Darryl Wright 🇨🇦 🎧 @darryl@qoto.org

I found an 8bit cover album of Smashing Pumpkins Mellan Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It's as terrible as you might expect. I'll never understand this desire to make things that are deliberately bad.

Security guards at Halifax Shopping Center just evacuated everyone from the mall citing an ongoing emergency situation. 4-5 police cars came on scene as people were filing out.

"AI really has nothing to bring to the realm of mus-..." 👀

https://youtu.be/a5CvrffQNR0?si=koQIrZ0mUF96V4th

ParaNorman
Coraline
Monster House
Box Trolls

... What else should I watch?

(Don't say A Nightmare Before Christmas... too many songs)

Stay awesome, #halifax.

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Tron: Ares was really good. The script should have been run by even a cursory consultation with some programmers, but if you can get by that it was visually stunning and a fun time at the cinema.

Tron: Ares was really good. The script should have been run by even a cursory consultation with some programmers, but if you can get by that it was visually stunning and a fun time at the cinema.

Me, a Gen-X'er who was first in line for the original Tron, and all my homies who are excited about Tron: Ares tonight.

I'm fine with Carney nodding along to Trump's rambling incoherence in front of the cameras, as long as he holds his ground and principles when they go backstage.

Trump has ruined "Thank you for your attention to this matter." and Netflix's "Wayward" has ruined "Thanks for your feedback." -- is nothing sacred?!

I asked AI and I can confirm that The War on Drugs are not Yacht Rock.

Paul Giamatti makes me uncomfortable.

My heart goes out to my colleagues who still work at EA.

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None of this is good news for players or gamedevs.

Gaming giant Electronic Arts bought in unprecedented $55bn deal - BBC News https://share.google/h5coE3GT4rYM9tyMw

I have read a great many books where authors have quoted Malcolm Gladwell's idea that 10,000 hours of practice can make you really good at anything. In every case, the author follows this with, "Unfortunately, I don't think this is correct."

Thanks to everyone who came out to my talk today at #DalGamesExpo. I managed to sway ~80% of the room at least a little toward "We're gonna be just fine." #ai

There is always a Chavez in every tv military unit. It's a rule.

On the bright side, watching Trump's comically dystopian self-agrandiIng idols come down in a few years is going to be extremely cathartic for enlightened Americans.

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I turned to my wife last night and I said that I feel as though the US is creeping very close to actual civil war. Then this today:

https://youtu.be/OeSSlpCWGVY?si=TjrEaMeZAug11ooR