Alan Morlock
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I've been diving into Robert E Howard's Conan stories. I knew a lot of of them were from the same publications as Lovecraft's work but I didn't realize how much Howard trafficked in some similarly flavored descriptions and prose at times. Better pacing though and with a pulse. I'm really digging it!
December 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I've been diving into Robert E Howard's Conan stories. I knew a lot of of them were from the same publications as Lovecraft's work but I didn't realize how much Howard trafficked in some similarly flavored descriptions and prose at times. Better pacing though and with a pulse. I'm really digging it!
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Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
December 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here
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my friend said the Budweiser Clydesdales were praying to Eywa and my uncle got so mad he had to go out into the backyard
December 27, 2025 at 3:41 AM
my friend said the Budweiser Clydesdales were praying to Eywa and my uncle got so mad he had to go out into the backyard
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We have Marty Supreme at home
December 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
We have Marty Supreme at home
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Avatar just generally exists in the space franchise movies existed in pre-internet: Most people just go see the movies when they come out, and a handful of diehards dig into lore stuff in their own isolated corner of the world. It's not _that_ dissimilar from Star Wars in the '80s.
December 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Avatar just generally exists in the space franchise movies existed in pre-internet: Most people just go see the movies when they come out, and a handful of diehards dig into lore stuff in their own isolated corner of the world. It's not _that_ dissimilar from Star Wars in the '80s.
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I wonder who the models were for the James Bond Blu-ray menus.
December 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I wonder who the models were for the James Bond Blu-ray menus.
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the big existential stuff about consumer AI is important to keep yelling about, but an underrated argument against its proliferation is that it's starting to make simple, everyday things harder and more annoying (and it's gonna get worse)
"I finally had to admit that no matter how many times I reread the recipe and attempted to follow the instructions, it wasn't going to work. I was stumped," Brenda Goodman writes.
"Then it dawned on me: Could this recipe have been generated by AI? Had I been had?" https://cnn.it/3KPT5Kq
"Then it dawned on me: Could this recipe have been generated by AI? Had I been had?" https://cnn.it/3KPT5Kq
December 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
the big existential stuff about consumer AI is important to keep yelling about, but an underrated argument against its proliferation is that it's starting to make simple, everyday things harder and more annoying (and it's gonna get worse)
There should be a movie about a director and crew employed to make a biopic about band that is incredibly controlling of the film. Basically just fictionalized production of Bohemian Rhapsody.
December 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
There should be a movie about a director and crew employed to make a biopic about band that is incredibly controlling of the film. Basically just fictionalized production of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Tired: Musician Biopic
Wired: Cover Band Biopic
Wired: Cover Band Biopic
December 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Tired: Musician Biopic
Wired: Cover Band Biopic
Wired: Cover Band Biopic
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In physical media news, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be releasing "OVER THE GARDEN WALL" on Blu-ray on April 7, 2026, per a listing on Barnes and Noble's website. First Blu-ray release of a Cartoon Network original in 10 years.
December 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
In physical media news, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be releasing "OVER THE GARDEN WALL" on Blu-ray on April 7, 2026, per a listing on Barnes and Noble's website. First Blu-ray release of a Cartoon Network original in 10 years.
Vaguely heard a Christmas song I didn't recognize in a store but couldn't make out the words to try to google it later. Then the next day I heard it again in the background of a family home video from 1992. It was Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas. That song rules.
December 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Vaguely heard a Christmas song I didn't recognize in a store but couldn't make out the words to try to google it later. Then the next day I heard it again in the background of a family home video from 1992. It was Greg Lake's I Believe In Father Christmas. That song rules.
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this season i’m wishing you and yours a few small holiday cheers
December 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
this season i’m wishing you and yours a few small holiday cheers
Is there a Cis Siberian Orchestra?
December 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Is there a Cis Siberian Orchestra?
One film is a beautiful examination of the use of art while facing the realities of death and grief set in the beautiful natural landscape of England. The other film is Hamnet.
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
One film is a beautiful examination of the use of art while facing the realities of death and grief set in the beautiful natural landscape of England. The other film is Hamnet.
Feel like the Hamnet film ran headlong into the pitfalls that book deftly avoided.
December 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Feel like the Hamnet film ran headlong into the pitfalls that book deftly avoided.
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Cigarettes in old family videos are like horror film foreshadowing.
December 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Cigarettes in old family videos are like horror film foreshadowing.
Spent the day making digital copies of my family's surviving home movie VHS tapes. Full on Clark Griswald in the attic mode over here .
December 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Spent the day making digital copies of my family's surviving home movie VHS tapes. Full on Clark Griswald in the attic mode over here .
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I have a problem with this statement. If people “knew nothing”, why did they cut ties “before his crimes came to light”? Seems like an admission that many of them knew full well what was happening and did nothing, even if they wanted nothing to do with his sordid activities themselves.
December 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I have a problem with this statement. If people “knew nothing”, why did they cut ties “before his crimes came to light”? Seems like an admission that many of them knew full well what was happening and did nothing, even if they wanted nothing to do with his sordid activities themselves.
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Releasing 100 pages totally blacked out is a fuck you from the DOJ and a huge admission of a cover up.
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Releasing 100 pages totally blacked out is a fuck you from the DOJ and a huge admission of a cover up.
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i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump
December 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
i’m just going to assume the 90% of pages that they blacked out is ONLY donald trump
Movie sequels should by law only be afforded the same budget ratio with their predecessors that the original Planet of the Apes films had. Go ahead make an 4th film of whatever series but you gotta figure out how to make it on 27% of what the series started with.
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Movie sequels should by law only be afforded the same budget ratio with their predecessors that the original Planet of the Apes films had. Go ahead make an 4th film of whatever series but you gotta figure out how to make it on 27% of what the series started with.
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement