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[–] AnalogyAddict 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Better than being a cookbook.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I dunno man. Have you read it? It’s pretty good. 😉

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Of course the human's pissed off... with a single eye the alien evidently lacks depth perception, and will miss the ball most of the time. It'll be a very boring game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

As a man with a very lazy eye who also lacks depth perception... y'know, that's probably part of why I was never that good at this kind of sport.

[–] moistclump 2 points 10 months ago

Yeh but they might have other means of locating space, direction, and speed. Echolocation maybe? Something photon, but not eye, related? An ability to watch from the fifth dimension?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seems more like it's playing on that.

The guy is excited to be served, as we would assume it's a Simpson reference and the alien is going to cook for them, instead they got served in sport, a meta subversion of our expectation of the joke.

[–] Karmanj 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it just a reference to the twilight zone ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Indeed it is.

Also TIL that it's originally a short story from 1950 that was later adapted for the Twilight Zone episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man

[–] Karmanj 1 points 10 months ago

I did not know that , everything's a copy of a copy.

[–] elephantium 3 points 10 months ago

Looking for love in all the wrong places