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Category: Humor
Funny things
Don’t Mess with Cindy Brady
She’s got the power of the atom, Communist China, and tornadoes on her side.
Worldbuilding Wednesday 4/1/20: Unlikely Animals (April Fools!)
Talktotransformer is proving to be a potent tool for me. I usually have to run things through a few times, and fine-tune and collate the results, but am mostly assured of a fecund list. By which I mean a list that makes the mind wander, cooking up possibilities (and story ideas) for people, places, and …
The THING!
Oopsie!
Imaginary Creatures (Neural Network Remix)
I’ve been working with random generation (courtesy of Gammadyne’s Random Word Generator) for almost three years now, and have to say it’s a nifty tool for generating both imaginary languages and imaginary names for people, places, and things. But now there’s another way to generate the latter: neural networks. A neural network, basically, is a …
The Art Critics
“And yessss? Deconstructivism, postmodernism, neoexpressionism, what you say?”
Silly Centaur
Because he’s talking out his ass, that’s why.
Worldbuilding Wednesday 2/12/20: Rejected Transformers
As the picture above ** suggests, some Transformers just never made the grade. Since part of the fun of them are those oh-so-easily parodied names, here’s a list of those Autobots and Decepticons who never should have been born. I’ll call them Aborticons. Aborticons Cosmiclutter Dirtbag Lumplizard Dinofart Kittenstrike Hysteridemic Crunkbrawl Skysnort Menhonk Hypimple …
Go away, don’t bug me.
Artwork by Dan Hillier
Worldbuilding Wednesday 2/5/20: Transformers
Do you know American President Ronald Reagan is to thank for the success of the Transformers franchise? In the early 1980s Hasbro executives noticed a line of Japanese toys called the Diaclones, which were robots that transformed into vehicles. They thought the concept had merit, so the company licensed them to be sold in the …