@stevenmarsh.bsky.social
Writer, editor, gamer, optimist. Unexpect the expected. Posts and opinions are my own. — he/him/his
Was he hit on the head with a frying pan? Live his life in a garbage can? Is he depressed, or is he a mess? Does he feel totally worthless?
24.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
24.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 8977 🔁 2053 💬 1331 📌 2617
Today's free movie essay in support of the Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution Kickstarter is 1999's eXistenZ! I'm not sure what I was expecting when I saw this one, but — in a lot of ways — it wasn't that...
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And here's the link to Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution again, 'cause that's the whole reason I'm doing my "SCI-FI horror week" in the middle of my "horror month"!
Please give it a click-see and share, if the ghost in the machine moves you . . .
Today's free movie essay in support of the Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution Kickstarter is 1999's eXistenZ! I'm not sure what I was expecting when I saw this one, but — in a lot of ways — it wasn't that...
www.patreon.com/posts/141824...
Add "The East Wing of the White House is gone" to a work of literature.
I'll go first:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. The East Wing of the White House is gone."
In my ongoing effort to draw attention to the Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution Kickstarter, it's another freebie at Feature of Habit! This time I watch ALIENS for the first time. Was it all it's cracked up to be? (Spoiler alert: Yes.)
Give it a click and give it a read!
I've noted before, but (for example) 1985's ULTIMA IV was $59.95. That's $179.34 in today dollars. Even more "standard" games like Infocom's offerings were $39.95 each ($119.51).
Video & computer gamers seem VERY "spoiled" by a hobby that defied all inflationary forces for decades, 'til now-ish.
The Louvre jewel theft would be such perfect inspiration for a heist movie were it not for the problem that it would be over after fifteen minutes.
"Will you join my crew? We've got a guy with a van and I'm borrowing a ladder."
"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
23.10.2025 04:37 — 👍 228 🔁 35 💬 14 📌 7
The History Channel meme of the guy with tall hair holding up his hands, and the word "ALIENS" below it.
"Can you tell me how did the Renaissance come about? Or Constantinople? Or the Silk Road?"
23.10.2025 01:33 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And here's the link to why I'm making another sci-fi-horror-film essay free this week. It's SUBVERSIVE SCI-FI, and it's a trove of insightful essays by really smart folks — and me, too!
23.10.2025 01:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In my ongoing effort to draw attention to the Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution Kickstarter, it's another freebie at Feature of Habit! This time I watch ALIENS for the first time. Was it all it's cracked up to be? (Spoiler alert: Yes.)
Give it a click and give it a read!
Hypothetically, how does #3 feel about moving to Maine?
23.10.2025 00:32 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lychee has just launched an AI 3D print model generator. This is very disappointing to see lychee embrace plagiarism and theft. How many models have they stolen from artists every time someone used their slicer over the years.
21.10.2025 17:01 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 3
Here's the SHORT version of my recovering-from-cancer update:
I need to see: a neurologist, a neuropsychologist, a sleep specialist, an ophthalmologist, a nephrologist, and get two MRIs.
(Cat to add cute, link if you want to help out.)
www.gofundme.com/f/help-owen-...
And here's why I'm making my essays free this week... check it out!
21.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week's first Feature of Habit freebie is live! I give a gentle plug for SUBVERSIVE SCI-FI EVOLUTION, then take you on a trip with some of the best retro-sci-fi that 1960s Italy has to offer!
Did I mention totally free? Like, share, subscribe (even a free sub gets you notified) and enjoy.
A screenshot of my email client (MacOS), with "gurps basic set" in the top-right search box (underlined in red) and "Searching 'All Mailbo...'" — Found 0 results" (also underlined in red).
I am . . . doubtful, email client.
21.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0I thought it was a silly conspiracy theory until I was called out on it. So I did some reading. The “reptilian” or “lizard people” conspiracy is from the darkest, nastiest swamp of antisemitism. Please don’t use this one casually, it’s vile and intended to reinforce the idea of the “other”.
21.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 74 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1
And here's the Kickstarter link for Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution (where an essay of mine will be included). Only 12 days left. Please share, check it out, and hop aboard if it looks interesting!
21.10.2025 11:03 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
In honor of Subversive Sci-Fi Evolution, it's sci-fi horror movies on Feature of Habit! FREE ALL WEEK!
10/21 — Planet of the Vampires (1965)
10/22 — Aliens (1986)
10/23 — Existenz (1999)
10/24 — Cube (1997)
10/25 — Skeletons (2010)
10/26 — Event Horizon (1997)
10/27 — Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
In general, the whole industry seems to miss the point that hard things are often prestigious *because they're hard*; if they become easy, and more importantly if people *know* that they're easy, then nobody gives a shit.
20.10.2025 22:38 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
A french sicko, Pervers saying "oui....hon hon hon...OUI!"
Every Louvre heist reveal/headline/photo is somehow funnier than the last one
20.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 109 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
19.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 17845 🔁 4035 💬 212 📌 168For the Sickos
20.10.2025 00:14 — 👍 754 🔁 252 💬 7 📌 17you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
03.08.2025 19:25 — 👍 13122 🔁 3686 💬 75 📌 100"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
18.10.2025 19:24 — 👍 6760 🔁 1795 💬 138 📌 405Imagining if other professions chatted with friends like lawyers:
"I =am= an editor, but I'm not YOUR editor, and the following should NOT be construed as editorial advice. However, were my client to provide a sentence similar to this one, I would probably restructure it as…"
