Straczynski vs. AI, Musk vs. The Odyssey, Slay The Spire Controversy - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
What a wild day. I posted up my video because it was too long to type about how I was nearly deplatformed again with a payment processor stopping Flying Sparks Omnibus in its tracks. We’re back live with a solution they won’t be able to hit. Big shout out to all the new paid subscribers who apparently liked my pitch for a new Star Trek series! Glad you enjoyed it!
J. Michael Straczynski Says AI Can Never Tell Stories, But His Essay Proves Nothing Other Than He Fears The Tech
J. Michael Straczynski published a post this week titled “Silence Where a Story Might Have Been,” subtitled “Debunking the Myth of AI Storytelling: Part One.” He created Babylon 5 in the 1990s. He has not done much since that anyone is talking about. His politics has drifted hard left in recent years, which colors how he sees the AI question and why he …
Christopher Nolan Is Chasing an Oscar With His DEI Casting Choices
The Time magazine profile of Christopher Nolan published yesterday confirmed two things the internet had been speculating about for weeks. Lupita Nyong’o is playing Helen of Troy. She is also playing Clytemnestra, Helen’s sister, making her the only actor in the film with two confirmed roles. Rapper Travis Scott plays a bard, with Nolan explaining to Ti…
They Tried To Take Down The Flying Sparks Omnibus With A Payment Processor!
In this video I explain all of the crazy attempts to get my comics deplatformed including the latest today:
ReadComicsOnline Is Gone and Nobody Can Tell You Why
ReadComicsOnline.to is down. It has been down for weeks. Users who try to access it get a dead page. The domain resolves to nothing.
How to Fix Star Trek: A Complete Pitch For The Enterprise-H
Star Trek needs a new ship, a new crew, and a hard course correction away from everything Alex Kurtzman built. Discovery chased prestige TV and forgot episodic storytelling. Picard dragged a beloved character through grimdark misery tourism for three seasons. Strange New Worlds got closer to the formula but still couldn’t stop itself from doing musical episodes and crossover stunts. The franchise has been strip-mined for nostalgia until there is nothing left to extract.
In (Reluctant) Defense of Slay the Spire 2
I had a chat with a friend of mine who had been playing much of Slay the Spire 2, ever since its Early Access launch on March 5th. When asked how he felt about Anita Sarkeesian appearing in the credits, he replied: “I don’t feel much” adding that the game already had a bunch of hate from Chinese critics for one of the bosses being difficult.