It’s kinda fun to go on YouTube and watch/listen to the cutscene lore movies people have edited together for each more modern game. 

I feel like the public using AI is just training it for free—or, apparently, paying to do it. It’s like how we all gave so much of our info away in the early social media days—if it’s fun, we don’t care that we’re being robbed.

I enjoyed the earlier Netflix series, so hopefully this is cool, too.

That “leap of faith” writing style is great when it works, but it deflates like a balloon really fast when it doesn’t. But it kind of puts fans and writers on the same team in that we’re all wondering what comes next.

I think Ridiculousness taps into the same thing many podcasts do — it feels like a group of friends hanging out. In this case, they’re watching YouTube together—so it’s Beavis and Butthead but with more people. I like B&B; not so much Ridiculousness. But they pull off a weird dynamic—clearly they’re not saying…

It’s popular because of YouTube Shorts playing Sigma Male Phonk music while Harvey and Mike dominate dialogue with opponents. Fans made short edits, these popped up a lot, people searched up the show, it became a hit on Netflix and they promoted it more, now it’s huge.

Kevin Hart and Tom Segura: two comedians reminding us that our legs aren’t what they used to be once we hit our forties. 

I grew up in California — I recall things being called tropical storms then. I remember getting sandbags, seeing trees knocked over from the storms, flooded riverbeds. Am I crazy?

Pizza will be fine, because pizza is a traditional delivery food. Same for local Chinese and Japanese food places. Jimmy John’s will be ok, too, because it’s been in their business model for a long time. Delivery is built-in to the experience with those places. It’s all the other places where this will drop off, which…

I remember getting into GATE in California back in ‘94 or so, around 4th grade. I just remember having a lot more work. I went into honors everything in 6th grade (I should have washed out in 5th grade but our teacher left for a new job halfway through and our replacement teacher’s husband died shortly after she…

These exchanges, I think, illustrate my point about identity being wrapped up in creative expression. Making something is displaying or giving some part of your intangible self to an audience, which makes AI derivative work feel like identity fraud. 

Ownership is important in creative fields is important in part because it’s tied to income. But beyond that, a person’s identity and reputation are tied to their creative output. I’d even go so far to say that at least when a person steals from you or produces a derivative work, at least there’s some flattery in…

I was wondering what was going on with the Monarch storyline, so I’m glad to see this pop up. It’s so fun, but has just enough emotional weight. Plus, the marketing and AR-type game and app possibilities seem pretty cool.

This kind of makes me glad I haven’t relied on publishing my work for a living, even though I have fantasies of a more creative work life. I already avoid playing with AI because I don’t want to be its unpaid trainer—I’d hate it if something I made 20 years ago or 6 months ago ended up being used similarly without my…

Humanity is bent toward exalting creations over their creator. That should probably be spiritual undertone of Scott’s next project.

Zuck and Musk fight it out. Big John is the ref. Buffer does the intro. Rogan commentates with Bas Ruten. They’re joined by Mike Tyson and GSP for a post-fight breakdown. All proceeds are matched by Phizer, Moderna, Musk, and Zuck. Tom from Myspace is one of the judges as a reveal. Neil Young opens the show with a…

Don’t go after Satch! haha.

I can’t help but wonder if Beast is in over his head. My instinct is to root for him, but this is basically a contract dispute between two businesses that will come down to contract language and VDC is coming into this with more experience than him and they are obviously ready to be very aggressive.

What an abuse of the initials NES.

This show is constantly in my YouTube Shorts feed, enough that I’ve passively learned the story of the whole show. My wife found it on Netflix (as AKA stated) and has been watching, so we’re slowly comparing notes. It’s an interesting experiment.