A Message To The Artist, The Writer, And/or Whatever Sort Of Maker Of Things Happens To Scroll Across

A message to the artist, the writer, and/or whatever sort of maker of things happens to scroll across it,

Subnautica players standing on an extremely high point of land with nothing but open deep water and most likely giant monsters far below them:

Knowing from “The Trial” about how far back the history between these two goes makes this scene so much funnier to me

Another thing to love about “Tak, the Hideous New Girl” was

Every one of the core main characters playing an equally necessary and coordinated role in saving the Earth,

Zim leading Tak and Mimi away from the magma pump as a diversion,

allowing Dib (who would have been bodied had he tried to square with them head-on) to single handedly shut down the building before the planet was irreversibly cleaned out.

Meanwhile Gaz remains at the base in order to utilize GIR (who if left alone is not able to keep himself on task or come up with a smart way to help) as a way to remotely sabotage Tak,

Which allowed Zim (who was almost certainly going to lose that aerial fight otherwise, not up for debate) to deal the finishing blow and give Tak the boot.

If any one of them had stood by or failed in what part they decided to play, this entire thing would have been a bust, and Tak’s plan would have succeeded. It elevates the episode by involving the whole main character group successfully working together to accomplish something AND it demonstrates just how much of a threat Tak herself was that this was what was needed to take her down. Absolutely season finale worthy.

Less joking/elaborated answer- personally headcanon that Irken cuticle is naturally a very hostile environment for pathogens to exist on. There’s some room to potentially argue that they have a much more alkaline surface ph than we do, and their skin was already shown to possess anti-parasitic chemical properties. I don’t think they actually use water to clean themselves because I assume their self grooming habits are mostly about exfoliation. Their skin’s more durable than it looks and regenerates super quickly.

I DO like the dust bath idea, albeit knowing how dirt-free (and dirt repulsed) modern Irken society seems to be.

My original thought, however, cause of how I got so hung up on that “cleansing chalk” quote, was something literally like the body rock. Like, pumice stones.

Cause otherwise idk who the hell uses bar soap dry in this manner, or more importantly, why the original sound effects were scratchy and rough.

how does zim bathe himself if earth's water is too dangerously polluted for him does he just import space water or something does his protective paste slathering double as cleansing does he just go around stinking all over the place that would contradict my headcanon of zim having a unique and pleasant alien aroma

My favorite Kitty Horrorshow games but described boringly

- You walk around an old house listening to a recorded lecture about architecture.

- You play as a girl helping her elderly grandmother with the gardening chores.

- You take a stroll around a city block listening to small talk from your neighbors.

- you explore a few empty, greyscale buildings and read some archeologist notes until you come back to the start with nothing.

- A lonely woman just lost her family and needs a friend. You wander aimlessly through the woods with no objective until she invites you to come inside.

- You run a corrupted zip file with an unhelpful gibberish name and the game closes itself after a couple minutes of glitchy, indiscernible visuals