So it is Sunday again and the first month of the new year is nearing its close. I still haven’t finished my work on the short story I’m making for the new DD Anthology, but I am coming back from my updating hiatus next week anyway. During my ...
Altarland, or how I learned to stop tinkering and love the AU
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 29, 2023The AI Problem
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Jan. 21, 2023
The advent of AI has started to finally come into the field of art and expression. No longer is it there only to help us with the menial tasks, the repetitive stuff, the uninspired stuff so we, humans, can be freed up to engage in the intuitive expression of any ...
Inspirational baggage:
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Jan. 8, 2023
So! 2023. Did my annual tarot spread this morning and the cards that came up seems to promise quite an eventful year. But I’m not gonna go into detail about that since it is a personal prediction of mine. Instead I’m gonna talk about how something that may ...
What Would Happen If...
Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 5, 2023
what if there was a creepy basement…
Barbarian was one of the new movies I enjoyed last year. As far as I know, it got good reviews, and a mostly-positive reception. Some people criticized it for making no sense. It's a fair point - although like I said, I enjoyed ...
New Year's Eve Thoughts
Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Dec. 31, 2022
It's customary during the final days of a year to do resolutions for the next one or overviews of what happened in the one that's ending.
Even if we buck the system, we kinda do think back and ahead, especially during New Year's Eve, don't we ...
A Dash of Whimsy
Andreas_Helixfinger at 12:00AM, Dec. 4, 2022
I had a solo game of Neuroshima Hex this Saturday morning where I discovered something peculiar. I was playing army Borgo against army Dancer and I was quite mesmerized by the aesthetic and playing mechanic of army Dancer. Usually an army in Neuroshima Hex consists of over a dozen playing ...
Don't I know You?
Banes at 12:00AM, Nov. 24, 2022
Doppelgangers were thought to be an omen of death or bad fortune. If you see a being that looks like you, doom awaits!
The name has evolved to mean a lookalike, usually supernatural or unexplained. There are many stories that feature Doppelgangers, whether ghostly, clones, mirrors come-to-life, robot duplicates, or ...
Horror and Technology
Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 27, 2022
I watched and enjoyed this year's horror movie “Barbarian” awhile back. It starts off as the first AirBnB horror movie - or the first one I've seen, anyway.
It occurred to me that back when cell phones grew into common usage I wondered how horror fiction would deal with ...
Quackcast 605 - Myth of Freedom
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 18, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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“Freedom” is the catch cry in so much historical fiction but it's usually an anachronistic piece of nationalist fantasy. You fought for your lord, for pay ...
Quackcast 604 - Stylised reality
Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 11, 2022 LISTEN on our new player!
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When creating fiction we always have to stylise experience in many and various ways in order to communicate with the viewer in a way that's meaningful ...