Writer for @gumshoecomix.bsky.social. Co-Author & Director: Guardians of Man - Prologue. Comic books, anime, video games! Icon by X: @onyx__26
https://tapas.io/series/Guardians-Of-Man-/info
๐ฌ๐นJ.K.O.๐ฒ๐ฝ
Loading...
In general, it's harder to get new, gruesome stories made in today's sterilized and safe climate, unless it's through irony, political commentary, or via patronizing academic lenses.
Hell it WAS hard back then too! But at least eventually a studio or publisher gave it a chance
I've had people aware of my creative pursuits come to me with the intent to impress me with their own dark, creative ideas, and then be upset when I had nothing to say about it.
It's a really bad mentality to have to seek validation in that manner, like a measurement or gauge of some kind.
Something I've had to warn people about is that my fascination with the macabre is very real. There's a style of dark or adult media that's either safe and marketable, or self fellating on it's depiction of misery that it's either cute or boring, but not my thing personally.
Violent Ideation
If you fail and you're rich, you can always try again.
If irresponsible people or services fail you and you're poor, you might as well be dead.
This is wild: essentially every LLMโChatGPT, Claude, Geminiโkeeps using the same character when asked to make up a story, a guy called 'Elias Thorne'. He appears so much it's impacting Google Trends data and the self-published book market. Now we might know why www.404media.co/elias-thorne...
War crimes
Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
www.404media.co
๐ฌ๐นJ.K.O.๐ฒ๐ฝ
๐ฌ๐นJ.K.O.๐ฒ๐ฝ
๐ฌ๐นJ.K.O.๐ฒ๐ฝ
๐ฌ๐นJ.K.O.๐ฒ๐ฝ
Joseph Cox
Visa is embedding its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the chatbot to shop and complete transactions for users.