Rory Blank

hey at least we got alan wake 2, too bad that's probably the end of it, unless control 2 wraps that up, which it might

Well, it's cool that Control 2 is probably already close to being done already at least

rip

they're playing the song Touch by the band Number Girl at the bar I'm at

a doodle of an alligator performing a death roll on a deer, thinking to itself "I spin around to kill my prey, to rip and tear into the flesh - I have to do it to eat, but I take no joy in that, my real passion is for the twirling itself. When I am spinning I feel free in the dance. What a tragedy it has to come with such violence."

death roll

i am on his mailing list because in 2016 i was one of those people who rsvpd to attend a rally with no intention of showing up

Hello? It's Trump! I think my calls are getting blocked! I know the Dems don’t want you to see every critical memo I send. READ TRUMP MEMO: MAGA! > READ TRUMP MEMO: I have a very important meeting coming up, so I’ll keep this short.

This is a message from Donald Trump: THIS IS MY MAGA CRY! MAGA! > Trump: Valentine’s Day is next week & you still haven't unlocked your MAGA membership? I’ve come to the conclusion that the deep state must’ve been blocking my emails or something wicked like that because I added INCREDIBLE new perks to celebrate my love for the most incredible supporters like you. I know you would cherish them - it’s actually depressing that you haven’t gotten to see them. TRUMP’S MAGA CRY: I’m praying that this email is passed over to you soon because we’re down to our final few spots and I need you on our team

MESSAGE FROM THE 47TH PRESIDENT: MAGA! > Hey, it’s President Trump. I was in the car. In route to the White House. I couldn’t get you off my mind. So, I wrote you a special letter before Valentine’s Day:

rom Trump: I know you’re ready for this. There’s a reason YOUR NAME came across my desk MULTIPLE times, and I would be a fool to ignore the signs. After reviewing your profile PERSONALLY, I have OFFICIALLY informed my team to grant you MAGA Guardian status for your never-ending commitment to the MAGA Movement.

I am subscribed to Donald Trump's donor mailing list despite having never donated to his campaign, and it's remarkable how much they come off like someone trying to catfish your grandparent into thinking donald trump is their personal friend

Billboard with a bitmoji dude freaking out over an ac

In a world of crass AI garbage proliferating in advertising this AC company is still using Bitmoji

not that anything was too dark, just that some of the dialogue felt like the kind of awkward comedy patter that is in everything, which a lot of people seem to really like but I find exhausting sometimes

I can’t articulate this really, beyond saying I think it would sit well next to Johnny Mnemonic (if you understand that I think Johnny Mnemonic is a good movie).

I will say some of the humor isn’t to my taste but I think that’s more on me, it went over great with the crowd.

Also for whatever it's worth, the vibe of the movie felt extremely specifically like late 80s to 90s cyberpunk adjacent scifi movies, like a lot more energetic and less dour than a lot of post 9/11 work

Mice and rats are extremely trainable.

Like it's both potentially interesting as an indicator of public sentiment around the proliferation of GenAI content and as a possible refutation of a lot of major film studio orthodoxy, as a "big" movie that's overtly an issue movie and also not an established IP

Anyway it's a fun movie and I'm really interested in what the public reception of it is going to be, both in that it's extremely anti-AI, and that it's a blockbuster-y movie that was made largely independently and being put out by a relatively small distribution company

This was, by the way, the very first public screening of the film, back in September.
Verbenski asked every question asker their name and said "hi [name] I'm Gore, nice to meet you, it's nice talking to people face to face, off the computer."

There's some exceptionally unsettling and grotesque stuff on the clips in that scene, and Verbenski said every single frame of it was modeled, rigged, and animated by people, and zero generative AI was used in any of it.

Ahead of the release of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, I want to relay something from the Q&A after the early screening I attended.
There's a scene where people are shown scrolling a tik-tok-like app showing endless AI slop videos. Per Verbenski, all of them were made by human animators.

actually on that same front, last year I was in the second row directly in front of where the barbed wire contraption that Joey Janela got thrown into was, which skidded across the floor freakishly close to the people in font of me.

i have a front row seat 😎

I have a front row seat for it

Oh yeah, my point here is mostly that I think The Invisible Man has a better chance of getting offense in against Sandman than most of his opponents.

Oh yeah, but he used to OCCASIONALLY do other things.

Tbh I think he has every right to do that and has earned it, and it always gets a good big response from the crowd, my point here is that I think at this point Sandman vs The Invisible Man might be the most of a match anyone could get out of The Sandman.

I've seen some people express anger or disappointment that The Sandman's purported last match will be against The Invisible Man.
I've seen Sandman on a good few shows over the last decade and I've never seen him do anything other than come out, drink a beer, hit people with a kendo stick and leave.

RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum "Top Assitarian Staples,” include “Bananas (firm, not overripe; peeled).”

MAHA indeed. Glad this was advertised at the Super Bowl:

www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutr...

thank you for fact checking my joke

a doodle of an alligator performing a death roll on a deer, thinking to itself "I spin around to kill my prey, to rip and tear into the flesh - I have to do it to eat, but I take no joy in that, my real passion is for the twirling itself. When I am spinning I feel free in the dance. What a tragedy it has to come with such violence."

death roll

YouTube video by bink9al4 Jeromes Dream - Seeing Means More Than Safety

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXmy...

All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead, by Envy 11 track album

try listening to something good instead

envy.bandcamp.com/album/all-th...

anyway that album isn't very good

if you like it, hey sorry you have bad taste in music, couldn't be me

The upsetting part was that Wherehouse Music wouldn't refund it, they would only buy it back from me, for $2. I had bought it for like $20.