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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Architects Of The Illusion
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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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.
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
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*.
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Bear's Best Friend #BanjoKazooie #RareWare
February 5, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Bear's Best Friend #BanjoKazooie #RareWare
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.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Q: What was the DCEU before Wonder Woman was cast?
A: Waiting For Gadot
A: Waiting For Gadot
February 3, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Q: What was the DCEU before Wonder Woman was cast?
A: Waiting For Gadot
A: Waiting For Gadot
So Markiplier's self-financed, self-distributed passion project did better in cinemas this weekend than the regime wife's propumentary, which ate ass in receipts despite captured media scrambling to say "b-but it did okay actually". I love this for both of them
February 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
So Markiplier's self-financed, self-distributed passion project did better in cinemas this weekend than the regime wife's propumentary, which ate ass in receipts despite captured media scrambling to say "b-but it did okay actually". I love this for both of them
Megadeth appearing as themselves on Duck Dodgers and playing Back In The Day to fight aliens with the power of metal is right near the top of my personal list of "It feels like I fever dreamed this but I'm pretty sure it actually happened"
February 2, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Megadeth appearing as themselves on Duck Dodgers and playing Back In The Day to fight aliens with the power of metal is right near the top of my personal list of "It feels like I fever dreamed this but I'm pretty sure it actually happened"
"QAnon were right all along about the global conspiracy of pedophile oligarchs having child sex slave orgies & manipulating world events, except they support everyone involved" is the kind of reality twist that could drive a motherfucker to their own personal Batman Who Laughs-tier villain arc
February 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
"QAnon were right all along about the global conspiracy of pedophile oligarchs having child sex slave orgies & manipulating world events, except they support everyone involved" is the kind of reality twist that could drive a motherfucker to their own personal Batman Who Laughs-tier villain arc
This is one of the most out of fucks left to give things I've ever seen from a court of law
NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below.
Link:
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Link:
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Order – #9 in Conejo Arias v. Noem (W.D. Tex., 5:26-cv-00415) – CourtListener.com
OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT--The Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Grea...
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January 31, 2026 at 10:56 PM
This is one of the most out of fucks left to give things I've ever seen from a court of law
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Person who comes to one of those "the wait staff are assholes to you, that's the gimmick" restaurants and is a little too into it to the point where the staff become unsure if things are still on the rails or if they're participating unwittingly in some manner of unculinary gratification
January 30, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Person who comes to one of those "the wait staff are assholes to you, that's the gimmick" restaurants and is a little too into it to the point where the staff become unsure if things are still on the rails or if they're participating unwittingly in some manner of unculinary gratification
Mood though. I love autographing books if people want that but every time I do, impostor syndrome looms like a tidal wave and I have to keep reminding myself they asked for this. Stan Lee once talked about how great it is if a little scribble from you can make someone's day, but that goes both ways!
wildest experience of my life was signing like 2-3 different posters for ppl at the gig last night... wym i'm in a band where ppl want signed posters of shows we play... what.
January 29, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Mood though. I love autographing books if people want that but every time I do, impostor syndrome looms like a tidal wave and I have to keep reminding myself they asked for this. Stan Lee once talked about how great it is if a little scribble from you can make someone's day, but that goes both ways!
You know, Spielberg made a movie about Lincoln and he had a whole-ass human dress up as Abe and say things in Abe's voice. There were sets. Props. Jobs given to the locations of filming. There was a key grip. Kylo Ren was there. You shame us all, Aronofsky, you don't have one whole-ass human in that
January 29, 2026 at 10:31 PM
You know, Spielberg made a movie about Lincoln and he had a whole-ass human dress up as Abe and say things in Abe's voice. There were sets. Props. Jobs given to the locations of filming. There was a key grip. Kylo Ren was there. You shame us all, Aronofsky, you don't have one whole-ass human in that
The Fountain is one of my favourite films ever so Aronofsky making AI slop is *rough*
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The Fountain is one of my favourite films ever so Aronofsky making AI slop is *rough*
The trick with editing finished scenes isn't just correcting whatever's compelling the edit; it's maintaining the internal rhythm of the scene. Every scene has an internal rhythm and this can be very hard to articulate to people who don't write, but it is essential the scene keeps the right flow.
January 29, 2026 at 3:08 PM
The trick with editing finished scenes isn't just correcting whatever's compelling the edit; it's maintaining the internal rhythm of the scene. Every scene has an internal rhythm and this can be very hard to articulate to people who don't write, but it is essential the scene keeps the right flow.
Most oddball pandemic-era band merch I own: a "FUCK YOU COVID" facemask from local ska indies Amy Gabba And The Almost Famous
January 29, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Most oddball pandemic-era band merch I own: a "FUCK YOU COVID" facemask from local ska indies Amy Gabba And The Almost Famous