Meme triptych of Duke Leto and Paul Atreides Text: We must not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Why not? Because people are fucking idiots, Paul. They're just... incredibly stupid.
Commission for Spectrum Syndicate (tag in next post): Marie & Eleanor
This was truly an honor to be asked to take on. I regrettably don't do enough WLW art, so when they suggested these two (who also happen to be personal favorites) it was an instant "YES!!"
#warframe #warframefanart
It's also the coolest and most fun part of the job, why would you want to cut it out!?
AI can't do that. It can't understand the words or the characters it's "voicing." It can't understand your intent and has no intent of its own. You need a real actor to do this.
If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.
Oh you're kidding. McKee went down that road?
Wise Kra explains to Melric that he's not really helping people by keeping them dependent upon his convenient problem-solving magic, and that they have to remember how to do things for themselves. Kra gives Melric his magic back, but warns that if he wastes it again it may be lost forever.
Remembering a favourite book when I was small, 'The Magician Who Lost His Magic' by David McKee.
Melric the Magician uses magic to do everything for everyone, with the result that nobody remembers how to do anything for themself any more. Then one day the magic vanishes.
Something something AI.
Absolute chills
December 20th. A partially rubberised torso stands on the corner of Edward Street and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing.
I think part of this is driven by YouTube algorithmic shenanigans - certainly that's where you see it most - but have only the vaguest grasp of such arcane matters
Essentially the emerging way of asking a question is simply to take a declarative statement and put a question mark at the end:
How language changes in real time?
I keep noticing a subtle change to how people phrase questions online. Instead of 'When were bicycles invented?' the question is becoming 'When bicycles were invented?' 'Do' as an auxiliary verb is vanishing; instead of 'Why do bears eat fish?' we get 'Why bears eat fish?'
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
Given that some people are claiming that the 'early drafts' contain material that was forcibly censored, I think it's important to discern real drafts from fake.
Does anybody know when the first example of a robot's eyes turning red to show they've turned evil is?
btw, Dispatch is some of the most beautiful storytelling in games I've ever experienced, and I love it to bits
This particular fake has grammatical and spelling errors throughout, has no GRASP of the PROPER USE of CAPITALS in a FILM SCRIPT, and claims to be the 'orange' revision despite orange not being one of the WGA script revision colours. You'd think people would notice.
Unfortunately, because so many discussions centre around the fake script with its blatant Engineer Jesus sequence, there's now a conspiracy theory that 'studio interference' forced the removal of the Space Jesus backstory. The reality is simply that Scott wanted ambiguity, as he often does.
Back in Spaihts's Alien: Engineers draft, he had a character jokingly refer to 'Jesus, the last Engineer!' and that's as blatant as the references ever got.
They were pared back even more in later drafts because Scott wanted subtlety; he wanted viewers to 'fight about it and not know'.
Put me down for the next one!
This isn't to say that the Space Jesus backstory itself is fake; it's not. The idea that Jesus was 'the scion of some giant alien' came directly from Ridley Scott, during a script meeting with Jon Spaihts. But it was only ever hinted at indirectly in the scripts.
Spent the winter months listening to PROTO by @laurainparis.bsky.social on Audible, then going back to the beginning and listening to it all over again. Recommended.
I do! It's an invaluable contribution to the discussion of pagan history.
Discussions of Prometheus frequently refer to an 'early script draft' in which Jesus is explicitly described as a human being raised by Engineers.
Said script is a fan-made fake. Read it here: web.archive.org/web/20130511...
This is Lindelof debunking it as a fake: web.archive.org/web/20130423...
Just tumblr, really. Maintaining a presence in The Other Place for obvious reasons.
He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
