Real Deal Space Bird Energy (C.A. MacLean)
@camroundabout.bsky.social
Novelist, author of sci-fi action series Architects Of The Illusion (and others to come!). Canadian. Find my media-analysis articles, novels and other links: https://thegamerslookingglass.com/?page_id=398
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www.amazon.com/dp/B09FF7XY66 My #scifi action/adventure epic Architects Of The Illusion is right here in physical & digital! Sweeping battles, derelict stations, emotionally compromised space birds and cosmic entities who are making life more metaphysically complex than said space birds would like.
IIRC the end of Truth Seekers? Man. That episode turned me from "this show is neat" to "I love this show". I even have an art print from that episode signed by Lindbeck & Nixon, that's how much this ep means to me. And the visuals during the song section, chefskiss.jpg.
February 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
IIRC the end of Truth Seekers? Man. That episode turned me from "this show is neat" to "I love this show". I even have an art print from that episode signed by Lindbeck & Nixon, that's how much this ep means to me. And the visuals during the song section, chefskiss.jpg.
Expedition 33's OST is like having a whole artist's entire yearslong career being dropped on us all at once. Even if you have zero interest in playing the game you should check out the soundtrack. There's overdelivering, and then there's whatever this is. Just epic.
February 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Expedition 33's OST is like having a whole artist's entire yearslong career being dropped on us all at once. Even if you have zero interest in playing the game you should check out the soundtrack. There's overdelivering, and then there's whatever this is. Just epic.
"Aywhup" becoming a common retort for a refusal to play or promote or validate AI slop (manifesting this future)
February 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
"Aywhup" becoming a common retort for a refusal to play or promote or validate AI slop (manifesting this future)
My relationship with my website host, now that they keep introing various AI slop "options", is maintained at professional knifepoint. Get it away from me. I will cut it and you. git.
February 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
My relationship with my website host, now that they keep introing various AI slop "options", is maintained at professional knifepoint. Get it away from me. I will cut it and you. git.
"Why do women avoid me? I'm really a nice guy. I go out of my way to be a nice guy, even. It's not my fault the slovenly empty-womb harlotry refuses to recognize my grace"
February 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
"Why do women avoid me? I'm really a nice guy. I go out of my way to be a nice guy, even. It's not my fault the slovenly empty-womb harlotry refuses to recognize my grace"
There's few things I love more as both a storyteller and fan of media than those huge moments of continuity payoff. Where everything comes together and you suddenly realize everything mattered all along.
February 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM
There's few things I love more as both a storyteller and fan of media than those huge moments of continuity payoff. Where everything comes together and you suddenly realize everything mattered all along.
Exactly the volume of cuteness I required today
February 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Exactly the volume of cuteness I required today
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Old Maliketh drawing that I am still fond of.
#ELDENRING
#ELDENRING
February 11, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Old Maliketh drawing that I am still fond of.
#ELDENRING
#ELDENRING
KLANCHELLA OMG
February 10, 2026 at 2:30 AM
KLANCHELLA OMG
Man I love Mastermind so much. The day it went up, I watched it, liveposted reaction, went to work, came home that night and watched it again.
Then the very next night I got strep throat but that wasn't I.M.P's fault
Then the very next night I got strep throat but that wasn't I.M.P's fault
February 10, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Man I love Mastermind so much. The day it went up, I watched it, liveposted reaction, went to work, came home that night and watched it again.
Then the very next night I got strep throat but that wasn't I.M.P's fault
Then the very next night I got strep throat but that wasn't I.M.P's fault
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Something else I think about is how much these AI prompt jockeys are stealing the experience of writing from themselves, they don't even realize what they're losing out on, cos writing is wonderful and you can grow and learn so much about yourself, the process is a gift. They're robbing themselves.
Even beyond the quality argument, these people aren't even 'writers', they're just assholes hitting what they think is the FREE MONEY button. Which sometimes works, so they keep doing it. If they gave even one solitary shit about art or even storytelling they would know better. They just don't care.
"I can generate a book in a day, and it takes you 6 months to write one"
Have these prompt jockeys never heard the idiom quality over quantity before?
Have these prompt jockeys never heard the idiom quality over quantity before?
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Something else I think about is how much these AI prompt jockeys are stealing the experience of writing from themselves, they don't even realize what they're losing out on, cos writing is wonderful and you can grow and learn so much about yourself, the process is a gift. They're robbing themselves.
SO MANY boss themes in Expedition 33 are "so epic that your soul partially ejects from your body from the first bar alone" tier
February 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM
SO MANY boss themes in Expedition 33 are "so epic that your soul partially ejects from your body from the first bar alone" tier
Over an hour since I had lunch and my home office still smells like gochujang sauce. Peak.
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Over an hour since I had lunch and my home office still smells like gochujang sauce. Peak.
Somehow my local mall never stopped being The Place To Go. Lots of memories there. Hell, it even survived the pandemic a few years after a massive reno. Legit, I do feel society lost something real when malls en masse stopped being a Third Space.
February 8, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Somehow my local mall never stopped being The Place To Go. Lots of memories there. Hell, it even survived the pandemic a few years after a massive reno. Legit, I do feel society lost something real when malls en masse stopped being a Third Space.
I didn't even notice this, I was still all "B-BIG MOOD" about Blitz's refusal to go the easy route of poisoning the coffee because it would have ruined a perfectly good coffee 😅
February 7, 2026 at 10:03 PM
I didn't even notice this, I was still all "B-BIG MOOD" about Blitz's refusal to go the easy route of poisoning the coffee because it would have ruined a perfectly good coffee 😅
Tide Pods are neat because "just toss a laundry bomb in there and call it a job well done" is basically Back To The Future 2 tech
February 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Tide Pods are neat because "just toss a laundry bomb in there and call it a job well done" is basically Back To The Future 2 tech
It would suck if life worked on Sonic logic and you lost all your money every time you took any sort of physical damage. OTOH no more billionaires
February 7, 2026 at 4:04 PM
It would suck if life worked on Sonic logic and you lost all your money every time you took any sort of physical damage. OTOH no more billionaires
So that is a decidedly non-peak February 6 experience as far as those go
February 6, 2026 at 10:32 PM
So that is a decidedly non-peak February 6 experience as far as those go
If y'all like furry high fantasy, and you like graphic novels, and you haven't checked out Myre yet, you are in for a *feast*.
February 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
If y'all like furry high fantasy, and you like graphic novels, and you haven't checked out Myre yet, you are in for a *feast*.
Thanks!
February 6, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Thanks!
Apologies, I remembered seconds after I fired it out 😅
February 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Apologies, I remembered seconds after I fired it out 😅
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Bear's Best Friend #BanjoKazooie #RareWare
February 5, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Bear's Best Friend #BanjoKazooie #RareWare
(Sorry, forgot to tag #WeeknightWriters)
February 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
(Sorry, forgot to tag #WeeknightWriters)
Better than before. Am in my first permanent employment situation since before the pandemic, and being off survival brain has been huge for my mental health and my creativity.
Q1: How are you holding up this week? #WeeknightWriters
February 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
Better than before. Am in my first permanent employment situation since before the pandemic, and being off survival brain has been huge for my mental health and my creativity.
Came in to say, S-tier shirt
February 5, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Came in to say, S-tier shirt