The return of Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, or GTFO

The Independent@the-independent.com · 16h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

serious question: do LLMs ever push back? Like, outputting things like "Actually, that's not true" or "You know, that's a bad idea, because..."? Or is it all user-affirming at this point?

two of my favorite games ever. two of the best games of the last 11~ years. what an absolute steal of a deal.

Brendon Chung@blendogames.bsky.social · 2d ago

Quadrilateral Cowboy & Invisible Inc are in a cyberpunk bundle together! store.steampowered.com/bundle/82990... I'm a big fan of Invisible Inc, what a joy to be bundled together🙏

hello I need music recommendations, ideally k-pop, for a 7-year-old and a 4-year-old who are obsessed with K-Pop Demon Hunters (as well as their various parents, who need a break from the -- admittedly, pretty good -- soundtrack)

btw this has options to sign if you don't make comics but are a fan or colleague of people who do! make number go up, support the union!

Jimmy Presler 🐴@jimmypresler.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sign this petition to show your support for keeping Senior Editors in the Dark Horse Workers Union. actionnetwork.org/petitions/dh...

do not do this

Based on MLB Pipeline rankings, the Dodgers gave up only their 5th, 7th, and 17th best prospects for Skubal. Plus, they'll pay him roughly $11 million. Other teams were gutless, that's all it is.

one day, a generation raised on Dog Man is going to wake up and go "y'know, that Petey the Cat stuff is kinda fucked up"

Watching The Prisoner because they put it on Critereon and this shit rocks dude.

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

my favorite movie pre-show just gets better and better

this is my new favorite diagram

Truly fantastic piece that reflects my thoughts not only on The Odyssey and the whole Wilson brouhaha, but also Nolan and, like, movies in general. Movies are great!

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 5d ago

I am here to defend the noble action movie from the classicist Emily Wilson: aftermath.site/the-odyssey-em...

this joke didn't go over so well in the theater last night, either

Christopher Gates@chriswgates.bsky.social · 6d ago

Odyssey post-credits sequence introducing Aeneas

Odyssey post-credits sequence introducing Aeneas

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

this gets at one of the funniest problems w/ superhero comics right now: writers, artists and even many readers are aware the united states has problems, but the genre's interconnected and conservative soap opera world cannot meaningfully address those problems w/out breaking the world

Joshua Rivera@jmrivera.bsky.social · last wk.

a little bit of personal lore: my culture writing career began with a cranky blog about spider-man. for Fansplaining, I imagine the end of that career, with another blog about spider-man fansplaining.com/what-spider-...

i know everyone has been dying for my take on emily wilson's review of nolan's odyssey and so here it is. it should be an embarrassment to whoever edited it. when a writer files copy like that, you should know how controversial it will be and go above and beyond to help them shore up their take.

PARADISE LOST TIME, BABYYYYYYYYYY

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

as a teen in the late '90s the only places I remember finding anime were Suncoast Video (where they'd card you if you tried to buy it) and the Indie Video Store where you'd go to rent stuff like Troma flicks and episodes of The Prisoner, neither of which I'd call "cool" or "mainstream"

a modern-day dragon sitting on top of a pile of RAM sticks, hard drives, Pokemon cards, and shrink-wrapped NES games.

I normally get my RPGs as PDFs these days, because I can't afford and don't have space for nice hardcovers, but I made an exception for Blades '68. Copy just arrived and I have no regrets. Beautiful book; can't wait to get this to the table (assuming I ever get to GM again).

Splatoon Raiders review: still the only franchise I can play with other people without my social anxiety skyrocketing

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

it's cool to see Marvel casting someone who's not already a megastar for this, its movies are almost always better when they do that

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

Black Panther 3 will be released December 15th, 2028. David Jonsson will star as T'Challa's son in the film.

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

our 4-year-old keeps smoking us at 7 Wonders Duel, a game that is decidedly not for 4-year-olds

pleased to report that Freedom Force still has the juice