TERRIFYING THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE UNFAIR FLIPS SPEEDRUNNING COMMUNITY

If people fancy seeing the sort of fantasy stuff I'm doing for Warhammer, my novella "On the Shoulders of Giants" has its paperback preorder starting next Saturday. If you don't know Warhammer, you don't particularly need to. Just the story of a man with a gun who lives on top of an ogre.

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

Amazing

Not mad busy so I’m going to do some detailed pencil sketches. First one! JOhn Constantine!

in a way aren't we all holding a barrel in the darkness

aria #counterweight

Just remembered this old Nier: Automata fan art I did

Где я в плане импульсных покупок: вчера было плохое настроение и для поднятия я купил пожизненную подписку на Icon Pack Studio, программу для замены стиля иконок на Андроиде.

Почему эта школьница-блондинка разговаривает голосом рыжей женщины, которая выкуривает по пять пачек сигарет в день?

A good way to win the Nobel Peace Prize is by making threats

Okay this is a good headline

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

"English degrees are useless" says man who needs ai to write an email

POV: You're sobering up, and your old pal Usagi is there to take care of you.

Judge Dredd is perfect comics.

Oh my god, that audio of Patrick’s daughter playing Fortnite for the first time thanks to KDH - precious as hell.

I've had quote "Owning a printer is curse" (by Aftermath's Riley MacLeod) hanging over my desk for some time.

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

men used to get unrealistic expectations from porn and women used to get them from romance books. now everyone gets them from playing immersive 100 hour videogames where an elf with a shadowy past comes to know love again through your shared adventure and offers up their glistening elf body to you

WOW....👀👀👀

I cannot comprehend the sheer level of horror that would be millions of weird people sending me ai slop of my dead loved ones.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

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Такое ощущение, что Кохост был единственной централизированной соцсетью, которая не принадлежала глубоко презираемым людям. (Я люблю Тумблр, это бастион... чего-то для моей души, но он принадлежит Вордпрессу, чей СЕО довольно драматично сошел с ума в этом году.)

A line has been found: brigading off site is acceptable, hurting the CEOs feelings is not.

She hath risen.

Со смешаными чувствами обнаруживаю, что оцениваю Play Dirty именно как адаптацию "Паркера". Марки Мврк - довольно неплохо подходит для Паркера, а вот Шейн Блэк - не очень. Как раз эти книги Уэстлейка don't do hijinks, и почему-то оно нависает над фильмом для меня.

i love him. he is so aware of the genre he is in.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

The exact tenor of knowing people are going to mistreat you if you do the thing you think everyone should be doing, and choosing to do it because you know that, if they do, that mistreatment will be Wrong; autistic self-awareness in the face of moral opposition. A sort of fuck-it hopeful fatalism

Самое фантастическое в новой "Фантастической четверке" - что Джонни Шторма играет незаконный клон Фредди Принца-младшего.

These 'Sausage Inspectors' look remarkably similar to the 'Bacon Inspectors' that turned up yesterday.

The end of history is real but it’s localized entirely in the doctor who fandom, where it is eternally 2008

WHY DID THEY GENTRIFY THE AUDACITY LOGO

Kicktober #3: Cynthia Rothrock

Еще Брэм Стокер думает, что изобрел форшадовинг: в конце сентября - начале октября мужчины так часто говорят "Хорошо, что Мина больше не участвует в нашей охоте на Дракулу, она в полной безопасности", что я прямо вижу, как граф стоит за окном и клыкасто ухмыляется в камеру.

it’s never a good sign when a software developer starts talking about human nature

Поверить не могу, что в результате службы в армии у меня есть Мнения про Эксель.

Мое фетиш-аниме началось.