Bot’s broken.

One of my cats has a high voice and has learned to do perfect attention-seeking sad meows when she wants attention and is too lazy to find me, and sings a loud frantic song to motivate me as I prepare food.

The other one purrs with the depth and volume of a large diesel engine, but mostly only lets out her low raspy meow to complain, which could be anything from “open the window” to “why did you stop petting me for .5 seconds?”

If I were casting voices for them in some type of Homeward Bound-type movie, they’d be Mila Kunis and Jennifer Tilly respectively.

Trying to unstick my fingers when I’m done:

Gentlemen, this is democracy meownifest!

Can you teleport things with you? If so, use your ability to start a business importing items to Albania with nearly zero shipping costs, then invest in the local community until it’s a really nice city to teleport home to.

Yeah, no. Conscription is already a disgusting concept akin to slavery. Conscription to a private corporation dissolves even that minimal distinction.

Sweet potato. It’s what pumpkin wants to be.

This is a mental illness.

Yeah, I think a quasi-religious cult offshoot of the borg could be neat to explore.

Ghosts haven’t been sucked off yet.

ripping you off in Vegas, while wearing plaid suit.

“Truth is, the game was rigged from the start.”

I mean if you’re worried about it you can buy a ceramic one-hitter that looks close enough to a cigarette at 20 feet from any head shop for like $5.

The app I use, Podcast Addict, has given me some pretty decent recommendations from the ones I’ve subscribed to. I’ve also had some decent luck search for the keyword “anthology”.

I can give you a few more recommendations that are less tipped toward weird, as jumping off points:

• LeVar Burton Reads (Exactly what is says on the tin. Reading Rainbow for adults. Be prepared to hear Geordi say “fuck” once in a while.)
• Myths and Legends (Snarky narrator retelling classic mythology in an accessible modern tone)
• Fictional (Same guy as above, but for classic lit like Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula and Frankenstein)
• Short History Of… (Various bits of interesting history told in narrative form)

I used to listen to Nightvale quite a bit actually. Stopped some time shortly after the mayoral election storyline because IRL stuff meant I just wasn’t listening to as many podcasts at the time. I did like it, but it’s also one that I recall as best listened to in order, so it’s always been on the back burner to pick back up. Maybe I’ll give it another go during some long game sessions this winter.

I tend to go for story-telling podcasts, and within those I gravitate towards Twilight Zone-style weird anthologies. I don’t know how under-appreciated they are, but I rarely see the genre represented in discussions much.

Right now I’m finding a lot of great stuff in:

• The Other Stories (all kinds of stuff, they have a different theme every month or so)
• The Wrong Station (similar, but less likely to stick to a theme for a while)
• Gray Matter (lots of modern adaptations of older horror/sci-fi, like Lovecraft)
• The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings (higher ratio of dumb stuff, but still some gems)
• The Program (Black Mirror-esque)
• The Truth (various radio plays. Many aren’t sci-fi, but still weird in some way. Kind of reminds me of the bits of Inside No. 9 I’ve seen.)–

Someone didn’t watch James and the Giant Peach in their formative years and develop confusing feelings about Miss Spider.

Daaamn, Turkledawg!

The e is silent? Did Wakko Warner lie to me all those years ago?

Log in and look for the Settings gear in the lower right.

Click on it, then scroll down to Accessibility and click on Configure.

This window is pretty crowded, so use the search bar in the top right to look for Input Settings.

Click on that and look for text-to-speech, then open the drop-down, select your microphone,