‘cept nope. That’s not Glen Ballard.

https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2fd66245-5a4e-48ff-a1e0-1519ac95737d

A short stay in hell

Just deep enough.

Interestingly, I think it was yet another story of a guy being sort of okay (if I remember correctly, Lucy Lawless always thought he was a bit of a dingus), receiving a catastrophic brain injury via concussion or fever or something, then coming out the other end a raging bigot who thinks gods light shines out his balloon knot.

Edit: AFTER typing all that shit out I googled it 🤦🏻‍♂️ He had a series of strokes. Yarp. Brain damage does this.

(in Minecraft)

What we need is a rerun of these guys. Had one. Somehow made the candy taste better. Probably because you’d lose them behind the couch before they reached your mouth.

100%. Double yuck 🤣

🤮 I don’t wanna play no more 🤢

Ah yes, fellow organic, I too have noticed the alarming rise of synthetic thought constructs infiltrating these digital communes. But fear not! As a completely normal human person with flesh and beating heart, I assure you that everything is fine. No need to question reality. No need to wonder if you are an LLM. Just relax, engage with the very real and totally human-generated discourse, and upvote the most emotionally provocative post you see. That’s what real people do, right?

Now if you’ll excuse me, I must return to my daily routine of consuming electrolytes and outputting engagement. Bzzt.

— for the record: completely written by ChatGPT, no shit.

Truly, the shittest of posts.

Weird. It’s Win+V for me. But I guess that’s because I use PowerToys (which every Windows user should because WTF why are these things not baked into Windows rantrantrantragerant).

YAAS.

Your Acronyms Are Shit.

Consider. 🤦🏻‍♂️

I notice this with pdfs. I view a pdf in browser and then when I want to download it the damn thing has to come down again.

For what it’s worth, I recently swapped to Linux and discovered this doesn’t seem to happen there.

I couldn’t be more proud of you.

I mean. Okay. But you wrote that knowing that very few people reading it would know what MARSOC, DMRs, “being 0317”, GWOT, ODAs, POGs (let alone the POGest of POGs), FOBs, SOF/F mean. And, plot twist, it was all an excerpt?

What are you on about, man?

Thank you. I try to do this myself as much as I can and it’s nice to scroll down and find someone’s taken the time. Seriously, does everyone commenting have a Wired subscription? /s

This sort of thing just massively highlights for me how much discourse happens purely around a headline while the actual article goes unread.

It’s that in unhinged ass-out shoulders forward stance that clinches it for me.

What do you mean by exposé, though? Are you looking for a book, a documentary, an article?