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My hovercraft is full of eels. Co-pilot: @tara_atrandom Also helpful: https://t.co/dTYzdjF9GA Masto: https://t.co/Eg95yIsXEU
Jun 6, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Oh wow Critical Role is fucked. On the other hand, if Critical Role gets to keep doing their in-stream commercials an nobody else is, that's going to be a whole different mess ...
Jun 5, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Why pay $3500 to look like a complete tool? You can get a swim mask for $10 at Walmart and it'll have the same effect. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0… Look everyone, you can pay $3500 to ... use your phone's apps floating in the air.

Translation: "We don't know a good application for this so we're just going to have it do things your cheaper devices do better."

It's like they copied off of Facebook's homework. Image
Jun 5, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Across the Spider-Verse:

How is it these movies take shitty comic book storylines and turn them into awesome?

First it was Civil War, then One More Day, now that stupid stupid Spider-Verse crossover that actually crashed Spider-Gwen's first comic.

This feels like an apology. I'm not entirely cool with their Miguel, but whatever. If I want the original I can read his comic book. They're doing their own thing.

(I still think Superior Spider-Man would have been a better choice, considering Miguel's "origin" in the movie ...)
Jun 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Wait, are you saying ... Elon LIED?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat nytimes.com/2023/06/05/tec… Image Remember, when Elon took over, the company was in the black. They weren't making tons of cash, but they were stable.

Now not only are they in massive debt, they've lost $2 billion in annual revenue and since that figure comes from Elon it's probably much worse than he says. Image
Jun 4, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Which views, Aaron?

Lower taxes? Smaller government? A return to the gold standard?

Which views exactly, Aaron? I realized as I was typing the gold standard part that Conservatives haven't actually offered a new policy position in decades.
May 4, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
When films were first broadcast on TV, studios tried to use this as a loophole to keep from paying writers.

When pay TV and VCRs appeared? Studios tried again.

Every time there's been a new way to distribute media, it's taken a #WritersStrike to get fair pay. In fact the whole reason that union rules appear esoteric and byzantine from the outside is because at some point or another the studios tried to cut their labor force out of the profits and the unions had to pin them down with exhaustively precise contracts.
May 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm still holding out hope that someday Amazon will do an Expanse cartoon to finish up the story.

I know let me dream dammit What, just hold off on doing the next chapter of the Expanse for *twenty eight years?*
May 3, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Dune Part II trailer:

Yup, that sure is Dune. At some point the challenge of a second or third or twentieth adaptation is how to distinguish it. A new interpretation? A stoically faithful one? Sleeker or more complex?

With these films the idea seems to be "as faithful as possible but make the visuals the centerpiece."
May 3, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
AI is not artificial intelligence. It's an aggregator that uses statistical analysis and pattern recognition to identify elements of a photo, of writing, or whatever task it's being used for.

Think of how many people here on social media can't grasp that.

Neither can CEOs. Everything produced by what they call "AI" is just a collage. Oh, it's a very complex and complicated collage, but a collage none the less.

There's nothing original. What's produced is just a series of rehashes and further the system doesn't UNDERSTAND what it spits out.
May 3, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ooooooohh speaking of Marvel, I just realized: if Disney wants to air season two of Loki this year, they have no choice but to keep Majors in the scenes already filmed.

Even if worse information comes out.

Replacing him in post without re-writes would entail huge contortions. They swapped Chris D'elia out of Army of the Dead and replaced him with Tig Notaro during the pandemic.

It cost a lot but it was doable.

Trouble is, it required minor re-writes and adding a few new bits to even out the swap.
May 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Oh good, this gives the last two people watching an excuse to stop. The big problem that will arise beyond House of the Dragon's *existing* problems is that they won't be able to do any re-writes.

No re-shoots, no changes to ADR, nothing.

And when that happens, the end results tends to be messier than usual.
May 2, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
So Star Trek Online has a new story arc coming, and while this is pure supposition I think I know what's about to happen: they're finally going to officially disengage STO from being the "prime" timeline.

playstartrekonline.com/en/news/articl… It makes sense, honestly. The original developers behind STO never expected Trek to return like this.

At the time it was released, it looked as though the only new Trek going forward was going to be the Kelvin Timeline films and that the old timeline would be free to use.
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The monarchy is meaningless in terms of much beyond defining the feel of an age.

We're twenty years into it, but for a lot of people in the UK the coronation of Charles will really officially be the end of the 20th century and it leaves one with a bleak impression of the 21st. Elizabeth was at least sympathetic, or she had a sympathetic narrative. The scandal, the war, the stalwart queen. You could sell that.

But Charles.

Fucking *Charles.*

Even his name sounds like a defeated, disgusted sigh.
May 2, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
So you know how this works: if episodes of a show or film isn't already in post-production it's halted.

It'll resume after the strike ends but anything that might require writing or *re-writing* is on hold. If it's a union (and just about every major production is), it's paused. How much or how little it'll affect a production depends on how long the strike lasts.

A short strike, shorter than 30 days, shouldn't disrupt much. A longer strike might shorten a TV season. A really long strike can kill projects dead.

Just have to wait and see.
May 1, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Tonight's Barry:

Goddamn LA is just never going to stop being pissy that superhero movies got popular, huh? Also the fact that Barry has turned Chekov's Gun into Rip Torn's Pearl-Handled Revolver is still funny as all fuck.
May 1, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
These imbeciles either know what they're saying is ridiculous, or seem to believe "the floggings will continue until morale improves" is a sound strategy.

Please go ahead and campaign on this. I'm sure mom and dad in the suburbs are eager to put their kids in a meat grinder. Image Just for the absolute brain-deadedness of this, in order to receive enough votes in Congress for raising the voting age you'd need to elect more Republicans.

Who will be campaigning to raise the voting age of the current voters.

God please let them keep coming up with ideas.
Apr 30, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Okay, going easy on indie devs should be a given, considering that they're trying to do a whole lot with very little.

Buuuuuuuuut the reason studios like EA can't get games to run properly is they force them out the door based not on a production schedule but a financial one. They could have absolutely gotten Jedi Survivor to run properly if they'd been allowed to hold it back a while longer, maybe even up to a year.

But they don't, and won't, because it won't be counted in a given quarter's profits and that's what matters most to EA.
Apr 28, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
What the fuck.

I got nothing. I seriously have got nothing. Image Consider this a perfect demonstration of why creating a social media site/protocol and thinking of the block button as an afterthought is fucking idiotic.
Apr 28, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We've got so many gunfuckers in this ridiculous country we can't even get rid of the *defective* weapons. boingboing.net/2023/04/27/pis… Firearms in the US are exempt from consumer safety standards.

Meaning selling a defective gun is legal. There's no way to recall it, or even a government agency that can issue an alert on the matter.

So you can sell a model that goes off on its own and it's a-okay.
Apr 28, 2023 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Waaaaaaaaaaait.

No block function?

Yeah no fuck that. Fuck. That. Can I just come back here a second?

Why?

Why make a social media platform in 2023 without a block feature? It's like making a phone that can't end a call.

The only reason is ideological, and that's weird and off-putting. It's more techbro shit.
Apr 28, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is concerning.

IDW prints some major licensed comics: TMNT, Star Trek, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc.

And they've been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
comicsbeat.com/idw-layoffs-go… They lost the license for Transformers and GI Joe last year, but that wouldn't be enough to cause this kind of major downturn.