Is there a good sort of middle ground distro between the reliability of Debian and the up-to-date packages of arch?

This guy:

(OpenSUSE Tumbleweed).
Or maybe Slowroll.

Is it pronounced like that Super Troopers Porsche song?

#8 rocking the “dish on your head” look like the Elintseeker Valkyrie from Macross.

Ah yes!
Cleric Maria Rainer of the Tetragrammaton.

“Multiocular O,” eh?

I know a Half-Life Houndeye when I see one.