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Jay Elmore

@jelmore.crystalwind.org

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He/him. Comics, games, computers, sci fi—but not in THAT way. Header image by @dysonlogos.bsky.social

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Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · 3d

Deploying direct to production

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · 10d

I've never seen The Sixth Sense or The Crying Game. I learned about the twists before I saw the movies, and that killed my enthusiasm for seeing them.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 11d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · 22d

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Having a pet curl up and fall asleep on you
2. Going to the store to buy something and it's on sale
3. Seeing a dragonfly or hummingbird
4. Swedish Fish (the candy)
5. Falling in love with a song for a few days

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · Sep 15

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Aug 28

Tom Clancy’s The Monster At The End Of This Book

Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title

“Tom Clancy’s Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual”

Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · Aug 28

Ruin a book by adding “Tom Clancy’s” to the title

“Tom Clancy’s Juggs”

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Aug 11

I love that sequence so much! Such a great example of showing instead of telling.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Aug 11

The 13th Warrior.

a man in a black robe is holding a sword and says i cannot lift this

Alt: Herger the Viking throws Ahmed a large sword. Ahmed complains “I cannot lift this!” to which Herger quips “Grow stronger”.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Aug 1

i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 30

I just backed Atomic Robo and the Peril of Prometheus + Dr Dino's Cookbook on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/tes...

Atomic Robo and the Peril of Prometheus + Dr Dino's Cookbook

Robo has to solve a murder while adrift on the high seas as a new Helsingard imperils millions of lives in Los Angeles!

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Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 28

There was an attempt to restart the Wildstorm titles as their own thing, called "The Wild Storm". That's what I was thinking of.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 28

It's funny to point out that progression relies on a Stormwatch/Aliens crossover one-shot. Kinda like reminding people that Rom, Spaceknight is how we got Forge and a huge piece of X-Men lore...

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 28

Right, but if she is going to be the first/only Engineer then she should have created them herself. There have been alternate versions of Angela-as-Engineer where she invented them.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 28

(What I want is a big-screen adaptation of one of Warren Ellis' Authority arcs but that probably shouldn't happen, for several reasons)

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 28

I was not thrilled with the idea that she did not come up with the nanotech herself. (She's "The Engineer" after all!)
It'll be interesting to see what they do with her and whether she gets tweaked in The Authority

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 26

"Many names were almost as good as none, when a being wished not to be found. But some name was necessary, if a being wished to be found sometimes."
—Daniel Keys Moran in Emerald Eyes

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Jul 21

Oh come on this isn’t a close call.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 13

i'm not saying this is the version they need to use but the version of Vandal from Young Justice—the self-styled "greatest hero in history" who has plans for humanity that span centuries—was pretty damn good.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 1

Also, @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social is going to be mad he missed the ultimate opportunity to break one of Sam's games.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jul 1

There are going to be SO MANY clips of @samreich.bsky.social after this episode of Game Changer. You know the ones I'm talking about.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jun 25

Mikey's videos are always fantastic. He lays out the past, present, and (likely) future of the MCU in a way that's not hateful or dogmatic.

mikey neumann @mikeyface.bsky.social · Jun 25

New Movies with Mikey on youtube and it's a spicy meatball! The Fall of the House of Marvel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oizL...

The Fall of the House of Marvel - Movies with Mikey

YouTube video by FilmJoy

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mikey neumann @mikeyface.bsky.social · Jun 25

New Movies with Mikey on youtube and it's a spicy meatball! The Fall of the House of Marvel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oizL...

The Fall of the House of Marvel - Movies with Mikey

YouTube video by FilmJoy

www.youtube.com

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jun 25

This is good life advice in general

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jun 22

I never got to see Moxy Früvous perform—I lived on the wrong coast—but I played the crap out of Bargainville on my college radio station. Learning that Jian was a piece of crap broke my heart.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jun 20

a little girl is sitting in the back seat of a car talking .

Alt: A little girl is sitting in the back seat of a car talking, with the caption PREACH

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Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jun 15

You could replace “agent“ with “leprechaun“ and it would be exactly as rooted in reality.

Jay Elmore @jelmore.crystalwind.org · Jun 10

I love this! I really like black-and-white line art RPG maps.