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Andrew Eisen

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Rapier wit. Eclectic humor. Melodic bass voice. Pretty good meatloaf.

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Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 2h ago

Oh, look. Another creator I've enjoyed for years started using AI generated thumbnails. Like, even if gen AI was ethical to use and wasn't harmful in any way... IT STILL LOOKS LIKE SHIT!!!

Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 2d ago

A friend mentioned DRAGONSWORD: AWAKENING. I went to the Steam page to read the product description. "Well that's a generic header," I said. "Wow, that's a mess of a first sentence." "The second is worse! This copy is shit. Did they use gen AI to write it?" ...yep. AI is shit. Stop using it.

Pic of the product description which reads: [ A Boy's Breathtaking Journey to Save the World Begins ] Lute, a young boy traveling toward Orbis—the first kingdom built by humankind—finds himself swept up in the lives of Johnny, a mercenary, and Castella, an Elf, stumbling headfirst into the chaotic life of a mercenary. Amid hectic days spent with his colorful companions, a massive shadow looms over the peaceful continent, and Lute's destiny begins to spiral. Can the boy become the Dragon Sword—the Hero destined to save the continent?Pic of the AI disclosure which reads: AI Generated Content Disclosure The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: Generative AI was not used to create any in-game content resources. AI was utilized solely for the translation of certain in-game dialogue and external content, such as our Steam page and community posts.
Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 4d ago

PRIMATE - What if Cujo... had thumbs?!!! Rabid chimp kills the shit out of people. That's it. That's the movie. I wish all the kills were as gnarly as the first but sadly, most of the violence is obscured or off camera. Oh well. Still an entertaining enough 90 minutes.

Film poster for Primate.
Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 4d ago

MORTAL KOMBAT II - Annihilation is a bad movie but at least it's entertaining, cheesy fun. This is a bad movie that's insufferably boring. Dull characters, bad visuals, and weak fights. Some clever choreography involving special powers and weapons but the fights are floaty and lack energy.

Film poster for Mortal Kombat II.
Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 5d ago

I started making YouTube vids in 2011. I hit 10k subscribers in Jan 2017. The following June, I had 11,333. Then YouTube did something that killed my channel growth. I just hit 12,336 subscribers. It took NINE YEARS to add another thousand.

Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 6d ago

THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE - "You're pushing 50. Here's a bunch of things you love from your childhood all crammed into one movie!" Yay! Good movie? No, but it's a very enjoyable one. It's colorful, energetic, funny and I sat there with a dopey grin on my face for 100 minutes.

Film poster for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 6d ago

When I was a child, I thought the Trojan horse plan was stupid. "Oh, come on!" I thought. "No one is stupid enough to fall for that and you're relying on EVERYONE being stupid enough to fall for that!" Now, as an adult, I look around and think, "Oh yeah, we'd totally fall for that."

Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 2w ago

"I was thinking about that movie Obsession I saw a few weeks back." Yeah? "You know what I think?" What? "If you really pay attention and think about it, the dude is not entirely sympathetic." Oh? "Yeah, it's subtle but it's there!" (I didn't make fun. Media literacy has to start somewhere.)

Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer" What dipshits in charge of marketing this film don't know how NAMES work? Anyway, is meant to be a prequel? I mean, the Ghost of Christmas Past sequence IS Scrooge's backstory so what are you even doing? Continued...

Film poster for Ebenezer with a tagline that reads: "Before he was Scrooge, he was... Ebenezer".
Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Press button A and one person dies. Press button B and five people die. Do nothing and all six die! What do you do?" Dude, I spend most nights starting at my humongous backlog of unplayed video games, paralyzed by choice. What do you think is going to happen?

Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 2w ago

People ate THE STUFF because it was tasty. But imagine if everyone in the movie KNEW it was an extraterrestrial organism that ate you from the inside before bursting out and leaving behind an empty husk. Now imagine it tasted like SHIT. And everyone ate it anyway. That's generative AI.

Film poster for The Stuff.
Andrew Eisen@andreweisen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well, the company that owns my apartment complex has jumped on the AI bandwagon and introduced an AI point of contact for questions, maintenance, and the like. Childish, perhaps, but it gave me a little thrill to block its email and phone number after receiving its introductory message and text.