I’ll take an AI that writes this over Sam Barsanti any time.

As a 43 year old DINK, I bet a good chunk of that difference is that you have kids. There are some good reasons a lot of us are opting out of the parental experience.

It helps that he is, from everything I’ve heard so far, an absolute delight as a person.

I dunno, model collapse from AI scraping AI-generated content seems to already be happening.

The only way AI art is going to be boomer art is if you feed it nothing but Thomas Kincaid.

Well, it is true in the sense that “one user on Reddit” suggested it.

To be really honest, the -American part of African-American is the problem in the US, too. It is not an accident that the first black president of the United States was the son of a Kenyan who went to Harvard, and not the descendant of slaves.

I think CPUSA membership might get you in trouble - albeit maybe just fired from a government job - but saying Marxist shit? Splinter just got shut down, the writers didn’t go to jail.

Has to be cheaper than munitions!

What sort of sad sacks waste a long weekend seeing a movie?  I never understood that.  Christmas makes sense because there’s nowhere else to go, but any other long weekend and I’m taking a short trip.

Might also have to do with the fact that I’m not wasting a long weekend SEEING A MOVIE.

I mean, it was the 80s. Those folks were probably getting tired of cocaine.

Eh I was bullied pretty badly and it basically made afraid of success, gave me crippling self-doubt, and gave me social anxiety that curdled into functional alcoholism.  I feel like there’s a happy medium between that and being billionaire asshole.  I would totally have settled for selling a tech company before it…

Okay, you’ve managed something I never thought possible - kindled my interest to go seek out a comic book.  I could never have fathomed such a proposition since President McKinley was heinously gunned down by an anarchist!

Hmm yes he does seem like he might not have been a hit in the Poconos, I suppose, but his work was definitely far above the pablum peddled to Ma and Pa Kettle!

I dunno, I feel like some of those shows could be the fever dream of hallucinating AI trained on nothing but pictures of duck lips and spray tans. The AI would just give them the major plot beats anyway. Or maybe just most of what MTV put on tv the last 20 years.

This schtick never fails to brighten my day.  Kudos, good man!

You don’t think AI could write the dreck that is “reality TV?”

Fair enough.

If the “making of” story is better than the actual story, that indicates an issue with the story.