The Darc

Isn’t there some kind of Sandman, of any girth, to help in this type of situation?

Currently on the last book on my October to-read list. 📚💙

This was a Stephen King short story.

Front inside flap of dustjacket for Iced on Aran by Brian Lumley, with orange text against a teel background, very difficult to read.

Who chose these colours and why do they hate my eyes?
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I couldn’t get into PE2 either, then I recently heard it praised on a retro podcast and wondered if I needed to try again. Now I’m leaning to no again, but hells yeah I’d replay the first one any time.

Thanks! I’ve played all of them but I don’t think ever finished them except Wild Arms 2. I guess I don’t have to be in a rush to part with them all.

PSOne and Dreamcast games

Any I should play/replay before selling? #RetroGaming

An AI-generated book about the Louvre heist, not worth describing.

An AI-generated book about the Louvre heist, not worth describing.

An AI-generated book about the Louvre heist, not worth describing.

An AI-generated book about the Louvre heist, not worth describing.

An AI-generated book about the Louvre heist, not worth describing.

An AI-generated book about the Louvre heist, not worth describing.

An AI-generated book about the Louvre heist, not worth describing.

Thanks to AI and self-publishing, you too can spam the market with slop novels based on current events within moments. #AIbooks 💙📚

What a time to be alive. 🤑🤮

Awesome episode, I'm so glad you put this out. I find myself often thinking back to roughly that same time, when I was hella depressed and living with nary a piece of furniture, but dammit I had a PS1 hooked up to my VCR-TV combo and my memories of that time are quite fond now.

And you did it all without cancer. (Hopefully.)

@372pages.bsky.social the fans persist.

The Anthropic settlement makes it a must-do going forward.

I have that same one! Some books just hit better as an old paperback.

Wow, you get an actual letter? That's so ... official and awesome.

Amazing and heartwarming book. I don't have much of a platform but if even one more person picks this up because I said so, the world will be just a tiny bit better. #booksky

Okay, that's a stronger effect that what I was imagining.

All the things that AI does are from patterns it locked onto in its data. So they’ll be there in human writing, just not as frequently or exaggerated or poorly executed. Maybe the writer was tired at that point and patterned cliche writing took over for a time?

When my teenager has friends over, it reminds me of being in public places and overhearing random boring conversations that are appropriately loud and you just have to try and tune them out because you’re stuck in that space for a time.

But inside my own house.

Ravaged by the Gingerbread Man Kara's bakery is struggling to make ends meet, and with…

I'm very sorry about this.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

The ChatGPT book covers are the real starting point. From there, you'd better prove humanity immediately, which (based on the free preview of this book only, admittedly a small sample but with enough to make me suspicious of AI use and nothing to say only a human would do that) this book fails.

Dammit, I got confused with Abraham's urban fantasy pen name. Turns out it's something completely different. Doh.

I question the legitimacy of many of the reviews. There are certain patterns to them, and the overall score is suspiciously high for the number of ratings. It's not remotely the kind of book that would skew that strongly naturally.

I don't know the language but I understand this completely.

I know, I'm just playing off the fact that Daniel Abraham is 1.5 of them.

Corey, Carey, what’s the difference, right?

Just in time for the first @372pages.bsky.social free-to-all episode covering this masterpiece, a giveaway for 100 print copies of the book was just launched by the publisher (US residents only, sorry). www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Really, with a book like this, aren't we all winners?

Just remember: it's i before e, except after ... well fuck.

Playstation 2 console with Playstation 1 game Alundra case and instruction booklet.

Physical game disc, double-wide case, full colour embossed game manual, wired controller … Alundra is go! This game does not hold your hand. #retrogaming
@sharkabytes.bsky.social @retroblast.bsky.social

I’m playing this right now! Well, started a couple months ago, playing when I can. Finally cleared the reptile lair after several irritating losses.