Dave Cook
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Ringo-nominated writer of comics + game history books Killtopia | Hello Darkness | Boom! Studios | Titan Comics | Repped by the Watson Little agency Portfolio + contact: https://dave-cook.com/ All my links: https://linktr.ee/davecook
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Killtopia: Phantoms #1 hits @kickstarter.com on Oct 31st 👻

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Phantoms is the sequel to our award-winning cyberpunk comic series Killtopia. It follows an elite police unit hunting a mind hacker across Neo Tokyo

Cover: @clarkbintart.bsky.social

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The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.
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A new age of fear comes to Neo Tokyo in Phantoms, the sequel arc to our award-winning cyberpunk comic series Killtopia.

Our issue #1 Kickstarter drops Oct 31st 👻 💊 🧠

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Art: @clarkbintart.bsky.social
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No probs chief. Love to see it!
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Eyyy congrats man 👏
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Architects were incredible in Manchester last night.

Think I’ve now seen them more than any other band since catching their first album tour in like 2006. Wild to see how far they’ve come 😳
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Super stoked to be a guest at this year’s Thought Bubble, and doing this panel with @bmure.bsky.social @donyatodd.bsky.social and @decassette.bsky.social

Get the full programme at: www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/programme

Thanks again to @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social for putting this together 🙏
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Thank you :) it was on Zoom, after lots of correspondence
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I wrote a huge retrospective feature about the Tenchu: Stealth Assassins game series for Lock.On volume 6 - out now.

For it, I managed to get all the original creative leads together in a room in Tokyo for a big interview. It’s full of wild facts about the series.

Check it out!
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So excited for this one.
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Gotta enflame to engage. It’s so tiring.
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It’s such a blunt and perfect response
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Oh yeah, it’s always been the way 😅

Imaging saying this to the Wire guy. Unreal.
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Incredible.
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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水曜日のよる8時半にうちで友達と古いにんてんどのゲームをします。マりおパーディー3です。

でも、むずかしといらいらする!
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I agree. That was my point.
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Yeah, I mean the server was right there, ready to swoop in and take my order. The AI was completely irrelevant and useless.
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No problem at all, and best of luck :D
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Seconds later a human came on the speaker, apologised for the inconvenience and took my order.

Another case of AI utterly failing to replace a human role adequately. But hey, it’s cheaper right? 🤷‍♂️

Full props to the server though. Great customer service in the end 👍
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On Monday I went to a Popeye’s drive through, where my order was taken by an AI over the speaker. The voice was blatantly non-human.

It took my order, then said “is your order correct on the screen?” (the screen was blank). After an awkward pause it shat the bed and said “how can I help you today?”
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Inspired by Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell, Killtopia: Phantoms #1 hits @kickstarter.com on Oct 31st

It’s the sequel to our award-winning crowdfunding smash Killtopia, following an elite police unit hunting a mass mind hacker in Neo Tokyo

More details here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bus...
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Guess whose having fuuuuuun
davecook.bsky.social
Inspired by Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell, Killtopia: Phantoms #1 hits @kickstarter.com on Oct 31st

It’s the sequel to our award-winning crowdfunding smash Killtopia, following an elite police unit hunting a mass mind hacker in Neo Tokyo

More details here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bus...
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Cover / uncoloured page art by the incredible @clarkbintart.bsky.social
davecook.bsky.social
Inspired by Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell, Killtopia: Phantoms #1 hits @kickstarter.com on Oct 31st

It’s the sequel to our award-winning crowdfunding smash Killtopia, following an elite police unit hunting a mass mind hacker in Neo Tokyo

More details here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bus...