After enjoying the Before trilogy and Boyhood, I decided to check out Richard Linklater’s Dazed & Confused. It’s really well done… kind of like a 70s version of American Graffiti… but… wow, it’s also such a strong argument for how much better life is with more video games.
Well, my kid and I finished writing our first book together. We need to do a final editing pass, looking over the comments from our second beta reader, but it should be on track to come out late next month.
We’ve already started writing book 2 for the series and planning book 3.
I discovered a Goodreads account last night that seemingly hasn’t done anything but complain that my book Nexus Nine was written by AI… a book published in 2019 that received multiple award nominations and an award at the time.
What a sad way for someone to waste their time.
I’ll note that I only saw this account, because I was looking over all the new, glowing reviews of my books, some of which literally thank me for writing.
So far as I can tell, hating AI causes way more brain rot than using AI. That kind of hate just isn’t good for the brain.
Since my family’s studying French this summer before a brief trip to France in the fall, we just watched the first season of The Returned (2015). I’d heard it was similar to Dark (2017), and there is a similar vibe. The acting is good, and it’s good French practice…
…but I’m kind of feeling disappointed by how unclear the rules are, and I’m definitely doubting that it will have anything like the intense, precise, mind-blowing qualities of Dark. I think if I weren’t watching it halfway just for the French practice, I might skip season two.
After the last half year of watching Danish and French shows specifically to supplement studying those languages on Duolingo, it’s really trippy watching the new season of Squid Game without trying to pick apart every syllable I hear, trying to catch familiar words and phrases.