@hallmarc I absolutely loved all the Astro City I read. I really appreciate how Busiek took these character archetypes we've had in our collective unconscious for a hundred years and found ways to reinvent them that feels fresh. I've only read a bit of Preacher and none of The Boys, but I did enjoy his run on Hitman (never forget Tommy puking on Batman's boots!).

If they rebooted Back to the Future today, they'd have to send the kid back to the 90s, and it would all be ska and skater boys with wallet chains and the Dave Matthews Band.

Just saying.

If it seems like every day I'm talking about a different book...

It's because I am.

Y'all, I've got between 40 and 50 published works right now. Most are superhero, but there's also sci fi, fantasy, and even mainstream. https://linktr.ee/ianthomashealy

@Marc_T_Benedict yub yub

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Random thought: "Ewok With A Blaster" is the Star Wars Universe's grindhouse equivalent of "Hobo With A Shotgun".

Do you like weebly-wobbly timey-wimey stories? With magic and superheroes and time travel and other whatnot? Check out The Archmage, a standalone story from the Just Cause Universe series by Ian Thomas Healy. https://books.bookfunnel.com/time_travel_2024/44sqeemugl #cosobooks

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@stueytheround @mikeflstfi It's the difference between generative AI and AI tools. Spellchecking, indexing, and similar don't require the AI tool to have been trained on other people's work. You give it a set of rules (a dictionary, how to create an index from a document) and it does it quickly and efficiently. If you ask your composition software to transpose something into another key, that's an AI tool, not generative AI.

@stueytheround Proofreading and editing is not generative AI (which was trained by scraping copyrighted materials without permission or recompense to the creators).

I have deleted my NaNoWriMo account. I could have deleted it last year but I didn't find out about the pεdophιlε issue until after they were already working on resolving it, so I gave them a chance. But openly supporting and encouraging people to use generative AI? Nope. They call it "ableist" and "classist" but what they're really saying is it's okay to cheat to get ahead of someone who's done the work.

@misslovelymess First I plan to nap in my recliner before going to sleep in it. Tomorrow should be extended periods of drowsiness interspersed with brief moments of lucidity and the occasional nap.

Just got the triple whammy of vaccines. Covid, flu, shingles. COME AT ME, BUGS

The feeling when your fitbit fully dies overnight and for a minute, you wonder if you did too.

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We went to American Furniture Warehouse because we need to replace a couple things in our living room. There's a picture of JD Vance on the wall behind the sales counter that says "This man is not allowed on the premises."

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These guys though. Lmao https://youtu.be/cvYQ3svO9h0

YALL, I am live on YouTube!
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