Joe Bentley

Me watching other countries arrest leaders for being in the Epstein files and committing coups.

At the end of the day two things are currently breaking my world view.

I'm a smart person, but I'm nowhere near smart enough for this many people to be dumber than me.

I'm a good person, but I'm nowhere near good enough for this many people to be worse than me.

Nothing is going to get better if the only two sides are "Actually doing the terrible things" and "Oh boy, I get to say I told you so."

Sometimes I think comic books and Saturday morning cartoon villain group names are too over the top, then I remember that a group called "The National Crime Syndicate" that had a subgroup called "Murder, Inc" was active for like a decade.

Hey writers. Anthologies which are one long-ish novella and a bunch of short stories... yeah DO MORE OF THAT.

#writers #books #booksy #literature

100% spam, scams, robocalls, and attempt to sell me an extended warranty for the Dodge Dart I sold 4 years ago.

My cell phones "Signal to noise" ratio is the worst of any communication device in my life.

"How is Avatar popular when nobody obsesses over it?"

The idea of something being popular without forming a fandom isn't THAT confusing people. That's how even the biggest entertainment USED to be consumed.

Conventions and cosplay and fan fiction isn't necessary for valid popularity.

#avatar

If I live long enough to be in an old folks home for Highlanders I'll never understand the internet's fucking obsession, hell fucking fetish, for identifying and calling out things that only sin is being "overrated."

Why does "Too many people like it too much..." set so many people off so bad?

Yo, online businesses. Quick pro-tip. If I bought a pair of socks from you 5 years ago and that was the last business we did I shouldn't be getting 3 e-mails a day from you now.

#SmallBusiness #onlinemarketing

Maybe I'm other thinking it but part of it is I used to be able to go or not go to a movie just based on whether I wanted to watch it and not have the future of an entire industry put on my shoulders about it.

#movies #film

Has there ever been a truly good paperback movie tie in cover? And not just "Okay the movie poster is cool I guess so it on the cover isn't THAT bad" but actually a movie tie in book edition that tried something unique and succeeded?

#booksky

Ethical issues aside, do you think the current "look" of AI Generated Art is going to become an "aesthetic" or otherwise has an influence on overall art? 10, 20 years from now regardless of where AI is by that point will we see artist intentionally or unintentionally influenced by the look?

#AI

New media feels both too much and too little, like everything is both only an 8-10 episode "prestige" season that's over before it gets going and you have to wait 4 years for season 2 AND comes with all this other material you get assigned like homework you're expected to keep up with.

@techconnectify.bsky.social

Ever thought about doing a vid on the "lost" Einstein Refrigerator? It is, if nothing else, a very unique take on the refrigeration cycle.

Finally tackling the project of transferring my huge CD bin into digital and Jesus Goddamn Christ I forgot how much music publishers back in the day liked being coy and not putting any information on the physical CD.

#physicalmedia #cd

It's not a "safe space" or a "welcome space" if while you are in it you are expected to be constantly in either a mode of self depreciating or constantly reassuring everyone "No it's okay, I'm one of the 'good ones'"

Me: "Oh this new video game has a really good soundtrack with lots of perfect licensed music needle drops...."

*thinks about it*

".... which means it's gonna be delisted over expired music rights and impossible to find in 3 years."

#gaming #videogames #computergames #pcgaming

Gremlins 2, Rob Zombie's Halloween 2, and Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) are all the same genre. No I will not elaborate. Welcome to my TED Talk.

#films #movies

Dumb people love being "correct."

Being RIGHT is hard. It takes an understanding of context and nuance and exceptions and the broader working of the world.

Being "correct" just requires memorizing a bunch of arbitrary facts severed from their context and meaning.

There is an underwater megalophobia moment in @tensori.fi new beta level for Pools that I think people are going to be talking about for a while. Great stuff.

If you went back to 1995 let's say and told a large, diverse group of comic fans that following pairs of comic book characters would be played by the same person, which one would surprise them the most.

The Penguin / Bullseye
Bane / Venom
Batman / Daredevil
Green Lantern / Deadpool
Other

#comics

Computers geeks in our 40s and later talk a lot of crap about younger computer users, but goddamn we really bought a lot of "RAM Doubling" software back in the day.

#retrocomputing #retrocomputers

"But Trump still hasn't to live with the stain of being a felon! Stain! STAIN I SAY!"

Seriously my friends do you think any of his followers care?

My favorite retro gaming fact.

The classic "SEGA" opening title scream with the voice yelling Sega... took up a full 1/8th of the space on the original Sonic the Hedgehog cartridge. That's why most games used the standard generic soundless Sega Logo

#sonic #sega #retrogaming.

I'm sorry but I can't get on with buying a controller that's nearly half the cost of the console that already comes with a premium level controller.

Somewhere in the Venn Diagram of Elite, Starflight, Starstruck Vagabond, Starfield, Mass Effect, a dozen others we've come so close to having all the parts of the perfect space exploration game a part of my brain needs to play.

The video game Stubbs the Zombie and the film Hoot have two of the most under the radar legit great soundtracks of all time.

#music #soundtracks #videogamemusic