YES

YES

Every fantasy lover needs to go out there now and find a copy of The Way of Kings, book 1 of The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson.

The world is so deeply fleshed out and I am in love with the magic system. Also Shallan is my child and I would die for her.

I think more fantasy protagonists should be evil. There's so much media where they're like "I can't kill him, that'd make me just as bad as them." No girl, fuck him up! Murder him in cold blood!

Vin Venture and Adolin Kholin had it right. Kill the bastard.

hey jonny, i just thought you'd want to know that character.ai has an ai-generated imitation of your voice and i'm not sure what other websites might have it or where it originated :(

Yeah, it's a fucking garbage state of affairs but, as a somewhat well-known performer with a pretty distinctive voice it doesn't exactly shock me. Needless to say I think anyone who used this is a mediocre waste of skin and if they ever tell me in person they've used it then 50/50 I punch them in the teeth.

I can't wait for a couple of years when it all collapses just like every other niche-but-interesting-technology-with-limited-use-cases-sold-as-a-universal-panacea-to-gormless-CEOs grift (blockchain being the best example). Because the thing is, none of these things actually make any money and cost a vast amount, so as soon as all the dumb venture capital funding dries up and AI is required to actually start paying for itself, the bubble bursts and the whole industry is fucked.

That said, it's gonna be rough when it happens - a lot of companies have invested very heavily in AI and they're going to be hurting badly. I know of more than one media company whose idiot executives invested ridiculous amounts into NFTs and ended up laying off massive swathes of workers when that obvious fucking scam collapsed. I suspect the AI crash is gonna be even worse than that. And by then it will have drowned the Internet in slop. We'll see, I guess.

Anyway, anyone who uses AI is a soulless fucking husk of a person who cannot tell half-digested vomit from culture, and I would pity them if they weren't making the world such a measurably worse place to exist.

God bless the Amtrak official account. I’d die for them

If tumblr was a train, it would be blue and full of fucking idiots as passengers

she's just a little kretchur

man is reading one of the stupid jurgen leitner books can’t have shit in this library