The main effect of releasing the Halo CE remake has been to reveal that there are a lot of people who have gotten weird about Halo. It's strange out there.
Tragic: that really cool story idea from a couple of years ago was actually a headache inducing landmine all along
Shibuya Incident wouldn't have gone down that way if I was there
This Signalis discord server drama reminds me of a funny irony: People hate bad moderation, to the point that 'internet moderator' has been a stock antagonist like the obstructive bureaucrat for years, but 'good moderation' isn't actually a selling point for a website.
In my entire life I've only been truly jealous of this guy:
It's round ten of AO3 statistics discourse, with the focus being the relative proportions of M/M fics to F/F fics. It's always the same topic: what does it say about the culture that the latter is so much lower than the former. But also the latter is legitimately a million stories.
Catching up on Iron Wok Jan and seeing him bust out the Chaliapin steak ... Souma really was just reading this guy's recipes lol
I wonder what the most commonly reused technology is in SF, outside of the obvious like hyperdrives or lasers. Maybe 'chair that automatically conforms to a person's body when they sit down.'
Actually losing it at the ZZZ beach event intro cutscene where their uma musume hydroplanes across the surface of the sea at three hundred miles an hour while standing ramrod straight and drinking a hard soda
If nothing else the release of The Odyssey may just kill the term 'film bro'
On reading it a second time my abiding thought on the Wilson review of The Odyssey is that there's a bit where she throws shade on Tolkien, but the line of dialogue she's complaining about is lifted from Tennyson's Ulysses.
This latest round of Zack Davisson triggered anime discourse is no less dogmatic than all the other instances, though I will say there's something strangely nostalgic about the faint undercurrent of 'but if you were bullied over liking anime you probably deserved it'
I got so stuck on this dumb joke that I wrote it
Lau R. Griffin@thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 2mo agoIdle thought from yesterday: romantasy book inspired by Supreme Commander
When the first episode of Iron Wok Jan ended by saying 'this is a manga that shaped the future' I did not expect to learn that Erina from Shokugeki no Soma is just a girl version of this fucking guy
I wanted to make a joke about MOMO being back in the Switch 2 version of Xenoblade 2 but I keep looking at the key art Ninty shared and it doesn't have 'BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.' in the corner
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, also widely known by the nickname the Senator from Arizona,
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I don't typically post 'writing advice' because I am still a student and beyond that just some guy. But I do believe that readers will be most strongly impacted by what they can't have.
The new Gundam reveal being when it is means I'm going to wake up to a whole work day's worth of discourse aren't I
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Eyes shooting out of my head like the Tex Avery Wolf but because I just saw the price of two bags of groceries
Losing it at a Nikke pinup because the character is about to smash a Great Northern
One of the upshots of archiving the website is learning that apparently the updated versions of the introduction and bio didn't stick, so they've been out of date for nearly half a decade lol
Lau R. Griffin@thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 2w agoSwitched off the auto-renew on my author's website. Had it for eight years, so I feel a bit melancholy about doing this, until I remember how much this has cost me.
I wanted to give that Booklist post that's going around a read to see what the ALA could have said to have generated such a response. However it is, or has been made, a subscriber post, so it's a bit of a mystery.
Switched off the auto-renew on my author's website. Had it for eight years, so I feel a bit melancholy about doing this, until I remember how much this has cost me.
I've been motivated to write recently, but I haven't been very focused. So I've got three viable drafts. This is almost more of a problem than zero viable drafts.
Feeling nostalgic about Tenchi Muyo. Which is odd because I was never really a fan of it back in the day.