Kelly Freas is spinning in his grave.

“Why Those Demanding We Deport Mumduni (sic) Actually Have a Point (If We Hope to Combat Anti-Semitism)” by Bret Stephens

“5 Lessons Mamdani Could Learn About Civility from Charlie Kirk” by Ross Douthat

If we took AI bro writers seriously, why would publishers like you even bother paying them? If AI writing was so great, couldn’t you just prompt it and make your own and run a magazine with one of your largest expenses gone? They really think everyone but them are dumb, but it’s the reverse.

In all seriousness, I do think tone has a lot more to do with it, so probably not? I think what the Hell we do with the Long and Short Sun series is funnier.

Ooooohhhhh…..

My wife is actively making fun of this conversation and my distinction, lol. Planetary Romance and Space Opera are more tonally different in my opinion than there being just narrative differences.

I go off from the inciting incident. This funny distinction leads to the following being Planetary Romances: John Carter, Dune, Book of the New Sun, any of Brackett’s Stark novellas, despite each having interplanetary travel in their universe.

Leigh Brackett often self defined as Science Fantasy, which she also said was synonymous with Space Opera. I’d say Planetary Romance and Space Opera exist in a venn-diagram. I’d distinguish them by a combo of tone and whether or not the protagonist ever leaves their planet: APoM is the former.

One day I’m going to write an entirely too long essay or video about the resistance from critics to Space Opera being a serious literary genre and the demand to reclassify any example in the genre as a different thing. “It’s fantasy!” “It’s actually hard SciFi!” “It’s not really SciFi at all!”

My favorite was a woman dressed as a giant ramen noodles cup with some string noodles sticking out. She held chopsticks and was accompanied by a giant, inflatable Garfield.

If anything, the debate raised Curtis' Q rating & approval among a whole new generation taken in by his Archie-Bunker-meets-Rorschach goofy charm. CUOMO should drop out-- has HE ever been featured on the cover of early 80s KARATE ILLUSTRATED magazine?!

“How much does a long sword weigh? I can’t pick up more than twenty pounds, so probably forty because my dude is shredded. Also, I should make it clear exactly how many seconds it takes for him to unsheathe and sheath it, and how many centimeters his doodinger is. Where is my tape measure?”

lol, I knew he played it but forgot it was so long ago. I’m also not someone who likes DND, so I never noticed. If one of my groups said they wanted DND, I’d offer one of the Borg variants or DCC first because I really would rather play those. I really dislike 5E (for gameplay reasons).

He does occasionally run D&D, but Seth has also made it clear he sort of plays whatever his group wants to play. I think he’s said lately his group really likes Traveller so they mostly play that. He’s talked about it in past videos.

“You’re a writer? You’d get a lot more respect filming yourself sitting at a keyboard for three hours writing.”

I am making fun of that, but someone out there thinks it sounds awesome.

Ah, you’re finally playing Trump on the show.

This is amazing. Horrible, but amazing.