for some reason, that really resonates with me a lot these days.

I think one of the things I like about the Night Lords is they're such a simple, effective parable; their primarch encouraged the use of cruelty and brutality as a force for justice, then was filled with despair when his legion was full of people who loved cruelty and brutality more than justice

"back in my day we skinned whole cities to scare people into not skinning each other, these newbloods are just a bunch of common murderers" is such a funny recurring theme in those books. I'm really enjoying them, ADB is great.

A headline reading "Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 400%"

Another update, lol

Bile is 100% the best example; there's a fair bit of this in the Night Lords trilogy too. Talos out there feeling superior to his fallen brothers who lose their minds and pray to chaos gods, as he systematically flenses an entire city live on the vox net.

They're poisoning their own personal control loop with propaganda, and because it's coming from "outside" them, it feels more real. Gazing longingly into their own approving reflection while their brain rots out of their skulls.

Oh I enjoyed both halves of this a lot, thank you for sharing! My wife and I also have a little collection of these from our travels, and each of them has some specific experience and emotion and memory associated with it. They're silly, but I cherish them.

I ugly laughed at this, excellent work

is he... resurrecting jeffrey epstein?

Oh this looks really cool, I like it! What kind of tools are you using for this? Big fan of the 2d sprite vibe in a 3d space, that seems like a really fun aesthetic

I can't imagine using one of those without, like, an overhead electric wire with a trolley pole connecting it, like some city busses have. I'd run over so many electrical cords.

When my dad first let me use the electric hedge trimmer he finished up the instructions with "and remember, I won't get mad if you cut the cord, but don't keep using a damaged cord, that's dangerous".

Took me about 15 minutes, lol.

I really like the cinderblocks tied to each set of boards to help hold them in place. He's so smart, that's definitely gonna make the difference against the weight of all the material behind the wall.

They are kinda like moose, members of the extremely rare "technically a prey animal, but good fuckin' luck with that" category

yeah every time I hear about some guy who feeds bears and attracts them to his alaskan homestead and acts in all ways like the future subject of a podcast that's going to have a lot of content warnings, I'm like "unwise, but i REALLY get it"

cracking up at "just a giant wet guinea pig" in the audio

these are really cute, but jesus the way they move is menacing, you can tell how much mass they're casually throwing around.

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This really resonated with me, thank you for sharing. I work with computers, and I shared it with my team.

every single cricket on that website roasting him in the replies

The only humane thing: set them up with a podcast.

UDFA who went to Buffalo to try out, according to the article Wired links to. So a lot closer to the latter than the former, I think.

No shame in not making it as an NFL RB, that's the most common outcome! But most of them just get an MBA or something instead of making it everyone else's problem.

This mfer said "looming in"

Zooming in 🫠

I know the Star Wars universe has writers who could absolutely hit this kind of thing out of the park in any format.

Different setting but the Warhammer Crime novels do this with 40k and they're widely beloved! Looming in from space opera to procedural drama with chainswords or lightsabers is a completely different experience of the setting. I really hope they do this, it could be really good!

Oops I've just reinvented Gregor Eisenhorn from first principles again.

A good Jedi detective would have a lot of advantages, but "columbo with a lightsaber" is probably a pretty fair description.

A show where the s1 protagonist leans more and more into violence and coercion and ends up as the s2 antagonist would be interesting

I vaguely recall that actively forcing their way into minds to rip out memories from a resisting target is very hard to do, very rough on the subject, and extremely dark side coded.

Iirc, Jedi are typically portrayed as being able to read surface emotions and intent, but not so much thoughts or memories. And even that limited sense seems to work best on unprepared targets who aren't paying much attention (same as mind tricks), or who are active participants in the endeavor.

Hey, this is nice work!