Hoo boy, that last one had sure did have impact.

(quietly into walkie-talkie) We're too late.

Blink twice if the muse is holding you hostage.

Hiya! I match a few things on the list, most notably as a sci-fi author. Always happy to meet a fellow writer!

Opens up a lot of marketing options, like tissue paper becomes "Slim Wood Lite." Then we monetize the demographic of insecure males by turning card stock into "Slim Wood Magnum."

"Ideas That Never Come to Fruition" is my middle name!

Well deserved!

If it does, you'll certainly be in hell, but not in the way they all expected.

In which case games are probably the most effective, but certainly the most prolific, tool for narrative generation that humans have ever created... just not in the way we were talking about game narrative back in the aughts.

Recently I came across Umberto Eco saying a "literature is a machine for producing possible worlds" and I have been thinking about that a lot!

One of the wildest possibilities is that Zelensky walked in and gave one of the most moving hellfire and damnation sermons that it actually made Trump think about the consequences of his actions for once.