An incredibly long, remarkably detailed breakdown (with an emphasis on the financials of it all) of why "AI" is a scam, why it's not useful, why it won't deliver on the supposed reasons for its hype, and why it will inevitably collapse.

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.

Reminder from the last time this "announcement" was made, five months ago.

The last time he announced this exact same uh "policy" it disappeared immediately because there's no real way to do this

One reason I do not think Trump is going to create a 1,000 year reich is because he failed to cancel a middling funnyman and immediately pivoted to trying to outlaw not having a headache.

Sept 22nd 2004 - Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, carrying 324 passengers, deviated from its original course and disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. 📺📆 Lost (2004) #Lost

Working out and getting in shape is actually really simple.

No, left-wing cancel culture isn't/wasn't remotely as bad as what's happening now. No, it didn't cause it, or rather was at most one indirect factor. (Modeling of behavior, promotion of illiberalism arms race). What it did do was stop liberal-left having an otherwise available moral high ground.

I didn't win but I got to be annoying for a while.

Leave it to finance bros to offer the shittiest advice.

Soundtrack for walking around Los Angeles: BARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARK Hi, you are being recorded BARKBARKBARK

The plan: Get in shape, THEN buy clothes that fight right.

My favorite part of playing Vivi Cauldron is when I pause for a few seconds to think about what order I want to do stuff in and my opponent just concedes.

KICK THE ROBOTS' ASSES, ZASLAV!

So it’s like Hitman but when you get spotted it turns into Uncharted. Kickass. Can’t wait.

Clone Wars cartoon drinking game: Take a drink every time Seth Green or Jennifer Hale shows up.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

This is all snake oil from the same people who wanted to “put movies on the blockchain” a few years ago. Nothing but meaningless marketing speak because they don’t have a product that non-stupid people want to buy. Now if only the production of the snake oil didn’t involve STEALING EVERYTHING.

fuck this noise

Using AI as a writer is like not learning how to cook because you have Doordash. "Everything I could ever want is right here on my phone!" But cooking yourself means making it exactly how you like it, when you want it, and it doesn't show up luke warm. Doordash has its place, but it ain't the same.

I’m not sure what the fuck a Cracker Barrel is.

Control decks would be a lot less aggravating to play against if their players didn’t take EIGHT FUCKING YEARS to decide whether or not to respond to every single action I take.

Me: “Hi, Windows, I’d like to select this text I’m dragging my cursor over.” Windows: “Get fucked.”

Well, you could use AI .... ... or, after a billion years of this industry existing, you could reduce the scope, improve project management, remove unnecessary bloat, stop the graphics arms race, and instead keep making games people enjoy and respect the artists making them.

People throw the term “underrated” around a lot, but this one truly is underrated. Now replaying DRAGON AGE II.

Now seated for the new Spike Lee joint.

It rules how 2016 made it so everyone forgot that this is what "fake news" used to mean and now we don't have a universally intelligible term for it anymore

Standard is a healthy format with many diverse decks being played.

“Settle down now, don’t be too mean to the people who are destroying the world!” -dipshits on the Internet

Sometimes I miss the 5 or so people I would chat with on the Twitter. Thing is, I don’t miss everything else.

Someone on Reddit just called me a homophobe for not liking “AI art”. It’s tough having a brain on the internet.

... Please, I'm begging y'all, don't use the term "lost media" to describe anything that's not on a streaming service. It's a term with a distinct meaning and usage. When something was released on DVD, and is readily available in The Usual Locations (TM), it's the exact opposite of "lost."

Maybe if I stare at Reddit for a while, this email will write itself.

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.

A thing about the stuff called “AI art” is that it being ugly, it not being art, and it being immoral are all independent of one another. It’s just awful in multiple separate ways.

Steve Jobs: Here's a thing People: We like the thing Sam Altman: Here's a terrible thing that can't remember how many fingers you have but if we make it a lot bigger somehow maybe we will magic it into curing cancer People: If you do not revere the coming thing, we will kick you.

“AI will help with pointless interactions like item descriptions and NPC barks” if it’s pointless it shouldn’t be in the game. If there’s nothing interesting about something, cut it

I’m getting the good YouTube ads.

Screenwriter. (I have a new spec if anyone’s interested)

15. "Satire is about punching up, not down!" No it isn't. Satire exists in both modes and always has. Yes it has. No, you're wrong. You don't know what you're talking about. It doesn't matter what you would prefer.

An informal study of other people’s TVs has shown that I am the only person in the world with functioning ears.

“Sugar cookies.” A redundant name. The hell kind of cookies don’t have sugar in them?

FANTASTIC FOUR. The fifth one of these and also the first, apparently. Remember how good superhero flicks could be when they weren’t all connected? This movie remembers. Fun times.

Listening to a Mark Rosewater podcast from 2022 and it’s very funny that this ended up actually happening.

…So are you trying to get rid of them?

“K-Pop Demon Hunters” sounds like someone mixed up the “title” and “what is your script about” fields on a script submission form.

The founder of the bad guy tech company in Deathloop being named Alexis Dorsey is a rather funny bit.

This is where I post from.