Nicholas Karpuk

King of Night Crimes. Amateur Novelist. Wizard Denier.
I have no interest in arguing or debating with strangers.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

@IanBoothby My daughter is 9 and is obsessed with the Sparks books and has insisted I ask: Is there any possibility of a fourth book?

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

Mr. Beast needs gimmicks and child lotteries, because otherwise people might notice he has zero charisma and the dead, lifeless eyes of a psychopath.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

Making the Like a Dragon series into a TV show feels pointless because across all its entries it probably has more hours of acted drama than Breaking Bad.

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@GotenOnNimbus Those games are kind of already a long form TV show, but who am I kidding, I'll still try it.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

I wish I could just transfer my entire mutuals list to Bluesky. More and more this site has gone the way of Facebook, where half of the feed is things I did not ask for nor want to see.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

Generative AI will replace important things, says people who desperately want generative AI to be profitable.

[Jonathan Ross @JonathanRoss321]

Prediction: AI will displace social drinking within 5 years

Just as alcohol is a social disinhibitor, like the Steve Martin movie Roxanne, people will use AI powered earbuds to help them socialize. At first we'll view it as creepy, but it will quickly become superior to alcohol

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I don't think Elon Musk gets called a greedy bitch in public nearly enough. It should be all he ever hears when he leaves the house, only interrupted by a chorus of booing.

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I'm watching The Sopranos for the first time, and one of the things I'd never heard anyone comment on is how surprisingly conservative the show is as a whole.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

"Let us crush all culture in our horrible machine" is certainly a unique angle for an ad.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

Oh man, they realized a human poster could only be so racist, so they needed technology to push the boundaries of how bigoted someone can be on this platform.
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[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

I just finished Islets by @KyleThompsonDev and I almost feel bad for getting it for free on Epic. What a charming Metroidvania.

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I always wanted a Captain Morgan who looked like he worked in Accounts Payable.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

@GotenOnNimbus Spirit-Halloween-ass captain.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

A friend of mine tried Ark: Survival Ascended on Game Pass, and was complaining about how obtuse everything was, and how weird the controls were. It felt a bit like someone complaining about how gay everything is in a gay bar.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

Yakuza 3 has one of my favorite stories and settings, but it's aged rough. It doesn't even let you pause during cutscenes.

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[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

Geoff Keighley has always been an unprincipled shill desperate to maintain access to the game industry, but it is helpful to get a reminder of it occasionally.

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I've read 750 issues of One Piece and I don't know how many actual acts of piracy the Straw Hats have actually committed.

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@MattBinder This must be why his fans think he's so funny, it's just so relatable to everybody!

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@MKupperman I get the sentiment, but I'm not sure I can think of many times when something really bad happened and Americans learned a positive lesson.

[Nicholas Karpuk @TheKarpuk]

Americans have a dozen ways of saying, "I'm very greedy" that they think make it sound socially acceptable or even positive.