Comment and Link Roundup: October 29, 2019

[brin_bellway]

Comments on my own posts:

Comment and Link Roundup: October 14, 2019 [three comments]

Delayed reactionblogging: 'A Confusion of Princes,' by Garth Nix [two comments, not counting the edit notice]

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food] (Note: this post is subject to a formatting glitch. The last post is still last, but all *other* posts in the thread are in reversed order.) [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by star-anise; second response is to misskillamarmalade) No Name's graphic design is very itself. (I mean this as a compliment.) [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by wolffyluna) Incompetent redirects to country-specific websites. [two comments]

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Paradoxical lullaby effects.

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Links:

[Tumblr; Wayback] (by carry-on-my-wayward-butt; h/t itsmaledict (Halloween alt of itsbenedict)) Ex nihilo fandom memes.

[WordPress; Wayback] (by Siggy) The 2019 Ace Community Survey is now open!

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Harvard; Wayback] (by James Mickens) Hey, remember "The Night Watch"? Turns out the guy's written some other hilarious stuff too, such as this:

Yes, I am aware of the “use a vivid image” technique, and if I lived in a sensory deprivation tank and I had never used the Internet, I could easily remember a password phrase like “Gigantic Martian Insect Party.” Unfortunately, I *have* used the Internet, and this means that I have seen, heard, and occasionally paid money for every thing that could ever be imagined. I have seen a video called “Gigantic Martian Insect Party,” and I have seen another video called “Gigantic Martian Insect Party 2: Don’t Tell Mom,” and I hated both videos, but this did not stop me from directing the sequel “Gigantic Martian Insect Party Into Darkness.” Thus, it is extremely difficult for me to generate a memorable image that can distinguish itself from the seething ocean of absurdities that I store as a result of consuming 31 hours of media in each 24-hour period.

[cw: food, alcohol] [McSweeneys; Wayback] (by Ross Bullen; h/t Matt Levine)

Brandon (age 4) is currently on a five-meal streak of throwing away any piece of food that does not bear a sufficiently strong resemblance to Olaf from Frozen.