Dr. Mongoose

if you dislike AI and like me you were about to buy the new ANNO, probably worth reading this

Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users.

This is the platform that wants you to pay $189.99 per year.

The grift is all they have

And when actors went on strike over AI protections - literally fighting the bots - they wrote satirical dialogue to explain absences that was fully aligned with their own world-building, instead of replacing them with AI, or other actors.

Cognitive assonance, so cool, so classy, so appreciated 😭😭😭

Mako voiced Iroh in Avatar The Last Airbender and Aku in Samurai Jack. He passed away in 2006 and Greg Bladwin took over those roles for ATLA's 3rd & final season, The Legend of Korra, and Samurai Jack's revival.

Fuck digital necromancy. Fuck AI replacing real talent. Fuck anyone who argues for it.

I saw someone during all the Bond talk do the "oh, he's a Time Lord" thing, the extra-nerdy cousin of the "oh, James Bond is just a codename" thing, and what that and the below have in common is -- can we as a culture just for once be NORMAL about the occasional need for recasting, for fuck's sake?

While prepping for my Obsidian interview, I listened to a 2019 interview with Fallout co-creator and Outer Worlds 2 creative director Leonard Boyarsky, who mused then about using AI to help write NPC dialogue.

When I checked if they'd used it for OW2, the answer: “We haven’t been using it AT ALL.”

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Dropping cosmetics prices and refunding players who already bought them is a fun distraction from all the negative talk about not using human voice actors for your NPCs

But it also follows that if you can afford to cut prices and do refunds, you could afford to pay human actors to voice your NPCs.

Repeating this insight.

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.

Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

Since apparently there is James Bond discourse, here’s the simplest way to get out this self-imposed “how do we unkill Bond” mess.

YOU DON’T *NEED* CONTINUITY, FFS

Keep the same actors for M, Moneypenny, Q, Leiter, and Lashana Lynch as 008 or whatever number.
New Bond.
Set it in the 60s.

EASY.

US senators will say anything. "Standing up to donald trump gave him more power." No it didn't. That isn't true.

“Who get royalties from the game”

Oh we’re all just telling fairy tales now?

They also got a horse drawn carriage!

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this is so silly. people know the deal with bond. the writers should just embrace the metatextual aspects of the franchise

the reactionary centrists with cushy opinion gigs couldn't make it through a 15 minute live discussion with a randomly selected progressive operative, political scientist or Resistance-era precinct captain

Thinking about how Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me had to be exclusively marketed as just “Austin Powers 2” during its UK release

Whatever production time and cost was "saved" by using AI for one of the most human-dependent disciplines in game making was actively obliterated by the act itself, overshadowing the hard work of every single other developer on the project and making this situation impossible to right. WHO KNEW.

arc raiders, alters, same story

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A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".

BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

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Some folks feel really validated by having keys jingled at them and are just excited to have a machine that can jingle an infinite variety of keys in an unlimited number of patterns

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

The Zohran for New York sign template using the words “My boy, this peace is what all true warriors strive for”

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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j. edgar hoover is looking up from hell and screaming about this outfit. i think the guy could probably look past a nonwhite as director of the fbi. but dressing like shit? that is a bridge too far for hoover.

something…annoying…about replies to this that are just like “this is wrath of khan.” first of all, i am aware of the existence of WRATH OF KHAN. second of all, although WRATH is a submarine movie, it is more RUN SILENT RUN DEEP than RED OCTOBER

You can find all the graphics I created for LlamaD2's big Portal Reimagined video on my portfolio site: www.behance.net/gallery/2381...

So much fun working on these, we'll have more in the future! :)

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis