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Characters in an old book just did the Mad Men thing where they have a picnic and then leave all their shit in the woods. I hope the vampires or bigfoots or whatever this book is about get them.

Geordi, no!! You want Chicago hardbop! You don't even know it, but thats what you need, Geordi!

"Conspiracy" is making me think about David McGowan's Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, where he tries to roll George Lucas into his goofy Laurel Canyon omni-conspiracy by way of Altamont

At least he can throw a punch

danish economy collapses as ozempic becomes unnecessary due to new american bike culture

donald john trump is going to have to go on the television and announce that nationwide alternate-day travel restrictions are in effect and it will be amazing

$250/barrel by next wednesday. $15/gallon, rationed gasoline. the total collapse of car culture and the suburban lifestyle. get ready to take the fuckin' bus folks

Guy who killed Scalia using the exact same pillow, trying to find a place to hide it in the White House afterward

Yeah, people gripe about achievements but they're an easy way to increase playtime in interactive fiction without the player having to guess whether they should "crank spigot" or "rotate valve" or "turn wheel counterclockwise"

one thing I like saying to my cats in admonishment is "you know the rules" when they very clearly do not know and will never know the rules

New sentence I have just spoken aloud to a cat: "Act like you've been here before."

I'd love to see a Batman series where they actually treat him like the "world's greatest detective" even if it means borrowing from, like, Poirot and adding fistfights. The closest we got was the Pattinson Batman where he was the world's most C- detective. (Which was admittedly funny.)

I sometimes wonder if this is because you can always say "we're creating a darker, more adult Batman" and that generates hype (for some reason) no matter what you actually do with him.

Sorry but Basil of Baker Street sounds like a Pixar short about a hard-rocking mouse who plays the world's smallest bass guitar for Gerry Rafferty

"omg did you see Rotta the Hutt? He's Jabba's son and he is going to fight the Mandalorian and Gr-"

You bolt awake in the hills of Burbank. It is 1976 AD. You are Marcia Lucas, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Star Wars must match George's original vision

Hey it’s #BandcampFriday the day we all plug our cool music projects because Bandcamp waives their cut and gives all money to the artist. I made an album and I’d love it you checked it out.

It actually kicks ass how much the people who run this site hate the people who use it. Just constant seething meltdowns over having to put up with a bunch of artists, furries, and trans people instead of crypto-hustlers and AI guys making Linkedin-tier posts. I'm glad they're miserable, frankly

Golden Age Superman stands head to thigh alone in a panel black at the top and red on the bottom where Superman stands pointing at the reader as he says, "Be wary of unscrupulous operators of gambling games--they are always on the look out for unsuspecting victims."

Don't forget to run the dishwasher or else you'll be forced to face the spoons you betrayed by letting the garbage disposal rough them up.

Ilustração de um elfo com uma espada encontrando um dragão magro no leito seco de um mar. O dragão encara o elfo ameaçadoramente. Há uma grande âncora com uma corrente enferrujada entre os dois.

Ilustração mostrando uma cena de ação. À esquerda, um mago sentado de pernas cruzadas no chão da dungeon conjura um feitiço. Ele está encarando um espelho segurado por um tipo de diabrete. No espelho, uma criatura ciclópica com face tentacular encara o mago soltando um raio vermelho de seu olho que atinge os olhos do mago, dando a impressão de que está sendo controlado pela criatura. À direita, o piso da dungeon se desfaz num vórtice que suga os outros aventureiros. A guerreira se agarra na borda do chão que está se despedaçando. Na outra mão, ela segura uma espada. O ladrão do grupo se agarra na perna da guerreira para não ser sugado para o vórtice.

Ilustração mostrando um mago olhando por uma porta que dá para uma escadaria muito longa que se perde em uma espiral descendente. Outras portas no espaço mostram o mesmo mago em visto por diferentes ângulos, como se fossem repetições ou versões de mundos paralelos. Atrás do mago, visto pela parede transparente da dungeon como em uma visão de raio-x, a guerreira do grupo está ajoelhada no chão investigando uma mancha misteriosa que pode ser sangue. Atrás dela, o ladrão usa um giz para marcar uma seta na parede. Ele não percebe os tentáculos que espreitam ao seu lado descendo uma escada.

Ilustração mostrando uma cena de ação. Um rato de paletó xadrez segura uma agulha como uma espada olhando por sobre o ombro. Um pequeno homem do tamanho dos aventureiros ratos vestido como um pirata enfrenta um esqueleto de rato que empunha uma lança. Um rato com chapéu de mago se encolhe de medo atrás de sua companheira fada que foi petrificada pelo olhar do rato-meduza que está sobre um altar. Uma topeira com uma picareta na mão e um capacete com uma vela em cima olha a cena por uma porta, enquanto seus companheiros continuam andando atrás dele. Um morcego com vibe de cultista observa de outra porta com uma adaga na mão. na sala ao lado, ratos com máscaras de gás e espadas enfrentam outros ratos com mantos de cultistas e adagas nas mãos. Junto aos ratos cultistas, uma enorme servente se prepara para atacar os ratos com máscaras de gás.

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Yeah lemme tell my secretary to write a physical query letter before I tee off with L Ron Hubbard and the Aga Khan

I was going to do a Ken Burns's Civil War gag but I hope anyone printing out a letter is getting paid a print-out-a-letter word rate. I hope Ed's paying for a new house with a 7,000-word short story in Playboy and then sailing around the Mediterranean for six months with the royalties.

Pitched a magazine that requires a physical query letter, so I wrote a letter and printed it and put it in the mailbox like some kind of historical reenactor.

so many people’s conceptions of genre fiction are so stunted and wrong. my conceptions are fine obviously

we're still waiting for it to hit SNL or a Sprint commercial so it'll stop, yeah

if one of these devil cars gets west of Worcester I am unleashing the full power of my ki blasts

Evil geneticist in Death Stranding 3 named Gene Hackman

Mantis also "reads" the player's "mind," in reality reading the console's memory card. Mantis can thereby comment on the number of saves that have been made in the game so far. He can also detect the presence of saved data from select other games, first noting their genre, then mentioning specific examples (e.g. "You like Castlevania, don't you?"). In the original PlayStation game, Mantis mentions Azure Dreams, Suikoden, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, and Vandal Hearts (plus Policenauts and Tokimeki Memorial in the Japanese version), while in the 2004 remake, he references Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Smash Bros. Melee. He was originally planned to reference games made by other developers as well, but they weren't included because Kojima couldn't make any deals with them.[22] In the Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol.1 rerelease of the game, which is based on the original PlayStation version, the player has the option to prepare the game with virtual PlayStation save data containing their choice of games for Mantis to reference in the scene.

TV is pretty rigid, yeah; video games are formally and structurally nuts, though, once you get out of massive modern AAA games. I was always sad I didn't have the time to do Psycho Mantis stuff in Book of Hungry Names

The Demolished Man is well-written but it doesn't employ (or need) a lot of formal tricks; it doesn't even do the "increasingly complex first-person narration" trick you see in Flowers for Algernon, its contemporary (which is formally ambitious). It's a revenge-made-suddenly-complicated story.

That's interesting, because the criticisms of sci-fi I grew up with were that it was a formally conservative genre, usually lagging 30-50 years behind literary fiction—such that you get symbolist experimentation in '60s SF, and cyberpunk is hardboiled noir from the '40s coming out in the '80s