Modern Media is SO WEIRD About Orcs, and I Know Why! youtu.be/hImobmlptXI?si=RH6b… via @YouTube

Orcs are evil because they are evil monsters. They are created to be evil, by an evil god, to do evil things. They are not a placeholder for a "different culture", they are not a human analog, they are not a "minority". They are biological constructs made to do the bidding of dark god who made them to mock the other races (elves) specifically If your mind can't comprehend that you likely shouldn't engage with LOTR material.

LOTR is arguably the single greatest example of moral realism in all of literature. Injecting moral relativism into Middle Earth fundamentally misunderstands Tolkien and flies in the face of everything he stood for. And don't come at me with 'moral complexity.' Relativism isn't complexity. It's confusion. It's a collapse of distinctions that has nothing to offer but meaninglessness and despair. In order to have meaningful 'moral complexity,' you have to establish a distiction between light and dark, right and wrong, good and evil. The complexity arises among characters that must navigate a world where both forces act around, upon, and within them. What modern Hollywood calls 'moral complexity' is actually just the erasing the distinction between good and evil. If a story can't show you light and dark, it can't say anything meaningful about them. Classic storytellers understood this. Modern Hollywood has completely memory holed it.

Oh baby, we are BACK! Why they took this off tv and never put it on dvd is beyond me

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‼️UNPOPULAR OPINION‼️ Being "too old" for games is a myth made by boring people.🫶

People are perfectly comfortable letting algorithms decide what they watch, buy, listen to, and read. But the moment someone uses AI to help make a creative decision, suddenly we’re worried about machines influencing human thought. We’ve been outsourcing decisions to technology for years. AI just made it impossible to ignore.

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After forty years in front of the camera, I’ll be directing my first feature film, SO HELP ME GOD: a Civil War epic about a Union soldier named Albert Townsend, who should have received the Medal of Honor but didn’t. Clerical error. I learned of Albert through his descendants’ archival research. What I found was more than an injustice waiting to be corrected. It was a story of friendship and extraordinary courage: an unassuming young man becoming a soldier who held his ground, and his principles, under fire. That’s a story worth telling on the largest possible scale. And we’re inviting the people who want to see it told to help bring it to the screen, as investors in the film through Republic. We intend to do it justice: real cannons, one hundred horses, and the cast in period-accurate uniforms. We’ve brought on Mark Huffam, whose work includes Saving Private Ryan, Game of Thrones, and The Martian, to produce it. He knows what it takes to make an epic, and how much depends on the human story at its heart. At the Medal of Honor Heritage Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I introduced the project alongside Civil War historian Brad Quinlin, members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and representatives of Civil War Roundtables. We’re also supporting the campaign for Albert’s posthumous Medal of Honor. His descendants are still fighting to see his courage properly recognized. This picture is about friendship, love, and honor — and common people rising to accomplish extraordinary things. I want to give that story everything it deserves. I hope you will lift the banner with us. Learn more about the film and the opportunity to invest: sohelpmegod.film

AI generated content is quickly going to be understood to be an industrialized commodity rather than the fun new toy. Craft and human production is going to have more and more value. Made by hand is modern luxury (and always was).

People who don’t use AI in their work are like the new vegans. How will you know they don’t use it? Ohh. They’ll tell you. It’s basically their whole identity 😂

Serious question but what the actual fuck is going to happen when practically everyone has lost their job to AI, and governments have no tax revenue to invest in vital infrastructure, but millions of unemployed people to support?

The less you know about a subject, the harder it is to recognize when AI is giving you a bad answer.

A little sneak peak at my upcoming Halloween Short. Introducing Reginald and Jake. "The Nine Lives of Reginald Whiskerwick" coming soon