a pain in the ass to make or something, because it disappeared within a few years and as far as I know has never been seen since. I had to look up what it was called, and amusingly, the search terms that got me there were "pizza hut double pizza thing from the 80s". :)

>Eh. I know I'm probably preaching to the choir here, but the Bechdel
>Test is an overrated thing, and anyone that believes in it
>wholeheartedly needs to be pointed towards a porno flick that happens
>to technically pass the Bechdel Test.
>
>Besides, these sorts of people are pretty toxic in general, though,
>and not the sort to hang around here.

Well, I'm not exactly a zealot, but I see the point that the thing's originators were (presumably?) trying to make, namely that no one type of character should have nothing to discuss but some other, often more privileged, type of character. I like to think most of my characters have well-enough-realized lives that they don't fall down that hole anyway, but it's not completely without value as a thing to be mindful of—particularly since OWaW in general is in one sense the story of a male interloper in a canonically virtually-all-female world anyway. Mind you, he interlopes largely by more or less being viewed as just one of the girls, but still. :)

>The funny thing is that tarot decks, much like dice for some hard-core
>DND and other table-top gamers, seem to have their own personalities
>where the same two cards for different decks can have wildly different
>interpretations.

I've always kind of assumed that, like pretty much all classical fortune-telling tools, they mean whatever the person using them can convince everybody else in the room they mean.

>Oh man, these can be so much fun if you work at it. In one of my
>current projects, I'm having it that a Macross-class SDF has the
>following motto: "Ecce et flebitis"

That goes nicely with NOLITE ACCIPERE VLLOS LIGNEOS SESTERTIOS. :)

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