Keith Hendricks

Author of In the Abyss and Pretender’s Reign ( Editor at @boardoflife3 He/him.

[Keith Hendricks @K4ComicBook]

Pretender’s Reign begins The Chronicles of Alsantia, a tale of urban and high fantasy, parallel worlds, and talking animals that flips the script on Narnia. #KindleUnlimited https://t.co/Uv2JKgey5G

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@pengwyndolin yinz rilly might like iss: https://t.co/MTWTG0TEvR

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@quinnsreads Put it in another room. The “Brain Drain” study shows that your phone even being in the same room as you reduces your brainpower. I get so much more read when my phone is a room or a floor away. https://t.co/CuRbklTg76

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Meanwhile on Chinese TV: "I visited California in the 80s. They were promising high-speed rail. China didn't even have highways."

40 years later, they have built zero. China: biggest high speed rail network.

"The superiority of socialism is clear."

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@ImKayaaa God Valley does show Big Mom and Kaido terrified of Garp in his prime.

That video is one of my favorite animations in the series.

Garp is a great character that exists to show that, in terms of morality/integrity, what matters is not what people are, but what they do.

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@ryanallen316 I would agree with other replies that Twin Peaks is a good example of a show that requires more participation/engagement than most books. Definitely “cool” media.

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@ryanallen316 Amusing Ourselves to Death is a good book. I remember it after 30+ years. But Postman reversd Macluhan’s dichotomy. To Macluhan, books were “hot” media that required minimal work to process, while TV was “cool” media that made the viewer fill in gaps to find meaning.

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@ryanallen316 I prefer Macluhan’s 4-point terminology, which seems to say comic book readers do the most interpretive work, engaging with media that is not only “cool” but “low definition.” Movies, OTOH, being “hot” and “high definition” require only attention and not interpretive skill.

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@OrevaZSN This is ancient wisdom, all the way from Socrates, as Plato cited in the Crito.

Or as understood by Aristotle’s dichotomy later, of doxa (popular opinion), and endoxa (expert opinion).

[Laura Matsue @lauramatsue]

No one is more annoyed by the AI revolution than people who can actually write a sentence. Basically, having any ability to write now is suspect - you will get accused of being AI at some point. It feels like you are being accused of being a witch, of holding a type of rare magic that only the machines are now allowed to have.

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@wimmiebear Nico Robin for sure.

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@Kadeiszen @novvibee @grok No, only the comics are worth discussing. Notice I didn’t bring up any of the ridiculous Superman II abilities. All of my references are comic book Superman. This is a comic book Homelander. Not that TV Homelander went out any more dignified.

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@Kadeiszen @novvibee @grok You mean this guy? lol.

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@lemoncomicgirl Bone. Elfquest. Usagi Yojimbo. Saga. Cerebus. Tintin. A Distant Soil. Chew. Hellboy. Sandman. Scott Pilgrim. Maus. Understanding Comics. March. Bandette. Girl Genius. Want some manga recs?

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@Kadeiszen @novvibee @grok Sentry wouldn’t even win a mullet contest against 90s Superman. Superman’s 90s mullet definitely outmulleted Sentry by a billion.

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@shainreads My exact experience reading books like Being and Nothingness as an adult. Unless I return to college for a philosophy degree, I may never meet another person IRL who has read that book cover to cover. You can always read books about the book you just read (criticism, commentary).

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@SepzenoOfficial BTAS by far is the greatest animated Superhero show, outdoing a lot of popular favorites like My Hero Academia and Invincible. The episodes have so much depth and great pacing for 24 minutes of TV.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Not using AI feels like the rest of the world is experiencing mass amnesia. If I say I don’t use it, people claim that can’t be true because everyone does. How have people forgotten they were capable of doing things with just their brains a few years ago? Am I going crazy?

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@omgsidewalks This is a classic inferiority complex, only the person thinks “they think they’re better than me.”

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@wifemtrl Most of what we talk about is superstructure, not just media, but the torrent of political systems and religious and secular ideas that make the material oppression of the oppressed palatable to them. But some art wakes you from the dream. One Piece flags fly in real revolutions.