some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

I've been trying to finish my horror novel for five years! It's hard to find the time. But it's my story, it's the thing I want to make in the way I want to make it. It's actually mine. Even if it sucks it will have been worth it to make the thing I wanted manifest.

Hugo eligibility post! “The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.

congragulations

Might as well put astronaut on there too at that point. Also far from the point, but if I'm hiring someone with the CV of an N. K. Jemisin I'd offer a little more dosh

I just thought everyone should see this

it's the big day

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

If y'all ain't watching this as it comes out you're missing out, a documentary about the pioneers of the telegraph wire and also about Home Improvement. I don't know what more you could want

I heard there was a secret meat With paprika, and spicy heat But you don't really care for sausage Nduja ...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.

i stand by this statement every year

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Jimmy Fallon: so this new product is called a shit sandwich? is it good? Guest: Yes, Jimmy. It's great. Jimmy Fallon: [taking out a photo of a shit sandwich pasted onto a black piece of poster board and showing it to the camera] wow. would you take a look at that?

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

this is also another great onion newspaper ad

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Brandy you're a fine girl What a good wife you would be But my life my love and my lady Is the See

Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time

Just a banger profile, devoured this one hunched over my phone like it was about an old friend

Read 'Matthew Flinders' Cat' at an age way too close to that of the child in it, who gets caught up in a trafficking ring. My poor fam just knew I liked big books and handed it to me at random

Thanks to @brianschirmer.bsky.social for spotting this one: a proper #WarHammer style relic!

Much of the hand wringing, imo, is over a critic explicitly saying they are judging the moral fabric of a piece of art because of the tools used to create it and it’s making some folks feel uncomfortable and shamed. The people who feel that way should sit with that feeling.

fellas is it (Ethical) to use chatgpt (i'm losing my mind, as if putting 'ethical' in parenthesis makes it... fact??)

Yeah :D

Watching some videos on old paleoart and a familiar name showed up: John Sibbick. I didn't realise that the guy I knew best from illustrating the cover of Rogue Trader was also a massively influential artist of prehistoric animals. That is a fact that makes me smile.

waiter (cocking gun): we do things a little differently here

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

We gotta do a nationwide inquest into antisocial behavior. Leaving your dog's poop on the street. Not returning shopping carts. The What's Wrong With You initiative

hideo kojima ass bread

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

The recipe for a good social media app isn't hard if you understand that people simply yearn to read and write sentences without angry guys yelling slurs at them

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Corridor and it's not even close (coridoor). Why both be part of my house and share the same sound but spell it differently?

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

I'm listening to Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? again. I'm sure it's fine.