I started reading this aloud in an old-timey american transatlantic radio accent and couldn't help but laugh

Hercule Poirot is in the public domain. There's no reason not to have a movie every year starring Paul F Tompkins.

first as in....?

what if Narcissus, but make it digital

At this point I think they are actuwlly stupid, and buoyed only by connections.

Even if you are lawful evil and beholden to corporations, this just tactically seems moronic from them.

run on sentences are my biggest vice as a writer.

I will write a full paragraph before realizing I haven't used a single period.

my favorite witch hat atelier villain

my feelings on the ending of chainsaw man, are kinda the same as my feelings on the end of yu yu hakusho.

fair enough

I think those are resonating pretty well--among people who buy comics, for sure, but don't most popular series manga volumes sell multiple orders of magnitude more than the average popular run in TPB/single issue form?

There's so manu blockers beyond that as well

look at how fucking nutty the comics pull lists & distribution system is.

Unfortunately, both of the big two have such an entrenched Old Guard, I really think that any amount of a comic resonating with a whole generation is unlikely, only possible via luck.

esquire decided to interview an AI homunculus of a one piece star instead of the real guy. this might be my breaking point

screenshots that prove: just because you read books, it doesn't mean you have a high level of literacy

Jan 2025: Third Way article telling Democrats they must "reject the pledges"

March 2026: Third Way document demanding that Democrats reject Hasan Piker

Third Way, January 2025: No more litmus tests! Democrats must "reject the pledges!"

Third Way, March 2026: Here's a litmus test!

Unfortunately I think it will be very difficult to find local folks to play with, but I'm pumped to obsess over the setting and worldbuilding in here

already backed, hell yeah

Realis A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!

55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

hey, I don't know you at all but it sounds like you are going through it

I'm sorry that you are, I hope tomorrow is better for you

Culture Crave sucks:

aftermath.site/culture-crave-...

It continues to be the funniest thing in the world that the Bluesky team made good functional user-friendly social media that isn’t riddled with ads and Nazis and they fucking hate it. They hate the site, they hate the users, they would all rather be doing literally anything else than this

good video, interesting stuff!

I think there should be a place for the type of decks Bracket 1 intends to promote,

but it does feel currently like a ancillary portion of the bracket system,

my broader thoughts on improving it bleed into structural improvements for the broader system

Details on the death of OpenAI's Sora:

• Video generator was losing ~$1M per day

• Disney execs found out about the shutdown less than an hour before it was announced

• Disney is now in talks with over a dozen companies to implement AI

• The Sora team is shifting focus to things like robotics

if I recall correctly that singer also does a talk show or podcast where they are in character & costume as a goblin

exactly this

I see what you are going for here, but Oda, uhhhhh. has some problems

people that still love Harry Potter are fucking MARKS and losers

i say this as someone who did Harry Potter themed improv over a decade ago

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

I'll say this

I Do think Chainsaw Man has a better ending than Hunter x Hunter