I know I’m stanning pretty hard for Klara and the Sun. I loved the movie and I’m intrigued by how badly it all failed because of lack of marketing. Lotta fun stuff over the wekeend as well to peruse for you and a new Malfoid chapter. I’m also at work this week getting ready for the new crowdfund for the next Ayla Rin comic, my most popular comic series which I’ll be launching this week on IndieCrowdFund.
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Fantasy Fiction: The Silver-Haired Heiress Hates Me (But She Keeps Saving My Life) Chapter 13
Happy Monday after Halloween! Had quite the weekend out carting the kids around and I’m exhausted. I need a weekend from the weekend! But I still managed to get us going for Chapter 13 here for your enjoyment. The mystery is heating up. Enjoy!
John Leeson, Voice of K9 on Doctor Who for Nearly Five Decades, Dies at 83
John Leeson, the actor who gave K9 his clipped, know-it-all voice on Doctor Who from 1977 into his final years, died Sunday at 83. He never appeared on screen as the robot dog, yet K9 traveled with the Fourth Doctor, returned in the 2006 revival and took regular roles in two series, all on Leeson’s voice.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney Is Right: Steam’s AI Labels Hand Online Mobs a Target and Cost Developers Sales
Nearly one in five demos at Steam Next Fest now carries Valve’s AI disclosure label, and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says the label exists to give online mobs a target. He is right, and the cost lands on the small studios that can least afford it.
Wil Wheaton Tells Stephen Miller to Keep Patrick Stewart’s Name Out of His “Nazi Mouth” While Star Trek’s Philosophy Says Otherwise
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted a one-sentence tribute to Patrick Stewart, and Wil Wheaton answered by calling him a Nazi and telling him to keep the Captain’s name out of his mouth. The rebuke came from Stewart’s castmate on
Taika Waititi Calls Klara and the Sun Critics “Irrelevant” as a 48-Point Rotten Tomatoes Audience Gap Supports Part of His Case
Taika Waititi, the Oscar-winning director of Jojo Rabbit and Thor: Ragnarok, answered the reviews of his science fiction film Klara and the Sun on Instagram over Halloween weekend:
Klara And The Sun Is Far Better Than The Box Office Results Look
Klara and the Sun, Taika Waititi’s film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel, opened to $701,059 in North America over the weekend of October 23 to 25. Sony Pictures released it on a reported budget of $20 million. Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 and wrote The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. This book is about a robot com…
In 1979, Harlan Ellison Used Pinnacle’s Doctor Who Paperbacks to Take Shots at Star Wars and Star Trek
Harlan Ellison attacked Star Trek and Star Wars in the introduction to Pinnacle Books’ American Doctor Who paperbacks in 1979, and the text ran in front of readers in all ten volumes. The same writer later took Star Trek’s publisher and studio to court over tie-in books.