The argument here is there really has been scientifically valid, fast feedback, highly effective distillation of the successful elements in writing and the result was AO3; some of us do not like this development.

croissanthology has boomerung to SF Yuxi on the Wired Corinne (SF Dec 6-13) "why doesn't the novel just have all the characters say what the moral is". it doesn't work somehow. similar instinct

norvid_studies guessing all the translation acronyms without looking them up niv : new international version nlt : new living translation esv : english standard version bsb : big silly bible kjv : king james version nkj : new king james nas : network attached storage amp : amplified bible csb

rare manul and seal collab

pre-rational ratfic call that prior art

the drinking game is a great piece of social tech that pretty effectively convinces people to accept brief unpleasantness of choking down liquor in exchange for medium-term good times. need more “drinking-game” type rituals

medjed无为圆猫 サメQCU i actually fell in love with mtg because of a video on lantern control but i hold myself back on actually building and playing the deck bc it’s so unfun to subject another (relatively causal) player to

every relationship is a negotiation. I keep thinking abt how the relevant question is maybe “if you’re 50% more like me and I’m 50% more like you does that ultimately feel like a betrayal or an expansion of the self”

joyce rewrote the world

say what you will about tiktok shortform video brainrot but i will forever be indebted to this one coldhealing core tiktok girl explaining how actually each episode of over the garden wall is actually a ring of dantes inferno and it actually maps on really well

“cute is baby” generalized: cuteness is something that hijacks some misaligned aesthetic instincts, which is why i’m wary of arguments that are “too cute” - self-fulfilling prophecies, puns, false friends

you can find some of the most intricate, sprawling, and lovingly-crafted video games stories in gacha games, probably because there is an insane payout incentive in getting people attached to the members of that story.

spot the error ❄️🐊

Fernando 🌺🌌 gwern, with the perfect amount of melodrama gwern.net/archiving

this is an amazing piece that everyone should read and also it has perhaps the most terrifying namedrop ever in “microsoft word”

"the point of {*_fr} was to basically have a good time. don't get too worked up about it. try to have a good time, okay?"

good tweet