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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 3h

“Oh no, we have no weapons. Just multi-function tools that *could* be used as weapons. In an emergency.”

Roddenberry’s aversion to TNG Starfleet being “too military” but wanting to keep it an action show kind of justifies the way other factions in DS9 find the UFP suspicious.

grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 3h

I remember a lot of people making fun of the TNG-era phaser designs, but I think (intentionally or not) they kind of betray the Federation in that era having a similar mindset as the Pierson’s Puppeteers from Larry Niven’s Ringworld.

Tasha Yar with a “dust buster” phaser and Riker with a “cricket” phaser.

Kathryn Janeway with a “cobrahead” phaser

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 4h

What do you imagine the lost Bellerophon from Forbidden Planet looked like?

It was a colony ship, so you have to imagine it was bigger than the C-57D, but it also landed on the surface of Altair IV so I dunno about it being, say, USS Enterprise sized.

Saucer-shaped United Planets cruiser C-57D landing on the planet Altair IV in the movie Forbidden Planet.

Dr Morbius’s dome-shaped house on Altair IV.

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 4h

Season 2 of DS9 had at least three “O’Brien suffers” episodes back-to-back.

“Apocalypse Game,” “Whispers,” “Paradise”…

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 6h

The Deep Space Nine episode “Armageddon Game” has one of the most egregious uses of technobabble even for Star Trek.

“biomechanical gene disruptors” bitch you mean a *virus*

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 7h

I found a box of Xen portal grenades in an Aperture Science facility. One time when I used one it spawned one of Black Mesa’s HEV Suit zombies!

grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 1d

In a half life kinda mood, so I picked back up my Entropy Zero 2 playthrough that I left off a couple years ago.

Love the integration of Half-Life, HL2, HL2 Beta, and Portal elements.

Entropy: Zero 2

Second in a series of Half-Life 2 mods where you play as a Combine Metrocop, who then gets promoted to an Overwatch soldier.

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 9h

I played a bit of House Of Necrosis, the resident evil chocobo's mystery dungeon game, and I've got some thoughts about what the demaking process means for design.

store.steampowered.com/app/2005870/...

Save 10% on House of Necrosis on Steam

A turn-based horror RPG with retro 32-bit 3D graphics. Survive the horrors of the mansion that changes every time you enter.

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 8h

Saw a conversation on Tumblr to the effect of “Joss Whedon is the modern Shakespeare—not in terms of quality, but in terms of changing the way we talk about writing. Like, a decade before ‘Marvel Writing’ discourse, TV Tropes started out as a Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan site.”

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it’s xeecee @xeecee.bsky.social · 10h

check this out lmao

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 8h

Harry Ord kind of glasses

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THE NOODLE @onebadnoodle.bsky.social · 9h

bug type gym leader

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

my other big American literary teaching complaint is that even the good teaching focuses far too much on symbolism and character and not nearly enough on tone, style, figures of speech and the suchlike. It's often a bird's eye view of the text rather than a tight-up read of paragraphs or sentences.

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 9h

Oct 28

youtu.be/qs1qo46GfWs

In the Mouth of Madness I Official Trailer | 4K

YouTube video by Arrow Video

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Bar Mageddon @barmageddon.bsky.social · 10h

image from the movie jaws showing a sweaty chief brody in the cockpit of a boat with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. text should say "we're gonna need a bigger boat" but the last part has a box over it so it says "we're gonna need a bigger nursing home"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe I should try his fantasy stuff like The Halloween Tree or Something Wicked This Way Comes, maybe there it wouldn’t feel as off.

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Gus! 🌱🔜 LIghtBox Expo 2025 @friedbaens.bsky.social · 10h

#dungeonmeshi

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 10h

I’ve never really been able to get into Ray Bradbury.

IDK, I don’t vibe with his writing style. It feels very childish and fairy tale-ish, which is very uncomfortably dissonant to me in his sci-fi stories.

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 10h

Like, imagine Pinhead looking at The Shape, tilting his head, and saying “What *are* you?”

grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 11h

I could kinda see the Halloween/Scream/Hellraiser crossover working, weirdly enough.

Like, a Ghostface screws around with the Lament Configuration, and while fleeing from the Cenobites runs into Michael Meyers, whose pure evil soul both captivates and frightens them.

youtu.be/HzhqR_OaIjo

The Fall of Horror Movie Crossovers (feat. Queen Coke Francis)

YouTube video by Anthony Gramuglia

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · 11h

I would have assumed it was a reference to the three-legged crow symbol from Japanese traditional iconography.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatagar...

Yatagarasu - Wikipedia

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undead transgender kai shiden 👻🦇 @cephalopistol.bsky.social · 13h

chicken zockey

monster chicken zock from sd gundam gaiden

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