Vita Werdegast
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Vita Werdegast
@wordcountess.bsky.social
· May 22
This Game Kills Fascists
Spoilers for all Dragon Age, y’all. I have always believed the world would be a kinder place if more people played Dragon Age games. It’s true that BioWare’s high fantasy series h…
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Hey, everybody! I'm back at the Gutter this month with a piece about Dragon Age: The Veilguard!
#dragonage #veilguard #datv #didiforgetanyhashtags #culturalgutter
#dragonage #veilguard #datv #didiforgetanyhashtags #culturalgutter
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Gang.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Gang.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
GANG.
LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.
STOP USING THEM.
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The relationship between generative AI and productive force is mostly sleight-of-hand -- it's a way to take credit for other's work, to persuade people to do the same amount of work for less compensation, etc.
February 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The relationship between generative AI and productive force is mostly sleight-of-hand -- it's a way to take credit for other's work, to persuade people to do the same amount of work for less compensation, etc.
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Shutaro Iida handled several games - especially Castlevania -, from coding to directing. Then went on to give the world Bloodstained when Konami thought 2D action games were stupid.
Only just recently we learned of the full extent of his incredible work.
Rest well.
Only just recently we learned of the full extent of his incredible work.
Rest well.
February 16, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Shutaro Iida handled several games - especially Castlevania -, from coding to directing. Then went on to give the world Bloodstained when Konami thought 2D action games were stupid.
Only just recently we learned of the full extent of his incredible work.
Rest well.
Only just recently we learned of the full extent of his incredible work.
Rest well.
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You tell yourself it's the ivy moving against the glass. Tell yourself old, half-abandoned buildings are full of noises you'll never fathom out. Then the voices start and you realise no writhing vegetation, no auditory pareidolia from ancient pipes offers up full sentences.
February 16, 2026 at 11:43 AM
You tell yourself it's the ivy moving against the glass. Tell yourself old, half-abandoned buildings are full of noises you'll never fathom out. Then the voices start and you realise no writhing vegetation, no auditory pareidolia from ancient pipes offers up full sentences.
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recently tea colored my old ass doodle and made it a sticker bc this is a reoccurring thought in the shadow dragon corner i guess
February 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
recently tea colored my old ass doodle and made it a sticker bc this is a reoccurring thought in the shadow dragon corner i guess
I enjoy being covered in dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogblanketsofbluesky
February 15, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I enjoy being covered in dogs #dogsofbluesky #dogblanketsofbluesky
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You can read the full version of this (unpaywalled) here: www.tom-cox.com/a-brief-unsp...
February 14, 2026 at 12:54 PM
You can read the full version of this (unpaywalled) here: www.tom-cox.com/a-brief-unsp...
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no one tells you that any degree of success is a lifetime of "no"s and that couple few "yes"s. Relying on others to give you an opportunity, a door, an opening -- some that may come too late. In this essay I will talk about how parrying mechanics are detrimental to mental hea
February 15, 2026 at 6:55 AM
no one tells you that any degree of success is a lifetime of "no"s and that couple few "yes"s. Relying on others to give you an opportunity, a door, an opening -- some that may come too late. In this essay I will talk about how parrying mechanics are detrimental to mental hea
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Shock around Rubio speech seems a variation of same delusion that led legacy media to inaccurately declare it a softer touch, as if Rubio, a Latino man who once disputed Trumpism, is an alternative voice. He’s not. He joined fascism; now he’s a fascist; he gave a fascist speech, because fascism.
February 15, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Shock around Rubio speech seems a variation of same delusion that led legacy media to inaccurately declare it a softer touch, as if Rubio, a Latino man who once disputed Trumpism, is an alternative voice. He’s not. He joined fascism; now he’s a fascist; he gave a fascist speech, because fascism.
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…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls
How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…
February 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls
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Dan Curtis was one of the leading lights of mainstream horror in the 1960s and ‘70s.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Dan Curtis was one of the leading lights of mainstream horror in the 1960s and ‘70s.
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Valentines Day 1931, Dracula is released. #Svengoolie
February 14, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Valentines Day 1931, Dracula is released. #Svengoolie
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“I support ICE”
“I’m going to punch you” is the correct response.
Loving Woke 2.0 so far
“I’m going to punch you” is the correct response.
Loving Woke 2.0 so far
February 14, 2026 at 8:26 AM
“I support ICE”
“I’m going to punch you” is the correct response.
Loving Woke 2.0 so far
“I’m going to punch you” is the correct response.
Loving Woke 2.0 so far
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we still doing these?
February 14, 2026 at 2:10 AM
we still doing these?
Alarming the dog with the sounds I make upon paging through the AI "updates" Microsoft made whilst I was unawares.
February 14, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Alarming the dog with the sounds I make upon paging through the AI "updates" Microsoft made whilst I was unawares.
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Don't forget—there was a series of YA FRIDAY THE 13TH books back in the '90s. Now long OOP (digitizations exist), but they're very fun and worth reading. Also: quite gruesome.
‘Camp Crystal Lake’ – Unmasking the ‘Friday the 13th’ YA Horror Novels
After sending Jason Voorhees to Hell, and before launching him into space, the Friday the 13th franchise delivered a set of fresh and exciting stories. Of course, these other tales of the slasher icon...
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February 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Don't forget—there was a series of YA FRIDAY THE 13TH books back in the '90s. Now long OOP (digitizations exist), but they're very fun and worth reading. Also: quite gruesome.
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All right, #HorrorWatch! I'm calling it! Black Sunday won by a landslide. So far this short month of Scream Queens we get two movies with Barbara Steele in it! As it should be, she rules.
Come and watch Black Sunday with us this Saturday at 9PM EST
Come and watch Black Sunday with us this Saturday at 9PM EST
February 11, 2026 at 2:21 PM
All right, #HorrorWatch! I'm calling it! Black Sunday won by a landslide. So far this short month of Scream Queens we get two movies with Barbara Steele in it! As it should be, she rules.
Come and watch Black Sunday with us this Saturday at 9PM EST
Come and watch Black Sunday with us this Saturday at 9PM EST
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Davrin - Death
Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art
[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art
[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
February 13, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Davrin - Death
Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art
[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
Tarot merch made for @dragonageannual.art
[ #jasperdraws #dragonage #dragonageannual ]
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Time to bring this out for Valentine's Day this year. A classic to be sure for all you wonderful Lucanismancers out there.
#LucanisDellamorte #DATV
#LucanisDellamorte #DATV
February 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Time to bring this out for Valentine's Day this year. A classic to be sure for all you wonderful Lucanismancers out there.
#LucanisDellamorte #DATV
#LucanisDellamorte #DATV
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I’m so excited Fife is getting a Silent Hill set there because we get a lot of fog, there are quite a lot of evil omens, and sometimes the lady who works at the chipper is possessed
February 13, 2026 at 7:50 AM
I’m so excited Fife is getting a Silent Hill set there because we get a lot of fog, there are quite a lot of evil omens, and sometimes the lady who works at the chipper is possessed
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