Adrian Speed

Adrian Speed

@adrianspeed.bsky.social

A novelist and amatuer history communicator.

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When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

I have some bad news about Robocop.

more mr. spice guy@juniorhoncho.bsky.social

it would suck to be on an amazing adventure in a strange and magical kingdom with a talking lion and then one day you're like, Oh what the fuck this is all just christianity

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‘Customers should be less informed about the products they buy’ is such a wild stance to take

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

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It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Kim Hu@kim-hu.com

I can't believe he's still at it, it's been days

You know, I am just going to say it. Halo Infinite was a good game. They should have immediately started making another one. The gameplay was good. The mechanics were good. The world was good. Stop pissing about trying to reinvent the wheel and just make the next one.

Shutting down bioware proves that the modern game industry is not just an industrialized golden goose killing machine, but once the golden goose's dead they will refuse to admit their ever was a golden goose.

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#Pokemon #Pokemonart #pokemonfanart #corsola #galariancorsola #Cursola

Science Magazine@science.org

Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have demonstrated that brief physical contact between healthy and bleached coral can restore algae to the bleached coral, leading to their full recovery. https://scim.ag/4ilLAZq

If this is the law then the government can change the law. If it is not the law, the government must stop doing it.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk

The NHS knows that its new policy is going to harm patients, and it's doing it anyway. It is an active choice being made by this Labour government – don't let them pretend their hands are bound.

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Flying cars were never impossible from a technical stand point. They were impossible from a safety stand point. You will never be able to insure this.

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com

"Flying cars are real!" 🚀 Elon Musk and Tesla showcase the new Roadster.

The BBC used to make high quality program on a budget of egg boxes and string. Now they pay millions to pundits to spout transphobia and racism.

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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT engineers develop a breath test that detects pneumonia in minutes no X-rays, no lab wait. Just a single breath Two MIT engineers, Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg, have developed a breath test that can detect pneumonia in minutes.

I think the fact that the first book of Dune doesn't say that computers used to handle the intensely complex calculations required to safely fold space and now we need humans trained from birth to get high as fuck to do it is both genius and maddening.

The slop premise gets slop production by a slop production house.

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Replying to @quoproquid.bsky.social

if you want to modernize carrie white then she is not a pretty, misunderstood quiet girl. what she is is a "lolcow", a girl who does not fit in and is seen as a bit grotesque and is systematically provoked until she breaks, with a goal of milking her for content.

When you're negotiating your contract write up a "conflict of interest" form which clearly declares, in as broad a wording as possible, the creative endeavours you feel should be yours alone and get them to sign it.

Michael Iantorno@michaeliantorno.com

"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership. What we do in our free time should not be dictated by the company, and what we make in our free time should belong to us.“

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Seán Ferrick@seanferrick.bsky.social

I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.

Fox news was created with the goal of ensuring Watergate would never happen again (in the getting caught sense) and their forty year project has almost successfully expunged the original crime.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. The department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor’s office that investigated the famed Watergate break-in committed misconduct ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

There is a theory that the rise of the novel was responsible for the decline in cruel and unusual punishments, by reinforcing empathy to a diverse group of strangers. A novel can put you in someone else's head in a way a film or a game cannot.

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Between Marathon in the 90s, Halo and Marathon now, someone at Bungie has trying to tell us everything is fucked forever but the only way they have to express it is with a first-person shooter.

headfallsoff@headfallsoff.com

rotating an idea that halo is the defining media franchise of the 21st century. i look at how its been mismanaged for 20 years, no one working on it has a job, its games don't even sell anymore but. they cant let it die. the IP must continue. everything becomes halo on a long enough timeline

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Even though the Halo franchise has been gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations, at least Bungie, the original creators of Halo, have also been separately gutted for failing to meet unrealistic expectations

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Replying to @headfallsoff.com

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

I broke my back up pair of glasses a month after my regular glasses fell apart. Replacements are £500 that I do not have. I am legally blind without correction. Normally my sad fantasy is to go stare at the sea but I can't even do that. The UK government offers £17 to 'help' with my prescription