#popplers

[texasthrillbilly]

[irlfuturama]

20oz Fishy Joe's tumbler with plastic straw available on Etsy!

[ask-ghostly-fifteen]

I don’t care if the snack is an external fetus. It’s the same thing as eating eggs. Especially in a world where every animal is anthropomorphic.

[dontbemeanmrbubz]

Hold on, an ORANGUTAN named LEELA???

Is this a threat?

[capt-t-leela]

[thesoftboiledegg]

The promotion around "That's Amorte" keeps implying that the spaghetti is made from something like ground-up aliens. I hope there's more to it because Futurama already did that with the popplers.

[deskmanic]

Does anyone else feel like they made Hulu-era Leela really dumb?

[basicmom]

Futurama popplers episode

[daemonhxckergrrl]

recently discovered the poppler utils :3 very comfy very easy and very scriptable (though i wish pdfseparate let you specify page amounts to separate into..but it's easy enough to separate by page up to a stop point and unite which bits you want)

guess i should make some scripts to easily do certain pdf tasks :3 fuck having to use those sketchy web utilities

[violentdevotion]

alhamdulillah i would survive sooo many sitcom plotlines purely because the inciting incident wasn't halal and i wasn't involved

[chaifootsteps]

Got any favorite fictional food(s) you lowkey wish to eat irl someday?

The stew from Wind in the Willows that contains nine animals.

Butterbeer

Flanders' hot chocolate

The biscuit-cookie things from Scamper the Penguin. They're infamous for making the ten people who've actually seen this movie crave Nilla wafers.

Skyrim sweet rolls

The ratatouille from Ratatouille.

Creme de la Creme a la Edgar, sans the dangerous amount of sleeping pills.

The marmalade roll from Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The pizza from All Dogs go to Heaven

The slime-fed wild boar from Das Bus.

Popplers

Green eggs and ham. I've always imagined it tasted like eggs + ham infused with the way freshly cut grass smells.

Anything from Redwall, mostly to test my theory that it's not actually that good.

The leg cooked in clay from Hannibal

The Pale Man's grapes

The cake from Death Note

The burgers from Bob's Burgers

The ultimate sandwich from Adventure Time

Anything from any Ghibli movie.

There are probably a lot more. I love food, fictional or otherwise.

[nowhereelsetopost]

Food from TV and movies that I really want to eat!!!!! Part 4 (Part 1) - Crudités from Futurama - Popplers from Futurama - Donut from The Simpsons - Cheese from Tom & Jerry - Spaghetti from IASIP - Lemon Cakes from Game Of Thrones - Iced Buns from Brave - Pancakes from Matilda - Bean Bun from Spirited Away - Sushi from Madagascar

[thesoftboiledegg]

I wasn't sure what to make of "That's Amorte" before it aired. When signs pointed toward "the spaghetti comes from aliens," I wondered if we had a rehash of Futurama's "The Problem with Poppers," where the crew finds a delicious treat on a planet only to learn that the "popplers" are underdeveloped alien offspring.

Rick and Morty's take on Soylent Green also seemed likely. Everyone knows the twist: Soylent Green is people! A dark sci-fi concept like that could be a ripe parody for this series.

However, "That's Amorte" adapted a concept that other shows have referenced a thousand times and took a right turn. No one's angry at the humans for eating their suicide victims: in fact, they love the spaghetti and turn it into a corporate product.

This is an obvious shot at capitalism and how companies will destroy the environment, brutally slaughter animals and turn cities into concrete wastelands just to make a buck. And I mean--chowing down on this spaghetti isn't that different from eating meat. I'm an omnivore, but I kept thinking that at least these pasta producers chose to die.

The suicide element gave this episode a poignant touch instead of turning it into an edgelord slog where the humanoids kill people and throw them in a meat grinder. Admittedly, the clones leaned in that direction, and that scene also shows how Rick struggles to understand the world outside himself. He doesn't react when the clones kill each other, but one of his daughters is a clone, and he'd be horrified if anything happened to her.

On its own, "That's Amorte" is a great episode. However, when you take the whole series into account, the plot retreads the same old Morty narrative: Morty tries to do the right thing, it backfires, Rick dodges responsibility while antagonizing Morty to be petty, Rick gets stuck fixing everything and Morty tries to pretend it never happened.

I keep waiting for something good to happen to Morty. Rick has plenty of episodes where he makes positive changes: going to therapy ("Analyze Piss," "Air Force Wong"), improving his relationship with Jerry ("Final DeSmithation," "The Jerrick Trap"), trying to do right by Beth ("Bethic Twinstinct"), being kinder to Morty ("Full Meta Jackrick"), etc.

Season five doesn't emphasize his character development as much, but plenty of scenes show how much he's changing. Even season four has moments where he's gentler.

Rick's being his petty season-two self in "That's Amorte," but even here, he does the right thing by showing the world exactly what--and who--they're eating. In earlier seasons, he would've done that just to be an asshole. Here, I don't think that he was trying to torment people as much as he just knew that this spaghetti shitshow had to end.

Same with the spaghetti itself. He didn't feed it to the Smiths, then show them the dead body just to torture them. I think he genuinely wanted to share the spaghetti because it was delicious, but he also figured that they don't want to know where it comes from.

On a similar note, I enjoyed Rick's moments of physical gentleness. Great animation detail.

So Rick gets a little character development and saves the day again, and Morty gets...nothing. Just a rehash of old storylines. "Mortynight Run" in particular has almost the same plot, beat-for-beat.

"That's Amorte" touched on Morty's depression and his family's coldness toward him but didn't go further than that. Morty keeps cycling through the same issues with no resolution. He blows up in one episode, then shuts down the next. His attempts to do the right thing go astray. When's this kid going to catch a break?

Again, this episode isn't bad. It's funny, original and well-written and has a lot to say about ethics and capitalism. Still, I don't understand why reviews on other sites keep emphasizing Morty's character development because I didn't see much.

I will say that everyone's horror at where the spaghetti comes from was a great takedown of the meat industry. Everyone loves sausage, but nobody wants to see how it's made!

Still, next time we get a Morty episode, I hope that it says more about him and less about the world outside his cartoon.

[itsjunetime]

I made some improvements to my little terminal pdf viewer, tdf (find it here!), and made it significantly faster. Specifically, I've made it much faster at rendering entire documents in the background (though the time that it takes to show the first page is only slightly improved, if at all; that still could probably take some work, though I'm not quite certain what would be the best move there). Peep the attached image for exactly how much faster (render_first_page is a benchmark that checks how much time it took to render the very first page, and render_full is how much time it takes to render the entire document. these are being compared against the performance before my recent changes).

It's been pretty interesting to work on this - specifically, I'm using c libraries (poppler & cairo, specifically) to render the PDFs, but that means that a lot of easy-to-use rust parallelism features aren't available to me, so I've had to read a bunch of c source code and try out different models of parallelism to get something that works reliably there while also improving performance noticeably and remaining safe (though I did have to use a bit of unsafe code to get there).

There have also been small improvements in other areas, such as preventing ratatui_image from doing image resizing, switching to flume for channels, disabling anti-aliasing in cairo's rendering, and a few more things.

If anyone would be interested in a full blog post on this, let me know! I think it would be interesting to write, but might not be very worth-it if nobody cares to read it lol.

[its-a-hare-pom-pom]

He’s a 10 but he doesn’t pop a Poppler in his mouth when he comes to Fishy Joe’s 🙄