Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[bruceleegreyhulk]

Read Flawed Almighty episode 91.

spoilers:

Jeonji sets his plan to take down a cult in action, which is taking it over, and making his guardian angel the leader. He's going to use his holy mace to do it if necessary, and by holy mace, he means his fist. Of course, that's his solution to any problem

end of spoilers

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

Heading to SDCC this week. Will be 11 of us (all family). Man it’s been stressful planning it.

[OrangeRangerPete]

Heading to SDCC this week. Will be 11 of us (all family). Man it’s been stressful planning it.

I hope you enjoy it.

I haven't been to a convention since before covid (indeed, the very last con I attended was in November '19, so, right before the world went sideways). I miss them, actually.

[Dark Soul # 7]

A little while back, Minato won an official poll to determine which Naruto character would get a chapter focused on them. That chapter is now out.

It's a neat little one-shot focusing on Minato and Kushina, and how Minato developed the Rasengan.

[The Dog]

[Hiromi]

well that was predictable, didn't think much of this matchup, next is Phoenix vs Raven

[Len Ikari145]

Dandadan: spoilers:

Awww, that was a sweet moment between Okarun and Momo....and f**k those alien bastards for ruining it! Also, F**k you Kraang for trying that crap with Vamola. That's also legitimately fearsome redesign of her Godzilla suit and that last (admittedly awesome) panel with Kinta reminded me --- BANDAI, WHERE THE GLORIOUS GOLDEN F**K IS MY AKIRA ANIME REMAKE?!

end of spoilers

[Sharpandpointies]

Dandadan: spoilers:

Awww, that was a sweet moment between Okarun and Momo....and f**k those alien bastards for ruining it! Also, F**k you Kraang for trying that crap with Vamola. That's also legitimately fearsome redesign of her Godzilla suit and that last (admittedly awesome) panel with Kinta reminded me --- BANDAI, WHERE THE GLORIOUS GOLDEN F**K IS MY AKIRA ANIME REMAKE?!

end of spoilers

spoilers:

It is kind of a thing. (and I've seen others not in this set) But yeah, definitely (yet another) shoutout.

end of spoilers

[Len Ikari145]

[bruceleegreyhulk]

[master of read]

was planning on streaming some mario kart tonight but my mic is dead.

[master of read]

320 bucks on book promotions.

1 sale.

sigh.

[grampagen]

Sometimes the algorithm gives a pleasant viewing surprise and some food for thought.



Common sense stuff, but some key takeaways:

- Coasting off of established brands, icons and aesthetics can only get you so far as a cheap knockoff.
- If content is going to be any more than algorithmic flotsam, its staying power needs to come from something unique, and ideally a creator would grow by this distinction.
- This will require connecting with a following and building an audience, naturally.
- An example used is the recent Super Mario Bros movie; this was not a flash in the pan feature film, nobody should be surprised it's made billions of dollars since this brand has been around for like 40 years.

At times I wrestle with this sort of commodified expectation, like there's a mentality of "creator for craft" and "creator for product" that intertwine and end up cancelling each other out. Ideally the work produced ought to speak for itself, but practically speaking if there's nothing tangibly gained form the endeavour, who's to say if it truly worth anything?

Regardless, I suppose it's like any other achievement in this life: What does your work say about you, and what makes you any different from some other guy? It's challenging territory to navigate and there's so much content out there to compete with.

...of course viewing a creative task with this sort of Sisyphesian doomer outlook is a great way to not ever get started, best not go down that road.

[Sharkerbob]

320 bucks on book promotions.

1 sale.

sigh.

That's rough, man.

Also why I never put a penny into advertising, aside from only just last year or so finally buying stock photos to make covers.

Sometimes the algorithm gives a pleasant viewing surprise and some food for thought.

Common sense stuff, but some key takeaways:

- Coasting off of established brands, icons and aesthetics can only get you so far as a cheap knockoff.
- If content is going to be any more than algorithmic flotsam, its staying power needs to come from something unique, and ideally a creator would grow by this distinction.
- This will require connecting with a following and building an audience, naturally.
- An example used is the recent Super Mario Bros movie; this was not a flash in the pan feature film, nobody should be surprised it's made billions of dollars since this brand has been around for like 40 years.

At times I wrestle with this sort of commodified expectation, like there's a mentality of "creator for craft" and "creator for product" that intertwine and end up cancelling each other out. Ideally the work produced ought to speak for itself, but practically speaking if there's nothing tangibly gained form the endeavour, who's to say if it truly worth anything?

Regardless, I suppose it's like any other achievement in this life: What does your work say about you, and what makes you any different from some other guy? It's challenging territory to navigate and there's so much content out there to compete with.

...of course viewing a creative task with this sort of Sisyphesian doomer outlook is a great way to not ever get started, best not go down that road.

At best, the main people who are going to be making out on all the AI spam are the people charging subscriptions for everyone to use their AI.

[Miburo]

So. Sharp and/or Nik.

I'm curious. I know you two still discuss Kingdom from time to time.

I did not realize there were two Live Action Movies out based on it (Two that I know of, anyways). Have either of you seen them? I'm considering adding them to my endless backlog. Maybe even expediting them. But I am also too lazy to look into them, and decided that the time spent crafting this post was less effort than reading something off of rotten tomatoes, or what have you.

Also, greetings and salutations.