Ben Paddon

@benpaddon.net

JUMP LEADS SEASON 2 OUT NOW! Writer, podcaster, comedian, former world-record speedrunner, u̶n̶o̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ Worms historian. Jump Leads, Good Chaotic, The Game of Rassilon. Non-binary, they/them.

Turns out that Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man: A.) uses Gen AI for some of its effects, and B.) sucks. So there's two reasons to avoid seeing it.

With Edinburgh approaching, I am looking forward to my free fringe pals excitedly reporting about full rooms and great audiences. But please - for the love of god - don't talk about bucket money.

I just want to make something people remember, and talk about, and share. I want to make something people think about long after they've finished watching it, or reading it, or listening to it. I want to have mattered.

There was a window of like three weeks this year where Burger King was inexplicably good again. Like, the Whopper got REALLY good. That period has ended now, probably because franchisees are realizing they can just make them the old, terrible way and still make the same amount of money.

Just your periodic reminder that nothing I ever write or make will knowingly be touched by AI. If you ever catch a sound effect or piece of music in Jump Leads that has AI in it that I've missed, let me know so I can swap that shit out immediately.

I was about to post asking for help because my Windows 11 install has been stuck on 23H2 and won't acknowledge any updates since then, which has been a bugger because Adobe started complaining about it, but I just got the notification that it's FINALLY downloading 25H2. I hate Microsoft.

Today in Unanswerable Questions I Didn't Know I Needed an Anwer To: Would Rincewind and Taako have gotten along? (The answer, I suspect, is No. But I would love to know how that would have gone down.)

[mysterious circle of robed figures] Kathleen Stock: dark lord! dark lord! Stock: terrible news!! Stock: the feile en phobail art festival says we can't run our usual genital inspection booth! JK Rowling: WHAT Rowling: thisss iss an outrage!! Rowling: the people LOVE our genital insspection booth!!

Why do so many AI tech bros look like they write articles complaining about screen accuracy in comic book movies for Ain't It Cool News?