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[Evil Dead Rise]

Another thumbs down for Evil Dead Rise. Evil Dead Dies, more like.

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yeah, I'm not clicking on that. If I want Japanese porn, I know how to find it myself thank you very much

Me too, and not just your common filth, either. I like my filth a little more respectable...

Tagata Jinja Phallic Festival – An ema – votive plaque – depicting a male member

Back when I lived in Birmingham, and a grim bit of Birmingham at that, this was a serious Summer problem. Not just people in cars either: there was barely a day when the sun wasn't out when I couldn't hear Bob Marley blasting out of someones house at Godzilla-esque volumes.

Their volume dial went all the way up to Ebirah.

It's okay, I never even took me coat off for that one.

I had a real love-hate relationship with Look-In. On the one hand I hated all that mind-deactivating dross about actors and glitzy piffle, on the other I loved the comic strips - so I generally just used to read other people's copies in the playground and then give 'em back. This was way back in the dim and distant when I was still allowed in playgrounds, of course.

Yeah, but at that point it'll move to the Greek alphabet and rename itself Ϙι.

Or maybe they'll move production to Spain and call it Que?

I haven't seen an episode of HIGNFY for donkey's years - it's one of the few BBC things I actually miss.

Not that I can think of. Radio, however, has a few such as I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue and The news Quiz.

No, apparently we should all be toiling in the post-Brexit fields picking fruit, while AI is generating all the poetry, fiction and art. I'll confess that it's a dystopia that even Dick and Gibson didn't see coming...

Orwell did:

"Julia was twenty-six years old... and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor... She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad. But she was not interested in the final product. She "didn't much care for reading," she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces."

I'll get the velveteen sauce...

Oh yeah, it is quite good. Some of the images, though, don't make sense. Sometimes figures have too many arms, or too few, for example (at least, they do on the free one I've been playing with). But it wouldn't take much to push it into what I want it to do; the ability to save and re-use a character design or location would be the biggest part of it, I think.

Ooh... is there a prize?

I've been playing with the free AI art generator over at picsart.com. For someone with aphantasia, like me, it's really helpful for visualizing things I might want to write a story about. I can see it being a useful tool for me to convey ideas to an artist with regards to comic script writing but it seems a long way from me being able to feed a script in and get a finished strip out, which I would like to be able to do. Of course the ideal is to work with a proper artist, but they're generally too busy to bother with wannabes and so AI holds great potential from my perspective.

...and then, in the evening, solve a murder or two.