Recent content by Demesnedenoir

The key is the connector: fat AND lazy. You can be overweight and still athletic, see NFL Linemen, but they are not lazy, LOL. John Belushi, overweight, not Lazy, dude had some moves even as a Samurai. But that still wasn't the point. The point I was heading for as that "realism" in combat is...

I just love that they're connected. I'm using them in lyrics that will appear somewhere in the next couple of books.

Welcome aboard! Somehow I'm visualizing Porky Pig dancing in leprechaun shoes after reading your name. Go figure.

Pig in a poke and cat out of the bag are my favorites.

The bad part is that it totally derailed a point I was going to make in the Realism in Combat panel. Why of course fat lazy people can be great warriors! Wait... what? Brain melt from stepping into a PC trap, heh heh. But, oh well, LMAO. It was still a lot of fun

Oh! and also on topic. Lackey spoke about book piracy and how it derailed careers. From what she surmised, she would've been a much wealthier lady without piracy, not having to crank out more and more books, heh heh.

I'm in the SFWA and well, I pretty much ignore them. Did a virtual panel at the Nebulas in '22 and tried to stick my face in hot water by using the word "fat" in reference to Po in Kung-fu Panda. That was the Nebulas where Mercedes Lackey upstaged my "fat" comment and they shit-canned the old...

They are also trained on a lot of slop. AI for writing at its current state might be a bit like millions of AI monkeys typing, but their training probably hurts their ability to get lucky. AI is a genuine marvel for editing and catching oddball errors. I released Eve of Snows 8 years ago, and...

Where's the fun in that?! Gotta bicker 'bout somethin'.

Star Wars changed the world in a sense, but it wasn't as good of a movie. it was the right move at the right time. And every pass at it, Lucas has degraded it. Lucas' real genius was in marketing.

Might as well have fun before they become Terminators and kill us all. I'm using AI to build an iPhone app companion for Sundering the Gods.

Long-form AI writing still sucks, and if at some point it gets great, people will just sit around saying, "AI, write me a book to read that is just my type" and won't be bothering to buy anything. Until then, and maybe even after, we write, because that's what we do. Formulaic romance, the...

LoTR smokes Star Wars. Mind, I saw Star Wars in the theaters 12+ times as a kid, so there is something special there that will never be repeated, but, that said, LoTR f'n smokes Star Wars. Avatar is like crap that's been fired with a pretty digital glaze. It's been.a day, so I might be venting...

I used breaking and reading bones with symbols and a lot of uncertainty and interpretation... and cheating. A prepared bone is carved with symbols and whatnot, and a hot steel needle is driven into the bones by the oracle to form the cracks that are read. A technique called "smoothing the bone"...

Those programs will pull up every piece of dialogue from a single character in a 250k word novel? AI isn't perfect at it, but it's quite good. Scrivener CAN do it, but yikes, what a pain in the ass. It isn't so much whether there are no AI tools (and how long before AI is involved?) that work...