A. R. Yngve

Dick Cheney?
He was caricatured as the sinister Vice President “Zack Cutter” in my satirical sci-fi novel THE TIME IDIOT (2011).

Read a sample from the book here:
aryngve.substack.com/p/the-time-i...

OK, so I've finally gone and started a TikTok channel:
www.tiktok.com/@aryngve

YouTube video by Kevin Campigotto Arrogant Worms - Carrot Juice is Murder

This STILL makes me laugh. Yes, I'm that old.

The Canadian band The Arrogant Worms performs the parody song “Carrot Juice Constitutes Murder”:
youtu.be/KmK0bZl4ILM?...

Book Review: PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir Triumph of the Engineer

Book review: PROJECT HAIL MARY
aryngve.substack.com/p/book-revie...

Strange pollution of modern warfare:

OK, so I've finally gone and started a TikTok channel:
www.tiktok.com/@aryngve

YouTube video by Kai Lentit Interview with Dying Company's VP

Satire:
youtu.be/VCivp2qnhr8?...

I had fun writing this book, and I hope you will have fun with it too. Let me tell you about
BLOOD & SWINE: A COMEDY OF TERRORS …
aryngve.substack.com/p/the-making...

#books #horror #humor #comedy #vampires #work

If you want to play my retro games in your PC browser, without any extra software, try these game links!
-Spearhead:
richard-tnd.itch.io/spearhead
-River Barrage:
richard-tnd.itch.io/riverbarrage
-Super Silverfish:
richard-tnd.itch.io/supersilverf...
-Flying Cobra:
richard-tnd.itch.io/flyingcobra

YouTube video by Neil Pasricha David Foster Wallace on Why Reading Feels So Hard

David Foster Wallace on the fear of reading, silence and quiet contemplation:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiwH...

ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.

“Even Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as a 'Godfather of AI' — a technology that likely wouldn’t exist in its current form without his contributions — recently conceded that his girlfriend had broken up with him using ChatGPT.”
futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

#AI #LLM

Creepypasta: "It's Not Just A Show" Found media

Creepypasta: "It's Not Just A Show" open.substack.com/pub/aryngve/...

For MST3K fans?

YouTube video by Universe Dimensions Sunsets from Different Alien Worlds Across the Universe

The different sunsets of the Universe:
youtu.be/oiiwPbxzIy0

"The [INSERT SCAPEGOATS] Are Behind Everything" Gets 3 Stars Out of 5. In this satirical essay, a jaded critic reviews conspiracy theories as if they were works of genre fiction - on their artistic merits and entertainment value. Is it going to be thumbs up or thumbs dow...

I poke fun at Flat Earth, Chem Trails, and other conspiracy theories in this piece (by "reviewing" them as if they were entertainment):
aryngve.substack.com/p/the-insert...

"The [INSERT SCAPEGOATS] Are Behind Everything" Gets 3 Stars Out of 5. In this satirical essay, a jaded critic reviews conspiracy theories as if they were works of genre fiction - on their artistic merits and entertainment value. Is it going to be thumbs up or thumbs dow...

I poked fun at Flat Earth, Chem Trails and other conspiracy theories in this piece (by "reviewing" their artistic qualities, or lack thereof): aryngve.substack.com/p/the-insert...

🎃𝕾𝖕𝖔𝖔𝖐𝖞 𝕮64 𝕲𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕯𝖆𝖞🎃
Ghouls ‘n’ Ghosts (1989) by Software Creations and published by U.S. Gold. A great sounding game with fabulous music by Tim Follin but this game is evilly tough. Happy Halloween guys! #C64GameOfTheDay #Commodore64 #Halloween2025

What We're Talking About When We're (Not) Talking About Extraterrestrials Our culture's complicated relationship with the Great Other

Aliens continue to exist in a cultural twilight zone - not quite respectable, never quite dismissed.

Here's my DEEP dive into the subject: "What We're Talking About When We're (Not) Talking About Extraterrestrials":
aryngve.substack.com/p/what-were-...

#ufo #uap #aliens #scifi #science #culture

Halloween: It’s one night a year. Just relax and lean into the silliness.

YouTube video by Marshall McLuhan - Topic The Medium Is the Massage (Side A)

Here you can listen to Marshall McLuhan himself - now a "digital spirit presence" on YouTube - speaking to us from the year 1967...

THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE Part 1: youtu.be/c7TKg2GGkZ0

THE MEDIUM IS THE MASSAGE Part 2: youtu.be/c7TKg2GGkZ0

IS THIS:
A) Purple mashed potatoes
B) The dreaded basement of the sealed-off Chernobyl power plant
C) Failed Halloween cookies
D) The surface of Saturn's moon Titan
E) Cancer cells under a microscope

#funny #halloween

PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE
A collection of paranormal crime stories

Buy it here:
amazon.com/PRECINCT-20-...

#noir #horror #mystery #paranormal #books #literature #paranormalcrime #paranormalinvestigation

A book can be colder than hell...

THE FLATTERED PLANET
20 tales of terror

Buy it here:
amazon.com/FLATTERED-PL...

#horror #books #literature #darkfantasy #shortstories #shortfiction #scifi #sciencefiction #satire #Halloween #twilightzone

Long Live the New Flesh Notes on VIDEODROME: Media Theory as Body Horror

"Long Live the New Flesh
Notes on VIDEODROME: Media Theory as Body Horror"
aryngve.substack.com/p/long-live-...

Attention retrogamers:

CAPTAIN ISHTAR VS. THE FEDERATION'S MOST WANTED (C64) is available at
psytronik.itch.io/captainishtar2
Support retrogame devs - buy this game.

#retrogaming #retrogames #games #8bit #c64

New WIP Screenshots: "Twin Tigers" Sequel (C64) | A. R. Yngve Get more from A. R. Yngve on Patreon

Check out the new screenshots from an upcoming retrogame:
patreon.com/posts/new-wi...

#retrogames #retrogame #retrogaming #retro #8bitnews #8bit #indiegames #games

Attention retrogamers:

This Halloween, try these FREE C64 chillers:

-DARKLAND:
psytronik.itch.io/darkland

-FORGOTTEN FOREST 2:
psytronik.itch.io/forgottenfor...

-DARKLAND 2:
psytronik.itch.io/darkland-2-c...

#retrogaming #retrogames #c64 #retro #8bit #games #Psytronik

YouTube video by GlobalWahrman Monsters From the Id (The Climax of Forbidden Planet (1956))

A cheesy sci-fi movie from 1956 provided a great metaphor for how the Internet can unleash not just the rational mind, but also its darker side:
"Monsters from the Id"...
youtu.be/f2BYyeS-fIU

My short fiction collection PRECINCT 20: DEAD STRANGE contains material which has previously been published on Wattpad, plus several original stories.
www.amazon.com/PRECINCT-20-...

YouTube video by Sideprojects 25 Times the Soviet Union Was Absolutely Insane

Simon Whistler: "25 Times the Soviet Union Was Absolutely Insane"
youtu.be/8G6RNbONshc

Fun with Swedish license plates:
Now THAT is an ominous sign.

#cars #funnysigns #sverige #funny