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How to Make Original Settings with Awkward Questions
Putting your stamp on your fiction entails a lot going on behind the scenes that is privy to you and you alone than anybody will realise. The devil is in the details. But how do you get at those details?
Why Are Authors So Preoccupied With Memory?
At a pragmatic level, memories and flashbacks, or the lack thereof, become vehicles for detail and dimensionality, easy methods of character development and motivational exploration. A negative or positive memory results in different approaches and responses to different archetypes, events, plot points, or character actions. This drives subsequent points of tensions and drama which further…
Are Zombies a Self-devouring Concept?
From vampires, Frankenstein’s monster, to The Thing Monsters are often singular symbolic representations of cultural fear. What about Zombies?
Does the Creeping Erosion of Civil Liberties Reveal Elite Panic?
Governments around the world seem to be going through a control freak phase. But the ongoing authoritarian shift may be an indicator of elite panic.
SEO, AEO, GEO… WTF?
SEO is ancient in technology terms, but now the market is shifting with the adoption and integration of AI systems, introducing new fields into the search engine game. One is GEO, or ‘generative engine optimisation’, and the other is AEO, or ‘answer engine optimisation’. So what do all these acronyms mean?
MLAs, ANNs, LLMs, and AI – Jargon Decoded
There’s a lot of confusion about artificial intelligence. Different people mean different things. Complex terminology is rife. What is going on beneath the jargon?
This is Why AI Sucks at Writing: Humour
Humour is one of the most effective, and one of the hardest to use, tools at a writer’s disposal. I’ve talked about why AI sucks at writing through the lens of symbolism and subtext, and intuition. Now we turn to humour, a powerful but situational tool in the writer’s repertoire, and why AI will continue…
This is Why AI Sucks at Writing: Intuition
AI cannot intuit. Because AI cannot intuit, AI cannot write well.
Odyssey AI: Less Odysseus, More Dubious
On the 28th May 2025, a tech start up by the name of Odyssey revealed an experimental ‘interactive video experience’ AI project that they call… Odyssey. But is this project substantive or just another digital toy?
Doom Eternal: Oh, The Buttons You’ll Press
I’d pegged the Doom 2016 crowd as being parallel to the Path of Exile 1 crowd. I.e.: They want to hold one button down and clear a screen for an overcompensatory power fantasy. I have a certain disdain for the digitised cathexis of the Reddit-tier ‘mUh DoOm SlAyUh’ fanboys. While I still believe that part…
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