David Gerstein
@biryanifan.bsky.social
Writer, film researcher, foodie and basic deviant. Chronicling Disney history with TASCHEN; comics editor/writer with Fantagraphics, Disney Publishing Worldwide, and others—maybe you!
"Ah say, suh... that no-good li'l bird disguisin' hisself as a dawg can't pull the feathers over MY eyes. Feathers... bird... eye! Bird's-eye! That's a JOKE, s—"
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"Ah say, suh... that no-good li'l bird disguisin' hisself as a dawg can't pull the feathers over MY eyes. Feathers... bird... eye! Bird's-eye! That's a JOKE, s—"
(Also: using AI to give limitless conversations to an in-game character, training it not on stolen art but one's own bank of custom-written dialogue, might be the *least* offensive use of AI that I've seen. Sadly, it's come concurrently with 1001 disgraceful uses now wrecking jobs and lives.)
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
(Also: using AI to give limitless conversations to an in-game character, training it not on stolen art but one's own bank of custom-written dialogue, might be the *least* offensive use of AI that I've seen. Sadly, it's come concurrently with 1001 disgraceful uses now wrecking jobs and lives.)
I can jump on any AI game-character simulator and make it write a story of any{{-one, -thing}} seducing me—and either bearing my children or somehow getting *me* to do it.
Skeezy? Yes. New? No. Just the AI equivalent of what's been going on in goofier niche games for decades.
Skeezy? Yes. New? No. Just the AI equivalent of what's been going on in goofier niche games for decades.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I can jump on any AI game-character simulator and make it write a story of any{{-one, -thing}} seducing me—and either bearing my children or somehow getting *me* to do it.
Skeezy? Yes. New? No. Just the AI equivalent of what's been going on in goofier niche games for decades.
Skeezy? Yes. New? No. Just the AI equivalent of what's been going on in goofier niche games for decades.
Invisible (in the TV ep "It's Magic") was actually Schulz writing and feels believably like the characters; though it's obviously not *as* canonical as the strip—where while the dogs can do anything, the humans are limited by real-life logic.
Spider-Man and everything else are just parodies.
Spider-Man and everything else are just parodies.
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Invisible (in the TV ep "It's Magic") was actually Schulz writing and feels believably like the characters; though it's obviously not *as* canonical as the strip—where while the dogs can do anything, the humans are limited by real-life logic.
Spider-Man and everything else are just parodies.
Spider-Man and everything else are just parodies.
Is she an empathetic ally, leaping heroically to protect Ken, or is KEN the one warning us to beware of the crazed geek girl jumping toward us?
Really, this is where you wait for calm and trade recipes and reading tips with her.
Really, this is where you wait for calm and trade recipes and reading tips with her.
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Is she an empathetic ally, leaping heroically to protect Ken, or is KEN the one warning us to beware of the crazed geek girl jumping toward us?
Really, this is where you wait for calm and trade recipes and reading tips with her.
Really, this is where you wait for calm and trade recipes and reading tips with her.
giddap, old paint
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
giddap, old paint
Since this is blowing up, this post is... er, brought to you by the way I'm REALLY making a living, which is barely different from what I was doing as an adolescent.
Jump on in—these comic books cost $6 but have 40 pages of comics, almost twice as many as your average $4 book.
Jump on in—these comic books cost $6 but have 40 pages of comics, almost twice as many as your average $4 book.
Careful, Mickey! This classic comic by Floyd Gottfredson can be found in Mickey Mouse Legacy #331: The Phantom Blot's Double Revenge, alongside work by Andrea Castellan, Ted Osborne, Simon Albrigi, Roberto Vian, Stefano Intini, and Joe Torcivia--out now! https://ow.ly/qQ7q50XylRm
November 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Since this is blowing up, this post is... er, brought to you by the way I'm REALLY making a living, which is barely different from what I was doing as an adolescent.
Jump on in—these comic books cost $6 but have 40 pages of comics, almost twice as many as your average $4 book.
Jump on in—these comic books cost $6 but have 40 pages of comics, almost twice as many as your average $4 book.
"No, but I'll make do."
November 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"No, but I'll make do."
They weren't quite as big in the early days, so it was possible to schlep parts of the thing around. No idea how many succeeded in doing so.
(What if the reward was the now-decimated balloon itself?)
(What if the reward was the now-decimated balloon itself?)
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
They weren't quite as big in the early days, so it was possible to schlep parts of the thing around. No idea how many succeeded in doing so.
(What if the reward was the now-decimated balloon itself?)
(What if the reward was the now-decimated balloon itself?)
Last time I boycotted, I found this in my bed—I can't win.
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Last time I boycotted, I found this in my bed—I can't win.
You and me both. Can call if you need (though it's ungodly late by you...)
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
You and me both. Can call if you need (though it's ungodly late by you...)
🎵 My manly cyberwheels 🎵
(—GURGLE!)
(—GURGLE!)
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🎵 My manly cyberwheels 🎵
(—GURGLE!)
(—GURGLE!)
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM