video to send to your friends who say "sportsball"
shylax
@shylax.bsky.social
A little bit of a lot of things. Mainly sports, wrestling, tokusatsu, and video games. I'm not as good at Magic as I'd like to be (but who is?)
You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 11h agoIf it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
Today on Whatever, @athenascalzi.com offers a rebuttal to my "Guitar Hero" analogy for "AI" - Not because she's defending "AI" (she thinks it sucks) but because she believes I am slandering Guitar Hero. Catch up on this intergenerational clash at the link: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/10/w...
Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense Of Guitar Hero
My father recently wrote a piece detailing some of his thoughts on AI, and in doing so he compared using generative AI to playing Guitar Hero. I shall not let this analogy stand. If you think IR…
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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d agoOver on Whatever today, I'm talking about "AI" and creativity and how, when it comes to learning creative skills, Generative "AI" is rather like the old "Guitar Hero" game, i.e., a really fun way not to actually learn how to do a creative thing: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/06/g...
The other day, the vet couldn’t believe Uni is already 6. He has a baby face, but this boy is middle-aged! :3
I broke the record for most copies of a card in my Limited deck. It was 5 copies of Burn the Impure in a Mirrodin Besieged prerelease draft, it is now 6 copies of Pinecone Strike at The Hobbit 2HG prerelease. Being 2HG does give it the asterisk.
“I better not write this thing I love, or else jerks might interpret it the worst way possible—” Fun fact: if you ever hear this voice, you are legally allowed to beat it to death with mental hammers.
It's like a 3 mana 16/16 with flying and haste is too strong.
Amy the Amazonian@amytheamazonian.bsky.social · yesterdayI think Fantasticar is going to crash tomorrow. THIS FLYING CAR IS GOING DOWN!
If this isn't the meme playing out, I don't know what is:
The keeper of the cards (She’s not supposed to go in here but she somehow hopped over the towers and didn’t knock them over)
Come for the impossible Robin Hood-level shot. Stay for the guy blasting himself in the junk with a confetti cannon.
Sam Woodcock@samwoodcock.eurosky.social · yesterdayThere is so much I going on here
What, so I can listen to all the cunts who don't have headphones in and are shouting at a speakerphone? No thanks
They let you sit here and play Rogue while drinking wine.
Spider-Man wouldn’t have made all this money if he didn’t do the Rider Kick in the new movie
Spider-man Rider Kick
Alt: Spider-man Rider Kicking through a van windshield
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I TOOK MY 90 YEAR OLD NEIGHBOUR TO AN ANIME CONVENTION! Her first con ever!
Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures@michellefranklin.bsky.social · 3d agoMy 90 year old neighbour's first convention! She opted for the Kiki cosplay. Think she's ready?
tbh I'm only mad because this is absolutely repairable, and probably with just a heavy duty extension cord to replace the damaged one. could use a 3D printed strain relief to get fancy
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2d agoAbsolutely rules that this guy is 3rd in the presidential line of succession.
WHAAAAAA, THE FIRE EMBLEM THEMED BIRTHDAY ANIMATION THINGY ON NINTENDO TODAY IS THIS SMOOTH LOOKING SOMMIE?!?!?!?!?!
Pi@sacredstarlordpi.bsky.social · 2d ago...it's the 9th in my timezone...
