what people flagrantly misunderstand about culturally iconic ‘logicians’ like spock and sherlock holmes is that they are fuckinggggg annoying. like you canNOT write for nor adapt either of these characters properly without understanding that they are admirable in many ways, yes, but they are repeatedly and gleefully, ON PURPOSE, fucking massive nuisances to literally every sane individual around them, all the time. they love bothering people, they LOVE it, it makes them SO HAPPY, and THAT, not their brilliance, is what makes them the best. spocks a BITCH

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Thinking about the Holmes story where a blind girl goes to him and is like "My fiancé is missing and he kept telling me the week leading up to his disappearance that he would always love me and come back for me,were anything to happen so I think he knew he was in trouble and I love him so much and I'm going to wait for him but I'd like to find him faster,ya know?" And Holmes figures out that it was this girl's parents to scam her out of money she was owed from an estate which she gave to them because she was still living at home,which she wouldn't be if she ever married,so her step father PRETENDED TO DATE HER for MONTHS to keep her from ever getting engaged to a real person and when Holmes finds out he confronts this man and this man is like "Well,you caught me! But it wasn't illegal:) so:)" and Holmes is like "No,but it was sickening and cruel and if she had a brother or good male friend he should post you up and whip you but she doesn't." And the man is like "No,she doesn't." And does the Victorian version of sticking his tongue out and Holmes is like "Well,I guess I'll do then!" And HE PULLS OUT HIS HUNTING WHIP.

no dude it's so cool how attached you are to that character who is singled out and ostracized due to the external monstrousness that clashes with their internal spark of humanity. and i love how drawn you are to themes of horror and love, nature versus nurture, otherness, isolation, and the abject. i bet you have normal feelings about your own personhood

i'm glad u understand.

The weirdest thing about having written the most banned book of the 2020s is that I am not a particularly radical or boundary-pushing writer? I write quiet novels about kids who like poetry? Sure, there is some sex in some of them, but only because there is some sex in human life. And you'll note it's never, like, HOT SEX. I couldn't write a hot scene to save my life.

Mr. Green, I've loved the way you speak and tell stories for a long time. I've noticed some of your behaviors and level of passions seem very similar to mine. I have no right to pry and hope this is not overstepping boudnaries; are you autistic? I am just curious because of your love of history and tuberculosis history and your writing style and how common OCD is in autistic people :)

If Larian is using generative AI to develop concept art which is then given to artists to turn into game assets and environments, then they can’t say there is no AI generated content.

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This is super disappointing.

Source.

Gentle

Oh! Btw that study has since been disproven! No worries! It’s near I’m to keep up with every new paper that comes out, especially with so many paywalls on major journals.

I am a fraud masquerading as an intelectual. I must make a public apology and then go into hiding for several decades. I may only emerge once the world has forgotten my shame.

At risk of sounding like a hater and an asshole this looks like AI and if its somehow not, the editor who reworked images and sharpened them up made it look like AI

Edit: yeah its AI

This is the actual image (from a 6 year old reddit post so def not AI). Either someone asked AI to recreate it or AI, being the plagiarism machine it is, was asked for a pic of dogs finding humans in the snow and just ripped off the first image it could find. Another reminder that AI doesn't actually create anything. Also real cute dogs.

Actually a fantastic example for when you need to illustrate to someone that AI art is theft, blatantly, and not in some abstract way